January 1 Has Passed... Again

January 1 has passed...again...ang bilis.

So whatever happened to my January 1?

It was our first new year on our new house (we moved on October after 18 years!). It has been 1986 since we last moved, I was only 6 then. Though we were in a new house, our new year traditions are still the same:
coins lined up from outside going in
round fruits on the table
rice, salt, bread are there
went to mass at 10 PM
ate at around 11:30 PM - spaghetti, macaroni salad, ham, queso de bola, etc (the usual)
and as always, we didn't have any firecrackers nor fireworks with us. We get contented watching neighbor's displays. Hehehehe.

We had new neighbors (one gave my sister one piece of 'lusis' - naawa siguro kasi nakikinood lang kami), then we went up the terrace to get a better view of the horizon's spectacles. It was great, I got a little dizzy trying to see everything around us, there were fireworks on all directions (all from neighbors and neighboring subdivisions still). Libre na, masaya pa! Hahaha.

Come morning, contrary of what I expected, I had a perfectly good sleep, so I had a very good morning indeed. After breakfast, I spent the whole day being a couch potato and watched the CSI marathon on AXN. Come 6 PM, we had to get dressed up to go to our uncle's house for dinner. I didn't wanna come (since this uncle of mine is the only relative I had word wars with for trying to defend my parents more than a year ago, in short, galit kami sa isa't isa kasi nakahanap siya ng katapat saken), but had to go since this is one of those "family obligations" and considering that all my siblings and parents have been going there often lately. So I went just the same... for the sake of "respect." I didn't enjoy the visit at all, good thing they had SIMS installed on their PC, so I consumed the night away playing.

Then I ended my January 1 having an arguement with my a loved one. Then slept my distress away. Great way to end the start of the year eh?

So today is January 2 again. An ordinary day. Tomorrow will just be another office week.

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Forrest Gump: And just like that, she was gone out of my life again.

Just like that, tapos na.