paviddark - “two”

I attended my friend’s niece’s second birthday (for the food of course). I don’t get to attend too many family parties since most of my family either lives overseas and scattered throughout America, so these are always fun little events for me. 

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The earliest birthdays that I can remember are when I turned four and five.

I only remember my fourth birthday because there’s a picture of me sitting at my dad’s seat at the dinner table in our old apartment in San Jose. I sat there wearing this hideous forrest green sweater and my parents brought out this huge chocolate cake for me and only me (I have no siblings, and I probably didn’t have friends at the age of four). It’s a really vague memory. What I can make out of it was that most of the lights in our apartment were off. We might have just gotten home from a family trip (for some reason I want to say we just got back from Lake Tahoe). Something about that day I just remember as being super eerie and dark. It could have been that my parents had just gotten into an argument or something along the lines of some family conflict. Or none of that might have happened and that I was just a small frail scared child afraid of the dark.

On a lighter note, my fifth birthday was great. I celebrated it with my pre-school class in Milpitas. My dad brought this power rangers cake which had little plastic power ranger characters standing upright. I remember saving those little characters and adding them to my roster of toys.

Song - At Last Ashore
Artist - Giants