I hated the 20th, hated the 21st (which I actually didn’t even remember until I started receiving “happy birthday” wishes via text messages), but the 22nd? Oh my, I’m totally loving it.
One - I’m not stuck in my lonely hostel room, in the middle of nowhere, at a really super boring campus full of people with rigid and narrow-minded mentalities.
Two - I’m in the city and I just moved into my own place, much to my parents’ initial dismay. 
Three - I’m surrounded by good friends and lots of fun people.
Four - I love my job and my colleagues are a really great bunch of amusing, yet professional guys and girls.
Five - I’m gonna be a dad!! Kidding.
Six - I’m grateful I have an outlet where I can voice out my heretical thoughts and have them read by a lovely readership consisting of some very wonderful and intriguing people - you guys!
Seven - I just officially returned to the city after attending my graduation ceremony. The nightmare is officially over. I’m done and I prefer working life ten times more.
Eight - the birthday wishes are still coming in and haven’t even slowed down yet. I’m actually positively overwhelmed.
Ah, regardless of all the imperfections and various headaches, life is good, and I’m just in a very happy and jolly mood today so thank you all for being so awesome and adding some good vibes to my life.
Love you all (even the haters, and the few occasional loonies who email me veiled death threats)! 
SudaneseThinker
SudaneseThinker
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Happy Birthday Mr. Drima !
“regardless of all the imperfections and various headaches, life is good” That’s the spirit !
Mabrook, ya habib.
Happy Birthday! The 22nd… ah, you sound so much wiser! Enjoy it
Happy birthday drima:
Relish it because you are only 22 for awhile. I am so old now that I cannot even remember being 30 much less 22
“the few occasional loonies who email me veiled death threats”
Yeah, sorry about that. Sometimes I just lose it.
Congratulations on your graduation Drima!
Here’s wishing you a happy birthday.
Eid milaad saeed!
(kul sana wa inta tayyeb) كل سنة و انت طيب
(kul ʿam wa inta bihair) كل عام و أنت بخير
سنة150 عقبال
I hope you will live until you are 150 years old!
كل عام و أنت بخير
I hope you will be good next year
With best wishes from Ingrid in England, UK.
P.S. Sorry, there’s no way to preview this comment before posting. I hope you can see the Arabic text - and the YouTube link to “Birthday by The Beatles” - ok in this comment.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPAwvTe1Baw&feature=related
Your a good dude…
As we say in Hebrew:
ad mayeh’esrim
“Five - I’m gonna be a dad!! Kidding”
lol - to be recommended though.
Congratulations.
Congratulations!!
And many many more to come
Happy Birthday,ya ibni. Whoops, if you are only 22, grand-ibni.
Keep up the wild work!
happy birthday legend! mazal tov.. u have a lot to be proud of
Happy Birthday!
I reckon 23 is the best age, so you have that to look forward to.
Happy Birthday Drima!
What motivated the move out of the house?
Happy Bday dude
Congrats on how well things are going for you, amigo. You rock.
Happy Birthday, Drima. Glad to hear things are going good.
Happy birthday… I never knew you were such a baby!
Happy birthday, man! And mazal tov… not that you need it, the universe seems content to assist you in becoming the Benevolent Dictator of Africa and Protector of the Middle East
Keep up the good work!
“Benevolent Dictator of Africa and Protector of the Middle East”
Oh, wouldn’t that be great?
I am personally a big fan of empires.
Cong… 1000 Mabroooook…. I hope that you are mature enough now…. Thinking b4 posting
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