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The date  was 1st Aug 2009. I attended my family wedding ceremony in Ipoh, Malaysia. We are just ordinary people so does the wedding. What makes this date  a memorable happenings ?. This is my birthday. Which means an increase of complete one year to my age.
All along I celebrate this dates many times. Meaning that it come every year and and every other  years.  My celebrations more often than not ,were sometime done quitely.  My father and mother think that birthday was not important. Thus they were having a very short memory of their children's birthday. So I have to live with it. At this era birthday was not important.
Come my wife and my children. They remember my birthday. Sometime they present  me with gifts. My wife have got one weird theory about birthday. This is the day one will passed away. So much so that she does not encourage me to move about. She lets me to just stay at home. But that above wedding I have to go. I did not mind anyway If I left this world. I had lived more than half a century now.
My dreams were not big. But  at birthday it comes very clear in my mind.. When I was 10 years old I wanted a bike. My father cant afford. when I was 11 years old my grandfather gave me an old bike . That was good enough.
During my secondry school  I was crazy to get a scholarship. Finally I  got one. I was called 'junior scholarship' It was just enough to by extra reading book.
At the end of my secondry school I failed to continue my  higher study. Every birthday this feeling comes strongly. Sometime after that I kept on dreaming at night I was in the classroom. But I continue working as clerk and keep on dreaming. Some how I succed to be admitted to University Utara  Malaysia, full time. and got a bachelor degree.
People out there celebrate bithday with a number of friends, family and all.  Happy birthday song, blowing candles and having a good time is a norm.
But I celebrate it differently.