Post New Year Celebration Post
I haven’t had an entry for God knows how long!
It is a miracle dear friends!!!
Well, maybe its because I’ve finally gotten bored of sharing my thoughts, or maybe because of the simple lack of anything worth writing about in my life, or maybe because I’m exceptionally cheery these days.
Reading my past blog entries, I see that it full of grunge and stuff. I didn’t know I had that poetic side of me.
Well I’ve gotten over that, and this time, I’m not just telling myself that I’ve gotten over, I actually did.
And about time too! It’s a whole new year and in less than two months time, I will be out of that phase of innocence and selfishness. I will be 20, and a non teenager.
Breath, breath.
Well It had to come sooner or later, I just wish I spent more time as a teenager. (like you could do that!)
I still remember being excited about turning 13 and finally being a teenager, then entering high school, then finally entering college, and then having my 18th birthday.
All of those milestones were highly anticipated, but this one, I’d rather not have. The prospect of not having an excuse for being a selfish brat (my sister’s words) isn’t too appealing to me. Not that I’m a brat, maybe sometimes but not always. Hehehe Excuses!
I don’t know why I fear growing old so much. I dunno, maybe its just seeing my parents. Since I entered college, I vowed never to be like them. Well not in terms of parenthood, I’m very proud of the way my parents brought me up. Rather I don’t want to be the type of person who gets stuck in the past. Like for example, my dad, who still listens to Frank Sinatra. It’s good to commemorate the past, but I don’t want to be stuck in it.
One other thing is my parents supposed lack of friends. I mean it looks like they didn’t even go through high school. Is that what having a family does to you? Do you lose touch with your friends entirely? Well I don’t want that to happen.
That’s it! I’m really getting old, I’m actually thinking about what my behavior would be when I turn forty-ish.
Let’s face it, twenty years have passed, and it wont be long till twenty more will.
It makes me think. What will happen when I die? Will I go to hell? Or to heaven? With the vast number of teachings around today I don’t even know if my sins are enough to send me to hell. And when I die, what would it feel like? Will it hurt? Will I be bale to see my family when I ascend/descend to wherever it is will be going?
Well enough about questions that’ll never be answered. I wanted to write this blog entry so that I could document this years Holiday festivities, but I end up blabbering.
Anyways, Christmas was as bland as ever. Not that I’m not happy with Christ being born and all, its just that, Christmas is for children. Speaking of which, I already have five godchildren, and three more are coming. Sheesh. Well the good part is, since I don’t have work yet, my mom’s sort of the surrogate godparent and she shoulders the expenses.
I wouldn’t have any money for Christmas if my Dad didn’t give me money, hehehe. Well it was pre Christmas that was fairly joyous I get to spend some time with my friends during Simbang Gabi, and I get to listen to the hilarious priest at our church.
I especially like the Simbang Gabi which I went to without sleep. I would stay up until 3am chatting with ALCHEMISTS online and proceed to the church at around 3:50 after I’ve changed clothes and taken a bath. We would play online TKO on conference at YM. And when everybody starts dropping offline, I take my leave and go to church. So I wake up at around 1:30pm everyday. (adik!)
Next would be New Year, which is easily more fun than Christmas. Early New Years eve, my cousins fireworks stand got smoked, literally, I was inside the house and I heard the almost 1 minute long series of toks! And claps! Good thing nothing else was burnt.
I cooked halaya with ube freshly harvested from my Dad’s mini garden. I used ube that isn’t taken from underground; it sort of grows in vines and is a very dark violet. I think my arm got bigger a few centimeters because of the excessive amount of stirring that I had to do.
Late that night, when all the cars parked outside the street in front of our house (dead end kasi) were safely stowed in the various safe parking lots around Caloocan, me and my cousins took advantage of the once a year vacancy in the almost five meter wide street and took to lighting fire crackers.
I dunno what it is about lighting up those small sticks with red stuff in the end, the stuff you see in matches, and watching them pop in between my friend’s feet. Hehehehe, we enjoyed seeing everyone dance with fear because of the small pops.
Well it was around 9pm when I finished with the halaya, so after I took a bath and changed into more decent clothes, I didn’t have to wait much longer for midnight when all the cool fireworks will be lit. As usual, the family has reserved money for a bunch of fireworks, bombshells, those that go high into the air and explode into a sort of circular flower of light, and other high flying special effect fireworks.
But this year’s a bit different, because this year we didn’t light the fireworks until after midnight. We watched the fireworks from the house on the other end of the street and other fireworks dished out by other surrounding families, and then waited for the last moment to light ours.
The reason behind it was, when we do light our fireworks at exactly midnight, the kids, and even us adults find it hard to focus on a single set because there’re so many. Our barangay turns into a sort of Pyro Olympics during New Year.
After constant shouting (we shout after every light explosion) and a near miss, (when a bombshell didn’t go high enough and almost singed everyone’s hair) we went inside for the traditional New year dinner, coco and other fatty food.
But that doesn’t end there, nooo. We didn’t go to sleep until about 6am. If the sun didn’t rise at that moment I think we might’ve lasted that long. Of course, 2pm onwards was the youth’s time to celebrate, with none other than drinks all around.
What’s great is I get to apply my new year’s resolution, which is not to drink, too much. Well I practiced some restraint after the nth tagay (don’t remember the number) and didn’t have too much of a hangover the next day.
I woke up at around 3pm where I had to help out with my godson’s birthday party. So it was with no real rest at all that I went to school this morning, didn’t attend my ES 26 class and got windang from my ChE 131 class. (Which announced that the exam is next Monday)
So after the tiring Eng’g week and the super relaxing, buhay baboy days of Christmas Vacation, I must once again return to my Acad mode days. Well I’ll be especially Acad mode this year because I really need to be, I have to prove to myself that I am worthy of Graduating Chemical Engineering!!
I finally got it out and in no less than 1,346 words! I wish articles were this easy to write, but then there won’t be any hired writers if it was. (Yak bitter!) So as I wait for the showing of Chronicles of Narnia, and for any other eventful thing that may happen to my life, this would be my last entry.
