A Very Merry Christmas - Dec. 25, 2007

My father just bought a kilogram of roasted pig from Joey's lechon and that was what we had for Christmas. My sister, bro in law and nephew came over to eat lunch at the house. Then a few minutes after lunch, there was power interruption. Arrgghh brownout on Christmas! I tried to get a little nap but woke up just a few minutes later and asked them if they wanted to go to SM. My nephew was very excited since I promised him that I would buy him 8 rechargeable batteries for his remote control car. This is also my chance to buy gifts for my other godchildren.

My father preferred to play BINGO so we left him at the bingo hall. We headed to ACE hardware and purchased the rechargeable batteries then immediately proceeded to Toy kingdom. I told my nephew that I will no longer buy him a Christmas gift since I already bought 8 batteries for his remote control car and it was quite expensive. At first he said OK, but the moment we stepped into Toy kingdom and he saw the different toy cars, he started asking me.. is this expensive? can you buy this for me? I remembered he showed me one toy and asked me how much it was, and it was priced at around 200 pesos.. and he told me.. not this one.. that is expensive.. lets look for another one that is cheap. I was amused at how conscious he was at the price of the toy, as if he knows how much the amount 200 pesos is.

He tried to look for small cars, thinking that small cars are cheaper since they are small.. then he saw this match box van type car which has a back door that can be opened.. he would not let go of it.. so i decided to buy it for him.. provided he behaves while i pick some more gifts for the other kids. He sounded like he know so much when I would pick a toy and say i'll give this one to Amiel.. then he would reply.. no he does not like that... maybe you should buy this.. he will like this.. and he does not even know the kids that i am buying the gifts for.



After finally getting a gift for everybody, I invited him to Worlds of Fun. He had so much fun while we were playing different games. The car racing has to be his favorite. He has been addicted to Need for speed lately and would constantly beg me to allow him to play it on my PC. We were supposed to go home already but then my brother texted and said there was still no electricity at home and he does not know how to cook rice using a gas stove. So we decided to eat dinner at Chowking before going home. Good thing the light was already back when we arrived home.



It feels good when you are able to make people happy, especially the kids. After all, I believe Christmas is for kids. It is the time of the year that they look forward to when they would receive lots of gifts from their godparents, parents and relatives. They look forward to the gifts that Santa Claus would bring for them on Christmas eve. I was once a kid.. and was once an innocent victim and looked forward to the gift that Santa would give me for Christmas.