BELAT!

My new years day was met with me sitting on a swivel chair with our cat on my lap while i watch Almost Famous. My brother told me that it was 12pm already and so i should move my butt to my Tito's mansyon to sort of eat and talk.

I said  what for? And Shampoo, our cat, looks at me as if to agree.

I celebrated  New Year's dinner with my 2 brothers a little earlier than usual. Around 10pm, i think. We're so hungry and to hell with the clock ticking at 12pm. Just the three of us; the aloof youngest brother, the vain third child and the unica malditang ate. My kuya is i don't where he is and nobody knows his number except Moodrahbel.

My parents drove up to Benguet for New Years  because Poodrahbel hates the noise and the way people celebrate New year. Just the two of them. I told my brothers that that reason is the sub-reason for driving up north. What could be 2 married people doing in a cold cold place like Benguet?Pick strawberries? And mind you, poodrahbel is very malibog. My vain brother, i don't know from what planet he is, just couldn't figure it out. Punyeta, eh di mag sesex sila dun. The brother says that's impossible, they're old. Oh come on!

The New years day is again another family day for us the whole clan--- the Gomez clan. And no, Richard and Lucy weren't there. As usual, my Titas telling my little cousins how fat, thin, big boobed, pimpled, tall each of us were since they last saw us. I think this is the first time i got drunk in a family reunion.

My other Tito played host as he cooked up activities zapped from noontime shows with games like Pinoy Henyo and Pera o Batya (wala kasing bayong that time) etc. He even initiated a dance contest for my small cousins who gyrated to the tune of Choopeta which the usual winner of it was based on how loud the claps and jeers were. These little girls, if they only knew... and where did the sound of claps as barometer of a winner originated from?

My Tito even made paagaw some money to everybody's delight! Of course, me being drunk and seeing crisp 20 peso bills flutter around my head made me so greedy i used my long hands to stretch out the money much to the dismay of my little fat cousins. Belat!

I got almost 1,000 pesos all in all from that paagaw plus the pa-cute factor from my Titos and Titas to give me money though i look like i'm the one who's supposed to give out pamasko na. Thank God I still get money from making pa-cute to my relatives!

Belat!