My days of late are good. Work from nine to six, drive sister to and from school, quiet time+work out a bit after, Skype at night, yoga/exercise with the guy on Saturdays, family time on weekends, occasional dinners with friends, coffee/tea dates. Most times, I cannot ask for more :)
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The holidays coming up make life a little bit more topsy-turvy than they already are, planning parties, dinners, events and vacations, rushing to and from such, buying presents, braving the metro traffic and malls--this time of the year, in crazy Manila, you can't tell which is worse: traffic along EDSA and Greenhills or the crush of people inside malls, scrambling to get their Christmas shopping done. I'm afraid I've succumbed to this once-a-year syndrome, and I'm not enjoying it. Christmas doesn't feel like Christmas. The other week, Rainy and I were wondering if it was just us, like there's a problem with us missing out on the whole meaning of the holidays, or if it was spending the season in Beijing and people there not celebrating it the way we were used to kind of killing the Christmas spirit in us. Maybe we're just growing up. Make a big fuss about it, but not really getting why people go through all the trouble to make it some big event. I clearly know Christmas is about the birth of Christ, His manifestation from God to man, but I also think that it's something to be pondered about every single second of every day of our lives.
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So I discovered this morning, to my dismay, that my sister and I have an intelligent water heater system in our bathroom, which apparently turned on its non-existent DST (daylight saving time) and turned itself off--obviously though, it's gotten its whole season set-up all wrong. I stood to the side of the shower for a good five minutes, waiting for the darn water to heat up. And it didn't. I know, it sounds like a waste of water, and I'm sure it was, and that I'm in Manila, a tropical city. But you have to understand that A) I sleep in a very cold, air-conditioned room where the a/c is turned off half an hour before I wake up, so the room stays really cool; and B) despite living in a country below the equator, it's been chilly lately, with a cold front touching normally humid ol' Manila. So cold showers are not an option for me. Yeah, this means I haven't taken a bath yet. Sue me.
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