Eve of Christmas
It’s almost the eve of Christmas.
I can hear the sound of fireworks outside. Heck they still do this even if it’s not yet New Year.
There are those who are busy wrapping presents. And there are some, still outside, buying for Christmas presents. An extremely late Christmas shopping and one hell of a long line towards the cashier.
Others are busy preparing food for this year’s Noche Buena (Christmas Eve feast) which usually includes; lechón, pancit, fried chicken, lumpia, rice, adobo, among others for the main course; desserts include halo-halo, rice cakes, puto bumbong, ice cream, pastries and cakes; drinks include soda, wine, beer, juice.
Carolers can still be heard singing outside the gates of our neighbors. I just hope and pray that they don’t hurt by those who are throwing firecrackers on the sidewalk.
Text messages, instant messages, and emails that came from friends and acquaintances are flooding the air with messages. Networks are usually clogged by the stroke of midnight tonight, so they are sending their messages early before it’s caught up in air traffic.
Websites, specially blogs, are storming the web with various “Merry Christmas” greetings in over a hundred languages, this blog is no exception. But in my case, I’m going to post that later.
Catholic devotees attended this night’s final Simbang Gabi (es. Misa de Gallo, en. Rooster’s Mass). Well, they say, completing all the nine masses will grant one’s wish. I will never know the truth behind that since I don’t go to the church anymore.
As for me…
I’m here at home.
We (my mom and I), didn’t bother to decorate the house. So in short, we don’t have those fancy Christmas lights and no Christmas trees. It’s not that we can’t afford to have one, its just that there are only two of us here in our house and it really doesn’t matter if we have decorations or not. And to say, I never did like to celebrate holidays, whether if it is Christmas, New Year, or Halloween. Heck, I also never did like to celebrate my birthday. But we will still have our own Noche Buena later tonight.
Filipinos, yes us and our countrymen, even if in the face of poverty, we still have time to celebrate special occasions like this. You see even if we know that there are more less fortunate people here in our country, we still hold on to age old tradition that keeps the family together. And Christmas is the time when you should be with your family, whether you’re outside or at home.
And what the hell I’m doing watching horror movies at this time of the year.
It’s time to start sending Christmas spams… wehehe…
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