November Celebrations: Big Slices Of Happy Days!

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If you remember from my October Wrap up blog, I mentioned that I decided to celebrate the day of my birthday with my family. Although I had plans of doing a separate celebration with my friends on a different day.

Hence our HCBC Onboarding leaders; @explorewithsasha @jongcl @sassycebuana organized a meeting to mentor the new members of our group and also those who missed the previous meetings. I offered to use our community library and decided to just do my post-birthday celebration the same day.

Luckily it was Saturday, so more people were able to join us. The more the merrier!

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Around noon, I suddenly felt a severe headache and my eyes started to get blurry. I do have a theory why it happened because whenever I get a lack of sleep or I'm using my laptop or phone for a very long time without my eyeglasses.

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While feeling really bad and quite stressed I knew I had to get some rest. So I had the leaders do the discussion using the slideshow . I was relieved when @explorewithsasha came back and handed me the laptop with a proud face and said “ we’re done with the discussion! “.

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I knew I could always count on them! They had been working really hard to keep our community strong. I also had the chance to meet one of Jong’s onboarded members, @chillyadventures. Our family is slowly growing. And it’s nice to see new faces once in a while.

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Some members brought some food as usual, we had so much food again. That everyone had to take some and bring it home. I got some really nice gifts from Rica (@sassycebuana and JL (@cheerupwithjl), and some of my close friends. I'm really grateful to be bliss with loving people .

We finished nearly late and had some booze. It was a night full of fun, laughter and chatter.



“BABY’S BIRTHDAY

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On November 10th, my baby turned three years old. So many thoughts had come to my mind on how we would like to celebrate his birthday. Since his two best friends left abroad for vacation, Emma and her family went to Spain, while Josiah and his family went back to Ohio. It was a bit sad that they were not here for his birthday because the three of them are really close and they do their home school together at our place. But things are always not the way we planned them to be and we still have to celebrate this important day and make him feel special.

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I know he won’t remember much of this event but he does understand that it is his birthday and he was already singing a Happy Birthday song to himself a couple of nights before his birthday.

The visitors, we chose to have a smaller celebration, so we invited our helper’s two kids since my baby likes them, our close friends Chuchie and her family. And of course you all know I love my Hive family, they are like my extended family so I invited some of them to join us in celebrating this very special day. Those who came were @sassycebuana and her Baby Kendra, @asasiklause, Baby’s Aunt @explorewithsasha and @itsmiessyonpeakd.

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My sister, @gerel, did the decoration. She started doing it the night before the party. My baby was exhilarated about the idea of having a party for him.

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I prepared some food for the party like whole roasted chicken, deviled egg, salad with quinoa ,pasta marina ( for @asasiklause). My partner also prepared some dishes; pork curry, (which was so delicious , ask the Hivers who joined us! If you don’t believe me). There’s also rotini with beef pasta sauce. He made a kilo of this rotini and one and a half pound of ground beef! He loves to cook a big batch like he’s going to feed a small town!



NOVEMBER 13 MEYSA’S 19TH BIRTHDAY

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Another celebration for this month is @Meysa’s 19th birthday. There were only a few of us at her party since some guests couldn’t make it. Her parents are so thoughtful to rent a whole venue exclusive for her party. There was lovely and delicious looking food on the table when we arrived.

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I brought some JCO donuts that I ordered through grab and she was enthusiastic, “ I love donuts “ when she saw it . Who doesn’t love donuts! I actually ended up eating a five donuts, and I thought I wanted more but I didn't want to eat all of it, lol! Next time, I better bring extra dozen!

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Hence, Meysa is originally from Iran and so we got lucky to try out something different. An interesting cuisine, beautifully unique flavors.

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This is a savory dish with a tad of sweetness from these lovely dried berries. I forgot what they are but maybe @meysa can let us know in the comment box. Her mom made it for her party and I know for a fact how good of a baker and a cook her mom is from all dishes that I tried so far!

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Homemade pasta with an Iranian sauce: Not your typical pasta! One of the unique flavors is from this not so distinguished spice in my local taste bud, the turmeric. I had never thought of adding turmeric to this dish and this is quite interesting.


@meysa is such a sweet girl and I can tell that her parents are really proud of her that she's focused on her studies. That's why I'm not putting any pressure at all about her activities on Hive . One thing you should know about her is that she is a good artist! I recommend you check out some of her work on her page, although she hasn't shared a lot of those artworks on Hive, I hope one day she can share more of her precious talent!.


Those are the three celebrations for this November. As you can see, food has always been part of the culture that bring people together in most celebrations of life. I hope you had a lovely read and enjoyed the photos.


XO,
Gil



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I prepared some food for the party like whole roasted chicken, deviled egg, salad with quinoa ,pasta marina ( for @asasiklause).

Yes, you read it right, I am that special! Hahahaha. Thanks for always making sure I have something to eat in your parties. Christmas is coming!!!!

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haha You're lucky I stopped my carnivore diet a a few years ago haha!

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We are meant to be friends after all. Hahahaha

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Uh... I like all this food what I see, 👌👀👌👌👌 and look you get more rest not work so that you get heavy pain in end, not good.

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thanks for looking out for me. I won't reply to your late discord message then haha! Kidding. You're right I do have to take care of my health.

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A very fun month indeed, meeting new friends and enjoying too. Family is growing and it will continue for sure. So belated to your son and that friend of yours Meysa.

The food looks delicious.

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thank you, paul! Look forward to meeting you in person.

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Indeed, November month was full of celebration. . . Looking forward for our Christmas Party! . . Hehehe

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I was super duper busog during Bobby's birthday. I think my tummy was about to burst 🤣 I really had fun with our post bday celebration too. 😊 to more meet ups with hivecebubloggers fam🥰

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Lots of reasons to celebrate it seems, nice to see so many smiles. Also, there are few Hivers I'm unfamiliar with, so I will have to explore. Thanks for sharing this lively post with us.

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Thanks for posting in the ASEAN Hive Community.

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:) yay! more food!! :P those donuts tho.. i think u need 2 more boxed of those.. happy belated bday to baby! how come u are always surrounded buy such nice, happy people??

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