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I’ve been mum about what happened last week during our office Christmas party and several people concerned have been bothering me for pictures of my infamous retro outfit. Haha!

During significant parties I see to it that I won’t be wearing an outfit that I’ve already shown them previously. This year we had a retro theme and I didn’t wanna wear something I wouldn’t be able to wear again on casual occasions so I gave it a touch of modernity – something you can blend into today’s trend. Well, that was my original plan. Along the way something went wrong so that night was 50% flop.

I went for my second choice of outfit that evening because somebody commented it looked better and more striking. It did look striking but the my red pair of pants was uncomfortably tight. It even ripped a few inches open while I was tying my shoe laces during the party. Haha! Magaling lang ako magtago kaya hindi nahalata. I was disappointed but the good thing was I still won Star of the Night. Hahaha! Ako lang kasi ang nangarir ng costume. Haha! It mattered to me because I was also the winner last year plus the fact that I love dressing up. Sabi ko nga hangga’t nasa DTC ako dapat ako palagi ang Star of the Night pag Christmas party or else mag-r-resign ako kinabukasan.

Anyway, I was also one of the hosts and I wasn’t a good host that evening. I don’t know. Maybe because I was still a bit uncomfortable with some of my officemates or because I wasn’t feeling good about my outfit or I was plainly not good at hosting. I got totally inhibited and boring but Chet, my partner host, was really energetic and she got the whole thing going by herself – and she looked cute too – so it was still a happy evening.

I enjoyed the party. It’s cool to see your bosses loosen up and just laugh with you about the same things sometimes. I wonder what it’ll be like next year. Syempre sa pictures dapat andun ako lahat! Hehehe… I looked haggard in most of the pics so here are the brightened versions – I like them vibrant and colorful.

with my favorite Ate Celle

DTC girls. They’re the coolest and smartest! *WE pala*

With the new set of newbies. They gave the best performace in DTC ever.

Once it starts flashing, picture-taking never stops…

Every single journal online must’ve already published a holiday entry by now. Well… Actually, I used to not like Christmas day.  When I was younger I was only excited about the hype that the holiday season brought every year – the anticipation, the rush, and the transformation of everything into something more beautiful. And it would all end when I wake up on Christmas morning. I don’t know about you guys but it felt, to me, as if Christmas day was like a disappointing climax with an overrated prelude. Do I sound like the Grinch already? Hehe… I really did feel that way.

Like any other kid born in the 80′s, Christmas to me then was about the vacation, new clothes, collecting more aguinaldos than the other kids, and meeting old relatives and hear the same old lines “Eto na ba si Borgy? Ang laki na ah.” It generally did not appeal to me, except the money part (half of which would have to be surrenderred to Mommy so I always gave her a false total). At heart, I never felt the real score of Christmas. Maybe because I was young and I did not understand much and most of all, my family was complete and we were well-off. It was what TV stations say Christmas was about and I had it from the start. I thought it was always going to be that way and did not consider any of it special. I never had the slightest idea that one of us might and would eventually leave and change the way we experience Christmas. Forever.

Christmas will always be happy. No matter what the situation is, like even now when people are fighting for power, I don’t think anything can ever take the cheer away. Yet, however spectacular the season happens each year, there will always be an empty but heavy feeling inside. The feeling that is a reminder of what we should really treasure during this most-celebrated day. Family. Cliche, right? But it’s also true that you’ll never know what you got ’til it’s gone and I almost lost it when Mommy left. My first Christmas without her made me realize why there is Noche Buena and why there are reunions.

Right now, it’s three hours past Christmas eve and I’m here in the office alone. What more could make me realize what family’s worth, huh? Hehe… I’m obviously not celebrating but not really sad. I’m quietly appreciating what I received this year and reading thank-you messages from my family at home for the presents I left under our tree. You see, this is Christmas! The feeling of being able to make the ones you love happy is worth spending a supposed-joyful night alone enclosed within white walls. It took great things for me to learn about it and like the holiday cheer, nothing can take that away.

To everyone, especially those who will be working on Christmas day… Merry Christmas!

I just spent all morning trying to create my own WordPress theme but I failed. It was so frustrating to see that messy end-result so for the meantime we’ll have to stick with this flower thingy. Corny, I know but it’s the most appealing I’ve seen so far. Can’t spend all day working on this cos’ I’ll go to Glorietta in a while to feel the Christmas rush. Hehehe! Last Wednesday I was supposed to shop for gifts but coming out of the office tired and sleepy at 9AM, I ended up with nothing.

Just one weekend is not enough for me to do all that I have to do, especially now with Christmas being added to my list. Arwen has been stuck in her dirty cage for quite a while now and I’ve been missing a promised day-out to CCP for her long walk. At work, I don’t know… It’s fun there but I haven’t been reaching that “zone” during the past days and I feel less productive. Maybe it’s the holiday recess and I hope on start of next year I will be better. Haaay… This mediocrity has really gotten into me and it’s getting hard to recover as it goes. I hate it.

And now looking at this site makes me wanna fall asleep. I’m leaving…

Later, I’ll upload all the entries from my old blogs.

It’s just been almost three months since I quit blogging and I already feel like a balloon ready to burst with all that I’ve been keeping inside. I didn’t realize I’d miss writing in just a short while and I didn’t know how blog-worthy some of my simplest days were until I closed down the previous site. Before, I thought I needed to do base jumping or visit the farthest places to make a moment worth writing about but losing my place to rant and share my thoughts in made me appreciate my every day existence. O diba the dramz! Maybe my suddenly-mediocre lifestyle had totally gotten into me that’s why I quit or maybe I just raised the bar too high upon myself kaya I kept expecting more. Well… Now, nothing much changed but I’m consistently working on what I really wanna do and that’s what’s keeping me inspired these days.

Anyway… Taking things from where I left (as far I can remember), I still have not learned PHP. Lazy. But I will, soon. It’s still on top of my to-do list but for the meantime, I’ll use WordPress to manage this blog.

So there… It’s official. Sound the trumpets and pop the confetti gun cos’ I’M BACK!