We are three hours away from Christmas in this part of the Gulf. My family including the furbabies would like to wish you a meaningful celebration of this season wherever you are. 
And here’s more, our resident Santa and Christmas bears would like to serenade you with a very jolly song. You’ll notice that Winello is an avid listener!
The happy mess of gift wrapping. Need to triple our time, we started so late.
And thanks to our reliable elves, 9 month-old Winello (he’s a big “boy” now!) and 3-month old Perdita (she loves hiding on that particular gift box under the Christmas tree).
The younger elf is more active, busy with sorting the greeting and post cards.
Knocked out!
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(Imagine Santa Claus waving the flag of the UAE and Philippines.)
I would be flying to Manila in few days and I am glad that I still had a chance to drop by in paskuhan/Christmas bazaar in Philippine Embassy (Abu Dhabi Office). The participating booths include offers and services from real estate companies, professional organizations-Abu Dhabi chapter, those offering livelihood awareness, a shoe company, Filipino restaurants, and more. The atmosphere is very festive with those banderitas and Christmas lanterns. Some of the amusing finds:
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(I liked how Christmas-y the colors of the noodles are.)
In response to invitation from friends, we have tried the dinner buffet in Saffron, Atlantis Hotel in Dubai. While I’ve taken a lot of food photos, I find these (contained in this post) the most appealing at this hour because of the hallucination it brought me.
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(Few days ago I sent the package to my exchange gift partner. I had to posterize this photo just to still keep the mystery. I hope she gets it before reading this post. I hope she will like everything in there, including the stuff which she never asked for especially the three Christmas playlists in the flash disk.)
I was thrilled when I learned that she-who-must-not-be-named is my exchange gift partner for our online kris kringle. (There is no way that she looks like Lord Voldermort; I am certain about that even though I have no idea at all what she actually is, except that I know the size of her feet, shoulder, even her brain and heart, i.e. she is smart and caring.) I thought that it would be easy to tick off the items from her wish list. But unfortunately, some items do not exist in my region and/or not possible at the moment. This got me thinking about my own wish list, which I thought would be workable.
Gift-giving is exciting for so many reasons . Personally, it is special because the entire process allows us to share a part of ourselves. From the time we thought about the person, to scouting the gift, to finding the alternate, and all that. At the end of the day, we are giving this person the gift of time. Whether we are working on a wish list or not, the process of picking the pieces of the puzzle is a wonderful experience. Since we are looking at things from different perspectives, we might think that an alternate piece or angle would be better. Truth be told, in this life, we will always receive something which we do least expect. Something which we never ever thought we would wish for. In this case, from someone at the other side of the globe whom we probably never had shared coffee talks yet, face to face.
At the end of the day, the old cliche will always be true, it is the thought that counts. This goes for my other exchange gift partner who might have had so much trouble in finding my Starwars chopsticks and other stuff. The gift of time is more than enough.
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