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My philosophy of why birthday is THE most important day in a year is because it is the remembrance of the creation of birth and the celebration of life.  It is so fundamental that birthday reflects our creator as being genuine, loving, and magnificent. Birthday proceeds straight to the validity of our basic identity.

Ok, this is a joke, who am I kidding.  I almost laugh when I wrote this. I love birthday because I want all the attention, hence the equation WORLD = ME is valid, haha. My best friend Lippe said, birthday is the day created only for you. Totally agree with you girl… We both are birthday lover.  But seriously, birthday is so special for anyone.  It’s the day when someone becomes so overly sensitive that when other remembers, she’d be soo happy, and when other forgets, she’d be sooo sad. It’s just cute. When I want my birthday to be special, I want everybody else’s birthday to be special too. I want to be able to remember and say happy birthday to as much people as possible.

For 5 years, I spent every birthday in Madison. And what made this year extraordinary is because it might be my last birthday in Madison. And every single year, my birthday is full of friends, love, gifts, cards, surprises. Let’s have a quick recap.

1. Year 2003, ultah gue sebagai freshman, my first surprise party in the middle of the night, besoknya rame2 satu angkatan pergi ke RS buat suntik flu. Trus sore2 kita masak2 soto ayam.

2. Year 2004, people just got creative and decided for the first time buat ngerjain gue. Kita rame2 ber-20an main ke rumah Hans, trus gue totally dicuekin, ampe gue sedih… trus nangis… (duh malu…)  Tapi ternyata besoknya udah dibikinin kue ama Noni plus balon2, dan koko gue Steven terbang dari LA, trus gue disurprisin rameee bgt di 2 kali di rumah gue dan di basement Allen House.
3. Year 2005, people got more creative and decided to ngerjain gue. This time is mean… I think they want more tears… Jadi pas diretret, totally dicuekin… jahattt… padahal mereka udah siapin kue2 di mobil, trus ceritanya mau main polisi maling, trus kuenya taro depan mata gue. Tapi gue udah keburu sedih…. (aduh, malu.. GROW UP Sylvia !!!)
4. Year 2006, people now got scared.  To make sure gue gak nangis, mereka suprisin 2 kali… sekali jam 12 pagi sebelum gue ultah, sekali lagi jam 12 malem setelah gue ultah, hahahaha…. Sorry to trouble you guys, hahaha…. I was really happy !!!
5. Year 2007, could be my last birthday in Madison. Gue disurprisin malem2 jam 12, dengan blueberry cheesecake buatan Amanda… my favorite thing in the world. Trus kita semua ngobrol2 dan ketawa ngakak2 sampe jam 3 pagi… padahal gue ada kelas jam 7.45… so, gue telat ke kelas… ke sekolah, ternyata temen2 kelas gue tau gue ultah, so they took me to bar that night, and ordered a fish bowl for me. Gue baru tau, fish bowl it bukan makanan, fish bowl itu alcohol dengan gelas segede aquarium ikan (hence the name fish bowl)

-the birthday girl-

Ok, this blog is for my friends in Madison yang udah capek2 tiap taon planning surprise party buat gue.  Terima kasih buat darah dan keringat anda… hahaha… tiap kali ultah gue, udah kayak thriller.  But seriously, every birthday is special because of you guys.  No birthday like birthday in Madison.  So, thank you.

But anyway, now that I’m 23, I still love birthday, aging is mandatory, but maturity is optional.  Birthday brings the kid inside of everyone, and it’s the only day that you could justify doing anything you want.  It’s so wonderful that birthday should be a national holiday just for that person, haha…