If you remember from my October Wrap up blog, I mentioned that I decided to celebrate the day of my birthday with my family. Although I had plans of doing a separate celebration with my friends on a different day.
Hence our HCBC Onboarding leaders; 
Luckily it was Saturday, so more people were able to join us. The more the merrier!
Around noon, I suddenly felt a severe headache and my eyes started to get blurry. I do have a theory why it happened because whenever I get a lack of sleep or I'm using my laptop or phone for a very long time without my eyeglasses.
While feeling really bad and quite stressed I knew I had to get some rest. So I had the leaders do the discussion using the slideshow . I was relieved when
I knew I could always count on them! They had been working really hard to keep our community strong. I also had the chance to meet one of Jong’s onboarded members, 
Some members brought some food as usual, we had so much food again. That everyone had to take some and bring it home. I got some really nice gifts from Rica (
We finished nearly late and had some booze. It was a night full of fun, laughter and chatter.
“BABY’S BIRTHDAY
On November 10th, my baby turned three years old. So many thoughts had come to my mind on how we would like to celebrate his birthday. Since his two best friends left abroad for vacation, Emma and her family went to Spain, while Josiah and his family went back to Ohio. It was a bit sad that they were not here for his birthday because the three of them are really close and they do their home school together at our place. But things are always not the way we planned them to be and we still have to celebrate this important day and make him feel special.
I know he won’t remember much of this event but he does understand that it is his birthday and he was already singing a Happy Birthday song to himself a couple of nights before his birthday.
The visitors, we chose to have a smaller celebration, so we invited our helper’s two kids since my baby likes them, our close friends Chuchie and her family. And of course you all know I love my Hive family, they are like my extended family so I invited some of them to join us in celebrating this very special day. Those who came were 
My sister, 
I prepared some food for the party like whole roasted chicken, deviled egg, salad with quinoa ,pasta marina ( for
NOVEMBER 13 MEYSA’S 19TH BIRTHDAY
Another celebration for this month is @Meysa’s 19th birthday. There were only a few of us at her party since some guests couldn’t make it. Her parents are so thoughtful to rent a whole venue exclusive for her party. There was lovely and delicious looking food on the table when we arrived.
I brought some JCO donuts that I ordered through grab and she was enthusiastic, “ I love donuts “ when she saw it . Who doesn’t love donuts! I actually ended up eating a five donuts, and I thought I wanted more but I didn't want to eat all of it, lol! Next time, I better bring extra dozen!
Hence, Meysa is originally from Iran and so we got lucky to try out something different. An interesting cuisine, beautifully unique flavors.
This is a savory dish with a tad of sweetness from these lovely dried berries. I forgot what they are but maybe 
Homemade pasta with an Iranian sauce: Not your typical pasta! One of the unique flavors is from this not so distinguished spice in my local taste bud, the turmeric. I had never thought of adding turmeric to this dish and this is quite interesting.
Those are the three celebrations for this November. As you can see, food has always been part of the culture that bring people together in most celebrations of life. I hope you had a lovely read and enjoyed the photos.
XO,
Gil