July Birthdays: Beyond Gifts, There Was Gratitude

As many people that celebrated birthday this July, there were also many employees here in my own company had celebrated their birthday this month which is the month of July.

I think it was about more or less 18 employees that had a birthday during this month, and many were shocked as I am that there were as many as these employees that celebrate or will celebrate their birthday.

It's not that their birthday was on the same day but the co-workers plan on having one birthday blowout to these birthday employees in one day.

There were many employees that agreed on celebrating on that day but there were some that doesn't agree with it. If the majority of the employees agree, then, that will be the set plan on celebrating the birthday to all the birthday celebrants.

In the 24th of July, which was on Thursday, we had celebrated all the birthdays of the employees of the month of July on that day.

We, the employees, were very much excited on that day because more than 10 employees from the company celebrated birthday on that certain day.

We, the employees, contribute for this birthday to happen and we were very happy that for our contribution. Many celebrants were happy because not only that they had two lechon and other viand food on that day but they also had cakes, and as well as their their gifts that we contribute together.

We left early to our work at five in the afternoon because the dinner will begin at half past five. We didn't knew about the food that we will eat since we were not the one that was assigned to that but we were certain that there will be a lechon. A lechon is one of the famous food if there were some celebrations likes birthdays, weddings, events, etc.

I was surprised to see that aside from the two lechon, they also ordered a catering services that the food are already cooked and it's really to eat. Comes with 3 different kinds of cakes for the 18th employees who celebrated their birthday this July. Lastly, was the gifts that were given to these birthday celebrants in the Month of July.

One of the people who manage to this event were our manager, HR, and of course our very own boss in the company. Our manager were the one who called those celebrants to line up at the center for picture taking and I never imagined that they were that many who celebrated for this month.

We sang birthday songs for them as we clapped our hands while we were singing to them. They were smiling as we sing birthday song to these celebrants and I think they were glad to be for this event that happened to them, that we have this preparation for then.

After picture taking, no other talking like a program, but we pray for the food and also for these birthday celebrants during that night for our dinner.

We ate our dinner after the prayer and there were lots of employees that were happy getting their food. As for me, I was also happy and glad to join to the feasts. I pick one of my favorite viand food, which the skin of the lechon because it's crispy, yummy, and delicious while picking some of the other viand food.

After eating the main dish, I proceed eating the side dish and that was the cake. One of the flavor of the cake was this UBE flavor and it was delicious and tasty.

Oh, I almost forgot that there is a big tube of ice cream that we also bought and the flavor was one of my favorite and that is avocado. But I didn't eat the ice cream because I was really full at that time.

During that night, I could say that it was one of the best experience that I had on celebrating birthdays with the employees and I was lucky enough to witness this kind of celebration.

Note: The first photo was edited in Canva