Birthday Diaries

I've always had pleasant memories of my birthdays. Always good. Always felt special that day. Even yesterday was great. Some highlights from the day when I completed 28 trips around the Sun (will be fun to remember the names when I read this again when I am old...very old):

Got calls from 4 different friends from different walks of life from 12 am to 1 am:

1. Snigdha my maternal cousin sister
2. Jay my new colleague from Bank of Baroda
3. Dhyanesh my engineering/mba buddy
4. Jignasa my mba friend

Treated colleagues with a very unique menu: A Paneer puff and a chocolate Ball from the Jimmy Boy bakery

Instead of speaking out the compulsory resolutions in the boring way, I read this poem for the "personal resolution" part:
Ho Paron me itni taakat,
Cheel ki tarah ud jaaoo,
Aasmaan ke aage pahuch jaaoo,
Dost, Pahaad, Kinaare
Jab Jab mujhe pukare,
laut laut kar unke paas aaoon

Got over 130 different wishes from friends from all over the world on Facebook. Got so many different unique wishes styles and names:
Saurabh Thakur called me Panda, a name I had got in TCS ILP days in Trivandrum.
Omkar Kulkarni wished me Amitabh Bachchan style : Aee Pandey saala, happy birthday...aain"
All of my crushes during MBA wished me. Even the one just before did.
Nada Popovic, A serbian who lives in Venice, wished me "Auguri" to which I replied "Grazie", to which she replied "Cin Cin". I looked up and realised it meant, Cheers, and so I obliged :)
Yukes Hayama, posted a link of a Youtube song that went on the tunes of Happy Birthday, but remixed in trance mode. \m/

P.S. In 2009, It was Kunal Hakim, Swapnil, Kapil and Amol who surprised me during the day and gave me bumps and cakes. Best Birthday surprise ever!
In 2010, It was Ambujesh and Chitra who waited in Vashi till I came back from office to loot me in a Garden restaurant in Inorbit mall. The staff of the hotel, in spite of my requests not to, sang a full blast "Happy Birthday" in front of everyone else, and even gave a complimentary cake.