Thursday, December 26, 2002
CHRISTMAS 2002
It went by quickly and so fast I can't believe it's already finished. Honestly speaking, nothing really happened. I was expecting one day loaded with interaction as I took pictures and mingled with relatives. But, that didn't happen!
Thinking I would wake up around 8 o'clock in the morning at the latest and thinking I would be taking pictures with our guests by the Christmas Tree. Nope. Nada. None of this happened.
I opened my eyes and first thing I wanted to look at was my red-digit clock on top of my TV. It read "12:05pm".
I already felt my mom going outside and inside of the room a few times the past few minutes, perhaps hours for all I could tell. I already knew several rounds of visitors came by and after eating shortly and receiving what they were expecting, they would leave. Without me ever seeing their faces within the four corners of my Camera lens.
Shis-ka-bob.
I gave up at that point. I was overwhelmed in disappointment. Whatever happened to those Christmas mornings when I would rush out of my room and into the living room trying to search for a Christmas Tree buried in Christmas presents? You don't have to be 9 years old... usually it was loaded with gifts.
But like Christmas 2001, this Christmas the circular snow-cusion underneath the tree was just as depressing as the year before it. I counted ZERO Christmas presents under the tree if you excluded the two gifts I gave to my brother and my mom.
Actually, we don't wrap our presents anymore.
Paul got a NOKIA 5210 and a brand new SIM Card, from our visit to Robinsons Imus last Friday. And on Thursday, December 26th- we're getting a 4-port USB and a brand new Printer for our computer + a cellphone repair for my NOKIA 3350. Those would be my Christmas Gifts.
Mom did say we'd still take a picture as I open our HP 3820 box next to the Christmas Tree on Thursday afternoon. I would go along with it. I mean, that's what we did when I got my scanner in Christmas 2001. Why do we take pictures of gifts not in packages? For technicalities.
The whole day was swapping between watching the last of several VCD movies these past two days. We watched Disk 2 and 3 of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and man do our little heroes really look little. Is that Harry Potter? Look at Ron. No, not only Ron, but look at Hermione! They're so smaller...
And loads of laughs when the three kept thinking Professor Snape was the villain. I was cracking myself up as Professor Snape's first impressions were tall, dark, and gloomy. That Slytherin grin on his face.
They also showed the never-before-seen footage part. Not too many, I counted three? They placed these after the ending credits.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was only the conclusion to watching Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Minority Report on Christmas Eve. And on the night of the 23rd, we rented out "Windtalkers". Four movies.
HP1, Lord of the Rings, and Minority Report are three VCD movies that we bought at Astrovision last Monday.
Other than watching Harry Potter during the early afternoon of Christmas Day, my brother and I also playe several rounds of Super Smash Bros. Melee on his Gamecube. Something about it that's so addicting. I've never played Video Games this frequent until his Gamecube arrived.
Almost every hour we'd have around 10 rounds of SMASH before heading for the bag of chips (Lay's) or chocolates (Twix, Cloud 9). Lunch was Rice and BBQ on a stick. More foods were outside but I wasn't really interested somehow, the guests ate them.
Speaking of food. It's Christmas and this is supposed to be the opportunity to gain some weight! But what's wrong with me? If I recall now, I have just noticed that I did not finish any food that I've started today. You know the regular TWIX comes in twos right? I only ate one stick.
The Rice and the delicious BBQ on a stick. All six or seven sticks were naked when I finished but the plate still had the other half of rice that I hadn't touched yet.
The macaroni salad... I ate most of it but as I played SMASH I forgot about it. I turned to look at the plate and it had a bed of warm macaroni and sauce layed flat on it like it got tired of waiting for me to eat it so it decided to cave in on itself.
Then there was dinner. My Uncle brought in these pieces of smoked-chicken and with it some steamed rice. I ate most of it until, somehow, I forgot about eating and continued to play SMASH. The smoked-chicken turned cold, the rice turned cold, and when I washed my plate the rice at the bottom hardened already. Oh man.
And it doesn't stop there.
Dessert? I wanted an APPLE. So it's chopped into pieces and then I sprinkle salt crystals on it. I go to my room to watch [jessica soho reports] (she's reporting about delicious food from Bicol and Pampanga) and notice that I put too much salt! I get the pieces that aren't drowning in salt and when I'm "finished" I still see the last 1/3 of it clinging on the sides of the white bowl screaming "EAT ME EAT ME!". If I ate it, I would be in for one SOUR ride.
Poor fridge and poor Microwave. Both of which have to carry some of these left-overs.
I'm feeling a cold coming to me. It's the temperature variance around me. At Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve... it was cool outside but the fully loaded Church was breathing with humidity and heat. The air condition in my room made my room so cold when I woke up at "12:05pm" earlier on Christmas Day. When I went outside to face the kitchen and a line of guests, it was all hot.
When I switched off the air condition in my room and my room slowly lost it's coolness as it began to warm again, it felt like the room needed a refresher. It needed fresh air from outside.
I needed fresh air from outside.
That's Christmas for me this year. Unfinished food. Addiction to SMASH. Wishing for more VCD movies to watch. And a cellphone that is ringing and receiving messages of "Merry Christmas" with their numbers not recorded.
(Hopefully my Christmas is actually on Thrusday. Installation of the 4-port USB, brand new Printer, and a successfully repaired NOKIA 3350 so I can adapt to my new SIM Number and prepare NEW YEAR messages to make up for what greetings I failed to give out this Christmas)
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