Christmas obligations

As the cliche goes "Its not how much you give, but how much love you put into giving".

Bulcrap.

Apart from food, booze and raffle prizes, another thing I am excited about Christmas parties is exchanging gifts! For our monito-monita, one of the guys thought of putting up a WISH LIST.  Just in case you haven't had one of these yet, a wish list is a list (paulit ulit ba? paulit ulit ba?) where you put in stuff you want to receive as gifts.  It was a pretty good idea, since most of us don't want to be hassled with going around SM 300 times just to look for something your monita eventually would hate or already has.  Minimum amount was Php 300.  Some wrote CDs of their favorite band (JM: stalker ng HALE), Shirts with the exact description and BRAND (saktong sakto!) some even put stuff that costs more than Php300! So, what I put on the list was some DVD titles (sabi ko kahit pirated para madami. Hehehe.  300 dibaydybay 50 = 6 DVDs! Panalo!) or a card reader.  Every single day I visit the other IT room, I remind everybody of the stuff I want. 

At the party, I was expecting to go home with any of those two on my bag happily singing "jingle balls".

Have you ever been in a situation where you just have to smile but your lips won’t cooperate?

Karls, if you’re reading this, you are my friend and I love the PILLOW dude, but I can’t sleep on it thinking I should've had the card reader!

But I forgave him (after a few years! Hehehe) because he was on training the whole week and didn’t have the chance to look at the wish list.  (eyes twitching…)  I have to be considerate and all since it’s the Christmas season, the time to forgive. (eyes twitching harder…)

Constant whining has its benefits. 

After days and days of ranting, my wife gave me the damn card reader for Christmas.  Plus the Adidas bag I was expecting her to give me on my birthday.  I am that demanding.  In return, I gave her her own digicam for Christmas.  A Canon A420 so that she won’t borrow mine anymore.  Habit number 4:  Think win-win.

Christmas is the time of giving and with that, it’s the receiving part I like better!