hmm... andrew's birthday is tomoro... i mean... at the time of publishing this entry, it would be "today" 28/10... umm... andrew is a great friend... it's hard to get another like him...
he's fun to be around... sometimes a bit gullible...helpful, but he's... a good guy.. a really good guy..
but anyway... this post isn't just about andrew... it's about... andrew's birthday..
somehow over the past week i got unknowingly appointed to be "organizer" of andrew's birthday...
anyways... i thought the best way to organize a birthday would be to ask the person we're celebrating... in this case.. andrew...
so he said... don't want present and just go somewhere simple can alredi, like kawan place (Ye Lok Restaurant opposite The Store)...
umm... over a few days, i confirmed and reconfirmed with him... to be quite sure that's what he wanted...
so when i spread the word that there was no present and it was just gonna be a simple celebration.. hmm... response was... mixed to say the least...
but by and large... response was that... Are you sure? no-lah, andrew doesn't deserve something so simple... let's get him a present, let's go somewhere "better"...
not to say that that's bad... i mean... everyone wanted wat's best for andrew and to make him happy... but at a certain point i began thinking... uhh... is this wat YOU want or wat HE wants? how come wat HE wants seems to not really matter...
i realized that sometimes we project our expectations of wat we think is better on to other ppl even though that may not be wat they want...
like birthdays... true.. we try to get wat we think will make that person happy.. but sometimes we forget that what's most important isn't what we think will make him happy but wat the person himself wants..
oh...
and i never realized that organizing birthdays were so troublesome... maybe its partly bcos' ppl like andrew and i are more "straight" and simple minded...
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