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Happy Birthday To Everybody's Friend, Toby!


Your good friend and mine is having a birthday today. Yes, it's Toby Cheung's birthday. If by chance you don't know Toby, which I find hard to believe, then all you need to know is this is a man who keeps in touch. Oh yeah, and he is really, really, really passionate about food! Buffetclub anyone?
Toby somehow finds the time to keep in touch with a ton of people. I am constantly amazed by the information he knows just about my family let alone the millions of friends he has in Texas or in Vancouver, or in Hong Kong. Toby is worldwide! I guess it helps when you a photographer whose job takes you from state to state and when you have a zest for travel that takes him beyond the US shores.

Not only does Toby email, phone, text, and Beluga but he somehow finds the time to send people handwritten postcards. Do you know how rare it is for people to send snail mail these days? It's rare. I don't know about everyone else but each time I get a card from Toby in the mail, he makes me feel special. I like my nephew, keep a shoe box full of all his postcards and like to look at them from time to time.

Anyhow, this is a man with a big heart and a big smile, sure he walks around on the tippy toes of his feet but it is most interesting to watch him. He is so well loved that even our nephew calls him Uncle. People want to go on trips with him. Everyone just wants to be around Toby.

Well Toby, the old and the new Brokencandy wish you a very happy birthday! We are so happy that you are in our lives. We love you!

Comments

Jenn said…
I agree, Toby is a wonderful person to have in your life. And he does keep in touch with everyone. I love to hear about his latest food coma. :)

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