Tuesday, December 25, 2007

my first Christmas away from home

minus the carols, the dancing Christmas lights and tintin's barking, i woke up around 10am yesterday, just like in pilipins hehe :-P i did some laundry, cleaned my apartment, met m@i at supaa, bought some grocery items for our mini noche buena and went back to my apaato. around 3pm, m@i and i started cooking (ok cge si m@i nagluto ako naglinis pa ng apartment hehe..) i picked up r0ui3 at the station around 4pm. as i got back to the apartment, i helped m@i and set the table. and here's the end result:
nice noh :-D spag, chicken tempura strips, salad, brownies and the 2950yen cake! (yes, i have to type the price :P) so syempre picture-picture muna bago kain:

so while eating, we watched 1 House Season 3 episode haha, good combination :P (imagine us eating spag while some girl is vomitting blood wahahaha...) chika-chika galore din syempre. after dinner, wiilly joined us :-D hahaha, tanoshikatta! lahat ata kami may "wii-muscles" na hihi... they even created my mii character, hindi ko kamukha! hehe :-P



our noche buena ended around 9pm (kung saan sa pilipins eh nag-uumpisa palang magprepare ang mga tao for midnight kainan :P) i accompanied r0ui3 to the bus station and ria went back to her apartment. m@i continued playing with wiilly hehe :-P i finished cleaning the dishes and the kitchen around 10pm. m@i and i decided to watch papa aga's movie while waiting for 1am (ksi tatawag siya sa pilipins tapos ako magchat with family)

1am came, Merry Christmas Pilipins! our conference voicechat lasted until 3am... it was nice to hear my parents and kuya... kwentuhan galore :)) kung ano-ano lang pinag-uusapan namin hehe... i miss them so much >:D< pero nakakatuwa rin ksi iba't ibang kwento how we celebrate Christmas :-D

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we were supposed to attend the 12nn mass at yotsuya but m@i and i woke up late... not only that we had a chika-conversation early in the morning :)) i also opened her gift for me, it's a gorilla pod!!! weeeeeee.... so joey can be attached anywhere and i can be included in the pictures hehehe :-P we realized 10:30 na so hindi na rin talaga kami aabot sa 12nn mass. so we decided to attend mass at kawasaki...

unfortunately, walang mass sa kawasaki church. toinks! so we decided to attend the 6pm mass at roppongi :-P so while killing time at kawasaki, we decided to "pass-by" Pia Amusement Park. so many UFO catchers O_O end result:
hahaha! adik :-P wala pa sa pic ung isa pang mario figure na nakuha ni m@i at ung totoro key chain hehe... it was fun :-D btw, last sunday, we "passed-by" Sega Amusement Park at Aki... plus 2 snoopy santa stuff toys pa yan (nasa may christmas tree ko ngaun hehe...)

so before we become binboos, we went to roppongi around 3pm. we walked around roppongi hills and ended up getting this: wahahaha! may UFO catcher din sa tv asahi hq ;)) sa lahat ng nakuha ko, eto na ang pinakamahirap at pinaka-"everest"! :-P cguro 1K+ yen ung inabot ko para lang makuha siya (kailangan ko siyang kunin ksi konti na lang talaga, sayang pag may makakuhang iba...) when i finally figured out how to catch it, i was soooo happy =)) as in naka-clamp talaga si doraemon at dahan-dahang dineliver sa pababa :)) priceless ;))

after kong makuha si doraemon, we decided to kill time @ starbucks (oi, sa almost 6mos ko dito sa japan, kanina lang ako nagstarbucks :-P) eto order namin:
2 tall gingerbread latte plus caramel doughnut :-) syempre chika-chika galore kami ni m@i, usap-usap until mag-quarter to 6pm.

at 6pm, i attend His birthday celebration. kahit wala ung usual tagalog Christmas songs, the mass was so uplifting... nice ung homily, nice ung Christmas songs. Joy to the World the Lord is come!^_^

so after the mass, syempre lahat ng birthday celebration dapat may KAINAN :-P m@i and i ate at KAINAN, the pinoy resto at roppongi. we ordered arroz caldo w/ lumpiang toge and hot calamansi juice for drinks ^_^ yummy!!!

may pa-Christmas raffle pa ung resto. a firipin presento was given to us, we both got a native candle holder :-) nice ung kabilang table na puro japs, one got a belen (nativity set) hehehe...

so after dinner, we went home na :-)

it was a simple Christmas celebration but it will forever remain in my heart... and in this blog hehe ^_^

i guess it really doesn't matter where you are as long as you know the true meaning of Christmas... Jesus' birthday ^_^

Merry Christmas! (inom po tayo ng calamansi juice :P hehe)

*more pics at http://raceirolg.multiply.com

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