How I Spent Christmas
Dec 27, 2007 Daily Blurbs, Hype
We spent Christmas Eve in my aunt’s house (my mother’s side), as we usually do since we moved here. My aunt prepared the feast for our lunch and our dinner. As usual, there’s pasta, rotisserie chicken, a whole roasted pig, and lots of Filipino foods.
My cousin prepared lots of games for everyone to enjoy. We played “musical chairs”, “stop dance”, and other made up games. We usually get Php20 to Php40 each when we win. Which is about .50 cents to a dollar. But still, it was fun. Our aunts and uncles even joined in the fun. My grandmother sat on her wheelchair with a smile on her face, she told me that she wished she can stand up and join our games. She suffered a little accident about 7 years ago, she slipped on a marbled floor, and it fractured her hips, but if she didn’t, she would’ve played with us.
Everyone was there, minus my dad, who’s in the province to work. NAPOCOR employees never get to enjoy the holidays. My other relatives weren’t there, too. My aunt from California gave us a call, though. She said she bought lots of calling cards to call everyone; relatives in the Philippines, in Spain, in Japan and in Australia. It’s hard when all you can hear are their voices over the phone. Still, it’s a good thing to get calling cards that are so cheap, so she can talk to all of us. Imagine how huge the phone bill would be after calling us without it!
Our yearly tradition of exchanging gifts happened on Saturday night, the 22nd, because my dad had to leave for work. He comes back on Friday and will celebrate New Year’s eve with us. My secret santa is my sister, Juvy, who gave me a therapeutic pillow, which I told her I wanted for my birthday. I gave my dad a new leather wallet from Girbaud. I gave him a new wallet because his old one has worn out over the years. I also gave my mom and sisters really cute pouches, and I gave my brother a t-shirt. I was supposed to give my dog, Booboo, a play shirt, but it costs too much! But I plan to give her a dog bed, since she sleeps mostly on our couch.
On Christmas day, we stayed at home. My relatives who were affected by the fire came over our home in the afternoon. We gave them our Christmas presents, groceries, and the basic necessities that they need. It actually feels good to give, more than receive the same gifts every year. The gift check I received from my aunt was used to buy new dresses for my little nieces.
My father comes home on Friday. We’re going to our other relatives who were affected by the fire to bring their gifts and the other goods that were donated to us, for them. I want to thank Nix, for sharing her blessings with us. It is a great help! Thank you!
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!
Last School Week
Oct 14, 2007 Daily Blurbs, Food, School
Tomorrow is the schedule for our case study defense. Our topic is the Sales Information System for a company. We are to develop a program that runs in C Language similar to the current program of the company that we have chosen. I tried looking for online education programs that I can check with so that we can make the program work.
It’s a great thing that Lexie’s brother helped us out. He’s really good with programming. He’s actually working on his thesis, but he took time to help us out. This afternoon, we were able to accomplish the flowchart of our proposed program design. It was really hard for us to use our own brains to come up with our own program, since we are not programmers. I was actually annoyed at our professor. He knew that we have other requirements to submit in other subjects, but he gave us barely 2 weeks to work on this case study. Anyway, it’s done. We just have to face him tomorrow for our defense. He shouldn’t accept teaching jobs because he’s not a good teacher.
[Update] We survived and passed the case study defense! No one got a failing mark from our group. Yay! Maybe we can now accept education grants! [/Update]
The highlight of this week is, Booboo’s paws are healed. Her paws are more prone to getting blisters, so we bought her dog boots to protect her paws because the pads on her feet were removed, and it will take some time before it goes back to normal. She’s back to her normal self, very sweet and playful; jumping and running around the house. The vet advised that we continue to give her vitamin C to give her immune system a boost.
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Tags: booboo, c language, Daily Blurbs, Food, program, School
Brand New
Oct 10, 2007 Daily Blurbs
Current Mood:
I finally changed my layout after, hmm… 6 months! I have been working on this layout for two weeks, and it’s finally up. I was a bit skeptical about this theme because of the colors I used. I am kind of afraid of pink, and its different shades, but I guess it worked for me this time. I am in the process of finding and fixing bugs, plus weeding out dead links from my blog directory. Hopefully, by the end of the week, everything will be running smoothly.
In other news, my dog, Booboo, is sick. According to the veterinarian, her case is uncommon to her breed. She developed some sort of fungal infection on her paws. The vet said it could be due to the weather changes, or from the food that she eats. I told the vet what I feed her, so that eliminated food as the main cause. The vet gave her some shots and a prescription that she should take for a week. It is a bit hard on my part, since I have to clean her paws twice a day and apply an ointment. Booboo doesn’t want to be touched on her paws, so I always have to run after her. Licking her paws is a problem, so we bought her baby mittens to make sure she doesn’t lick off the ointment. After three days, her paws are almost healed, but I still worry about her. I don’t know what I would do if I lose her. I even told my mom that when I get my own place, I would bring her with me. It sucks that I can’t do more than I can to ease her pain…
Tags: blogs, booboo, Daily Blurbs, Food, new layout, recipe, Thoughts
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