Every Excuse To Celebrate

August, as always is the favourite month of the year for me. Since I was a kid, I knew the month of August to be my birthday - and the signal for the start of all celebrations begins when every building, car or private home in Malaysia flew the national flag. I went around being delusional that this flying of flag was in honour of MY birthday :P Of course, one day, I grew up and not being a very patriotic person, reality descended on me :P

Starting from 2009, I had a whole lot more reason to wish for August to come as quickly as possible. Together with MOH, we celebrate our Wedding Anniversary on the 25th August. And then a week later, we celebrate my birthday. In between that - on the 27th August, we celebrate something a little more intimate too ;)

Add another week after my birthday - stretching into September - we celebrate our Wedding Registration Anniversary on the 3rd September. And then 2 days later on the 5th of September we celebrate our Kampung Wedding Anniversary and finally, a week from there, on the 12th September, we celebrate our KL Wedding Anniversary.

Not to mention, on the 21st of every month, we celebrate our "Monthly Anniversary" - counting the months from the time we first made the "matured and adult" decision to ... embark on a relationship. The big one for this is in October :)

The other night, after a small chocolate cake from MOH with sparklers and all (did I tell you that I MUST have a cake with candles for my birthday - EVERY YEAR? Without fail :P), MOH and I talked about all these dates. We laughed at the fact that there were just so many dates to "celebrate". It's true - looking at all the dates, we might as well just have tattooed them onto ourselves. Hmm... maybe it isn't such a bad idea!

But - really, it is just another excuse for us to make yet another normal day "special" for the both of us. Even though the reason behind the dates holds meaning to the both of us, there isn't really so much of a fancy celebration required - well, not for every single date! All it takes is just to wake up in the morning and say "Happy-First-Time-We-Hooked Up-Anniversary!" or "Happy-2-Years-We've-Been-Legal Anniversary".

It is just a constant reminder to the both of us - of the journey we took to be together, of all the fun (and wild) stuff that we share and of course - to be happy - with each other. When you're counting 1 year, 2 years.. and it seems like time flies, but it really makes you realize that "Holy Crap! We still have a long way to go!!"

So here's to MOH - Happy Anniversary to all the August-September-October dates we are celebrating about and let's carry on with our journey, hand-in-hand :)