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Family affair
Wednesday, January 2, 2008Today I woke up at around 7AM, then decided I needed more sleep so I went back to bed and got up finally at 10AM. I did all my morning ablutions while still in a daze, I think. Yesterday was the last of the 4 parties my friends and I organized and held for the holiday season. Last night, when the last of the guests left me alone in my house, I felt as if all the shopping, cooking, eating, drinking, and partying seem to have caught up with me. After a hot shower, I nodded off to sleep right away.
Four parties. Yeah. Were we crazy to do so much in so short a time? Maybe. It just so happened that this year, most of my friends didn’t get out Cambodia for the holidays. Christmas is not really a holiday here; even the New Year celebrations pale in comparison to what we have in the Philippines. When my partner experienced the holiday season in Manila, he was pleasantly astonished, confessing he hadn’t had the same experience even in Bangkok.
To chronicle what we put ourselves through these past weeks, let me give you, dear reader, a run-down of what happened:
January 1, Tuesday: New Year’s day lunch. Venue: my house. Menu: Pata Tim, Baked Fish, Pancit Bihon, Beef Kaldereta, Kutchinta, Cherry Pie, Blitz Torte, Ice Cream, Soda & Vodka. In attendance: me, Ted & Hav, Gaye, Lou, Daden, Joy, Wowie, Jojo V, Yvonne, May & Glenn, and Ethan. Activities: ate lunch, played Uno in the afternoon, ate dinner then played mahjong until 10PM. And we completely forgot to take any photo!




So there. It would seem that I, along with my friends, spent the last 3 weeks either stuffed to the gills with food or drunk with alcohol. There’s some truth in that, but in between eating and drinking we were also strengthening the ties of friendship that bind us, helping each other through bad patches (and bad friends and bad friendships), and being a family for those of us who are far from our biological families. Isn’t this what the holidays are all about?
Previous Comments
i forgot to mention one thing….
you have that black shirt costume in the parties..;-)
Posted by mai at January 3, 2008, 12:30 pmHi! tagged you po in my blog. have a nice day!
Posted by nina bumanglag at January 4, 2008, 4:56 pmNice Blog. I enjoyed it really. You are doing a very great job. I would like to visit it again.
Posted by JOB Abroad at January 7, 2008, 10:34 amnkakainlab naman ung ENG ang pangalan. ang kyut. wahehe, joke lang.
hey bro, bought ladlad3 recently, and darn, i feel for you! sobrang love ko ung kwento mo.
di ko ma-explain pero nakita ko ang sarili ko dun.
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ang saya saya nmn!
gusto ko marami ako pix jan…but because you were the author, you’re present in all pictures..;-)
Posted by mai at January 3, 2008, 12:29 pm