it's officially december! i can imagine the feeling of being in the philippines at this time of the year... Christmas in the philippines start waaayy early, at the onset of the 'ber' months, you can already hear christmas carols being played, twinkling lights are on and you can really feel it in the air though it's still too hot and humid...i miss the puto bumbong, the simbang-gabi, the nightly carolings, the reunions and the never-ending christmas parties and exchange gifts... i miss chrismas back home...
christmas is not celebrated here {chinese people don't celebrate christmas}, it's more of a 'commercial' thing, the decorations at the malls in the city are lavish alright, but that is just about it, my son even have to go to school on that day, good thing hubby works for a HK company and so they have a day off on the 25th...
we usually go to HK to celebrate because the atmosphere there is much much festive and the people are really in a christmas 'mode' or something... i actually want it to become a yearly tradition for our family, but so far, we've managed to do it every other year... last year, we spent it here in Shenzhen, my son had a part in an English play at the school's Christmas program, and the stage parents that we are, clearly, we had to be there!
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