Carmen's 10th Birthday

CARMEN: Celebrated my 10th Birthday on 18 April. I hit double figure now. The horrors...

TESSY: Well Carmen, it's time to grow up.

CARMEN: Hey Tessy...., I am grown up. You are still the baby of the family.

TESSY: Anyway, Carmen had two birthday celebrations. Both at..., both at..., fast food restaurants.

CARMEN: Yeah..., bummer. On 18th, we celebrated at Pizza Hut and they gave a complimentary pizza birthday cake - not the normal cake, the harden one where you can't even poke a candle in. But I am happy although how I wish Sabrina was still here in Sabah.

TESSY: Then yesterday, we..., we..., celebrated at KFC with some of our cousins.

CARMEN: And it was a bit embarassing since I'm already 10. Mum placed some birthday deco for all to see and I feel like a baby when they sang Happy Birthday. Last year was much more 'private' and 'luxurious'.

TESSY: Carmen's 2006 Birthday bash was at @mosphere.

CARMEN: Anyway, here's an old photo taken last year. Sure brings back some memories...

Sabrina and Sean leaving the Land Below the Wind

CARMEN: Ahhh..., I'm gonna miss Sabrina and Sean. They flew back to America this morning. We didn't sent them off at the airport coz we had school.

TESSY: We had a farewell dinner at..., at..., a restaurant at Pacific Sutera last night.

CARMEN: But we did not feel sad or anything like that. We just play and play. Our other cousins Amanda and Adrian were also there, and they were also with us in the afternoon yesterday when we had lunch at Salut Seafood Restaurant.

TESSY: Salut has better food but..., but..., Pacific is air-conditioned. But who cares. We just want to..., we just want to..., hang around with Sabrina.

CARMEN: But it went too quickly. Before I realised, we were back at home on our bed and feeling so tired. It had been a very tiring week or so but I'll always remember forever..., the time we got to meet and hang out with our American cousins. Hope to be able to see them again very soon. I just love to hang out with Sabrina.

TESSY: Hopefully, we can save enough to..., to..., visit them in..., in..., America before we are teenagers.

CARMEN: Hey, much better if we can meet in our teens. Then, we can go shoppinggg...

TESSY: Dream on, Carmen.