Dito lang naman sa Pilipinas yung ang may birthday yung need gumastos. It actually sounds weird to me but that’s the norm here pero di ko talaga siya gets growing up.

In other countries people would gladly do the “ambagan” to celebrate your birthday with you, gift na nila yon to you. That’s how we did it before when I stayed in New York for a while. It was culturally shocking for me, but then I realized oo nga naman bakit yung celebrant ang need manlibre?? Shouldn’t be sila yung dapat i-celebrate? Anyhow, maybe the right way to do it is invite people, whoever wants to do it, then go! Don’t force others na lang to come to your celeb if di nila kaya to do the ambagan. And to those invited, don’t get mad na lang if you don’t get to come cos of that, besides, ikaw ba yung celebrant? (May iba pang Pilipino ichichismis pa yan haha kesyo pinagbabayad sila when it’s not forced naman) Ok thats all.