An Unexpected Post Birthday Gesture

Today seems to be just the same days that I have in work. Well, except for the pre-payday anxiety of course...

But none the less, it would have been that until my other thesis advisory group came...

Well, it started out that they came and were looking for lighters or matches, even my chairperson was helping them out (I still had no idea what was going on...) I asked them, "Why do you need a lighter?" and they were like, "we needed to fix something and we don't have a glue gun, so we'll just burn the tip of a glue stick..."

We were on the usual routine of consultation until, I saw some of them at the door holding something with a candle and the whole office were singing "Happy Birthday". As for me, I was totally in shock (especially that my chairperson was in connivance) and I had to have my face covered for minutes for they actually had me almost in tears (since no one actually does that to me, and the appreciation of the students are still priceless in the end)

They made me blow the candle, but the wish that I made was not for me but sincerely for my Advisory group :-)

Here is their gift for me:

Actually, the incident also reminded me of college when it was my 20th birthday:

The scenario was, I was busy doing task the morning of my exact birthdate and most of my classmates were just acting normal. Then they all managed to leave me alone in our room then after a minute, All friends and Classmates were singing "Happy Birthday" with the cakes and balloon in the background, I was actually stunned and the tears in my eyes were successfully stopped by yours truly. I also realized that, the people singing together were, the same people who were fighting the night before (which made me to think that I think that was part of the Setup...hhhhmmm) here was their surprise to me:

Th cake ended up as dessert during lunch time but all is well and everyone was of course happy. Those were actually a few of the "Birthday Surprise" happenings in my awakening life, you see, I really never experience those way back in the days...but I'm not complaining (Still thankful, by the way)

Anyhow, that just made my day...'Til then :-)