The celebration for my birthday actually had began 2 days ago. We had hot pot on last Saturday and went out for a bush walk yesterday and then today, I had birthday card and a cake organised by my colleagues and been given a super thick Craft Book as my birthday present.

One of my colleagues, whom I am particularly closed to, personally gave me a very nice angel statue as the gift. I didn’t know that she actually made it until the next morning. I know she sews well, makes Persian dolls and used to teach in classes, but I didn’t know she also makes status and paints so beautifully. She told me she used to own a little shop selling this sort of things that she made out of her own hands, but it was just too difficult to compete with cheap products imported from China. Even with the porcelain materials to be used for making them, were very expensive.

I love the light purple colour she had chosen for the statue and all the little flowers around the skirt, angel wings and head wreath. They are just so beautiful. The angel’s face has a feature that makes you sense her purity, calmness, warmth and kindness, which really soothes the audience’s heart. I didn’t even notice that there is my colleague’s autography underneath the statue. How stupid I was to miss that detail!

Same as every birthday that I had in the past many years, my husband and I wanted to do something special for today, but different from the normal birthday mood that I have had in the past many years, I felt this year I had jumped off my old skin and become a more self-content woman.

Normally I wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation to go out for a birthday dinner (I was so desperate to escape from my ordinary cooking duties to seek some opportunities to get a rest), but this year I was happy to spend a couple of hours just cooking a normal meal. I also decided to stay at home and go to the bed 2 hours earlier than usual, instead of going to the cinema.

It was so warm to tuck myself in the quilt watching an English movie “The Baker”. I really enjoyed it. It’s a very stright forward story but with a good sense of humour and a very nice touch on human’s weakness. I did have a bit laugh.I think for a birthday that ended like that, I really have nothing to complain about.