Pinoy Christmas Day Family Reunion
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. After the feast, everyone wants to be a pauper and eat tuyo.
The Christmas Tree is full of gifts before gift-giving. After gift giving the tree will look like it was swarmed clean by locusts.
Carolers are outside the gate singing Christmas songs and awaiting coins. If they noticed that the family members are drunk they will come back and no one will notice what they are doing.
Mountains everywhere are showing signs of denudation. It can also be noticed on the heads of old male members of families during Christmas reunions.
It doesn't snow in the Philippines. But senior members every time they meet during Christmas reunions are like snow capped mountains besides each other.
The family reunion is a chance to be updated on who is still single or engaged. It's the valentines gossip portion on Christmas day.
Skype conversations happen with balikbayan and OFW relatives go online. They are like actors who won't be able to receive their awards in person.
Angpao are distributed to nephews and nieces. Kids with lots of money will either play the role of bankers or drunken sailors.
In the kid's song and dance portion of the Christmas party, where cousins outdo each other and try to make more money. The thick skinned will definitely be richer.
This is the day where continues eating outpaces gossiping.
If there's no coordination among mothers there will be many versions of one dish.
Excess foods after the party disappears instantly. Women skilled in the use of tupperware makes it possible.
Diabetics would rather be in the desert than the hospital. But the biggest temptation are desserts like leche flan, biko, ube and ice cream.
Introducing a new boyfriend or girlfriend every year sparks up betting among cousins.
Kids can develop callouses in the forehead and not on the feet because of doing the "mano-po" the whole day during Christmas renuions.
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. After the feast, everyone wants to be a pauper and eat tuyo.
The Christmas Tree is full of gifts before gift-giving. After gift giving the tree will look like it was swarmed clean by locusts.
Carolers are outside the gate singing Christmas songs and awaiting coins. If they noticed that the family members are drunk they will come back and no one will notice what they are doing.
Mountains everywhere are showing signs of denudation. It can also be noticed on the heads of old male members of families during Christmas reunions.
It doesn't snow in the Philippines. But senior members every time they meet during Christmas reunions are like snow capped mountains besides each other.
The family reunion is a chance to be updated on who is still single or engaged. It's the valentines gossip portion on Christmas day.
Skype conversations happen with balikbayan and OFW relatives go online. They are like actors who won't be able to receive their awards in person.
Angpao are distributed to nephews and nieces. Kids with lots of money will either play the role of bankers or drunken sailors.
In the kid's song and dance portion of the Christmas party, where cousins outdo each other and try to make more money. The thick skinned will definitely be richer.
This is the day where continues eating outpaces gossiping.
If there's no coordination among mothers there will be many versions of one dish.
Excess foods after the party disappears instantly. Women skilled in the use of tupperware makes it possible.
Diabetics would rather be in the desert than the hospital. But the biggest temptation are desserts like leche flan, biko, ube and ice cream.
Introducing a new boyfriend or girlfriend every year sparks up betting among cousins.
Kids can develop callouses in the forehead and not on the feet because of doing the "mano-po" the whole day during Christmas renuions.
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