November special
Its my favorite month of the year again. November. Where the monsoon season starts, rain never stops and work never get done. Well more or less. For this month there are more significant birthdays than usual, the popular one being Mickey Mouse’s and Kirk Hammet’s Birthday on the 18th. Mine is on the next day.
Birthday celebrations have been luke-warm ever since I was little maybe its because of the never-ending rain that usually comes with it. Usually if I’m with my family there would be a fancy dinner at a good restaurant and the usual present, MONEY. Not such a significant amount but it really helps. My good friend also having his birthday this month and usually attending his “party of sorts” helps. Great food, lovely cake and surplus of it.
Getting money from my parents has been a very long tradition, I think it started when I was 8 or 9. Where I got a marching soldier toy that I didn’t like/hate. Fuck the military. Withing the following year I learned how to save, more like I don’t know what to do with the money, really. For the next one I got money for my birthday, I still remember the first. We when to have steak dinner and at the end of it my father gave me a few hundred and also the bill. Whats left was a decent amount for a kid. Pretty simple eh?
For this coming birthday I’m hoping to get books and lots of it. Some classics with high price like George Orwell’s Animal Farm or a Douglas Adam hitchhikers guide compendium (the one with black synthethic leather cover), To kill a mocking bird would be nice. Stephen King’s Dark Tower series which I have yet to own or to finish read (I’ve read till Waste Land). Hoping the extra cash from this month would get me Doris Lessing’s Cleft which cost a hundred, or Book of the Dun Cow. Having an affinity towards stories with animals seems childish.
Birthdays have always dissapointing for me and I’ve always tried to kept the hope to a minimum, well at least tried. There’s something you just can’t keep down. Hope is the worse of all evil, it keeps the torment going but then evil is fun.
