Top 5 Birthdays

A countdown of my favorite birthdays in the first twenty five years of my life.

1.) 23rd Birthday 2007
Joint birthday celebration with Careza. We had dinner at Krua Thai with friends from med school. It was a feast followed by karaoke and drinks at Mountain View till people were passed out, vomiting and had episodes of loss of coordination in the wee hours of the morning. The other car almost slammed into a stone wall. We had then breakfast at Babsi's with noodles in which the other birthday girl missed it due to drunkiness. On the way home, the car I was riding with driven by Guada almost hit a lamp post. So to summarize it was unplanned and awesome and an anti-climactic near death experience to remember this year by.

2.) 15th Birthday 1999
I invited everyone from my high school class for a day of fun on the beach. This is also a shared joint celebration with Kitty Redula. It was a fun day and my first ever huge beach party with no alcohol yet but good and clean old fashioned fun. Around two thirds of the class joined in the revelry.

3.) 3rd Birthday 1987
This is the earliest birthday I had with actual memory of the event. I remembered running around the living room of my grandmother's house and playing with the other kids. On the picture I had two cakes, one was a typical 80's birthday cake and the other one was a Superman design. I think I invited every kid in my block.

4.) 20th Birthday 2004
Everything about the year 2004 was just amazing. This year I celebrated my birthday thrice. First one was a Sunday duty lunch with my 3S people - I brought them roasted chicken and ice cream. Next is with my closest friends on a 24 Hour Duty with Monster Pizza from JCA and of course ice cream. Third is lunch with my groupmates at Casa Verde. I never realized and felt so blessed with friends.

5.) Tie between 16th Birthday 2000 and 22nd Birthday 2006
The former since it was the first time I received a greeting card with almost everyone from my class writing and the latter because it's the first time I got a cake splat in my face courtesy of Krystle and the rest of my groupmates in PBL 1.

Worst Birthdays: 14th Birthday 1998 (very angsty), 17th Birthday 2001 (missing a lot of people) and 24th Birthday 2008 (too anhedonic to do anything and this year nothing ever came my way no matter how hard I tried to beg the universe to).

A Year of Failed Technology

For a year I have been whining that technology failed me. Can't imagine the amount of misfortune I've dealt with related to gadgets. If there was a rating classification it would be severe. Here's the beef:

September 2009 - My Old Dell model got stolen at the 3rd floor of the hospital.

November 2009 - Diana, my handy dandy external drive crashed three days right before an important case presentation along with a lifetime of pictures, movies and mp3s

May 2010 - I accidentally dropped by phone and it tumbled down ten steps into oblivion for which it's LCD broke.

July 5, 2010 - Double whammy. I lost my iPod (BFF) and my camera. Some ungrateful patient stole it. Well I hope you'll be crippled by your malady and I really mean it!

July 31, 2010 - I lost a phone for the nth time.

I'm officially going old fashioned. The only gadget I will have is Griffin and my laptop.

So there, a laptop, a hard drive, an Ipod, a camera and two phones. I am cursed and I can't seem to shake it off. Jeez, I'm such a drama queen.