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I know that the holiday is so last year (literally) but well… I had this on draft, I was planning to post this before new year, but well, I’m too lazy. What can you expect? I was the one who was not able to post on my exact birthday (not that it really matters), almost forgot when I actually started this blog (not that it matters even more), I even forgot my college classmate’s names and surnames (whatever). Sorry for that, I think I need a replacement for my brain. Pathetic — I know, anyway, here goes:

This year, I don’t know what’s the matter but I was not looking forward to Christmas. I’m thinking that it might be because of the amount of work I’ve had. But something tells me that it’s more on because I know that I won’t be getting any Christmas money from my aunts and uncles lol.

Company Christmas party!

It’s not actually a party per se, it was just a simple dinner at Grappa’s, after a while the bosses gave each of us gifts. And I got Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials which I’m reading right now. Because I’m so slow in reading this, I decided to watch The Golden Compass with my friends. Just so I could be motivated =D (I’m done with Golden Compass already, FYI, it’s great! I don’t have time to read the other books though)

Anyway back to the Christmas party, at first I was anxious because well, there are tons of games during my father’s company Christmas party haha. I thought that ours will be the same, I was both relieved and kinda disappointed. Oh well, I still had fun anyway!

Throughout the dinner I was always with the search team while the dev team was on the other table. Because of that, I am now search team’s “adopted daughter” hehe. I even exchanged gifts with them and guess what I got?! A book again, this time it’s Tuesdays with Morrie. Right now I’m thinking, am I really that easy to read? Hehe Oh well, I have been thinking of buying one for sometime now so it’s just great that I finally have a copy :)

Christmas at our own home

It’s not that it was actually the first time, it’s just that the last time that we spent Christmas at home was so long ago it was practically non-existent, to me at least. Before now, we always have our Christmas dinner at around 9 or 10 o’clock. However, we would not feel good if we would knowingly have it 2 hours earlier. What was our genius plan? We would take a clock with us to the table and we would adjust the time so it would say 12:00 midnight. What’s Christmas without us greeting each other? Yeah we would do that too! hehe Crazy, isn’t it? I don’t mind really, it was fun anyway.

So this year, we did it properly, we waited for midnight and greeted each other, ate and exchanged gifts! I got a radio from my baby sister. The highlight was my younger brother who was given a perfume. It doesn’t sound exciting enough, huh? It was all in the packaging, actually. (Sorry, no photo, as always, I’m lazy hehe) The gift had 2 wraps, a newspaper within the actual christmas wrapper, then a box. Within the box the gift had another 2 newspaper wrappers and then another box. Within the box, are newspaper rolls, an air freshener and … ta-da! The actual gift hehe, I’m telling if you ever need wise-asses, do let me know, I’d point you to the perfect example.

Family Reunion at Pangasinan

I’m quite excited about this because reunions are not really popular in our family since we live in a compound with my aunts and uncles and also because I really love to go to Pangasinan I guess being in Manila all my life, I want to relax a little. Whenever we are in Pangasinan, days go by so slow and it so quiet too, and umm.. well the food is great hehe.

This year though, I found that the Pangasinan I loved and got so excited about are not starting to develop and be modernized to go with the flow of today, I know I’m really selfish for requesting that it stay the way it was back then but I miss the smell of the field early in the morning and the simple houses where you have to ride a kuliglig just to be able to go to your neighbor’s house. I miss that I can’t sleep at night because I’m afraid a manananggal might come to the house we’re staying and might eat me and my family alive (don’t ask).

During the reunion (more like the 50th wedding anniversary of my father’s cousin) I was able to affirm to myself that I’m not very good with crowds. Why am I so introverted? Whatever, the first few hours there were not as good as I have imagined but at least I was able to finish Golden Compass! When the festivities were done and over with, we spent our time talking with our relatives. It was fun, however, we already had to go as well… So we have to wait for another couple of years before we see each other again. sigh…

New Year with No Fireworks

Not that I’m looking forward to the fireworks every new year, I love to hate fireworks because it hurts my nose and it’s so noisy. But before, we would spend the Christmas break where my father is (as I’ve said before) and before we go back home, my father’s co-workers would give us lots and lots of foods and fruits and also some fireworks. This year, none of them gave us some and my father’s not a big fan of it either (though my uncles are) so we just greeted each other, my cousins and my siblings went to my Lola’s house because it’s been a tradition that my Lola would give us coins which we have to catch. It’s been the highlight every year (lol) I forgot about it so I wasn’t able to ask my father to convert some bills to coins. Too bad there’s no photo of it, it’s a blast! Every year, aside from the coins, we would be counting bruises as well because some of my cousins are ready to defend their coins hehe.

Days sure pass by so fast whenever you’re having so much fun, December was a blur for me I can’t believe it’s January already! For some reason I find that I don’t like it (I would have been very happy if days passed me by like this when I was in College though), I wish it would have been slower.

Anyway, I won’t be counting my blessings like what I did last year. I did not make any resolutions either because I’m not very good with promises, besides, the things that I thought of is not quantifiable, like I’ll be more hardworking this year etc, someone told me it’s stupid to create goals that are not quantifiable so… Moving on, I just noticed that each year is always better than the last, I hope that this year will be way better than 2007 as well, I’m so looking forward to this!

Oh! And thanks Jaypee and Liz for greeting me a happy new year!