First December Holiday Away from Home

I check the last post that I wrote in here, and I thank myself that I have actually put a couple of updates on what I have been doing in this supposedly perkiest month of the year. It’s so ironic to think that it’s that time of the year in the office when the workload is not that many-- for anyone to do some extra things, yet I have never really mustered myself in filling this blog with updates. I mean, come on! It is December. It’s the time of the year when people get a bit lax with the serious stuffs that have pre-occupied them the whole year long-- and in turn get rowdy with all the merry-making activities of the season.

It would of course be a lot better if I were back home, for I’ll sure be getting more kicks to get oh-so jolly for the holidays. I sure missed home and my family whom I prepare the gift-giving practice with, as well as my friends whom I pig out and practically share the lovely season with. But hey, stop the longing. Fact of the matter is, I am in another place, and I ought to do the merry-making in my own independently creative way.

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Dinner with my Sisters ;-)

Now I just want to tell everyone how my current stay here in Seoul has allowed me to create such surprising friendships that I could just hope will last even if fate will someday direct us to paths that won’t let us physically see one another. I mean, I consider this life that I trod now as temporary. I got here with a future that says I will go back to my birth country. But hey, I can never really tell.

I had dinner with wonderful sisters tonight— Lemons, Cha, and Park. The idea sprung from a cancelled dinner that was earlier called by another new friend, Karyn, who unfortunately couldn’t cook dinner for us tonight in her house because she was helping somebody transfer to another place.

I met them tonight at the Exit 2 of Seodaemun station, which will forever be a memorable place for me, for this is where and how I met the sister trio. Okay, a short backgrounder.

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Snowy Christmas Party with Geniuses

It was snowing a great deal when I woke up with a pair of heavy eyes this day, getting ready to meet up with a friend at Itaewon for a Christmas party. I obviously slept late the night before, and my friend has apparently been sending me text messages a few hours before ten in the morning, when I forced myself up.

I then just remembered. A few weeks prior to this, an office colleague shared to me how the first snow of the winter season is a special day that most Korean couples look forward to, for they treat the first great snowfall of the year as THE giant mistletoe where they can “kiss”, and spend such sweet moments together. FINE!

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