Go shorty, it’s your birthday…

BY ONEIKA RAYMOND


A few days ago, I celebrated my 28th birthday, in the company of some lovely friends. But it wasn’t any of my doing.

After a packed travel itinerary this summer, and a hectic return to work, I was too tired to even think about planning something for my birthday. Truth be told, I was hoping that my friends here in Hong Kong would forget it and accidently-on-purpose neglected to mention that my “born day” was fast approaching. But my lovely friends here didn’t forget, and, in fact, planned a surprise birthday brunch in me and another friend’s honour (her birthday is the day after mine)! What a great surprise! We had brunch this Sunday on the top deck of an enormous floating restaurant appropriately named the Jumbo. It was really fantastic, and the buffet menu did not disappoint! I didn’t have my camera with me, so the only pictures I have of this event are the ones I’ve posted here.




The brunch wasn’t my only birthday surprise. Liebling also had a surprise up his sleeve. Last week, we were talking on Skype when he asked me for my address in Hong Kong so he could send me my birthday present and then cryptically told me that I should keep my Saturday afternoon free. I figured that the package was arriving on the Saturday, hence him wanting me to be home to receive it, though he would neither confirm nor deny whether that was the case.

However, as it turns out, I received my birthday package on Friday, which was a box loaded with a bunch of running gear. I’m signed up to run a 10k race here in Hong Kong this coming November, and for the last two months I’ve griped about how I couldn’t find some of the running gear I need in order to train, and how other gear was stupid expensive. So I was really happy to get that package! Awesome!

But why did I need to keep my Saturday free then? Well, it would seem that Liebling signed me up for another German class (you may remember that I took a German language class last spring)! What a great surprise! So this past Saturday afternoon, I started level 2 German and it was sehr gut!

So all in all, what was supposed to be a low-key “non-birthday” actually turned out to be one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had. How very blessed I am to have such a great boyfriend and wonderful friends!

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