Christmas is very, very big in the Philippines. The season begins with the entry of the “–ber” months and ends with the Feast of the Three Kings in January. I have heard foreigners comment that we have the longest celebration of Christmas anywhere in the world. Many are very puzzled as to how important this…
Though the Christmas season in the Philippines is the longest, it is also the most hectic. Just because it starts in September and end in January, doesn’t mean that people have an easier time spreading out their activities. Despite all of the office parties, the traffic, and the last minute shopping, it is always great…
After enjoying near-zero traffic for the week between Christmas and the New Year, it is back with a vengeance. Today was the start of my wife’s training in her company and she had to be at the training center by 8:30 am today. And in order to provide enough buffers, we left the house at…
The holiday season is over but it does not stop there. It’s time to clean out our homes and pack all those decorations. On my end, we have practiced the same ritual year-after-year: Christmas Tree Make sure to wash your plastic Christmas Trees and garlands before storing them. Since they would have accumulated a lot…
Decorating a Christmas tree isn’t as simple as setting up the frame then hanging the trimmings. A little planning needs to go in to it. The last thing any decorator would want to do is to re-do everything if things don’t look right. So I’ve put together a few tips to help you when you…
Ever notice how things just look better in December? Take a look around you and you will see how things have changed, literally and figuratively around you. In my case, my dog looks a lot fatter. He isn’t fatter because he eats a lot, which he does by the way. He looks fatter because his…
I finally got our Christmas tree up a couple of weeks ago. I had planned to put it up back in September, but would like to claim that I have been procrastinating all these months. The truth of the matter is that I’ve been putting it off as I haven’t been in the mood due…
My close friends and I just concluded our annual Christmas party last weekend. We normally have the party on a Saturday so people don’t have to wake up early the next day, but this year we held it on a Sunday. In all our years together, it was the first time we conducted this late…