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Born In September (Toastmaster's Speech No: 9)

What do you do on your birth day? Go to temple or church, wear new dress, give treat to colleagues, and throw away party for friends?   And how much you spend on it? Good evening toast masters and respected evaluator. 90% of us spend money on our birth days, sometime during youth the expenses goes high, one of my friend who is working in banglore told me that he took a personal loan to give a birth day party for friends over there.   I was little confused and asked him “Why, why do you want to give such a big party?” He told me, “There is a custom in our friendship group, there are 15 of us.   We give our birthday party at Taj hotel and we need to take them for outing whole day, around 80k will be spent on this” This increased curiosity in me, to check, what people do on their birthday?   There was no other media for me to check, so I started searching on Internet.   There was 100’s of events posted on different websites and blogs, funny one, different ones. But one of them ca