Celebrating?
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
December 18, 2017 5:34am CST
My son’s birthday is today, and it is also our city’s holiday. From being a town, our place assumed cityhood in 2002. Therefore, I did not have my duty, and offices here were open for half a day only.
After I and my son visited the church (there was no more mass at 6:30AM) we had breakfast in a food store, where he had spaghetti and I had the bowl of noodles with thick soup (lomi). Then there were some sounds of drum, bugle and lyre bands, and every locality with their folks marched around the city premises.
I took pictures and posted them on Facebook with the caption that “our city is celebrating the birthday of my son”.
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
18 Dec 17
That's awesome! My youngest daughter's birthday is June 12 same as our Independence day so I know the feeling.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
19 Dec 17
hahaha! right on that. June 12 is a national holiday so every Filipino celebrates your daughter's birthday as well. flags are raised, and a bouquet (wreath) is offered in a hero's monument, am i right?
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
19 Dec 17
Indeed it could be like that - a celebration of your son's birthday. 
This also happened to me when last Dec 9th , our GM treated us for lunch at Linguini Fini then dinner at Vikings at Megamall. My daughter was there too.
They videoed the dinner at Viking and greeted me. When it's my chance I told them-Thanks for coming and celebrating with me here at Vikings, my birthday. To which we all laughed because it's actually the treat of our GM to my birthday, not me.
This also happened to me when last Dec 9th , our GM treated us for lunch at Linguini Fini then dinner at Vikings at Megamall. My daughter was there too.
They videoed the dinner at Viking and greeted me. When it's my chance I told them-Thanks for coming and celebrating with me here at Vikings, my birthday. To which we all laughed because it's actually the treat of our GM to my birthday, not me. 1 person likes this
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
19 Dec 17
i forgot to greet you my lady.
happy belated birthday to you.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
22 Dec 17
@SIMPLYD so, are you a Sagittarian, my lady? or a Capricorn?
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@Letranknight2015 (51969)
• Philippines
18 Dec 17
Despite of the cold, I guess it's never a problem to celebrate some one's birthday. My sister in law's birthday is the same day as the Independence day.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
19 Dec 17
right, so your 'hipag's ' birthday is celebrated by all Filipinos.
@LadyDuck (471430)
• Switzerland
19 Dec 17
@ridingbet One of my cousin was born the 24th of December.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
19 Dec 17
thank you and yes he is lucky. well, 3 of my family members also have their birthday falling on holidays:
May 1-- my nephew
November 1--my kid brother
December 18--my son
December 24--my father
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
22 Dec 17
that is true. when he was still a student, usually they don't have classes and that is one day off from school
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
19 Dec 17
happy birthday to your husband too. i guess the celebration is grand and happy since you have a lot of friends to enjoy the birthday celebration with.
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@oinkgiz (863)
• Singapore
18 Dec 17
@ridingbet Happy Birthday to your son, hope he enjoy his special day!
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
19 Dec 17
thank you. yes, we had a date in the morning, then he went to a food store and ordered our lunch of fried chicken and sundae.
@averygirl72 (37845)
• Philippines
18 Dec 17
What a happy day for your son's birthday.
Happy Birthday to him. How old he is now?
Happy Birthday to him. How old he is now?1 person likes this
