Birthday Cake... Pic of the day #4

The following is what I remember about my birthday celebration from my childhood days. My grand-ma used to prepare the birthday cake for me in the cake-oven on the day before my birthday. Having head bath used to be one of the first routines on the day of my birthday after waking up. Getting ready, wearing new dress, making up the hair would follow. Distributing the orange colored chocolates in school is still in my eyes; two chocolates to each I think. Also, my grand-ma used to arrange cake, chocolates, biscuits and few other items in few plates/bowls. I had to go to each of the neighbor's house and give them the plat/bowl with the stuff.  Then they would convey birthday wishes. I also used to go to my mom's school. In the evening, I used to get dressed up again. Mom would put a gold neckless around my neck. Even though I did not like wearing gold ornaments in my childhood, on this particular day I remember wearing without much resistance. My grand-pa would take me to a photo studio to take a picture of mine. I still have some of those photos in my albums. When I look at them, I find myself becoming taller year by year and a shy person too year by year to stand in front of the camera and give a pose. 

So that's how it used to be. Once I joined hostel for further studies after my SSC, there was no one to insist me to celebrate the birthday by cutting cake or distributing chocolates etc. I was not myself interested in doing so, hence I simply skipped the celebration of my first year's birthday away from home. But in my second year of Intermediate, after having taken many a chocolates from many a friends on their respective birthdays, I decided myself to distribute to them too. That was the first birthday ever that I was willingly doing the distribution. Later in the engineering, for the first time ever I came across people celebrating birthdays by cutting the cake bought from bakery and that too in the mid of the night. Thanks to the friends who celebrated my birthday too few times during my graduation and post-graduation.

The above picture is showcasing the birthday cakes that I've cut in office. The cake headers have been preserved by me. For few years they were put plugged on the board at my desk and now they are kept in my desk. Simply wanted to avoid facing the fact that I'm becoming older and older at this one desk itself! With time, my perspective toward the birthday celebration has changed too.  I like celebrating now, not like a bash though! Thanks to my friends, family and especially Yamini, my cousin, for making my birthdays memorable. I like being wished by hundreds of friends and family members on my day. Face book ensures these days that the day is remembered by many a friends and Whats App makes sure that my family members wish me on my birthday through the family group we have created. I'm simply alright with the celebration, whatever is the form it comes to me, irrespective of not being able to realize its core importance. I mean the importance of celebrating it. One more thing that I want to tell is that I do not like friends applying either the chocolate or the cream on my face. Be it the chocolate or a cherry or the cream, that shall go into stomach as far as I'm concerned. It should not go wasted mainly, after all chocolate can not be wasted! Also, I feel like while applying it on your face, some of the frustrations of your friends coming out in the form of cake onto your face!

Anyway, any kind of celebration is good and must be enjoyed to the fullest. Hope many a memories of mine get accumulated on many a birthdays to come, seriously hopefully!