P A T C C

My Christmas was the bomb. It just has been two weeks since the holidays and I can't still get over with the feels. It's been my first time in a long time I've enjoyed Christmas so much with my family and friends. A few nights were spent carolling for fundraising and enjoying me time by indulging in TV sitcoms.

New Year was a bit vague and I just miss the fireworks in Davao so people were just banging on almost anything for a minute and then "Wow that was it?". But the countless greetings from people was enough to make a fresh start for the year.

I'm writing this because I'm still having the hangover. Just hoping you had the awesomest holidays too!

Reading Waking up in the late dawn missing the last Dawn Mass, missing a good plane fare for summer vacation and having a bad sleep is not one of the things that you don't want to happen on a Christmas eve. Today was supposed to be a day full of cheer and be festive and getting excited to wear your new red dress and admit it, showing it off in a crowd of church goers during the midnight mass. But still, the universe is still the same hairy guy pulling out its tantrums on us and constant mood swings.

I was reading Thanksgiving post from aiaaaa.net and it inspired me to feel grateful. Let's try to scratch that and be on the greener grass. So instead of sticking a middle finger up in the air, why not thank a few things that constantly reminds us how we are extremely blessed.

• For parents who not only sends us to school but sends "I love you" messages as well.
• High school buddies who never fails to give abdominal cramps due to excessive laughter
• College buddies for the copies of American sitcoms, season by season.
• For indie music that reminds me to be reckless at times.
• 8Tracks who keeps me up at 3 in the morning.
• Oh, and you too coffee. Yes I love you too.
• Cheap airline fares making a poor aspiring traveler's dreams come true.
• Amusement parks and my undying love for Disney
• Frank Sinatra Christmas music for giving me the "Christmas with dad" feels.
• Percy Jackson
• The existence of tinting lip balm and everything that makes me effortlessly attractive.
• Ateneo for the wonderful college year
• Carlos for blabbing so much about you. Even if you're out of topic, he never fails to share what he learns from the internet with his distracting hair.
• Mitch Albom for the tear-jerking books 
• For last minute instincts and ending the day with imaginary glass cheers.
• S&R for everything American.
• Pizza who understands me at all times.
• Keepsakes for welcoming me with your cheap buffalo wings.
• Two Door Cinema Club for making me promise I'd lose my concert virginity to them one day.
• Java Jive where everything started.
• The guy playing drums at Timezone playing September which became our song.
• To every stranger who have been a fiber of my life 

Most things may be shitty, but the sparkles are the ones who always shine bright. Have a Merry Christmas everyone! :)