THE BEST NEW YEAR I COULD EVER WISH FOR

THE BEST NEW YEAR I COULD WISH FOR

So Christmas is fast approaching along with the big 2-0-0-8. Although it seemed like only yesterday when we celebrated the coming of 2007, we just can’t deny the fact that another year has passed. You may be saying “Great, the New Year’s is just another reminder I’m getting older,” but as I always say, do not count the age but count your blessings! Looking back, God has blessed me tremendously through out the whole year and I really am very thankful.
Since New Year’s is almost here, this also means one thing: PAR-TY! I love celebrating Christmas and New Year with friends and family. I love eating at midnight and talking and chatting with friends. And I most certainly love going to bed at almost three in the morning. But sadly enough, the thing I cherish to do the most on New Year’s, I can’t do this year (and I haven’t for the past five years): and that is to be in my hometown with my family and relatives to celebrate Christmas and New Year.
And so I come to the topic of the best New Year I could ever wish for and this is the first one: to celebrate the New Year with family and relatives. The second would be to be in the Philippines. I gotta tell you, the Christmas and New Year here in Thailand is “Pffffffftttt!” *makes boo sign*. It’s plain boring and you just can’t feel the spirit of Christmas or New Year. In the Philippines, we go crazy! Fireworks explode in every (and I mean EVERY) corner of the country. The table of each house is filled with food! Children go outside the house and play with cotton balls in their ears to keep the noise out. Friends and family laugh and sing and light fireworks in the street! *Tear rolls down my eye* Oh man, I miss it! Anyways, another thing I would like for my really perfect New Year ’s Eve is the hamonado and Queso de Bola. Okay, these things are eaten in Christmas, but what the heck? How many days are CHhristmas and New Year apart anyway? So what are these things? Well, hamonado is, as you may have already guessed, ham. It’s sweet, juicy, and each family has one during the end of the year. Queso de Bola is this big humongous piece of cheese that is in the shape of a big humongous ball. Those are the food I want on New Year’s. *Thinking* What other things could make up my perfect New Year? Aha! Though it may be impossible, I want this most precious teeniest tiniest thing that I’ve wanted since I was a kid: snow. Yes, snow. I want to ski on it, ride a sleigh on it, wrestle in it, dance on it, walk on it, run on it, lie on it, slide on it naked (okay, maybe not the last one). It’s been my dream since I was a kid and I really really REALLY want to experience it. Oh yeah, there’s one last thing that would make up a perfect new year’s celebration: A LAPTOP AS A GIFT! Mwahahaha! I hope my mom buys it for me.
Well, that’s the New Year I could wish for, but I can’t have. There is a choice for me to go home during Christmas but I prefer to go home during summer vacation because it’s longer. Anyways, gotta go. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!