As a side note, its really Christmas now here in Tanauan. Houses have started lighting their Christmas lights at night and the Christmas tiangge (bazaar like stalls/stores) have been sprouting in our place. I still have a few weeks left to think of good Christmas gifts for my family and friends. I’m thinking I’ll bake some goodies and just give those as gifts. I’d have to give some of them slimming pills because my sweets can be fattening. Don’t ask me how I know.

On a lighter note, I’ve been trying to create or visualize my dream house. Some say it helps greatly if we visualize what we want so I’ve been doing that and I really think it works. Promise.

That’s one of my dream patio sets. I never really had a large outdoor area in the houses we lived in so when I get my dream house, I want a large outdoor area. I’d love to live near a lake but if that’s not feasible, a pool would be fine. Then a vast garden which will house large old trees and beautiful flowers that bloom at different intervals of the year so that we’ll have blooms all year round. Plus a hammock and a waterfall. I’m still working on the details but jotting them down here makes it easier for me to visualize it more and add new ideas.

Maybe I’ll opt for kickboxing. That’s how Judy-Ann lost her weight, right?

Maybe their just building anticipation for the viewers, maybe its a psychological tactic to get more people to watch the fight or maybe not. Lol.

Its quite fun to watch although its a little bit disturbing especially when some messages circulated around the internet and text messages after Manny’s last fight. Someone mentioned that every time Pacquiao has a fight and wins it, someone well-known in our country dies. It might simply be a coincidence but its eerie nonetheless. Made me remember the movie my sister and I watched earlier on HBO. I think the title is “Stay Alive” because it was the game the characters in the movie were playing. It was really eerie because the gamers were dying in reality the same way they died on the game. Oh well, good thing I watched it in daytime.

By the way, talking about Pacquiao made me remember General Santos and the canned tuna and wildfang we were given last Christmas. I loved them although its quite disappointing that they are not sold in the country because they are exclusively for export in the UK as well as Denmark (or was it Norway). The tuna one was preserved in sunflower oil, the wildfang one I forgot. Seriously, they’re delicious. I’d really buy them if they were available on the local market.