“Today… is my birthday!”… Pictures of Billy Crystal dancing his jig while doing his monologue in the movie City Slicker’s 2 flashes through my mind…

This is quite a historic event… like last year, when I felt that I had reached the midpoint of my life, this year… is the first year I’ve spent my birthday in Davao after 26 years. I can’t remember what my last birthday was like, but I think it had something to do with my dad bringing home the polaroid camera from work and taking a snapshot of us. I think I was wearing dark shorts too at that time… then again, I’m always wearing shorts… hehehe

It’s kinda weird for me, because today it’s been relatives who’ve been calling me to wish me a blessed natal day and friends just texting me instead…

A lot has happened during my birthday, this was the date that Plaza Miranda got bombed, as well as the date that Ninoy Aquino got assassinated as he descended the tarmac of the Manila International Airport (Fitting only that it got renamed after him.) If I could’ve gotten a buck for every person who asked me why I killed Ninoy in order to make my birthday special, I’d be very rich right now, and if you got a buck for everytime I told this little sliver of a story to you, you’d be rich too

So today, I’m going to treat myself. Just in the house of course. I’m going to prepare a thick mug of coffee, turn on the airconditioning of my mom and spend the day wallowing like a pig in front of the TV. Yup, today is UAAP sunday, no better day like today to grow old.

If I was to misquote Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland. “Old people like me shouldn’t be allowed to sleep, otherwise they end up a day older.”

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