The world was so excited with the coming of Christmas Day. Preparations for food and gifts were done just to catch-up with the festivities. After Christmas Day, people are now looking forward towards the end of the year and the start of the new year. For the past three years, I've been celebrating Christmas and the coming of the New Year away from my family because I was working on these holidays. This year is no exception. Dec 24th and the 25th were on a Friday and Saturday respectively. The same will also happen for Dec 31st and Jan 1 of 2011 as these are my regular working days.
I was planning to go through these holidays as simple as possible, and I was able to send some christmas greeting cards to my friends and relatives. With the use of the advancement of technology nowadays, I sent christmas cards using online merchants. I went to these greeting cards website, designed my own card using a not-so-old family picture. I let the site mail the cards to my intended recepients in order to save some mailing times. For the rest of my friends and family, I used my social network account in order to greet them.
Since I was in the hospital where I worked, the passing of the Christmas Eve was a quick one. The hospital management provided a special free holiday meal for the night shift staff. On the day itself, I went to hear mass right after my work. I also spent lunch with my parents on that day. Right after lunch, it was my time to hit the bed in preparation for my work that evening. On that evening at work, I tried to monitor the Christmas party of my family back in the Philippines. We used a messenger site in order to transmit voice and video content over the internet. Unfortunately, the internet connection where the party was held was very slow. Since my internet connection was fast enough, my video images were clearly viewed at the other end but the video that I got from them were flickering and erratic and the quality of the images were not good. Since I was still working at that time, I decided to hang up the video call and just wait for the pictures to be posted and shared online.
The most important thing though, is that I was able to greet the child Jesus on his birthday and spent a holiday meal with my parents.
To those who were not able to receive my greetings, whether by mail or online, I wish you all the best for this Christmas Season and a prosperous and healthy New Year 2011.
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