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Each family has their dress color theme. A big clan will run out of primary colors. Christmas day is a chance to exchange gifts with family. It takes imagination to make the gifts look valuable. The mother usually comes with a big bag full of gifts. She goes home with a bigger bag with gifts and excess food. The karaoke portion is where everybody gets to sing.  The out-of-tune singers are applauded for bravery and being thick skinned. The excess amount of  alcohol ingested during Christmas day get-together will make the bathroom toilet bowl the most visited place in the house and not the kitchen or the sala. Younger family members will be mixing different alcohols into cocktails. The senior members will be talking about cocktails of prescription medicines. The last man standing in drinking session will be the last man walking out of the Christmas party. Potluck food such as meat dishes, fruit cake, Queso De Bola, ham, macaroni, salads. It is a rich man's feast. A...

"On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me," her wish list or it will be a "Silent Night." The morning news usually announces the Christmas countdown. Another countdown is happening. Will Vice Ganda go on an extended Christmas vacation? There is something worst than amnesia during Christmas day. When it's gift giving time you forgot one gift - for your mother in law. As Christmas nears, puto bungbongs are being cooked in steam pipes. It's like wives nagging  their husbands about their daily holiday drinking spree. Countdown to Christmas is like a time bomb, you don't know what will explode your belly or your arteries. Too many Christmas parties become overwhelming. It reaches to a point like a jail inmate marking Xs on the wall until freedom day. When you go on trip to buy gifts in Divisoria, you might chance upon Isko Moreno who has his own countdown with vendors if they don't tidy up. Every house is stringing Christmas li...

Ever year a committee is formed to plan the office Christmas party. The members are expected to plan the party to be wholesome and fun, except for the parlor games which will surely not pass MTRCB "R" rating. There's no overtime pay during Christmas parties. Only overtime karaoke. The President of the company plays Santa Claus and gives out gifts during the Christmas party.The rest of the year he plays Scrooge. The company's suggestion box will surely be full of suggestions for the former. Each department prepare for their group presentation during Christmas party. They are highly competitive. They should do that more often in actual work. During the Christmas season we only wish well for everybody, except for the Christmas raffle where we wish everybody will get the minor prizes. Employees would say they are not lucky in Christmas party raffle, as long as their lucky in their love life. The usual dress color themes for office Christmas parties are ei...

On December, every Filipino employee is looking forward to the 13th month pay, including creditors & "inaanak." A good magician can never beat an employee with 13th month in his hand - making money disappear instantly. An excellent magician can never beat an employee with 13th month in their hands - disappear in front of creditors and "inaanak." The Christmas wish list is always 10 times longer than the 13th month payslip. The husband explaining to wife the mathematics of the 13th month payslip: 5+5 = 5 January is the hangover month for the 13th month pay. Employees are already eagerly waiting for the 13th month pay on January 1. The usual remark of an employee who waited for the 13th month pay for 12 months and walks a few steps inside a department store - Is that it? The 13th month pay to an employee  is like a fireman trying to save a burning house. Like the miracle of multiplying the bread in the Bible, the miracle to multiply the 13th mont...

Moving forward in EDSA traffic will take an eternity, unless you travel back in time. Traffic in Manila is getting worse, Jose Rizal would have decided to relocate his monument in Dapitan. Driving a manual transmission car in traffic always give you numbing leg cramps. In no time you will be driving a wheel chair. Driving in Metro Manila using automatic transmission car will put you in the same class with professional tennis players. The tennis elbow class. Motorcycle riders weaving in and out of traffic is one way of saying to car drivers that they are stuck. Traffic light in a rotunda just like the one in Taytay is like building a dam that stores water. It's one way to build traffic. Road rage is prevalent during traffic. MMDA should show anger management sessions in digital billboards in EDSA.  Motorist can surely finish one whole session in traffic. Don't get caught in traffic with a bad stomach, the car air freshener won't be of help. The urge to pee in...

There are so many ways to get a ride in Metro Manila.  It's like a buffet but a wrong choice will give you heartburn. Metro Manila commuters are one of the toughest commuters in the world. They are like athletes in contact sports like basketball with its body slamming, swinging elbows and jockeying for position. To win the championship, basketball coaches should include commuting in their training program. Commuters get their daily physical work-out riding in buses, light rail transits and running after jeepneys. They belong to the biggest gym club membership around and its free. They just have to pay the miscellaneous fee - the fare. Because of the long hours in commuting to work and back, commuters lack sleep.  They make the transport that they get into their second bed. They sleep better because they won't be late. Imprisoned felons feel happy when the judge commute their sentence. Commute feels like a sentence to commuters. LRT and MRT commuters standing near tra...

October 31 ushers in All Saints Day and the day of the dead which falls on November 1&2. Trick or treats are held in neighborhoods and offices with parents and kids in tow who are dressed in hideous and scary costumes to harvest bags of candies. Kids and their dentists look forward to this occasion. Hersheys, Kisses and Reeses are top choices. Discrimination is not limited to people it also applies to chocolates. Unbranded chocolate eggs wrapped in tin foil will definitely spend a year in the refrigerator. Parents with money to spare proudly buy pricey eerie costumes that makes heads turn, elicit wows and envy. Other parents surviving on shoe string budgets make do with black colored dress and mom's cheap face powder and lipstick. Zombies and vampires are favorites, but parents put on sloppy make-up on their children.  Pre-schoolers can do a better job. The moms on budget, hope against hope and believe that their little ones will win the first prize pitted against kids ...