SHIKIMIKIE: 令和３年

It’s The New Year! It’s a new year. So basically it’s just another week or so of writing the year wrong. Even though we did celebrate the occasion more this time that last year’s, it’s just not enough, I feel like. Maybe it’s just me though. I’m turning almost 30 this year.

We started the celebration on December 24th. I know this is supposed to be a very wholesome/jolly/merry celebration but let me rant for a second. My sister managed to get us a reservation at Sambokojin at West Avenue. It was all good and all or so we thought. Dinner is around 6 and we arrived there around 5. We were early even. There were staff going in and out of the area and one of them approached us and asked the purpose of us being there. So my mom explained that we have a reservation and all but then he told us that they don’t operate the buffet at dinner time and so we were like, then how the hell did we get a reservation? Whose fault is it? It’s not exactly near from where we live so you mean we went there for a reservation that doesn’t exist? I mean, I would have been more aggressive to be honest but for some reason, I kept my cool. Kind of. Ha, it’s Christmas after all. But yeah that happened.

After some time on the road and not finding anywhere to eat, we decided to go to the mall. I mean, I’m not mad but I was mentally prepared to eat sashimi that day so I was generally in a not so good mood but yeah I guess we managed to be somehow done for the day. We ate at Yabu. They had some Christmas decorations going on at the mall so that’s good. It kind of lifted my already dead spirit so that’s good.

The next day we went to Intramuros to attend the Christmas mass presided over by archbishop Brown. He did give a lovely homily so I was happy. One thing he said that I can’t forget is that it’s the things we do on Earth that will get us to heaven. It’s not how he said it exactly of course. Something like the preparation should start here on Earth. Which is true.

The famous place where we took all of our Christmas photos then and now.

We went to the mall after and that’s where we ate lunch.

Come New Year’s eve, mom prepared kind of a lot than the usual. I guess it’s because we didn’t get to celebrate as much because of dad’s passing last year. We had more than what we would have so I was really very happy. Food is life.

We went to the church on the first day of the New Year and everything’s well.

We went to the mall again to eat and we ate at this Japanese restaurant chain and although it would never be as good as it is in Japan, it was okay. One bit less than okay I should say. So there you have it guys that’s how we celebrated the Holiday Season.

Our cake and mom's 12 lucky fruits or whatsoever. Also, I don't know if you've noticed that all pictures here have been retouched and filtered because for some reason, I can't take good pictures anymore so I guess to make this like a slightly better post or just to make it look like its a well thought of post, filter!