Second Birthday in Colombia

I so wanted to make my birthday dinner to be something special. Unfurtunately, I wasn't equipped with cooking skills, so I couldn't prepare a decent dinner for my friends. Disappointment swelled up when Arnie told me he couldn't come and help me cook. I ended up cooking the Filipino style spaghetti...and the rest? It just fell into place. Indeed we had enough for ourselves and a lot of cake left-overs after. I learned one thing though...you don't need a grandiose celebration to really have a happy, happy birthday, all you need is just your friends... That birthday would surely go to my 'unforgettable experience list'...

My birthday this year happened to be a Tuesday. I had the chance to celebrate it twice: on the day itself and the following day which was also the TRAINEES' Night. And what could have been more appropriate than to have it in a Karaoke Bar? The best karaoke bar in town so I'd heard, and I was convinced that it really is...

My first time to sing Spanish song in a karaoke

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"It's difficult to understand the sum of a person's life.
Some people would tell you it's measured by the one's left behind.
Some believe it can be measured in faith.
Some say by love.
Other folks say life has no meaning at all.
Me? I believe that you measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you".-Carter Chamber, played by Morgan Freeman in the movie The Bucket List-

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If you had to gauge your life, how'd you measure it up?

Probably with the number of achievements you have?
The amount of money you earn?
Number of friends you make?
Possessions you acquire?
Whatever. But wouldn’t it be great to just forget all about it and live for the moment?. . .Fun but without stepping on anyone’s feet… Later on you’ll find people looking up to you, and that’s how we can truly measure ourselves. Probably. Or probably not.
I celebrated my birthday a couple of weeks ago, should I live up to a century, I’m already on my second quarter. That’s if I can. Perla’s prediction (see related article) still rings into my mind which by the way drive me to enjoy life to the fullest and just have fun for tomorrow is unsure.
As a rare coincidence, my birthday is also my mom's. Every year, we always have a race to who is the first person to greet Happy Birthday. This time, for three years in a row, we had to greet each other by phone, observing the 13-hour difference. Once the other end is answered, we started howling Happy Birthday to each other, followed by "How are you? What are you doing for your birthday"?, normal routine but this year there was a twist I least expected. My mom started by saying my age minus two. I told her the real age (of course she knew it, she was just teasing me and subtly telling me, "Oh hija, you’ve been there for two years already that I almost forgot"), and she mimicked a surprise voice, and after she recovered from the supposed shock told me with such temerity, ‘Darling you should get married now.’ WWWHHHHHHAAATTTT!!! And funny thing is, unlike any mother who would set up a standard for their future son-in-laws with qualities such as: loving, intelligent, blahblahblah, my mom, as unique as she is, only asked me to find a man with sharp nose!!! I wouldn’t start by telling you how obsessed my family is to have generations of sharp-nosed individuals. Probably I have to compensate my not having it by having children who will have the very desired quality. Oh mother!!! I only dismissed it with laughter! Of course she couldn’t be serious.
Not after I talked to one of my friends who innocently commented ‘Yey, in Asian standard, you’re in marrying age already.” And added, “you’re old!” that I got so terrified.
Who wouldn’t be? I mean no one can force me to get married, no one can and that's totally out of the question, but the realization that I was expected to have done something bigger scared me. I haven’t even done what I’m supposed to do, whatever that is. I don’t even know what my purpose is. And still the clock continues on ticking. . .tic-tac…
So timely I watched the Bucket List and made me wonder, what is my bucket list? And before I’d known it, I started scribbling on my notes, and this is what I came up with:
- play the guitar (I don't have the required patience though)
- go sky-diving (this I will do the soonest)
- try to write an article for a newspaper (I dunno, the idea just popped into my head)
- let go of my inhibitions that prevent me from being bold
- choose something, stick to it, and commit (don’t still know what I want to be but probably this is too early for this one.)
- don’t be afraid to get to fail and get hurt

I dare not try to measure my life, instead I will do my things distinctively, be happy, and set as a good example to those who look up to me… in that way I could say, I’m living my life to the fullest and that would suffice.