There are around 10 days left in 2010. Needless to say, it has been a good year for me. Despite everything bad or scary that happened, I am happy to be alive. Career-wise, I am very happy with everything, even if it has been challenging. For the first time in 20 years, I won't be celebrating New Year with my relatives. They're all going to Hong Kong. The New Year Celebration might be different for me this year in both good and bad ways. On one hand, it will be a bit lonely. On the other hand, I can think of a new way to enjoy it. Might go out of town. But this post is not about that. It's about 2011 and how epic it's going to be. Why do I say that? Because I want it to be epic. Career-wise 2010 has been a landmark year in the sense that I was able to accomplish a lot as a blogger and writer. Moreover, new doors and opportunities opened for me. As a person, I overcame hurdles I never thought I'd have to hurdle. And while there were relatives and friends who helped along the way, it was a…
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I’m Giving Up My Christmas
I am celebrating Christmas, but instead of asking for gifts, I am asking my friends and relatives to donate money to My Charity Water Campaign. My aim is to raise $5,000 by January 1. I know it is a lofty goal, I probably won't reach it, but I believe it's worth a try. Watch this video to know why I'm giving up Christmas: $20 provides for clean water for a person for his entire lifetime. Imagine that. Just $20 to give another person a chance of having a healthy, dignified life. I hope you can support me on this one. Every dollar counts. You can donate through this LINK. Or you can help out by posting on Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, and other sites about my campaign. The link to my Charity: Water Campaign is at http://mycharitywater.org/giftcleanwaterforChristmas. Merry Christmas! :) This is a belated Blog Action Day post. ;-)
Christmas is Almost Here
It's December 21, 2007, three days before Christmas Eve, four days before Christmas day. But I can't feel the Christmas spirit. I am doing a lot of things, thinking about a lot of problems, and rushing to beat numerous deadlines. As I grow older, Christmas and other holidays become more boring, and more stressful. When I was younger, Christmas used to fill me with excitement and joy. And no matter how sparse the celebration was, no matter how few the gifts I received, I was happy. Now, Christmas is becoming more and more stressful. I still haven't bought any gifts to give, or any clothes to wear to those parties. I still don't know which parties I am going to, when, where, with whom. I don't even know what I'll be doing on Christmas day. Still, there's a part of me that is excited. The other night's fun, fun night with some of my high school friends only made me more excited to spend more time with more of them. That can only mean more fun, alcohol, gossip, and photo ops. Then, there's the gifts. Ok so, I won't probably get any big gifts this year. And I won't get…
Christmas Memories
It's that time of the year again when the air is cool (making me sick most of the time), annoying Christmas songs are played everywhere, Christmas decors are sold everywhere, and the entire town is decked in red, green, silver, gold, and bright lights. It's already December 14, less than two weeks before Christmas, and I have yet to really feel the Christmas spirit. Prolly because I'm too engrossed in work, emo-ness, and other grown-up things. When I was a kid, as early as November or sometimes even October I would already feel giddy and excited for Christmas to arrive. Mommy, my aunt, would make her own Christmas decors such as wreaths, felt poinsettia flowers, and garlands. Me and my cousins would spend an entire day decorating the entire house, especially the gaudy plastic Christmas tree which was the only kind of Christmas tree back then. Sometimes, after dinner, we would stay beneath the Christmas tree and just listen to Christmas songs. Back then, there was no cable TV to take up our time. And of course, our favorite task for the season would be making our wishlists for Santa Claus. Mommy would then collect our lists, and leave it…
My Christmas Wishlist
Of course I want peace, serenity, and contentment and all those other altruistic things. Here are some more attainable things I would like to have this Christmas: Any black bag big enough to for all my things to fit in. It should be sturdy enough because this is a bag that I will be bringing to work everyday. A Moleskine Red Diary so I could keep track of all my appointments, deadlines, and other important dates. Any iPod model. I want to have an iPod for all those boring monotonous days and nights I spend staring at my stark ceiling and to keep me company while I work. A Sony Cybershot Camera Phone, or any good camera phone that I can use for blogging purposes so that I wouldn't be too dependent on other people's cameras anymore. A gym membership. LOL! This would really force me to shape up. A free class at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies here in Davao City. Free meal at Lachi's, De Bonte Koe, Tsuru, Swiss Deli, and all the other yummy restaurants here in Davao City. A vacation in Palawan or Boracay. Comfortable Havaianas in metallic silver or gold. And for less materialistic…
Online Manito – Manita System
Every Christmas, us maternal cousins have the traditional bunot-bunot. There's 25 of us and it's quite expensive to buy gifts for each other. Since some of us are already based in Manila, the Kuya Andrew made a way for us to pick our manitos without having proxies. We used to have proxies for picking but this always led to arguments. HAHA! Last year and this year, Kuya had us all log in to http://www.alleba.com/manito, where we would see this... We would then key in our randomly assigned key code that we each received via email. After our code is confirmed, we'd press shake.... Nice, right??? The best feature of the entire thing, me thinks... is we get to make our own wishlist!!! So no more unwanted scented candles, picture frames, mugs, etc. Last year, I received a nice book from Kuya Jofer. Sana this year... may magbigay ng Moleskine. :D O diba??? Meron kayo niyan? :D