birth days

"just a day, just an ordinary day, just trying to get by" - vanessa carlton (ordinary day)

on wednesday my department colleagues went for dinner to celebrate celine's birthday. we had plenty of food including crabs once again for the second time in 2 weeks. per usual the boss man had to take his hat off to celine and i who can sure polish off copious amounts of food.

our fave was the clams...

we even ordered 2 servings of it. it reminded me of the clams in spaghetti vongole(which is my fave type of spaghetti) and a lil of this as well.

and what's a birthday without a birthday cake?

and yes, she's young enough to actually reflect her age in the number of candles.

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so today is celine's actual birthday. and it so happened that recently i found out that another friend of mine shares the same birthday. and in turn, that friend knew at least 2 other friends or friends of friends that had the same birthday too. what a coincedence.

with a year of only 365 (or 366 if it's a leap year) days and a gazillion people roaming the earth, go figure that there should be plenty of people sharing your birthday. even famous people.

take mine for example. i share my birthday with madonna and vanessa carlton (we're even born in the same year!). and to top that off, it's elvis presley's death anniversary as well. whenever i open the newspapers on my birthday, i'm bound to find some articles devoted to remembering the king of rock n roll. i feel quite special.