Christmas Tree, etc.

When she was still a nursing student, Donna and her friends went to spend the night in the house of one of their barkadas in Montalban. Just like Hawaii, the Philippines is home to gecko lizards. These creatures have suction cups on their feet to enable them to go to houses’ ceiling by the lights that attract insects which they feed on. I’m not sure what the circumstances were but a gecko somehow fell and landed on Donna. I was told her scream was heard from miles around.

The other night, she was ready to take a shower when I heard her yell, “Daddy, Daddy there’s a lizard in the shower!!” And yes I am the Daddy around here! So here I come, her knight in shining armor (in this case, it was actually a broom stick) to rescue my damsel in distress. Geckos are pretty quick on their feet but I was able to coax it to hide underneath a dish rag which I immediately scooped up and shook out the window. Problem solved.

We’ve already picked up our fake Christmas tree from SM the other day. It’s still in a box and needs to be assembled and decorated which she intends to do this weekend. It’s a little sad that this is the first Christmas in which we won’t have a fresh tree. I guess we don’t have to worry about watering it, or buying another one next year. Hey, I just realized I like fake trees!

Talk about Christmas, they do play Carols on the radio but only once in a while. I sort of expected more but they’ll probably wait till next month. The city however has started decorating its major streets and highways with lanterns on practically every lamp post. They’re quite nice actually especially at night. And then there are the stalls which seemed to have mushroomed all over the city selling lanterns which the town is nationally famous for.

We have our cable TV but I didn’t bother ordering Pacquiao’s pay per view fight. It’s a good thing because we were quite busy Sunday that we wouldn’t have the time to watch and enjoy it. By the time we took a break, the live fight was over and we just watched the rerun which was still good since he won and I didn’t have to pay for it.

Yesterday Alan called and said he and Neneng wanted to meet us. We went to Neneng’s office PHRENDS, a little tutorial services company in Sindalan. We talked about their son Diego who left for California last month to get married next month and Neneng and Betsy’s upcoming trip to the US to attend the wedding. Afterwards we had dinner at Gerry’s Grill at SM. I ordered my Platter 5 Sushi/Sashimi from Sushi-Ya across the hall.

Today I went to City Hall to pick up the building inspectors for our occupancy permit. It looks like everything is ok. It’s just that they wanted to see an ‘as built electrical plan’ since we had some changes in our breaker panel and we had a generator installed.

I expect the installers to finish with the Georgian bars (these are the white strips glued to the glass – see picture) on the windows today. I also took a picture each of the chico and the two banana trees at the back. Just click on the x on the square box.