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Flowery Words

Joey thanks everybody who remembered her birthday last Thursday, October 22 – and thanks Facebook’s birthday alarm, too, or she wouldn’t have remembered it herself. Old age can take a toll on one’s memory, and Joey never had a good one to start off with.

This year, the first person to greet her at the stroke of 12 was Krishna – and she was also first last year. (Thank you, Krishna!) Rey has been disqualified on the basis of affinity, even if he started greeting Joey every single day for an entire week before her birthday. (Thank you, Rey. Sigh.)

NO TO INTERNET THEFT


Recently, Joey has grown to love gardening as old people are wont to. She claims to derive so much wisdom from planting seeds, trimming hedges and occasionally screaming at the sight of earthworms (which she is deathly afraid of). From gardening, she has learned that ‘a flower is a plant that rises above the weeds’ and ‘a coffee bean, when planted on a magnet mushroom, will disarm all the zombies’.*

Her birthday gift from Rey is a quiet, lovely lunch at Antonio’s in Tagaytay and new flowering plants for her garden. On her next birthday, Joey hopes he will give her a garden. With fireflies and fire trees, preferably.

NO TO INTERNET THEFT

Joey’s pretty gardening hat is a gift from Gabie. Behind her is the once-small thumbergia called Crawly, who is now plotting to devour our house.

To Rey, she will always be the little bully in pigtails – and that won’t change in a long, long time.

NO TO INTERNET THEFT

Rey bought the cake and ate it, too.

* We refuse to believe that the only reason Joey is into plants is so she can protect our home from zombies, which Rey has reportedly seen lurching on Marcos Highway. He was not kidding when he said this.

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  1. Nadia
    October 30th, 2009 - 23:40

    Happy belated birthday, Joey! Glad that you had fun on your birthday. And that gardening hat is so cute!

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  2. Julie and Mikey
    October 30th, 2009 - 23:54

    Awwww, darling photographs! Happy Belated Birthday!
    I wanna be three too!

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  3. Janne
    October 31st, 2009 - 00:32

    Happy late birthday, pretty Joey! May your flowers bloom and keep all zombies far away!

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  4. Claudia
    October 31st, 2009 - 00:44

    Happy belated Birthday!! Your cake looks really yummy ^-^

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  5. Annie
    October 31st, 2009 - 00:49

    Oh no I missed it! Happy Belated Birthday! You look mahvolous in the hat :D

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  6. Teru
    October 31st, 2009 - 01:29

    Happy belated birthday, Joey. =3
    I’m gonna try that coffee bean trick… The zombies are getting pretty crazy around where I live. *nodnod*

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  7. FlowerHanna
    October 31st, 2009 - 01:38

    That cake looks delicious! And that first picture is adorable! hahah

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  8. D. Fatale
    October 31st, 2009 - 03:56

    A belated Happy Birthday to you Joey! :D I wanna have a cute little magnetshroom from you in case you were able to grow a whole bunch on them in your garden (j/k!) (mine’s already populated with them red-eyed doomshrooms O.o””).

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  9. Robina
    October 31st, 2009 - 19:59

    belated happy birthday Ms. Joey :)

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  10. Asuka & Freya
    October 31st, 2009 - 22:31

    Once again, happy birthday Joey! :D My, my, what a nice garden you have there. I hope for one too, but that’s technically–if not virtually–impossibe to achieve here in the metro for normal city folk. Hey, got Mums and Zinnias? Oh, that would be so wonderful. Freya just loves gardening too, as her tita is a florist.

    OMG, good plan Joey! 8O The zombies will never get to your house so long as you have enough sunflowers and pea-shooters! :)

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    • Joey
      November 3rd, 2009 - 15:21

      Thanks for the birthday greeting and compliments to the garden, Andy – even if you can hardly see my garden! :D

      Is Freya’s tita a real person or is she a doll concept? (What an odd question.) I don’t have zinnias, only Malaysian mums and some tropical flowers. I’m planning to grow some lilies and maybe some shrooms should the zombies decide to attack at night. ;)

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  11. Nix
    October 31st, 2009 - 23:57

    …ohgod. ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE BEGINS ON MARCOS HIGHWAY. XDDDDD

    …oh Rey. 8D;

    Belated happy bday, Joeyyyy. <3 Though I already greeted you. :3

    Uno my neighbor. Hope to see you soon!!!

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  12. Asuka & Freya
    November 1st, 2009 - 13:09

    Damn! My comment didn’t appear. :( Ah well…

    Once again, I greet you the happiest happy birthday, Joey! My, what a lovely garden. 8O I really hope to have one of those someday, but it would be technically–if not virtually–impossible to achieve here in the Metro for normal city folk like me. Freya loves gardening and flowers too, as her tita is a florist.

    YES! :) Keep up the gardening and the zombies won’t even come close! :D I take you’ve planted just about enough sunflowers and peashooters? (Sorry, just think this might be a real-life version of Plants vs. Zombies! XDXDXDXDXDXD)

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  13. Kishi
    November 1st, 2009 - 16:40

    Happy Birthday Joey!

    Aw, Rey is so sweet

    And the 1st pic is so cute and funny XD

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  14. noriko
    November 1st, 2009 - 20:19

    happy birthday po

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  15. Mina
    November 2nd, 2009 - 04:57

    On the bright side, at least in the event of a zombie apocalypse you all will be prepared ^^

    Happy birthday once again!

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  16. Asuka
    November 2nd, 2009 - 10:19

    How strange, my comment didn’t appear… :(

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    • Asuka
      November 2nd, 2009 - 10:22

      Well, if you didn’t get to see it, happy birthday once again, Joey! :) I hope you have zinnias over there, and I take you’ve planted enough sunflowers and peashooters?

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  17. chin
    November 2nd, 2009 - 12:34

    Joey, belated happy birthday! <3 Did you receive my message in LJ? I lost my phone so I wasn’t able to text you. ;A; Anyway, I hope you had an awesome birthday, you deserve no less.

    I think your house is gonna be zombie-free for a long time. ;)

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  18. Bianca
    November 3rd, 2009 - 20:44

    Oh. Plants VS Zombies? Big fan also, Miss Joey?

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  19. Gemma
    November 5th, 2009 - 17:17

    Belated!

    Those flowers are pretty!

    Nice hat. It really suits you. =)

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  20. Krishna
    November 9th, 2009 - 00:29

    A Joey post! So adorable <3 Although I was the first to greet you, I guess I’m probably the last to post a comment. Oh my.

    Anyway, you must have such a well-protected house with all those lovely plants you’ve got! XD It must have lots of sunlight and coins, too, since I see lots of flowers there. Must be a Zen garden?

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    • Joey
      November 12th, 2009 - 15:12

      Hey, you are not the last to comment. :P

      Thank you again, Krishna. The fates must’ve sent Ulalume on my birthday so that you don’t ever forget to greet me on time. &heart;

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  21. kai naeomi
    November 10th, 2009 - 10:27

    yiiiih! haberday… belated…

    XD

    let’s hold a plants vs zombies tournament some time… ahaha! kidding..

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  22. Fae
    November 16th, 2009 - 14:15

    Aw, Joey, I totally missed your birthday! I hope it was as sunny as your photos above. ♥

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  23. sin
    December 25th, 2009 - 03:07

    hmm…what kind of monsters? BeeLAAAAATTTTEEED HAPPEEE BIRFDAY MRS. JOEY!

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  24. Ryan Martinez
    May 13th, 2010 - 07:39

    my favorite character on the Plants Vs. Zombies game is none other than the Michael Jackson zombie..:”

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