What’s the best way to spend the holidays?

This post is inspired by Mica’s This is my December – Excited and Thankful post which I just read this morning.

Gifts, parties, food, these don’t excite me much during the Christmas season. There’s more to Christmas than the tangible things we see, touch and hear. There’s more to Christmas than the glittering lights of every building, the grandiose setup of Christmas trees, the lines of parols on the street and the Christmas songs looping on our play lists.  Christmas, for me, is about being happy, appreciating life, thanking everyone, thanking God for the blessings, and showing love to everyone around you. Cliché but true.

Christmas is the time to discover the real amount of happiness you deserve

I didn’t even start December with the best of luck. A pressing issue just came up at work but it’s not stopping me from still getting the happiness I deserve this season. A language proficiency exam, health issues and other matters try to get me bogged down but I’ll try to deal with them lightly. Again, Christmas should just be about happiness and thanksgiving.

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Conclusions made at the recent Visayas Blogging Summit 2011

I recently attended one of the country’s biggest blogging conferences, the Visayas Blogging Summit 2011 (VBS 2011), held in SM Cebu. I have attended similar events like the iBlog5 (UP Diliman), Visayas Blogging Summit 2010 (SM Iloilo), WordCamp (Manila) and Cebu Blog Camp (Cebu City) but putting biases aside, I think VBS 2011 was, for me, the loudest and best.

I’ve gathered several ideas and conclusions based on what has actually happened during the event and here are some of those:

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A trip to SM Cebu’s Christmas Village of Hope

When it comes to Christmas decors, SM City Cebu always wins compared to Ayala Center Cebu (the two being the major malls in the metro). After attending the Visayas Blogging Summit, I went to meet my parents in Northwing. They’re buying something in SM Appliance Center so I had to stroll around Northwing’s Atrium first by myself.

I noticed the area being busy, the crowd a bit loud and excited. There was good music and food served to a certain enclosed area. The first thing I noticed are the usual grandiosely decorated Christmas trees towering the center portion.  But only a few were taking their photos with the trees. More people were looking on to something much more attention-seeking than the trees. The Christmas Village of Hope.

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