Mihara-san with the Christmas Cake Too!

Of course, hindi magpapahuli…

Would you like to share with Mihara-san’s Christmas Cake? 

Reina-san with Christmas Cake

Of course everyone wants to have a photo with the Christmas Cake. It’s late, since the New Year has already begun, but we discovered the Christmas Cake in a shopping bag just recently

Catmare with Dinnerware

I wrote previously that the last weekend was a party weekend, and during the dinner party last Sunday for my grand-uncle, three cats came along with me, and brought Christmas Cake with them. I wanted to take their photos, but initially, they felt somewhat anti-social, and stayed behind the table napkin:

Eventually, though, they agreed to un-hide themselves, but only if they could stay near the forks:

Later on, they took out their Christmas Cake because they were starting to feel festive

Greetings

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! 

*hugs to people I care about*

At My Lola’s for Lunch

As with most Christmasses, we went to my grandma’s home (my mom’s mom) for lunch. It’s nice because it’s all so homey (^^,) She can hardly walk because of her weak knees but she prepared the whole thing for all of us and decorated her house for visitors. My grandma’s like those nice warm comforting grandmas whom you associate with warm, home-cooked meals, freshly baked pudding, floral curtains, and thick blankets (^^,) So, she fed us and insisted she take care of everything despite her shaky hands. She also gave us presents, most of which she made herself. She gave me a yoga bolster which she made (^^,) 

Panna Cotta

Just had the first of three serving of panna cotta (favorite. yum.) which Denise gave me for Christmas She requested her brother to make some for us and it’s REALLY good

Japanese Christmas 2

Hehe… As I began to write the previous entry, this thought came to my mind, and then I forgot about it, then went to the treadmill, then came back to continue writing, then published it. When I saw the title, I remembered what came to my mind earlier. Now I don’t remember much of it but I think it has something to do with Japanese Christmas (Uhm yeah what else )

I began thinking of Christmas cakes, and how Christmas there is more like a special time with partners more than immediate family like how we have it here. So. 

Napaisip lang ako bigla. 

But then, naman kasi. Baka it’s beyond that. Nakailang Christmas na ba yun

Hay, riddles, riddles. Sorry

*sigh* Sakura kiss. How can this be. 

But then again, the “how” shouldn’t be my problem. I would just always like to think that “because the timing is right, the outcome is assured” though from where I currently am, it is “not predictable”. Argh. These occasional halts in my steps. 

I would like to think, that Dagaz is the continuation of drawing Jera. I am still following Jera until now. I still have four commitments intact. Just this, the outcome. And yes, it is not predictable. 

I’m partly finding it funny, that I seem to be racing against the remaining days of the year yet there are really two major days out of that, at least in the context of the magic of cherry blossoms. But then again, why should things be limited to that? Until the outcome is here, I should never think of asking for cotton handkerchiefs. (momen no hankachiifu kudasai.)

So until then, I think and feel that continuing Jera is a good thing. It has helped me a lot, in truth, and has made time seem to just fleet by. Inspired by magic, it has helped me get to where I am now. Yun na lang talaga. What Dagaz has for me. What the universe has… prepared. 

Hay naku ha. Nag umpisa lang yan sa Japanese Rudolph. Naging Japanese something else na. (lmao)

Japanese Christmas

I was listening to a Japanese radio station when it played this “Standard Christmas Medley”. It played the Japanese version of Rudolph and I suddenly remembered my Nihongo I class, when Ian-sensei made us listen to it December of last year. I think it was the exact same record because it was the exact same Yachiru-like voice Hehe. Nostalgia. 

Front Yard

So on the evening I played with leaves, my parents were fixing the lights to be placed at the front of the house and when it was much darker, they turned it on to see what it would look like

I also took a picture because I realize it’s our last Christmas here, plus that evening just felt nice  

Leafy

Currently, my hands smell like fresh leaves because I played with and pulled at the strong giant leaves in our front yard as my parents fixed Christmas lights and decors outside the house My mom asked me to stop destroying the leaves but I let go and they still looked like they did before I even touched them and showed her so I continued to tug at them and swing them back and forth. Now my hands smell pleasantly of leaf juice

Christmas Kote

So my mom was putting up some Christmas decors today and I found really long strings of golden beads:

Of course, I played with it

Then I found another one, it’s shorter though, and I wrapped it around my other arm.

I took them off because my right hand was kind of starting to turn blue After I took them off, my arms had small reddish circles on them    

Christmas Cactus

So I took a photo of Ciotolina and Bastardino by the Christmas door