It’s the season to be jolly, and we all know that families are hungry for the holiday treats that gift baskets can provide. My mom tends to procrastinate a lot so I took the initiative and looked up shops that provide quick delivery services. I’m not entirely sure which one I could get yet since I’m not really good with this Christmas shopping thing and I’m not the one who buys the baskets for friends of our families.

Do you guys have any ideas on which sites I should actually bother looking at? I’m running out of ideas.

Christmas is fun! I can’t wait to wrap presents for friends and anticipate the look in their faces when they open the gifts!

There’s only one problem with that though… WHAT PRESENTS DO I GET MY FRIENDS, AND DO I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY THEM GIFTS!?

Oh nooooo!

When I was young I had all sorts of crazy dreams about jobs that I doubt anyone else considered.

I had a lot of things I wanted to accomplish when I was young and I couldn’t really pick a good job for my future self, just yet. I was greatly influenced by my parents and my siblings.

Believe it or not, I wanted to be a Metro Aid when I was four. I asked my mom what kind of job would be to sweep places all day, because apparently I was obsessed with sweeping things. She answered that, and I suddenly looked forward to being a Metro Aid.

After a short while I got bored with sweeping so I decided I’d be a nun, and then a military officer, and then take Recreational Therapist Jobs. Don’t ask, because I don’t even remember how I went there.

Well at least now I found my way, I decided on something that I really loved, the wonderful world of computers. What kind of crazy dreams did you have when you were young?

My mom keeps all her house plaques and mug collection in this little shelf near our dining room. Whenever I’m bored and I don’t feel like listening to the dinner conversations I’d look at the shelf and count how many plaques and mugs she has. Right up until now, I still do not have a definite count for all of the mugs and plaques, they change everytime I count them, for some reason.

I guess I just fail at counting. Haha!

I didn’t even realize that she has a lot of awards in the military when she got a present from her office before she retired. They put miniature versions of the awards that she got while she was in service, and it was a lot, I tell you.

I don’t have a lot of awards, but I hope to get some that are worthy of being displayed at home soon enough.

Whenever I do some shopping at the mall, kitchen showrooms always catch my attention. I find those modern looking kitchens so attractive. Metal tiles, air tight drawers and glass cabinet knobs. It is like if I had a kitchen like that, I would definitely go to a culinary school.

For me, I think the two most important areas of the house are the kitchen and restroom. I usually spend a lot of time in these areas. The kitchen, is almost always busy, especially when mom is around. In our old  house, the kitchen is also the dining area. Sometimes I even prefer working there because the busy ambiance keeps me motivated to work.

Anyhow, enough with the mumblings. Someday, I will get that kitchen I have always dreamed of.

It is funny when my office mates catch me humming “Jingle Bells” and “Rudolf the red-nose reindeer” while at my pad. Everyone laughs and tells me that I overly excited about the salary increase. This was sort of a sarcasm intended to be heard by our manager. Today, I thought of a way to make the “give us an increase” more obvious by using rudolph stockings and some post it notes. Inside the stockings, I placed notes saying, “Dear Santa, I hope our kind boss gives us the increase we all deserve so that people in the company will not quit on new year’s day”. Everyone loved the idea. So we posted all the stockings on the bulletin board. I bet my boss will be so curious with the notes and he will definitely be reading it soon.

By the way, I got some comments with me being unethical about asking for increase, well, our company is open to communication. Employees are free to share jokes even with the CEO for as long as it is not personal. And yes, even green jokes are allowed.

As a child, I have been fascinated and curious to see things in the distance suddenly magnified when I view them through binoculars. Suddenly the mass of green that is the mountain becomes trees and rocks. Back then, our family has big, bulky binoculars but we children all rush to get our turn looking through them. Today, there must be already smaller, more modern-looking and cutting-edge binoculars, though I feel sentimental with our family binoculars.

Now, I realize, seeing things from a binocular perspective gave me the experience of seeing the big picture from the smallest detail. My binocular experience has contributed to my seeing things from a more holistic perspective. Yes, it is both the forest and trees perspective.

Yet, given the chance, I would like to see the world again through our old family binoculars. It is no longer working, but my dad still keeps it, I believe, somewhere in our storage area. Maybe someday I’ll be able to look through an old model again.

On my way home from work, I saw white led Christmas lights glittering in the streets. Gosh, it’s the “ber” months now (In case you didn’t get it, it’s Septem-ber, Octo-ber, Novem-ber, and Decem-ber).

It seems like it was only a few weeks since we celebrated New Year’s Eve. And now it’s almost the holidays again. My sister and I started reminiscing about our huge pine-tree like Christmas Tree that was in the middle of a huge pebbled star on our lawn when we were still kids. It’s actually just a fake tree but since it was amongst our trees in the garden, only taking up the center stage, one would think that it’s real. In fact, for the drunk guy who peed in it in broad daylight (with the Christmas lights turned off), it must definitely have looked real. Too bad he already pissed on it before we were able to shoo him off our Christmas Tree.

That was the first and only tree we’ve ever had. Until now, we don’t have a Christmas Tree so we’ve haven’t decorated one for more than a decade. I know it’s just an ornament which you can do without (proven in our family, btw). But there’s just something cozy and warm about decorating it with your family, seeing presents underneath it, and gathering around that special tree once a year to open those presents.

I hope I get my first ever Christmas bonus this year. I promise if I do get one, I’d buy my family a memorable Christmas Tree. ^_^