I've had deadlines in the past. Loads of them, but man, March 31st was a pretty hefty one for me. I was probably more serious on this deadline than any of my past homework assignment deadlines. I wouldn't be joking if I said I probably spent more than a hundred hours on it over the past two months. Why? It was my best friend Shiva's birthday.

Now, my philosophy is that I don't like celebrating my own birthday as much as I like celebrating others'. That's a similarity between me and my best friend. We both love celebrating others' birthdays because we both like bringing joy to others and making those around us happy.

Anyways, the birthday ended up getting so insane. Shiva knew that I loved making YouTube videos (check me out: Mirakell!) and so he immediately guessed that I made a movie. In order to hide the real gift, I kept hinting that it was a heavy gift by saying that it weighed 150 pounds — which wasn't a lie. Cause you see, we had to package our close childhood friend in a bag and put a coat over him to hide him as we brought him to Shiva's living room.

As Shiva opened the gift, he thought it was going to be a scrapbook but upon seeing our friend, he gasped in shock and simply started laughing. From there, he didn't know how to react as he kind of just followed all the steps I had planned out two months before. The movie I made for him ended up being about 40 minutes and all of it was done via iMovie. It was one of the most time-consuming projects I did but it was also one of the most awesome things, in my opinion.