this is the life you'd love to lead
aftermath
Saturday, December 27, 2008 3:58 PM
currently listening to: remembering sunday - all time low
yeah. i promised a long post. i hope i don't disappoint. imma turn off the music so i can concentrate.
21 december 2008 - there i was. thinking i could just bum around the house when dad decides to drag me to calapan. i really didn't wanna go. but who could argue with him? so off we went. i packed the bare essentials because we were just gonna take the bus. couldn't take the car coz there was just the two of us. we had rolls and rolls of fabric with us for the funeraria. total hassle. but frankly, i wasn't bothered much because there were still porters around. did i mention we left the house at around 4? that meant 5 hours of bus ride + 2 more hours on a ro-ro. so we got to calapan at 11 in the evening. super tiring. i slept at mama's house. there were tons of mosquitos around. rather, there were about 2 mosquitos who were picking away at me. ugh.
22 december 2008 - i finally got around to sleeping. only to be woken at 4 AM by the bells of the church signaling the midnight mass. great. didn't do much for the whole day. mama and aling apin took me to the bayan to shop. got a shirt. mama got shoes. went home 'cause it started raining. ate dinner. slept. w/ a bed net this time. exciting day. dad offered to teach me how to drive already. dang.
23 december 2008 - woken by the church bells again. couldn't help it. i even caught a cold. the bed net wasn't that useful 'cause a mosquito still penetrated it.
moral of the story: tuck the ends in.
went to the main house to start organizing photos. started at the year 1976. was able to work my way to 1990 by the end of the whole trip. not bad. considering i sorted 600+ photos. went to visit cousins' place. got food for the gods from tita noemi. sampled tita tess' calamansi slush w/ grenadine and the fried crablets (thumbs up). went home and just watched abs-cbn with my grandmother.
24 december 2008 - organized more photos. surprisingly had a good nights' sleep. the bed net ends were tucked safely under the mattress. packed my things. left at 1:30 on the supercat. sped through SLEX. home sweet home at around 6 PM. went to mass w/ the family at santo domingo church. place was so filled with people we couldn't even get seats. had to stand the whole time along with 1000+ people. terrible.
25 december 2008 - had noche buena at home and then opened gifts. here's some of the cool things i got
ok. so i have to share the last 2 with the family. but who cares? good haul this year. later that day we went to tita baby's condo to have the christmas party. they got tons of food and rented a videoke machine. i sang one song. beautiful girls by sean kingston along with my sister and my tita. too embarrassed to sing alone. got the aguinaldo from my aunts and uncles! woohoo! went home at 10 PM tired and very full.
26 december 2008 - went to the mall with my sister and dad to get various errands done. i finally bought my copy of folie a deux (deluxe edition). super excited when i got it. when i listened to it i could just really tell the difference form the previous albums. they've really changed their sound. i'm not sure if i love it just yet.
27 december 2008 - watched drake and josh's christmas special. finally got a day to just hang at the house after going out so much. alright. i guess that's it. :D
Labels: christmas, fall out boy, family, gifts, music, vacation
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