early celebration for ida's birthday

one evening, last week, i got a call from jill. she said she wanted to come over to celebrate ida's birthday. was wondering how to celebrate a birthday when the birthday girl was in another country. thought maybe these IT savvy people would set up something to do video conferencing with ida.

when i opened the door, i was surprised to see tim among them. besides jill, there were shingyi and rong choo. they had bought a birthday cake from bengawan solo. tim had arranged to meet them at bukit panjang plaza before coming over together.

jill said they were going to do a video clip of the home celebration. tim would do the editing and then send it over to ida in the form of a compact disc. we lighted the candles, sang the birthday song for ida and got tim to blow out the candles. after that, jill recorded our well wishes for ida.

that was also the day when we broached the subject of letting tim take care of tammy. tim agreed readily, saying that there should not be any problem with his parents accepting the dog. he said that his sister would definitely welcome having a dog at home.