I just came back from the celebration of my colleague Julie’s birthday. She told me a month ago her birthday by accident though she even didn’t remember telling me her birthday. I never celebrated her birthday before because I didn’t know it. Now that I knew her birthday, I couldn’t pretend that I didn’t know it.
After work, she was still working. Watching her working alone in the big office, it was her birthday, obviously, but no one had a celebration for her. Two hours later, I finished my discussion about technical details with two Canadian clients and sent them away. When I returned to the office and found Julie was still working, perhaps she forgot her birthday.
A young girl just graduated and had her second birthday outside, no one celebrated and she worked alone on her birthday, I felt so sad and decided to give her a little warmness and suprise as a colleague. However, Jiabo said to me, “you may kiss the baby for the nurse’s sake.” I just smiled without saying anything, but another colleague Limei was angry, “Danny, shut your crow mouth up.”
I never found Julie had so beautiful voice to sing because she was always tacit. When I returned home, I found making other people happy was actually making myself happy. In fact I was even happier than Julie. It was a really beautiful night full of happiness, which was even better then the romantic and poetic night of autumn rain.
