Sunday Boring Sunday! And It's My B-Day!

Nothing happened, we did nothing. We relaxed, ate some chicken and steamed rice (twice), had a couple of beers and watched a couple of movies. I cannot tell you how bad those movies where; mind me if I sound rude, but "Rachel's Wedding" with Anne Hathaway sucks! And what about the freaking Benjamin Button, Brad go do off-broadway, please!

Anyways, I'm sorry to disappoint you but we did not get a chance to go to the zoo and throw live chicken at the lions and tigers. Some of our friends here where going back home, so the drivers where busy taking them to Shanghai and we did not have someone to drive us around. See, here I would not dare step out a grab a cab; I would have to be out of my freaking 38 year old mind to do that. Imagine if this itself is a constant battle with the nurses, I can't think about trying to explain or ask a taxi driver where to go. If I ask him to go to the zoo, I would probably end up in a duck processing factory or some rice field, completely lost.

So instead, my beautiful wife came up with a cake for everybody to sing happy birthday to me. Everything was fine until I saw the cake and something just caught my attention: the number three (3) and the number eight (8), together! Damn I'm getting old, thank god it is not eighty three yet.

We had cake and after that we had some beers and music, so it pretty much felt like my birthday. Everyone here is so great, no matter why they are there or if they just work here; we had a very good time.

I must tell you a funny story, and whoever came up with "you don't know what you've got until you loose it" has to be a complete and utter genius. Forget about Einstein, Da Vinci, Alexander Bell (which I owe a couple of things right? no.) Newton, anyone. This phrase, so simple yet so true, was the reason of another true experience today. One so different, but it felt good. Sometimes we need this kind of things in our life because even the most little tiny thing can make such an impact. It goes like this: A couple of friends went out to town for some sight seeing which we did not go because they where leaving way to early. Anyhow, we where watching TV at around 5:30PM when they knocked on our door. I paused the movie and went out to see if it was just another nurse singing "temperature, temperature" and me: "picture, why picture?" no, "temperature, temperature". Dude... They do this 5 times a day, come in unannounced and take Marujita's temperature! So, I opened the door and to my surprise there where our friends with yet another extremely surprising and original birthday present. You are not going to believe what they where holding in their hands, but let me tell you (and as I do, I'm getting goose bumps) sometimes life comes at you so fast that even the smallest detail can make your day. Hell, your week for that matter. They where holding a fully wrapped up, warm, foot-long, Subway sandwich! Can you believe that?

As you might have seen, and if you haven't please do so, an even greater surprise was the video prepared and edited by my very good friend, Kakum Morean. I don't want to tell you what it is about to encourage you to go to facebook and look at it. I am only going to tell you this: In a way I need a change from this burn out scene; another time another town, another everything. Remember one of my past blogs? Well this is exactly that; It was again proven that I can break, and I can break until I shatter!

Well, I think you all get my point. In life, the true meaning of life lies beneath simple details. Simple details than can make such a great difference just because you found out how important and significant your daily life is. Well, we take that for granted. Again, I insist you take a moment, a step back in your life; try gather an eagle's eye view of yourself and pay attention to all those details there, the small ones because believe it or not, they mean so much to us that and we just don't pay attention anymore.

I want to thank everybody for your beautiful birthday messages, it was simply unbelievable to see how many there are. I have taken some time tonight to answer to everyone individually but right now I am beat up so I will continue with those tomorrow.

It has been thirty eight incredible and interesting years of my life and I could not be more proud this very moment to be your son, brother, friend, cousin, nephew, son in law, husband, boyfriend, anything that ties us up. You make me want to be a better person, you give me strength and will and for that I will forever be in debt with you.

I love you all, unconditionally, always and forever,

Tuto .38 (shit)