The lazy bug strikes again.
The truth is I am not inspired to write so I read the past three days. I was able to finish a ghost story ( a re-read) and a thriller. Done with 182 books since January, 32 more books added to my 2017 reading challenge.
Looking at the Christmas tree lighted at night makes me remember those Christmas past when the family was still complete with Dad still around and my youngest brother who migrated to the US of A since 1991. We used to spend Christmas Eve in the province, a simple celebration of Christmas Eve mass, then later partaking Noche Buena with various sweets prepared by Mom. When I was in high school, I also experienced tagging along with my aunts and uncle a few days before Christmas when we would visit neighbors and friends and sing Christmas songs accompanied by my uncle’s violin and Dad’s guitar. The fun of walking late at night with a cold breeze on your cheeks, the generosity of people who love to hear Christmas carols of old. Some would offer hot drinks or sweets aside from coins from their piggy banks. Nowadays, you’ll hear the voices of little children shouting “namamasko po” and singing “Thank you, thank you, ang babait ninyo, thank you” and that means “thank you for being so kind”. Every year, the Mini Parish Pastoral Council would send a letter a week before they are due to serenade each house in the village with Christmas songs. It’s a way of collecting funds for the chapel and other Christmas activities in our village.
Envelopes are aplenty during Christmas time from the maintenance of our subdivision, guards, messengers (some you’re not even familiar with, like those who just delivered mails just once) and our garbage truck collectors. I give more to the latter because they are more visible than the rest.
Gosh, it is already November and we are still having tropical storms. Typhoon Salome is the 19th one this year. We are under signal number one. PAGASA says it would bring lots of rain. It is expected to move out of PAR (Philippine Area of Responsibility) by Saturday morning. I am hoping it would not bring lots of rains as they have predicted.
Looking forward to a sunny weekend since I am meeting some friends.
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