Today is the 3rd of June. I’m fashionably late. I wanna talk about my days in May. My favourite days coz it’s my birthday month!

This is me, at 27.

With visibly tiny freckles around my cheek, droopy eyebags, coffee stains on my teeth, broader cheeks and wrinkles around my eyes.

Surprisingly they don’t bother me as much anymore. They say that as you grow older, you feel less insecure and more confident about your sexuality, personal style and appearance. I think that statement is partially true. I am also sure that after one has experienced sudden tragedy in life, one tends not to ‘sweat’ the small matters as trivial as visible wrinkles because you’re glad that you can still walk, talk, jump, skip, hop, see, hear and smell. Because a wrinkle makes me more of a woman than I was 5 years ago. Because these cheeks represent good fengshui. Because despite my eyebags, I still have good eyesights and I don’t need to wear glasses. Because I’m just ecstatic and thankful that I’m in good health to celebrate another year in my life. It’s like a new found perspective. Ironically the negative tragedy has made me a more positive person. I think Anthony Robbins has a word for it, and I think it’s called REFRAMING.

As with every other girl, I still enjoy getting presents and blowing out the birthday cake and getting free meals. Year on year, I wake up on my birthday with no plans; just another average day. Well technically in reality, it IS just another average day in an average life. But this time around, I was so excited I ensured that I reminded everyone *blush* that it is MYYY BIRTHDAY! I made a full day plan but only one quarter of it materialised. I even planned to celebrate it at a cell group and have a good buffet at Al-Nafourah, Le Meridien Hotel but in a series of unfortunate events, I ended up dipping ‘lok lok’ by the roadside in Puchong.

A far cry from my plan, especially for a person who works with schedules and diary planners and hates it when things don’t go as planned. But I was still a very happy girl at the end of the night.

Healthy desserts for not so healthy lifestyle.

A beautiful shot for the memory.

The newly weds

I rewarded myself with a new purse. I’ve been using the same purse for 5 years. It was given to me by a special friend on my 22nd birthday. It had a sentimental value because it housed my first hard-earned salary as an auditor and the purse has been with me over good times and broke times. lol. It’s time to change, throw away the old and get a new one for myself.

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.” -Isak Denison-