Quinta-feira, Dezembro 02, 2004
The Euphoric December
Four practical reasons why the best time of the year for me is Christmas:
1. The Cool Atmosphere
Christmas atmosphere is never harsh and is always favorable for rest and learning. I always look forward to this time because everywhere I go my robust body just never fails to sweat profusely. The classrooms I go to have installed a/c's but they don't really work. And I still have a vivid memory of how my first semester was spent in that very hot, window-less room. It was a gas chamber there and although we did not actually breathe cyanide or anything of that sort, we almost died from asphyxia. We inhaled one another's expired carbon dioxide. Despite that, the class reporters assigned that time were turned numb and apathetic so they continue to discuss although nobody in the room was really listening. The place was so sizzling an inferno that nothing can ever be processed in our roasted, dehydrated brains.
2. Lights Galore
Christmas lights are so much fun to marvel at, amigos. Makati City, particularly Ayala Center, is more glamorous at night during the advent of Christmas season. Its entirety is festooned with lights of varied colors and by the malls' thresholds stand humongous Christmas trees with their peaks almost reaching the high ceilings. Even the lampposts by the city's highway are also Christmas decorated. I am not too dense to not recognize beauty exuded by these lights especially on occasions like Christmas. In fact, it isn't necessary for me to go to Makati to appreciate it because Barangay Merville alone glistens like Ayala Center on Decembers. The area surrounding Merville Gate 1 glitters like gold because of the bright curtain lights carefully hung on the big trees. Nature is absolutely lovelier with lights placed on them. I love how the homeowners pretty up their houses every December. Almost all of these houses are beautifully titivated but Korina Sanchez' ancestral house has the best decoration above all of them. Try going around Merville and you'll see why.
3. Food
Relatives are easily reunited over food. And Noche Buena is never an ordinary feast in the Laoagan clan.
You must have guessed by my growing size and my drooling mouth how much I anticipate the coming of December 24. And that means I don't have to explain my crazy gust for delectable food.
4. No Classes
Above all, there are no classes... no duties... no teachers to frustrate me... and no assignments or other tasks to make me feel uberharried the entire day.
1. The Cool Atmosphere
Christmas atmosphere is never harsh and is always favorable for rest and learning. I always look forward to this time because everywhere I go my robust body just never fails to sweat profusely. The classrooms I go to have installed a/c's but they don't really work. And I still have a vivid memory of how my first semester was spent in that very hot, window-less room. It was a gas chamber there and although we did not actually breathe cyanide or anything of that sort, we almost died from asphyxia. We inhaled one another's expired carbon dioxide. Despite that, the class reporters assigned that time were turned numb and apathetic so they continue to discuss although nobody in the room was really listening. The place was so sizzling an inferno that nothing can ever be processed in our roasted, dehydrated brains.
2. Lights Galore
Christmas lights are so much fun to marvel at, amigos. Makati City, particularly Ayala Center, is more glamorous at night during the advent of Christmas season. Its entirety is festooned with lights of varied colors and by the malls' thresholds stand humongous Christmas trees with their peaks almost reaching the high ceilings. Even the lampposts by the city's highway are also Christmas decorated. I am not too dense to not recognize beauty exuded by these lights especially on occasions like Christmas. In fact, it isn't necessary for me to go to Makati to appreciate it because Barangay Merville alone glistens like Ayala Center on Decembers. The area surrounding Merville Gate 1 glitters like gold because of the bright curtain lights carefully hung on the big trees. Nature is absolutely lovelier with lights placed on them. I love how the homeowners pretty up their houses every December. Almost all of these houses are beautifully titivated but Korina Sanchez' ancestral house has the best decoration above all of them. Try going around Merville and you'll see why.
3. Food
Relatives are easily reunited over food. And Noche Buena is never an ordinary feast in the Laoagan clan.
You must have guessed by my growing size and my drooling mouth how much I anticipate the coming of December 24. And that means I don't have to explain my crazy gust for delectable food.
4. No Classes
Above all, there are no classes... no duties... no teachers to frustrate me... and no assignments or other tasks to make me feel uberharried the entire day.
Carnaval took a nap at 10:22:00 AM
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Carnaval is a fourth year nursing student of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. Her thoughts are whacked. She's mad so she's talking back. She's tired of people who stick their noses in things that are none of their business.
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