My Birthday 2009

October 30, 2009

It was 29^th Oct late night, my birthday eve, and our team (of-course including me) was still in office working hard to meet the deadline… As the clock struck midnight, everyone came to wish me and friends called and gave me wishes. It did make me feel a less disastrous; finally I reached home one and a half hr past midnight!! First of its kind for me on a birthday! Surprises weren’t over yet! When I reached home, a yummy Lava cake was eagerly waiting to welcome me homeJ… It is the yummiest cake I have ever tasted in my life J, baked in a bakery called Crumbz in Mangalore, one of the finest creations to suit the taste buds of those with a sweet tooth. And if you like chocolate flavor; believe me you ARE missing something eventful if you haven’t tasted it yet! Back to the cake cutting, so as I blew the candles next was the turn of face painting… my heart broke into tiniest pieces as I saw the cake getting wasted on my face! I doubt if I can possibly explain better in words.

My colleague composed a very lovely email on my birthday and had written very good lines about me (read praising me)… I was surprised, how could someone ever come up with nice lines about me?? That is supposed to be only in novels ain’t it?? But then according to him, we should be nice to people on their birthdays!! :D That did make me smile in an otherwise overwhelmingly hectic day. Lunch consisted of eating out at a not-so-great restaurant with a group of close friends. A friend of mine raised a toast for me, an unusual, one of its kind… it did not consist of a speech and neither did our glasses contain champagne!! Later in the day, the team had planned to have a cake cutting for me in the evening which is usually accompanied by the face-painting tradition. I loved painting other people’s faces on their birthdays but when I was the canvas, my opinion changed slightly: I think we are wasting the cake ain’t we?? However, my work obligation did not quite permit me to hang-out with my friends on that night and what could possibly be termed as the most hectic birthday EVER, I came back from work at 4 AM; yes you read it right, 4:00 AM 31^st October!!

Plan for 31 October was planned. Go to St. Mary’s… That was my wish since past 3 months which possibly could not have been fulfilled in a better way!! Roads in Karnataka are pathetic; nonetheless the journey was awesome; after all it is the people that matters the most, who cares about the roads!! My friend was driving so unfortunately I do not happen to pay attention on the route details from Mangalore to Malpe Beach. The journey from Malpe to St. Mary’s Island was in a ferry. That was a lovely experience too… the sea was very calm and the water was very clean. We reached our destination in about half hr. St. Mary’s Island is known for their distinctive geological formation of columnar basaltic lava. The landscape view of the Island together with the sea is mesmerizing to say the least. My friends had got the Lava cake and we had the cake cutting ceremony at St. Mary’s. It was a fulfilling trip indeed!!