Belated Post : It's my Day!

It was my day and I suppose to travel to Dortmund on this day for my short time Research Program. But I booked the ticket one day later just because I wanted to spend my time with my friends in Porto. I never wanted to miss this chance. So it happened. To be starting this day, friend of mine called me at 12 hrs just to impress me.. Ha ha ha.. Unfortunately I didn't listen anything since I was really sleeping but I remembered that I did say Obrigada to that Indian friend. I am glad that even I was sleeping I spoke Portuguese.. That sounds great right?

Okay. Then at the morning I called up my family and spoke with everyone expect my kids since they left to school. But , I was told that they will call me when they come back home. That was nice feeling to wait for them.

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I got wishes from my residence people..

Here goes all of them. They all sung very loudly the birthday song in portuguese. So almost all people in the residence knows that I am clebrating my day... They adviced me to take care with drinks.... They adviced me nothing should happen like last year.. Ha ha ha.. I told them today I dont drink much since I have to travel tomorrow. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.. So I cant be drunk this day...That is too bad for me..

Then I went to the faculty to meet my friends at faculty.. Dianne and Rita were there. It was our plan to go out for lunch and eat Chinese food. Here we are with our Chinese lunch..

Me and Dianne came back faculty after a long lunch . When I was coming back I told Dianne look today I didnt drink any wine.. I wish I could.. I compromised myself but..

After reaching the lab I saw big cake on my desk. One of my GOOD FRIEND offered me the cake as birthyday gift...

Hmmmmmmmmm..
The cake smelled great with chocolate and it was very fresh..

Here comes the cake.. Please don't look at the candles.. Listen me .. Okay??? The one who don't listen me I guess you are seeing 23 right????

Of course I wanted to be just with this cake.. This is the information I would like to share to that friend. This is the first time in my life I cut the cake on my birthday. So thanks a lot for making my day wonderful with these good thoughts.

Obrigadissima!

So we invited our friends to eat the delicious cake.. Here they are..

They all sung again the birthday song...
and I cut the cake ....

Surprisingly Ze brought me the champagne.. I was relaly happy...Finalmente, I got the drink at 6 pm.. Dianne was saying me Porkodi you should have wished for something more..

We shared the champagne too..So here comes the interesting gift offered by Dianne.. She gave me a cheque worth of
1,000, 000, 000 euros.. .. I dont even know to value it.. Do you know what is this value in rupees? that would be interesting..

After I left home after saying good bye to my lab friends for few months stay away from Proto...

and
Julce came home with her gift..

Julce was asking me some wine.. Fortunately I had some left over my favorite wine Gazela in fridge.. So we shared this small part..

Then one more interesting part comes that My Indian friend Sonal visited me... You know guys what she brought.. Gazela and chocolates.... What a great surprise.. Thanks a lot Sonal...So I shared this wine with my neighbour Gui and Julce.. So my day went like this..

As I said previously next day I travel to Dortmund...

This trip is very challenging for me in all aspects... I believe that with the blessings from god I will get through these challenges...