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I have been waiting for this birthday milestone since forever, for no other reason than because I was a big Pokemon fan as a kid, and I always remember that Pikachu's line-up number is 25. #geekalert
My birthday was on the 14th. However, because of a complicated birth certificate mishap, my birthday is on the 15th too. I have two birthdays, then.
On the 14th, I took a half-day to come to Aracama in The Fort for PEP.ph's sixth anniversary party. Lots of fun were had.
Nobody there greeted me happy birthday, so it was all cool. Nobody knew, but I preferred this because I don't want to be the center of attention.
I play this game every year: pretend it's not my birthday so nobody greets me and makes a show of it. Of course, a few close friends text me or email me their greetings, and I'm thankful. But if you greet me in public channels (ie, Facebook posts, Twitter posts), I will do everything in my power to delete it.
This is strange, but why is this so? Let's eavesdrop on a conversation I had with my boss about this:
BOSS: Why will you be absent on the 14th? You should be here because it's your birthday.Lots of fun were had.
ME: I don't know sir, I feel all weird when someone greets me.
BOSS: But you have friends now.
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The next day, I brought dozens of J.Co doughnuts to the office. Took me an hour to order it, as the line to the counter barely moved.
A note to J.Co: long slow lines do not mean your store is a hit. It just means your store lay-out is inefficient.
At the office, someone took a photo of me holding a box of doughnuts. No, the sparkles do no indicate I suddenly became a sparkly vampire; it just means the photo-taker thought it is cute. Of course it isn't, but there you go.
To everybody who greeted me, friends, coworkers, or robots-from-companies-I-subscribe-too, thank you. I couldn't be happier.
Except you, SM Advantage. You just sent the douchiest greeting in history: "Happy birthday! You get a cake. But before that, give us your money."
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