Birthday bash !!!

It was the first time I was out of India on my Birthday (May 11th for those who don't remember) No matter how old (or young) I get, my birthday is a day which I always want to be special and I hope the case is same with most other people. For me this day was special because I was completing my quarter-century this time . It was also one of my longest birthdays till now as people started wishing me from 12 midnight in Malaysia, then it came to Singapore, then India, UK and finally ended in west-coast USA.

I got calls and mails from almost everybody for whom I care and was amazed to see my scrapbook in orkut scaling new heights. Some of them got me up in the middle of the night (5 AM) to wish me, but it really makes me happy to know that so many people care. I wasn't very sure whether my colleagues would be aware of the specialty of the day, but the moment I reached office, everybody wished me with a smile and asked for a party. I agreed to it and left the choice of venue on them as I wasn't that aware of city at that time (it was just 10 days since I came here). It was decided that everybody will reach Sunny(my boss)'s house by 9 and then we will go to some place.

Not even in my distant thoughts could I have ever imagined that biggest surprise of that day was waiting for me in the evening. When I reached Sunny's house, a gala dinner and all of my colleagues from IVP were there waiting for the birthday boy :). The icing on cake was my Birthday cake (a real delicious chocolate cake) which I cut while Sunny, Manavi (Sunny's wife), Amit, Tarun, Rohit and ever-smiling Jassi (sweetest sardar I've ever met) were clapping and singing "Happy Birthday" for me. We also posed for several photographs while having the cake with Haagen-Dazs' yummy ice cream. That was a wonderful evening with such good people who were so thoughtful and I will cherish it all my life.

Later I came to know that this surprise was brain-child of Jassi and Manavi, and I can’t thank them enough to give me one of the best Birthday presents ever.