New Year away from home

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

My sisters, BIL and Ella arrived from our hometown yesterday. They went home on the 31st to celebrate New Year with our relatives in Kabacan while I was left here to celebrate New Year with Ace and his family. So I missed lechon (roasted whole pig) this new year…for the first time in my life. It has been our tradition to have whole lechon every New Year. I hope next year Ace’ employer will declare no work before and after the New Year or I’ll let Ace take a leave so we could go home. Since I’m used in celebrating New Year with lots of food, lots of fun, lots of fireworks and firecrackers, lots of people (because our clan is so big), I find New Year celebration here quite boring with no fireworks, with just a handful members of Ace’ family, with no videoke and dancing sessions and no LECHON. However, though New Year’s eve and New Year’s day celebrations here are totally different from my hometown, I just find myself enjoying the moment a bit. (more…)