Things I Love About Christmas

Twenty more days until we celebrate one of the most awaited time of the year. I seriously can’t believe we’re almost welcoming another year. Time really flies so fast; I didn’t even notice.

  • Christmas cold breeze. I am waiting for this since BER months. But here in Philippines, we got to feel it just few weeks or days ago. It makes me feel that really Christmas is just few sleeps away. I got the chance to wear sweater, to enjoy my bed (though I’m having a hard time to wake up early because the cold makes me want to stay in bed all day long and I have early schedule for school), to sip hot chocolate drink during early mornings and before I go to bed.

  • Christmas tree. TBH, we don’t have one at home. So, I get envy whenever I see one. I love Christmas trees which are tall, fully decorated with lights and Christmas decors. I want something like white Christmas tree because the green one is so usual, right? Just for a change.

christmas tree

  • Christmas decors. They make me say “Aww! They’re so cute!” With all that unique colors for this season. You know, more than the green and red color schemes.

christmas decor

  • Christmas lights. People during Christmas tend to be very creative and chivalrous to spend much for decorations. From decorating their Christmas tree to decorating their home inside and out. They won’t mind about the electric bill, the effort they exerted for as long as they can show everybody how they prepared for the holiday. I love seeing those kind of lights. :)

christmas lights

  • Christmas lanterns AKA parol. This is what Filipinos are known for (or so I thought); making colorful, artsy, top of the line Christmas lanterns. These are made from dyed mother of pearl then shaped into a star or any unique pattern and of course being lit up at night which make the night bright. These lanterns are quite expensive though.

christmas lantern

  • Christmas carolers. Kids here (even adults!) are starting to serenade us (though it should start on the 16th yet). They sing the usual Christmas songs and we give them five bucks after finishing it. But sometimes we don’t. LOL.

So I guess that’s all for a new list? XD

    • Car
    • December 5th, 2009 11:21pm

    Hahaa it was great. My friend’s mum did all my make-up and we all had a really good time.

    In England most people have a Christmas tree of some size. We have one that goes nearly to the ceiling and we put loads of Indian baubles on it that we’ve had for years. Hehe.

    I love seeing all the Christmas lights that people put up – especially all the ones in town or in the city. Some people make such an effort – must cost them loads for all the electricity!

    • Vito
    • December 5th, 2009 11:48pm

    I love the cold breeze because you have to use a hot shower if you want to for taking a bath. I find a Christmas tree as part of Christmas decors. Also, the parol. I made one when I was in Grade Six and it was hanged in our school. I was so proud of it. I get pissed to Christmas Carolers sometimes. It’s like there’s this group of carolers then after 10 seconds, there will be a new group of carolers.

    I can’t wait for Christmas!

    • Emma
    • December 6th, 2009 12:36am

    Lol no problem. Twitter is getting boring, so I thought I’d follow some new people :)

    I was given antibiotics and cream by the doctor and it’s almost gone! Apparently it’s just caused by bacteria getting into an open wound. So the tiniest little spot or scratch on my face could have let it in, yuck.

    I’m excited about Christmas, mostly because I have time off work, oh and the food! Nothing beats a big Christmas dinner :D

  1. grabe nga, parang ambilis talaga ng panahon. Imagine, 1 year na naman ang nakalipas.
    Totoo yan, itong season talaga ang inaantay ng lahat. Maaga nga ngaun lumamig e, ang hirap na naman bumangon sa umaga at maligo ng walang mainit na tubig.. haha

  2. hi april.. thanks for the comment sweetie..
    aww.. i love the first picture with a white christmas tree.
    merry christmas in advance april!

  3. Lmao a competition for hangers? Dayum, sounds intense.

    We’ve definitely been getting that Christmas cold breeze here. Although, I’m disappointed because we still don’t have any snow. D: Fail. I hope it comes soon.

    Woo, I finished decorating our Christmas tree last weekend, or was it the weekend before? I can’t even remember. The picture looks soooo pretty! I love that tree, it looks so colorful and full of life. :D Sucks that you guys don’t have one at home though. :( Ngaw.

    HOLY SHOOT. That house with all those lights must be taking up the electricity power for the entire fucking city! Woooow. That’s amazing hehe. I love staring at all the festive houses as well. We put up some lights on our house, but they aren’t that great. :P Just ordinary, nothing special like the lights in that pic. :O

    Ooooh, the tradition of putting up Christmas lanterns isn’t too popular here, but I wish it was. They’re gorgeous. The patterns are really eyecatching.

    LOL. I wish we got Christmas carolers, but no one in our neighborhood does that kind of thing. How depressing. Maybe I should start, and go singing to all the houses down my street, WOO.

  4. I LOVE THE FIRST ONE! I first noticed this on December 1 i think or 2 when I suddenly said, Hey how come it’s so cold here in the shower XD XD haha! I do love the bathroom, it’s a place full of realizations! hehe

    I love the pics you posted! Man, I miss having parols and decorating our classrooms back in high school! I’ll show some pics when I make a new post! :D hehee

    Man now I feel the spirit :D

    • Kate
    • December 6th, 2009 5:56am

    You are welcome. :) Yes I want them to. But I’m not going to get laptop tough. I would love too, but I don’t have enough money for one. And by the way the font is called “Learning Curve Dashed”. I also love Christmas tree,decor and lights :)

  5. same here sis. We don’t have Christmas tree. haha
    It’s getting cold already I can’t wait to see Santa for Christmas. haha

    btw, linked you. :)

  6. Waah. Same here. One of the things I like about Christmas is the cold weather. I don’t even want to wake up early and go to school because slumping on my bed is way better. :P

    I want to have a white or pink Christmas tree too! But what we have here is the green one. XD And yes, I love Christmas decors and lights. I love how colorful the city is when it’s Christmas.

    LOL at the kids. Even when it’s still October or November they’d start carolling.

    Awww, haha. *giggles as well*

    Yeah, I lost it by accident. :(

  7. Opera is pretty good – it’s pretty fast and cool.

    Yes, lifts can undergo stress as well. :P I don’t think any of the things to do in a lift are shocking though, they’re just funny things like sitting down or standing there and never getting off, or shouting out random things. They’re more funny than shocking.

    It’s always summer here when it’s Christmas. Fat chance we’d get any sort of breeze! But I know what you mean by having cold mornings, and not wanting to get out of bed because it’s so cold.

    I haven’t ever seen a white Christmas tree but that would be nice for a change! I get bored of seeing ordinary green ones.

    My family is huge on decorations. My mum picks out the most amazing ones and we have so many boxes of them, you can barely see our tree when all the decorations are on it.

  8. Ohhh. I love all the pics you posted. Those kind of things make me feel that it’s really Christmas season! :)

    We do have a Christmas tree but mom is so lazy to put it up so my sisters and I were the ones who arranged it. :) It looks nicer with gifts under it. HAHAH. :D We have lesser lights this year compared to the other year, though. :D

    I love it when we pass by a light-filled house at night. I wonder how much would Meralco charge them. HAHAHA. :D

    For some reasons, I havent encountered carolers yet this year. I wonder why. :))

    • gail
    • December 6th, 2009 4:58pm

    yay. I love christmas. :D And you got it! I love the cold season. :)

    • Aly
    • December 6th, 2009 8:29pm

    I love all those things about Christmas too! (Though with the exception of the Christmas lanterns, since I’ve never actually seen them before…but they look awesome in the picture!). That house decorated with the lights looks amazing too; I can only imagine how much their electricity bill would skyrocket in December! Yikes. Ah well, at least it’s a pretty show for the neighbours, hehe.

    Oh, and I love that white Christmas tree! All those brightly coloured decorations make me think of candy or something, lol. (And those novelty cushions on the couch are certainly not helping! haha).

    Anyway, it sounds like you’re really into the Christmas season right now, hope you keep enjoying the festivities right up till the big day! Your excited mood is very contagious! :)

  9. I love the Christmas breeze. I prefer Winter over Summer even if I do moan that I’m cold. I just love warming up in the shower, or in my bed with my heated blanket. XD

    We have a Christmas tree but it’s rather pathetic. It’s just a fiberoptic one which is rather pants. It does look pretty but I’d love to decorate a really big one.

    Oh Christmas lights and decorations are just beautiful. My mum goes overboard with lights but it looks so pretty! I love those lights in the picture, I wish we had something like that here.

    I’ve never seen Christmas lanterns before haha, is that sad?! :P

  10. i love… christmas photography of ornaments and whatnot !! SO PRETTY !! really makes me want a good camera for christmas haha.

    i just love love love christmas lights. i never realized how much i loved them until this year !

    • TJ
    • December 7th, 2009 5:02am

    I really like that christmas tree, i thought it was yours at first lmfao.. opps haha but you should copy that room, it looks chic lol. And i love all those lights. Theres this one guy who lives on our block who decorates all out and his neightbor is now competiting with him. lol andd we dnt get christmas carolers:(

    So yea both Ben’s, i talk to them regularly and hoping the blog would get them back to the web desiging world.. well maybe -_- it hasn’t worked so far. =/

    and YES a boyfranddd:) haha i have a guy in mind though i think hes in love with this other girl and this other girl might like him…. but he isn’t even one of the “popular ones” damn nice ones=/ lol

    and yea lets be affie/friends:) haha

  11. I also love Christmas decorations, even though I don’t have many at my place. My parents have though so if I want a Christmas overdose I just have to go there. XD

    I think the way people decorate their houses with lights is wonderful! Here in Sweden people aren’t as over the top as in USA for example. I wish they were! :D

    • Kayt
    • December 7th, 2009 8:22am

    yeah i know, so annoying! Oh well, no more for her lol. I never took the classes before, and I need them for my college program. I thought taking this upgrading thing for a chemistry credit would be easier and faster.. well, its faster but not easier lol.

    I’m in no hurry for christmas, I’m not even excited one bit. Just excited to spend time with my family lol. I love looking at all the decorations though :D so pretty. I love fixed up homes, we always take a ride around and look at them lol

  12. Thanks! Yeah, I remember when I didn’t take pills. I was happy too, now it sucks, but they help a lot.

    Those pictures are so pretty. I love the first room/tree, how pretty (:

  13. Cool,Christmas List! I love Christmas Breeze but not when i’m showering at 4am -_- XD
    We had already setup our Christmas Tree and Christmas Lights so when it’s already dark outside,we’d turn them on and our house is bright with them XD

    Nah,it’s cool. My family and I almost never have the chance to go out and hangout at amusement parks XD

  14. I hope christmas will be more fun for everyone of us. Let us always remember those people that are less fortunate. Let us pray that they will be happy.

    Oh sis,sori now lng nakadalaw ulit.Hai busy. Anyway, added u on twitter. Follow me bck. Twitter.com/superjeniffer08

  15. Yeah I don’t really like fathers like that too.. but I proved him that I can do better because I got three tests back on Friday; two 9′s and an 11 :)

    Woah, Christmas is just the best time of the year for sure! I love it a lot :)

    I love all those things up there too! An those purple christmas balls are looking freaking awesome! Mum bought some golden ones again this year.. kinda boring. But at least the lights for the tree are in different colors :)

    That white tree looks freaking awesome! I think I should get one like that when I live in my own for sure xD

    I love it when the city is looking all nice and the houses too, because of those lights!

  16. Christmas cold breeze + hot chocolate + good book / nice movie = PERFECT :)

    I find pink Christmas decors cute and I don’t know why. :))

  17. I love the winter chill, but I hate having to be out in it, lol. The good thing about it is getting to stay inside and stay warm. :D

    I love the Christmas decorations too. Something about Christmas lights just make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. White trees are very elegant looking. My tree is definitely fun, it’s purple! Way better than the usual green.

    But the best part about the Christmas season to me is eggnog. I love that stuff.

    • Cat
    • December 8th, 2009 5:04am

    I agree on the cold breeze one. It feels so good in bed, but it’s so hard to get out of it! I like the look of white Christmas trees too. I think they’re so pretty, though my parents put up a green one each year.

    Wow, the house with the lights you posted is crazy! That’s so many lights XD We do a few sometimes, but we’re usually too lazy to put them up outside.

    Something else I like about Christmas is all the shopping! I like trying to think of the perfect gift for people.

  18. Exactly, I think that’s why our teacher signed us up to do it.
    Talent? Hardly, I can’t draw for shit. You should see some kids in my class. They draw anime and real life people like you wouldn’t believe. It’s insanely good. Then there are people like me, who draw arms coming out of their butt on the first attempt. XD

    Rainbows are happy things, like puppies, clouds, kittens, lol.

    Ooohh,, yeah that is a good thing about Christmas. Drinking hot chocolate. Yumm…

    Christmas can be so beautiful, so picturesque. The lights and colours. Very pretty pictures.

    Lol, that is so cute! I love the little decoration!

    We don’t get caroler’s, because we stink. Boo!

    You forgot Winter gives you an excuse to go on the computer all day, lol. XD

  19. I love love love the cold weather too. I much rather it be cold than hot, but then again when it’s hot I like that too… but the cold is always nice. (did that sentence even make sense? :?) I love wearing sweaters, and staying in bed in the morning (luckily I’m not going to school right now, and although I still have to wake up early for personal reasons, I get to stay in bed a few minutes later than I would if I were going to school) I love when it snows!!

    Wow, I would love to have a white Christmas tree! I love Christmas decorations, they make me really get in the spirit!

    I love looking at lights too. I was watching this show in TV the other day about the people with the most Christmas lights, it was amazing and so pretty! We only have Christmas lights on our windows and on the Christmas tree.

    The Christmas carolers are also one of my favorite parts, although we don’t really see them often here…

    Have a great day!

  20. I love everything about christmas, it’s awesome :D The cold chill, hot chocolate, the snow….everything! It’s beautiful and everything :D

    • milu
    • December 9th, 2009 5:34am

    I love xmas too…and i cant believe we are almost 2010 , is true times flies ^^
    but my favorite seasion is xmas ^^
    the pictures are adorable , but in my city (Lima) dont have never snow even in winter heheh so sometimes i envy hehehe

  21. Hi ate April oka na po yung link mo sa footer ko ^^ merry Christmas sayo

  22. AY sobra!! I love Christmas! I love everything about Christmas. I don’t get it why some people hates Christmas. =/ Weird talaga.

    Yeah, pansin mo? Lumalamig na no? Eeehh! We get to wear sweaters na rin! Haha. Lagi na lang kasing HOT dito. Err =/

    Christmas is love talaga! :)

  23. I love Christmas Carols, they are the one thing that make me feel truly festive. I cannot believe Christmas is so soon, it actually scares me.

    • Gel
    • December 11th, 2009 2:19pm

    We don’t have a Christmas tree too at home so you’re not alone, April ;) But there were in the past years that we set it up. This year it looks like we won’t be putting it up though.

    What I always look forward during the Christmas seasons are the red cups from Starbucks! Lovelovelove the toffee nut frappe there!

  24. Christmas is really really near. Those christmas lights during nights. I really like it. The cold weather, and sleeping =)) HAHAHA. Yeah ate it is so near na nga. Merry Christmas in advance~

    • Isi
    • December 12th, 2009 7:50pm

    Aww I hope your room gets clean too. :D I am soo loving mine right now. :D I’m also having a hard time keeping it clean lol.

    Aww those trees are soo gorgeous!!!!!! I love Christmas!!!!!!!
    Wow I wish my house was decorated like that for Christmas!!!
    It’s soo pretty and joyful. :D

  25. Weee! I love the pictures you’ve posted! They look good! HEHEHE…

    I (also) can’t believe it’s Christmas already! Aww.. Parang kelan lang, namamasko pa ako! :D

    Hmmm. Pati adults? LOL. Sa min walang ganyan. T___T Hahaha. Super excited ang mga carolers…

    I love Christmas… and everything you’ve mentioned above! It’s just the perfet holiday for everyone, whatever your status is… It’s happy. It’s blissful! :D

    Merry Christmas (in advance)!

  26. I agree with all of your loves :’) Mostly all the decorations, spirit, tree’s, lights ^_^ ! Anddd… the food! Yum, I love Christmas food.
    The pictures you posted are like, amazing :O :)

  27. No the cover on Lula is not a hard one.

    I love the list. I can’t wait for Christmas. We even got snow here:)

  28. Very nice! I hope I could decorated my room like that but I’d have it red, pink and white, no greens (points at the first and second picture).

    Those christmas lights are also… WOW! If only I could spend a lot on my electric bill, I’d decorated my house with lights that way also.

    Happy Holidays everyone! =D

  29. I, too, can feel Christmas is coming. :) It’s so exciting! I can’t wait. Goodbye 2009 and Hello 2010. :)

  30. We dont celebrate christmas on our religion pero I really love ber months cause of the cold weather and parang araw araw hindi nawawalan ng tao sa kalsada.haha..

    Belated Merry Christmas and Advanced Happy New Year :D

    link ex po tayo?ill add your link na :D

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