Wednesday, April 26, 2006  12:39 AM
Birthdays and wishes
When I was seven, I got to wear a princess-like dress with a puffy skirt on my birthday and even though the stockings that matched annoyed me to no end, I persevered for the sake of beauty.
When I was nine, I had a bash at that huge indoor playground thing that was so the fad at that time - FunDazzle or the equivalent of it - and all my friends were so late I almost cried thinking no one was going to show up.
When I was sixteen, ten of my best friends threw a surprise birthday party for me at Hotel Phoenix, collaborating with my mom to trick me. Some of them pretended they had to leave the dinner early, and I was seriously genuinely taken in and had to try my best to hide my disappointment. Who knew that they were all in it together and when I got back to the hotel room, they held a lit cake in front of my face and sang "Happy Birthday", with me - what else - crying. The room was so beautifully decorated as well with balloons and Josh Hartnett postcards. Haha. It was my best birthday yet.
And so as another birthday comes round the corner, I'm reminded of the last nineteen birthdays I've had and how as we grow older, birthdays just become insignificant days. In the past, I used to countdown to my birthday. I'd start getting really excited on the 21st, and then begins the six days left, five days left... These days, it feels as if it's just another day. Turning 20 scares me too. I'm no more in my teens and it's as if all the excuses you give for the stupid things you do when you're a teenager are no longer valid. When you're celebrating your tenth birthday, everyone gets excited about your party. When you turn 20, throwing any kind of celebration seems more like an obligation for people to come more than anything else.
I see why my parents dread their birthdays. I can't imagine what it'd be like at my 50th birthday. SCARY. I'd be asking for botox injections.
But still, coming up with my unattainable birthday wishlist is part of the birthday fun. So here goes!
1) For Victoria's Secret to be my next-door neighbour
2) An Oscar de la Renta gown
3) A Kate Spade bag
4) A lifetime's subscription to Cosmopolitan and Vogue
5) Midnight shopping at the Mall of America
6) To choose anything I want from Tiffany & Co.
7) A round-the-world trip with my best friends with that Josh Hartnett or Michael Vartan lookalike paying for it and appearing whenever I need him to carry my shopping bags
8) For Johor Bahru to suddenly become Australia
9) A BMW convertible that comes with a personal driver, preferably young and cute and not old and balding
10) For every moment to be captured immediately on film so I don't have to keep whipping out my camera and finding random people along Orchard Road to take pictures of me and my friends
11) Not to fail communication research - Perhaps Lee Wai Peng could spill coffee all over my answer script and give me an A as compensation
12) A Ben & Jerry's ice-cream maker
13) That London was just ten seconds away so that I could visit my best friends anytime I wanted
14) Manolo Blahnik as my new best friend?
15) Or if not, Sarah Jessica Parker will do because she gives away the Manolos for free
16) The Beijing Fengwei in school to be transformed magically into Crystal Jade
17) For Cantonese to be the second language here instead of Mandarin
18) For the country to have four seasons
19) A lavender rose garden outside my door complete with fairy lights
20) To be able to love everyone unconditionally
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