Emotional Dumpsite

As usual, Christmas in Davao is a lil boring. With the ban of fireworks, there’s nothing to give noise and light up the sky. But when you’re with your family and friends, you could not ask for more.

We went shopping on Christmas day. Rather, they went shopping. I wasn’t able to buy anything because the dress that I wanna buy in Kamiseta doesn’t have my size. As for my mom, kuya and sister? Stuff from MNG and Guess. Grrr… who’s the loser now? haha

Christmas eve this year was a little boisterous compared to last year. Our relatives from my mom’s side came over for the ‘noche buena’. It wasn’t really a noche buena, it’s more like a really late dinner. Mom prepared her usual dishes: spaghetti (for the kids), caldereta, sweet and sour fish. Ate Gen brought yummy colorful puto, the infamous hamonada, and her lumpia. Of course, it won’t be a noche buena without ham. And to add up to all the cholesterol intake, there’s the lechon! It would have been more fun if the kids participated in the game that I gave. Too bad, my younger cousins feel that they’re too old with games so I was left with the really young ones… And so I just gave them the (cash) prize withouth even finishing the game. At midnight, only jett, kuya, and I were awake, with my mom occasionally checking up on us. I started opening my gifts and told my sister to join me. How sad, because while I was opening mine, my sister can’t find hers. It’s all because she already opened and used the gifts given to her last weekend. Good thing my mom had a pahabol gift, and gave it to my sister before she started crying.hehe

By the way, I almost got everything on my wishlist.

The day before Christmas eve was my church’s christmas presentation. Mom and Jett was part of the ‘orchestra’. Hehe. It wasn’t really and orchestra ORCHESTRA. It’s just a group of musicians playing the piano, ciello, flute, and violin. Mom and Sister play the violin. I was amazed at how good they are at it. I really thought that there isn’t a single note running in our family’s blood. Meaning we aren’t musically inclined. Well, maybe that’s just me. But maybe not. I now know how to play twinkle, twinkle little star in the violin. haha. Anyway, the Christmas presentation was quite different this year. It didn’t stick to the usual format, which was song, poem, song, poem, children to adult. Aside from the added music from the musicians (14 christmas pieces or whatever), it didn’t really follow that the program will start with the children and end with the men. Basta, yun na yun. All in all it was nicer this year. And Christ is still the highlight of the program.

After church, it’s joyride time for me and my friends. This would be the only time for us to bond because I’ll be leaving na next week. We went to a perya. We tried the comical horror house and the death-defying octopus. Afterwhich, we went to seawall (our usual hangout) to gaze at the statue’s private parts.haha kidding. After how many litters of wasted gasoline, we’re off to home.

So I’m back to my bummer self. I’ve got nothing to do here but feel at home. Maybe that’s why my tummy’s expanding unaturally, four days of bumming around and I feel like I already gained 10 lbs. Oh, I hope not!haha I should enjoy it while it lasts. Because when I’m back to the real world, I know I’m gonna be wishing that I was home again.

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