SHOPPING AND REUNION
The lazy-bug has bitten me these past few days. Thus, I have not bothered to update my blog. You may notice that this is my first blog entry after three or four days. It was not like during my initial attempts at blogging that I posted an entry everyday. Now, my blogging has been quite irregular. For this, I beg for your kindest indulgence. I will not make any excuses except to say that given the holiday atmosphere, I guess my bodily system is also going into vacation mode.
About a week or two ago, I lamented about the fact that we still had to do our Christmas shopping. Sadly, only a week to go before December 25, we have yet to draw up our Christmas shopping list. The culprit: albeit it is quite embarrassing to admit, it is the lack of sufficient funds. We are still waiting for additional bonus from the office from where we would source the budget for our Christmas shopping. Well, the good news is that anytime tomorrow and until Wednesday, our office may finally give the six thousand pesos additional bonus that was earlier promised by President Arroyo. It is a good thing that we have good financial managers in the office, which enabled the generation of sufficient savings upon which the added bonus will be channeled from.
It may not be that big but six thousand pesos is still six thousand pesos. We would now be able to push through with our overly-delayed gift-buying. It is not yet too late to do this, though it is like being in the last two minutes of the game. Well, what is important is that we would be able to keep true to our social obligation and age-old tradition of gift-giving to family members, kins and god-children.
On another matter, I will be spending the holiday season in the province after all. We initially thought of having the Christmas vacation here in Metro Manila. Unfortunately, my wife just learned that she would be doing nursing duty right after December 25. So, we have to adjust our plan. Instead of her coming to Manila, I would be the one leaving for the province. This is not quite bad. A true-blooded probinsyano, I always welcome any chance of going home. My only concern though is that at this point in time, it is a bit late to obtain any advance reservation for the provincial travel. By now, I am all-too certain that all the bus companies plying the Cagayan Valley route are fully-booked. Unless you know somebody inside, which I don't, it is near to impossible to secure any available seat. But just the same, I would take my chances on Friday, and hope that a miracle would transpire that day. Perhaps, there would be a kind samaritan who would be willing to give up his seat for me.
The change in our plan is providential, in a sense. I did hear from an old batchmate that an alumni homecoming was slated in our old high school on December 30. For one reason or another, I had not been to any of our past reunions. This time, I am planning to attend for a change. I want to keep tab with my batchmates, whom I have not seen or heard from for almost fifteen years. I have lost contact with most of them since our graduation in 1991. I think it is a good time to reestablish ties with them. Who knows, there may be one or two, who have already struck it rich and are now millionaires, with philantrophic hearts. They may be moved to share their grandiose wealth to their less fortunate batchmates, like me.
About a week or two ago, I lamented about the fact that we still had to do our Christmas shopping. Sadly, only a week to go before December 25, we have yet to draw up our Christmas shopping list. The culprit: albeit it is quite embarrassing to admit, it is the lack of sufficient funds. We are still waiting for additional bonus from the office from where we would source the budget for our Christmas shopping. Well, the good news is that anytime tomorrow and until Wednesday, our office may finally give the six thousand pesos additional bonus that was earlier promised by President Arroyo. It is a good thing that we have good financial managers in the office, which enabled the generation of sufficient savings upon which the added bonus will be channeled from.
It may not be that big but six thousand pesos is still six thousand pesos. We would now be able to push through with our overly-delayed gift-buying. It is not yet too late to do this, though it is like being in the last two minutes of the game. Well, what is important is that we would be able to keep true to our social obligation and age-old tradition of gift-giving to family members, kins and god-children.
On another matter, I will be spending the holiday season in the province after all. We initially thought of having the Christmas vacation here in Metro Manila. Unfortunately, my wife just learned that she would be doing nursing duty right after December 25. So, we have to adjust our plan. Instead of her coming to Manila, I would be the one leaving for the province. This is not quite bad. A true-blooded probinsyano, I always welcome any chance of going home. My only concern though is that at this point in time, it is a bit late to obtain any advance reservation for the provincial travel. By now, I am all-too certain that all the bus companies plying the Cagayan Valley route are fully-booked. Unless you know somebody inside, which I don't, it is near to impossible to secure any available seat. But just the same, I would take my chances on Friday, and hope that a miracle would transpire that day. Perhaps, there would be a kind samaritan who would be willing to give up his seat for me.
The change in our plan is providential, in a sense. I did hear from an old batchmate that an alumni homecoming was slated in our old high school on December 30. For one reason or another, I had not been to any of our past reunions. This time, I am planning to attend for a change. I want to keep tab with my batchmates, whom I have not seen or heard from for almost fifteen years. I have lost contact with most of them since our graduation in 1991. I think it is a good time to reestablish ties with them. Who knows, there may be one or two, who have already struck it rich and are now millionaires, with philantrophic hearts. They may be moved to share their grandiose wealth to their less fortunate batchmates, like me.
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