I was really not looking forward to my birthday at all this year and it had nothing to do with the fact that I was turning 31. What it did have to do with, however, was the fact that I would be celebrating it in boring Augusta, Georgia. Most of the friends that I did have here or still do have either moved away or are too busy (unlike my friends in Bangkok, who are for the most part still unmarried and work a normal 9-5 job). What is a single, 31 year-old girl (that’s right, I said it) to do? Try to make the most of it, of course!
We started off with dinner among my mom and a few close friends. Then some of us headed downtown to continue the celebrations at one of my friend’s newly opened bar. At first, there were not many people there (to the point that we thought of going elsewhere). Then as it grew later, more and more people started to arrive. Most of them being people I didn’t know. However, of the people that I did know that started to show up (all of them being Filipino), I was very surprised and happy to see them as I have not seen them in so many years. It soon became like a little mini-reunion and an Asian (if not, Filipino) invasion in the place. As word got around that it was my birthday, these friends started to buy me drinks and shots. I’m not sure whether they did so more because it was my birthday or because they hadn’t seen me in a very long time. I’d like to think that it was a little bit of both.
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