About two weeks ago, I celebrated my 21st birthday. If you know me, I am a very chilled person and that reflects how I celebrate my birthday. I'm not into the big parties or anything but prefer smaller outings where my friends and I can just relax.

My birthday was kicked off with Rosa, Catherine and Bryan coming over to celebrate at midnight. Rosa gifted me with a mango and lychee giant pudding 'cakes' and the Happy Kitchen Mini-Cake. We sat around talking and laughing especially when my primary school photos were whipped out. I strangely look the same in Kindy and once my mum started cutting my hair, my looks took a drastic turn especially in year 3 *shudders*.


For my birthday dinner, a group of my friends went to Gigino's which is located in Fairfield West on Hamilton Road. They do Italian food and we ordered 4 types of pizza and 2 salads for our meal. I loved the pizzas especially the spicy pepperoni one. I love wood fired thin crust pizzas and Gigino's definitely delivered on that. I think what sets Gigino's apart is their customer service. Our waitress was attentive to what we needed and was knowledgeable about the menu and what we would like when we ran into some trouble picking. The owner (or maybe it was the manager) came around to each table and talked to each party about what they liked and did some general chit-chat. We then all came back to my place and played board games making fun of one another and just having a nice time being around one another.

As part of the dinner, I got gifted my first ever luxurious bag with my friends gifting me a Coach mini tote bag. I was seriously overwhelmed when I got the present and could not thank them enough. It even comes in its own protective bag (that's when you know its fancy, LOL) and I'm still too scared to take off the protective bits or bring it outside. They also got me a Junior Masterchef hat and apron set and surprisingly, I could fit both. Don't know whether I should be happy or upset about that.


The day after my birthday, I embarked on another Italian meal with another group of close friends. We ate at Savanas at Stocklands Wetherill Park. We had eaten there before but had pizzas. We chose to have the pasta this time around. It was okay but nothing amazing in my opinion. It may have just been the pasta that I ordered. For dessert, we went to What the Fudge? in Cabramatta. I ordered the Nutella Waffles. I unfortunately didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would but I think that was mostly because I was still slightly full from the dinner. We spent about 2 or so hours there just talking about random topics that popped into our heads.


This birthday was probably one of the best, just because I was able to spend it with so many of my friends and it was just a nice relaxing way to enter into another year of my life but also celebrating all the friends and the memories that I have accumulated with them. Spending my birthday with my friends makes me so grateful that I have them as part of my life and reminded me that having a good group of friends, along with family, really allows me to spend everyday in a happy mood.