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10:15 PM January 01, 2006

2006!

New Year... so its 2006 already. Somehow, I don't really see or feel any different (not that I really expected much difference anyway). Even the holiday considered Dec 31 wasn't any different from any of all the other 365 days of the past year, save of course the special days like Christmas and Easter, etc. We woke up late, around lunchtime, I spent the day alternating between watching TV and doing some homework on the computer, Bianca studying for some exams, and Bern doing some exercises. Very typical.

We ate food that was left over from the reunion/Christmas party we had on the 30th, and my parents even had to run errands most of the day in preparation for yet another reunion on the 7th. Around evening, we began to watch DVDs, since it's been almost traditional for us to watch movies during New Year's Eve, to stay awake while we wait.

We didn't even bother watching the fireworks outside (although our close proximity with hundreds of other houses and Paskong Pasiklab would have made our view pretty nice) because our next door neighbor was happily polluting the entire street with VERY LOUD fireworks. After several years of living beside them, we've come to realize that they're much more interested in loud fireworks instead of pretty ones. Which is a tragedy for the rest of us in the street. We actually have to close our windows to keep the thick smoke they generate from blackening our furniture. Imagine. -__- Last year we had a slightly better time. We had several packs of sparklers and my sisters and I were happily lighting them, one per each cousin, to see which cousin would die first. Some weird superstitious joke, but it was just for fun and laugh-worthy. ^^

Anyway, for our New Year's Eve snack (medya noche?) we had some pandesal and brought out everything in our fridge that we could eat with pandesal, plus some of the Sapin Sapin we had left from the party on the 30th that i mentioned earlier. We had queso de bola and hot chocolate as well. So although we had a really messy, unprepared for and very-impromptu looking snack, the table looked pretty festive, with all the jars and what not we just grabbed from the ref and piled on the dining table. ^^ Hehehe...

And we haven't been taking pictures lately. Not for Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning, or even New Year's Eve. Which is pretty unusual, but I can confidently say is attributed to the fact that we lost our digicam lately. Big bad stroke of luck. Last year was less festive, except we really took the extra effort to snap some pictures, and currently, that particular batch is one of my favorite cellphone pics. Except the cellphone isn't mine cause my cell is still MMs INcompatible.

And although last year I was pretty sure what I wanted to achieve, and therefore pretty sure about my '05 resolution, this year just draws a blank. I dunno what I want to do and thus I don't know if I'll be able to even come up with a decent and feasible resolution. Hmm... Last year was the first time I actually kept a resolution, and I'm still pretty hooked on the idea. *isip isip*

Plus, I've run out of load several days ago, which caused my lack of text responses to the greetings I've recieved for the past holidays. Sorry guys! The timing sucks, I know, and I'm really pissed myself at the inability to reply, especially when some people send really nice messages. ;_;

And I was able to catch Detective Conan on Animax, which was part of it's new year's special, I think. I like that show. It's better than that other washed up detective show with a crossed-eyed looking protagonist that I'd rather not mention.

And my cousins, sisters and I tried a Magic Sing in the last reunion. I barely summoned enough courage to finish a single song. I scored the lowest at 71, while Bern scored the highest at 97, followed by Bianca at 96. Imagine. And this Magic sing is super sensitive. It actually marks wrong notes with red, missed notes in green, late notes in blue and right notes in black. It was very sensitive and accurate. It was amazing. You even have to adjust the key if you want to sing it either higher or lower than what the original should be. It was tough. ^^

BTW, have I mentioned that I have a really bad cough?

And I have class tomorrow, sad. I have to go fix my school stuff then finish up my accumulated homework.

come fly ~ gen