So on my last day in Bohol, I had it all planned out. I was going to spend the afternoon in an internet shop uploading the stuff I worked on, downloading the stuff my staff worked on and researching for my thesis. But here I am. I left the stuff I worked on in the laptop (forgot to save them in the USB O__o), and my staff have not yet uploaded the stuff they're only about to start working on, and I'm too lazy to research. I haven't done any of the academic things I promised myself I would accomplish over the break. But that's pretty much enough ranting.

Merry Christmas. :)

I spent my Christmas at home. Went to hear mass in the morning, slept before lunch, and we all opened gifts by 3pm. I got a number of gifts, they're fine. Nothing I really really wanted, I didn't really want anything anyway. I like the bags I got though. I notice I have a thing for bags. Just a small thing.

Anya is six. She can already read! I've retired as the "elf" during Christmas day (a role I've been playing until I was 20..) because finally the smallest in our family can read. She's taken over as the person who reads the cards on every gift and gives it to the corresponding person. She doesn't like the job, she gets bored, but she'll get used to it. She some little girl. A little bossy, and a little spoiled. It worries me. I hope she grows out of it.

It's times like these when I can't help but ask where I will stand in life when the next Christmas comes. What pages will flip, whose backs will turn, which chapters will end. I worry. There are things I am unsure of in the coming year, I'm not sure if I am strong enough to handle what will come. I just resign myself to the fact that if I get through the difficult things, and get to the pot of gold at the end, I must deserve it. I think I put it the wrong way. I probably deserve the things that I will get. Put yet another way, I must earn the things I want.

I'm particularly anxious for the New Year. Something new happening this year. I mean, this new year. I hope there are a lot of fireworks in Marikina so that we'll have a good time. Fireworks are always a treat.

There are only three things I want for the new year.

Happy New Year!