Sämi's Birthday

Today, we could celebrate the jubilee of Sämi's arrival on planet earth. Sämi is a colleague of mine, and we're staying together in India for a technical assistance. The department of the company we are working for here in India organised a function for Sämi as they usually do when someone of them celebrates her* or his real** birthday.

We all assembled in a big meeting room. Sämi received a bunch of flowers, a birthday cake (without candles) and a touching speech from the head of the department. Then it was up to Sämi to announce his resolutions for his 51st year of life. Sämi refused to cooperate in this part of the function and said nothing at all. However, he did as he was requested, when he had to cut the birthday cake:



* Unlike in Switzerland, there are a lot of female engineers in India.
** A lot of Indians have both real an official birthday. The official is the one, the parents reported, when the children were enlisted in school. This date then made it into all official documents. As a resutl, the company congratulates on the official birthday, and the colleagues on the real one.