Belated Birthday Blabber!

I celebrated my 35th birthday on the first day of last month. Yes I know, I don’t look my age but I’m really just in my mid-thirties despite whatever impression my hairline gives you.Weeks leading to that, my wife suggested that I had a party in a bar; hire a band maybe, and invite all my friends. Of course, I initially liked the idea. Having my family, friends from work and high school and even my Vespa buddies gathered in one place sounds like fun. But then again, I remembered the few big birthday parties I’ve had in the past and got reminded of the feeling of being so overwhelmed with all the people. It’s like, time was never enough to chat with all those who came, and I never liked that feeling. I guess, I’m just not a social butterfly. I’m comfortable with a small group, but bring all my friends together in one place, and I clam up.In short, the big party idea was scrapped. What I had were few and separate small gatherings with different sets of friends. My only special request to my wife is that my birthday cake should have my very own caricature figurine riding on a Vespa. I wanted the scooter to be black like PIKE but my wife wanted it to be colorful so I agreed with her suggested yellow. Here’s how it looked like:

(apologies to Karl for cropping my face out of this picture)

I know it actually look more handsome than the celebrant but the sculptors still based that face on me — in my picture here to be more specific. Check out the hairline! So here’s how wifey put it together… (the cake, not the party!) For the cake, she asked me if I wanted a layered fondant cake, but I said I don’t want anything fancy. I really only wanted a Hizon’s birthday cake. Heck, we buy that cake even if nobody’s celebrating a birthday in my family!

For the fancy and colorful H-A-P-P-Y-B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y letter candles, she bought them in Gourdo’s. I felt that was better than lighting-up 35 tiny candlesticks and set the cake aflame! hahaha!

For the personalized caketopper, I first saw one — a guy on a Vespa – displayed in a shop in Hong Kong. The moment I saw it, I immediately knew who made it since our site is the exclusive distributor of those kinds of figurines here in the Philippines. In here, we call it My Caketop Look-Alike but the makers abroad is Microdwarf. I have to admit though that these figurines does not come cheap. Recently, we saw a stall/kiosk in Megamall offering a similar product line (I think the stall’s name is “Mini-Me”) and they are priced way cheaper than ours. Though their stuff are a little less polished than we offer, but we actually point people to them for who find our prices prohibitive.

So it looks like this topper is pretty much set for my birthday cakes in the future! hahaha!

Had my cake, and ate it too!
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