October 6, 2009

There’s a reasonable explanation why I’m posting a photo of our Christmas tree from last year….it’s the last quarter of the year!  Back home in the Philippines, one can hear Christmas carols being played on the radios, at the malls, and practically at every nook and cranny of the country as early as the first day of September.  We have the longest Christmas season!  Hee hee.  And I love it!  See,

Around this time, Filipinos abroad are already busy cramming balikbayan boxes with presents for loved ones in the Philippines so that these boxes can be received in time for the holidays.  It’s just too bad that this year, the Christmas spirit was dampened a little because of the recent calamity that hit the country.  Aside from opening the usual boxes full of Christmas presents, people back home will be using box cutters to open boxes full of relief goods as well.  Through this sad ordeal, there’s something good that we all should be happy about… and it’s realizing that the bayanihan spirit is still very much alive in each and everyone of us. Christmas decorations always lift up my spirits.  I hope the above photo does for you, what it does for me.   Mabuhay!

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

Click to cancel reply