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The Best Christmas

This is probably the best Christmas ever.

I’m not that big on Christmas. I don’t really feel the Christmas ~spirit~ maybe because I don’t really know the meaning of Christmas. All I know is that Christmas is the time that we celebrate Jesus’s love and grace, and I do that by celebrating it with the people I love the most. It’s the time to give gifts and not to expect any in return. But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be nice to receive gifts! It’s really, really nice, actually.

We don’t really have a Christmas tradition. When I was a kid, I’d spend the whole day outside the house and going to different houses (even to strangers’ houses!) just to ask for aginaldo. “Mamasko po!” my cousins and I used to say together. We’d go to two barangays becuase even as kids, we love the smell of money. We may not have a Christmas tradition but I really cannot imagine spending Christmas without my family.

Last Christmas, we decided to go to Tagaytay and to spend the whole day eating and walking and just doing things together. We wanted to avoid the tons of Christmas carolers that start appearing at 8Am. As my mother put it, we spend more money when we stay at home during Christmas. It’s all about spending the day with your loved ones and you can’t really do that if visitors arrive all day loooong. So in turn, I didn’t really get to spend much time with my parents.

This is why it’s the best Christmas ever. Not only do I get to spend the day with my parents and sibling, but I also got to spend it with my cousins and grandparents! Last year, we watched an MMFF film, and I must say that I really prefer spending the day with everybody rather than watching a movie.

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A Hairy Story

My hair has always been a problem. I’ve been given an unruly type of hair that’s hard to manage. I had curls when I was a kid but when I grew up, it got all frizzy. I started going to the salon for straight perm when I was in first year high school. So yes, I’ve been sporting a straightened hairstyle for almost a decade now.

But you see, I kind of like messy hair on me. Straight hair is okay, but when it’s too straight, I feel like it doesn’t fit me. So even when I go to the salon to have my hair straightened, I stupidly wish that it wouldn’t be so straight that it would look so flat on my head. I just want to get rid of my baby hair but I still wish that my hair would have… volume.

When I went to Tony and Jackey last December 10, I was hoping that their rebonding treatment wouldn’t make my hair look too flat. The whole thing took 4 hours! Good thing I had Roald Dahl’s Boy to keep me occupied.

The only reason I look so bothered is because I was thinking of the price of the treatment. Ha. I skipped on the haircut because that would be an additional 500! So yeah, no thanks. But hey, it was the most I spent on a single purchase. Ever. I am quite stingy and I usually have a hard time letting go of money. Hee. But this time, I just said, the hell with it. I should treat myself from time to time. [Read more…]

Party Like a Drunk

Sorting through 700+ photos is not a joke. Last saturday was fun and the photos (of us laughing like maniacs) proved how much fun we had. My office’s Christmas party took place last Saturday at Fiamma (or is it Fiama), a bar in Makati which I guess is famous since Phil Younghusband was there. Heh. I didn’t see him, though! (And I’m not a fan so…)

It was a really, really fun night, and I’m not exactly sure how to blog about it. We agreed to meet up at our office to practice our presentation that night. But instead of practicing our silly and random number, we had a little photoshoot instead. [Read more…]

Happy Fiesta

A happy fiesta indeed. A way overdue blog post, too.

I’m not really big on celebrating fiestas. I kind of want to skip it altogether. I’m not a fan of big crowds and you must understand that there are visitors all day during fiesta and even the night before. Often times I would troop to my lola’s house and stay there until the crowd thins. I avoid my parents’ visitors because they always introduce me and I’m often questioned about what I do and such. Back in college, I hate explaining what DevCom is. I would sometimes just say Journalism instead of DevCom Now that I’m working, I hate it even more to explain SEO. So I’d just say I’m an online writer or something. Argh. Why am I always faced with tough questions about the things I do? I know I’m the only one to blame, but I sometimes wish I could just tell them to search it on Google.

Every fiesta, my parents would tell me to invite friends over. And I don’t know. It always feels awkward to invite people. I don’t really know what to tell people when I invite them. Obviously, I lack social skills. I always invite Alex, of course, because my parents pretty much require him to be there (and every other occasion, too) ever since they found out about his presence in my life. Heh.

This fiesta, I actually had tons of fun. Some of my cousins from Manila stayed over night. They arrive on the 29th of November, and we pigged out until 4AM. (I don’t need to gain more weight but yeah…) I don’t really get to bond with them that much since we rarely see each other. But it’s nice to get back in touch with them. We have tons of differences but it’s important to set those differences aside. We are family, anyway.

On the day of the fiesta, I woke up early because I had to attend a baptism ceremony. Yes, I am once again a ninang. I couldn’t enter the church, though, since there were too many people! My co-ninang (lulz) and I went straight to my new kumare‘s (another lulz) house, instead. I am a ninang for the 7th time! I have yet to do my Christmas shopping and I don’t really know where to start. But I guess 7 is still too few compared to my cousin’s 25 inaanak. HAHAHA.

Two of my high school friends, Riya and May, arrived around lunch time, and it made me tremendously happy. I haven’t seen them in a long time, and I though they were mad because I’ve been skipping some gimick nights. Heh. Alex arrived around an hour or two later. It was the first time my tito saw Alex. He lectured him about a lot of things, and I’m sitting there, thinking those stuff should definitely not be coming from him (LONG STORY). But I managed to take Alex far away from my tito. We went outside to join Riya and May in singing videoke. Alex did no singing, though.

Kynan was also there. The first time Kynan and Alex saw each other, they were fast friends. But the succeeding times Alex visited, Kynan hated him with a passion. Heh. Kynan gets really jealous when we bring boys over. On my birthday last year, Kynan threatened to stab Alex with a fork. So cute, really.

Fiesta, 2009

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My Stupid Tears Caused by the Coca-Cola OFW Ad

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I don’t even cry in movies or books but sometimes sappy commercials like this one can really push me to tears. It’s rare for commercials to make me cry and I’ll forever remember those movies/ads/vids/etc. that prove that I’m not apathetic like many people (like my mother lol) think.

Maybe it’s the concept of the video that’s just so heart-wrenching. My father was an OFW for almost a decade, but this year, he decided to stay in the Philippines for good. Almost half of the mother’s side of my family is in Italy, too, so this commercial really pulled on my tight heartstrings. I tried to stop the tears but they just keep coming! I hate you, Coca-Cola.

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