Christmas is in the air

(Ok, it's official: I have a home sweet home blog series now. Hehehe.)

I arrived in our home with Christmas music playing in the radio, artificial christmas trees outside and inside, some garlands and poinsettia hanging here and there, and believe it or not, ham in the fridge. Hehehe. Wow. Is Christmas really that fast approaching already? It seems like it was just yesterday when we had a family reunion and Christmas party in our place. The reunion/party was held in our home because my mom takes care our lola, so, all her (mom's) brothers (she's an unica hija) and their families of course spent Christmas here. T'was really fun.

And this December, I heard that my uncles are coming here as early as the 24th. Looks like they are planning something big this time of the year.

How about you, can you feel the spirit of Christmas already?

Clean and green

And still a part of the “home sweet home” blog series (hahaha), I just wanted to share my mom's small vegetable garden here. I was telling mordsith that except for the squash, you can find every ingredient of pinakbet in our backyard. My mom wanted to have something like this way back when we were still in QC, but as you probably know, a garden in a place in like Manila is really a luxury.

Anyway, my mom's garden has ampalaya, ube, sili, okra, sibuyas, papaya (3, in fact), and some other plants/vegetables I do not know. O, malunggay, too. The truth is, staying here for a week or so is like having a nodular acne treatment (good bye impurities!) as she always have a vegetable dish every meal.

I am sorry. I really am so excited blogging about going home. :-) Bear with me, please.

Home sweet home

So, after a few weeks of being in Metro Manila, I am really excited to get home this long weekend. And after a couple of hours of travel, I'm finally here. :-)

What can I say? The smell and feel of fresh air here is a lot more “homey” than that in our 19th floor unit in Makati. The only sounds you'll hear here are chirping of birds, my brother shouting while playing GTA in his PS, and the kids in the village practicing their cheering routine (we have an upcoming basketball league here and I guess there would be a cheer dance competition, too.

At the back of our house is a long horizon of undeveloped land, and you probably need to use bushnell binoculars to see the next house/structure on this direction (our house is situated at the undeveloped area of the subdivision – we specifically look for this part).

Oh, yeah, this is what I call home sweet home.