The ULTIMATE Respect On My Birthday
A continued story on my birthday celebration.....
On this special day once in a year, I have received many well wishes from many cool friends, some of them you would have seen in the comments on the previous blogs; Steve, Ying, Shahrin. Long distance sms from Vega from Taiwan , Tanya my Singaporean friend from AIESEC in UK, Weaw gave me a warmth call and sang the birthday song over the phone. Thanks to all my friends who made my day.
As some of you might have seen from Triin's blog, my some of my MC teammates have organised a mini birthday celebration on that day during the monthly Teajoy ( monthly alumni and AIESEC members gathering on every 1st Friday of the month). Thank you Didi, Yamini, Fida and Triin, along with Vani, Ying, Cecilia with all the efforts.
These thoughtful folks had put in great efforts to make it so wonderful for me, pampering me with my favourite food; sushi. A nice chocolate cake, party hats with clown faces, not forgetting the freshest flowers that Triin has chosen, yes, the 3 stalks of chrysanthemum that Ying enjoyed peeling their petals off. Passerbys looked at me strangely when I was carrying the flowers on the street at night for the second part of my celebration in a pub.
On this special day once in a year, I have received many well wishes from many cool friends, some of them you would have seen in the comments on the previous blogs; Steve, Ying, Shahrin. Long distance sms from Vega from Taiwan , Tanya my Singaporean friend from AIESEC in UK, Weaw gave me a warmth call and sang the birthday song over the phone. Thanks to all my friends who made my day.
As some of you might have seen from Triin's blog, my some of my MC teammates have organised a mini birthday celebration on that day during the monthly Teajoy ( monthly alumni and AIESEC members gathering on every 1st Friday of the month). Thank you Didi, Yamini, Fida and Triin, along with Vani, Ying, Cecilia with all the efforts.
These thoughtful folks had put in great efforts to make it so wonderful for me, pampering me with my favourite food; sushi. A nice chocolate cake, party hats with clown faces, not forgetting the freshest flowers that Triin has chosen, yes, the 3 stalks of chrysanthemum that Ying enjoyed peeling their petals off. Passerbys looked at me strangely when I was carrying the flowers on the street at night for the second part of my celebration in a pub.
Surprises on my birthday that shows their ultimate respect all the way to my future and after life are:
1) Candles on sushi – usually the Chinese will put candles on buns or rice balls and offer them to their ancestors during the Qingming festival when they clean their ancestor’s tomb
2) Yellow Chrysanthemum flowers – usually used by Chinese to offer to Buddha as a symbol of showing the holy respect or used as offerings to the dead during funerals, especially the white ones.
1) Candles on sushi – usually the Chinese will put candles on buns or rice balls and offer them to their ancestors during the Qingming festival when they clean their ancestor’s tomb
2) Yellow Chrysanthemum flowers – usually used by Chinese to offer to Buddha as a symbol of showing the holy respect or used as offerings to the dead during funerals, especially the white ones.
Yes, from Triin’s research on the flowers, in Ancient China there are 3 types of flowers and 1 leaves; Mei Lan Ju Zhu ( Peach Blossom, Orchid, Chrysanthemum and bamboo leaves) that are famous for their charisma, they indeed have many positive meanings, in fact all flowers do =) The only thing that made Chrysanthemum’s meaning differ from their positive meanings in some sense is the occasions they were offered with the knowledge of the traditions to be taken note of.
Thank you folks for the ultimate respect you have shown that made the alumni’s and some customers in the Teajoy enjoyed a great laugh on the cultural ignorance. Don’t worry, you guys are still cute in my eyes =) In Mandarin, there is a saying, the ignorance is not to be blamed.
Thank you folks for the ultimate respect you have shown that made the alumni’s and some customers in the Teajoy enjoyed a great laugh on the cultural ignorance. Don’t worry, you guys are still cute in my eyes =) In Mandarin, there is a saying, the ignorance is not to be blamed.
2 Comments:
i love peeling flowers...like xian niu san hua wahahaha
oh man..even the sushi was a bad idea??! guess both triin and I learned something then that day on 3June =)
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