First Blog of the Year

Hey, hey, hey! It's been a while since I decided to do a blog for this site. No, I haven't abandoned it. It's just that I haven't had the time to even breathe yet alone do any blogging. But I'm here waiting for my car to get serviced and decided to bring my macbook along and do some little catch up blogging. Mostly because someone (not naming any names (hi Nat! Go Rafa! Lol) has been begging me to write a new entry. Well, here it goes:

Another year over, a new one just begun

So its 2007, A whole brand new year. Where the fuck did 2006 go in the first place? Just when I was getting used to writing '06' at the end of my dates, here comes 2007 saying 'nup, fuck off, I'm here now, get used to it, bitch'.

Wow, I'm swearing a lot today, wtf?

I wonder what this new year will bring, firstly on a personal level. I don't know why, but I have a feeling that something rather bad will happen this year. I know it's a bad thing to think about but yeah, I'm just feeling a little uncertainty in regards to, I don’t know, something happening perhaps in my family. It could just be me being a little paranoid, but I just want to prepare myself just in case. But yeah, it is a terrible, terrible thing to think about. Hopefully, it is just me being paranoid. I don't want to be blogging about something horrible sometime this year. If something does though, I am so quoting this here blog entry.

On a world level, hopefully only good things will happen. We can all dream of world peace, rain and um, boobs? Um, yeah…

Wa Wa Wii!!

Omg! I got me a Nintendo Wii for myself for Xmas. Only because I knew I wasn't going to get anything from anyone (which was pretty true, more details to come). I came into work launch day thinking to myself that I was not going to buy one. So I get through work, selling the damn things by the bucket loads not even thinking of getting my own one and right at the end of my shift my boss comes up to me:

"You buying one?"

"Yeah, and give me Zelda as well" Without any hesitation at the same time thinking WTF did I just say?

So yeah, I bought one. I got into my car and I realised that I hadn't even paid the monthly repayment for my car, so I was in majorly deep shit because I had hardly any money left in my bank account. Yes, I'm that poor.

But the damn thing is awesome, I play Wii Sports, I love playing tennis and go majorly hard in baseball. I'm just so scared that the remote would slip and fly straight towards the television. As you can see, people can just get a little carried away.



My family has gotten into the thing as well. My mum OWNs in boxing, she can knock out the motherfucker like it was nothing, she goes majorly hardcore and looks so funny in the process. Just goes to show not to mess with the woman, she can open a can of whoop-ass on you if need be. My nephews love the thing too, even though they're a bit too small to do anything. I give my two year-old nephew the TV remote and he thinks he's playing. So bloody cute, I feel like eating him. LOL



Christmas!

Christmas eve was spent with the family, like it always has been for my last 24 years. It was pretty fun actually, the whole family in the one place. Which, in my opinion is an amazing feat in itself since right now all of us combined would be a good, say 60 or so people? Don't know the exact number but there's a whole heap of us. A house full of us brown people, and we're all legit migrants! Amazing! Oh, and we are LOUD . That's a bit of un understatement, seriously all of us would probably be equivalent to a jet plane taking off.

There is a lot of kanta (singing) and sayaw (dancing) going on, oh and the karaoke machine is in full effect. Food would be in abundance including a full lechon (spit roast, whole pig). Man, you gotta love big Filipino parties, best food ever!

We're one of the families that wait until midnight Christmas morning and give out presents then. As expected, the little kids got the most presents, toys, videogames and so on. The young adults, on the other hand get pretty much jack shit.

Again, as expected I got undies. This time, in boxer short form, not briefs. Which is actually pretty good, because I'm running out of shorts anyway.

But I'm not too fussed, I'm not too picky when it comes to that stuff anyway. It was good to be with the family and their company is a lot more important than all the little things that you would (or wouldn’t) get during Christmas. I hope you guys all had a good Christmas with those you love as well.

New Year

The family headed off to the harbour to watch the fireworks this year. It's the first time I actually went to see the fireworks. Probably would be the last. It's not because it was bad, in fact it was really good. It was more so the fact that despite all the effort we made getting there, queuing, waiting, getting sunburnt and so on. The fireworks went for just a few minutes combined, and despite being an amazing audio and visual spectacle, it just makes you question if it was all worth it. In my honest opinion, it wasn't. But it is definitely one of the things that you MUST do at least once.

My nephew Ruiz infront of the queue. The line went all the way from the art gallery to St. Marys Cathedral. True

Bring on Times Square, New York USA next year.