almost Christmas

it's already the 23rd... a couple of days and it's Christmas already. i just finished talkin' to my mom and sis on ym a few minutes ago, and it made me realize more that they won't be here with us to celebrate this season. of course the feeling sucks, but we have nothing to do. even tita here feels weird coz we'll be preparing less for noche buena coz there's only five of us here in the house.

makes me wonder what'll happen when the clock hits 12 midnight on the 25th. for the past years, we've been celebrating here in this house with all the food on the table, all the gift opening, dancing to music and stuff. but now, it seems like it's really gonna be different.

anyway...

i've been going out of the house for the past few days, doing all those Christmas-related work. it's weird though that i'm not feeling the whole Christmas spirit now, probably because of the family-being-away thing. i hope it gets into my system by the 24th.

and the week that was (i haven't done this for a long time already):

12/14 - UP arki forum's bigay kaya. it's an outreach program we hold every december, where we invite kids from around the campus to a party with food, games and more. for this year, the event was held at building 1 of our college, where we had clowns, puppet-making, games, a dance number (PBB style! hehe!), free food, and gift giving. it was a worthwhile experience for all of us coz we've helped several kids and made them happy. :)

12/15 - the yearly lantern parade. Arki won first place on the lantern and booth categories, and placed second on the belen! woohoo!!! to think it was our batch that made them all. i was on the booth group btw. haha. then we had arki party during the evening, which was actually bitin yet still fun. stayed outside arki with the arkikada where we had a short bonding session, then went to SBC with jik and meg, met up with rika, maiks, ryan, cam and their orgmates, then went home...

on the way home, around 3 in the morning, the right front tire of the FX i was driving exploded. i probably ran over a rock or something. man, i was so scared that time, i didn't know what to do. i lost control of the car, but good that i was able to stop right away. i was shocked till i got home, that i tried calling people just to have someone to talk to, and finally got hold of jik. then i went straight to bed without even changing clothes.

12/16 - was supposed to meet up with xanji, but i decided to stay home. still shocked, i slept whole day till past 4 in the afternoon, skipping breakfast and lunch. went out on evening though with my tita and raffy.

12/17 - finally met up and spent the whole day with xanji, saw the fog and walked around the mall. was able to get a gift for her right there, and funny that i bought it with her beside me. hahaha. it was a very fun and happy day for us. sad though that we're not gonna see each other till classes start again...

12/18 - got a call from edpat and suddenly invited rap and i over at their place. of course both of us didn't want to miss it, so we immediately went there and had our mini get-together with edpat and his relatives. heehee. plus the food? yum.

12/19 - arkaira caroling practice. then party at anj's place during the evening! it was a laugh trip night, with the crazy stuff all of us did! i won't go into details now, but all i can say is i think all of us have done things we haven't done before! hahaha!

12/20 - went home from anj's place around 8 in the morning. with only two hours of sleep, i was asked by my tita to drive by 9:30. drove to sta. lucia cainta, then marikina, then finally cubao. went home to prepare for arkaira caroling, and went to school. after practicing, the whole gang went to sir joven's place (with sir alex there also) and sang whole night. even had PBB for finale! hahahaha! it was a fun fun night!

then my other friends and i were supposed to have a session, but only three of us were there, hence the decision to postpone, and just went straight home.

(two days to go... oooohhh my hands are tired already. haha!)

12/21 - went to pauline's place for the UPIS 2002 Christmas party around 4 in the afternoon, but i had to leave around 5:30 for another arkaira caroling. we went to dean luis' place, did the caroling, had our stomachs stuffed with good food (Christmas fats as edpat puts it, heehee) and left. went straight back to pauline's around 9 in the evening, and lucky me, they were still there. we had our mind games and catching up stuff, and of course the picture-taking (which we've noticed, we're not that addicted to cameras anymore like before!). seeing all of them made me miss them more... and it was another happy night for all of us.

12/22 - spent the whole day home, till my cousin and i decided to see chicken little at gateway. very new film, eh? not. haha.

there. finally. i'm done. hahaha. bottom line, i've been going home in the evening (or morning, haha!) for the past whole week. and later, we're gonna have dinner at my aunt's place. so, that's another night for me. hahaha.

need... to draft... construction... ack.

till next post.

happy birthday jiddu! 22! haha!
happy holidays everyone! :)