My birthday weekend

I don’t have anything planned out for the first day of my 44th year last Sunday, considering the many restrictions still in place because of the pandemic. For the past couple of years or so, I’d usually go out with my family, friends or treat my nephews somewhere but obviously, that can’t be the case this year. 

Christmas Gift Exchange - Virtual Edition

Another yearly event had to be tweaked because of the pandemic: My friends and I had our annual Christmas wish list revelation via Zoom yesterday evening. 

It’s been our long-time tradition to meet for our Secret Santa event every year since 2011, but planning around it with all these restrictions due to COVID posed a challenge. It’s clear that we’ll have to do away with the eat-out because of the dine-in limitations in place—which was a bummer—when all four of us look forward to these rare times we get to meet up. There’s also that challenge on how to go about with the actual exchange of gifts. 

Cutting Off

There is this post going around on FB where the user has posted a conversation between her and a relative. The auntie (I supposed—coz she said “ante”) messaged the user to lend her P30,000 so she can have a baptismal/birthday party. The user, who was quite gracious considering the reason for the sudden “catch-up”, said that she didn’t have that much and instead offered P10,000. The auntie replied that 10K is only enough for a lechon, so she went on and haggled for 25K.

The user later said that she can lend 13K at most, and even added that she’d no longer ask to pay it back as it would be her gift to the kid who will be baptized. The user politely explained that she also has her own obligations and can only lend her as much. 

Things went south as the aunt started to accuse the user of being selfish and even wished her bad karma in the end for not lending her the amount she wanted. Seriously, I can’t even begin to describe the audacity because you have to read the entire conversation to see it for yourself. 

The surprising part of it all, based on the updates, is how some of the relatives even sided with the aunt.