I cannot believe it is December. Just when I thought not celebrating Christmas in the Philippines is hard and sad enough—Covid and lockdown happened. It is supposed to be the jolliest, happiest time of the year. But here we are. It’s also our birth month—my fiancé and I’s.
I’m trying to to think what’s the fondest Christmas I had since we moved here. Hmm~ back when we were still in our teen years (18 at most), we used to attend parties/gatherings that were organized by our fellow kababayans. I believe every weekend there were parties and even though I don’t really know anyone in the party, I was present. I was with my friends because obviously I wouldn’t attend by myself. This was back in 2011. Then, my friends and I will gather in one house to celebrate Christmas and New Year (after celebrating it with our own families). We’ll stay up all night, the guys were drinking and the girls were obviously either gossiping or hoarding the video-oke machine.
Ah, good times.
Then, life happened. We all got busy, some got married and started their family. Getting together is close to impossible. Wow, we really grew up. We used to hang-out even if there’s no special occasion. I think the most random hang-out we’ve had was when one of the transformer in town got busted so we end up not having electricity for hours. Anyway, we were all in a friend’s house, playing 4pic 1word (if you ever remember that game lol) when one of us suggested we should cook porridge (aka lugaw), since it was cold and it felt like we were in the Philippines. The boys were actually the ones who cooked and brought the food over. It was really one of the fondest memory of my “youth”.
If there would be a song that I could relate to it’d be this:
Sorry guys, I could not find any English translation to this. But yes, as I got older, the lyrics and message of this song became more meaningful. I know the video is low quality LOL but that’s their official MV and this was back in 2015, I believe.
This is supposed to be a rant post but I forgot what I was going to rant about LOL. Getting old, indeed. Hopefully this pandemic will end soon, because as much as I like to stay at home and isolate myself from the outside world (whut??)—I still need to go out and see people. Ya know what I mean? Besides, I miss going out to window shop—I also miss going to the movie theatres late at night. Ugh, I miss the life we had before this pandemic. This sucks.
Well, we gotta do what we gotta do. Wear your mask in public place, wash your hands and social distance yourself! Stay safe, everyone!
Ciao!
