Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’

Muse Sing: Prospero Año to us all!

December 18, 2009 2 comments Muse Sing

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Two thousand oh nine may not the best year for the whole world but it’s been for me. I got married and we are expecting a baby boy this month or early next year.

I’ve got all the reasons to celebrate! And here’s my celebratory song for this year’s Christmas, a happy song from the happy happy band Bowling For Soup. From their Merry Flippin’ Christmas (Volume1) holiday album entitled “Feliz Navidad.”

Hit the play button to party! (Continued…)

Christmas cavalcades in black

December 28, 2008 2 comments Events

I was expecting to see a lot of Chistmas lights while passing through the Cebu towns on my way home to celebrate Christmas Oh Eight with my family in Sibulan. My expectations where burnt with darkness. Most, yes most, of the households had their lights turned off. House lights were turned off. My better thinking tells me this is just a way to direct Christmas carolers away but after close checking it wasn’t. They didn’t have it! Majority of the households didn’t have any of those lights.

Doing the same checking on the towns after crossing Tañon Strait, the body of water that separates Cebu and Negros Oriental, the last line on the last paragraph still holds true.

I can’t say people have lost their Christian ways because passing churches early in the morning on my way to work say otherwise. I can’t say people don’t have the money because going inside major malls in Cebu city was a war on the days before Christmas.

I dunno, man, but I guess the line “kumukutikutitap na bombilya” is irrelevant at this day and age.

Will be checking next year.

Malipayong Pasko!

December 24, 2008 3 comments Events

Malipayong Pasko kanimo og sa tanang tawo sa kalibutan!

Malipayong Pasko is Visayan for Maligayang Pasko(Filipino) and Happy Christmas(English). The only three Christmas greeting I know and use.

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Government issues pay rules for long holiday

December 23, 2008 Write a Comment Money

Be guided on your holiday pay, man!

Taken from DOLE website:

The government today reiterated the pay rules for the regular holidays on December 25 (Christmas Day), December 30, 2008 (Rizal Day) and January 1, 2009 (New Year’s Day), as well as the special non-working days on December 26, December 29, and December 31, 2008 (Last Day of the Year).

Labor and Employment Secretary Marianito D. Roque said that based on Proclamation No. 1463 issued by President Arroyo on February 18 this year, she declared December 26 (Friday) and 29, 2008 (Monday) additional special (non-working) days throughout the country, “in order to enable our countrymen to have a more meaningful observance of Christmas and New Year, to strengthen their ties with one another.” (Continued…)

Happy Christmas, people!

December 20, 2007 6 comments Short On Ideas

Need I say more? More after the jump, dude! Also, check out my little Christmas singer below it’s Jimmy Eat World doing Last Christmas their way. Sing!

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A Christmas Waitlist

December 17, 2007 Write a Comment Short On Ideas

Everybody’s doing their Christmas wishlist. I am not doing that here. Instead, I will be listing the things that I’d probably be doing while wating for Christmas. Some very obvious human necessities like eating and drinking will not be mentioned.

1. I would try to distance myself from alcohol.
2. Finish reading Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut. I have been reading it very slowly for almost a year now because I don’t want to get through it yet.
3. I finally bought George Orwell’s 1984. Should be next if I feel like finishing the latter.
4. Ok, gimme alcohol, man!
5. Cut cable TV and throw in The Simpsons DVD.
6. Maybe do some more reading with Tom Robbins’ Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.
7. Yesh! Alcohol somemow and some excess fruitcake.

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