Christmas at Home
Well, a lot has happened in the past week. I finally went home to visit last week. I believe it was 12/16 or so. Anyhow, everytime I go home it seems that everything was smaller than I remembered it. Oddly enough, the more time I spend at home, the more things "grow" back to normal size.
For example, when I first arrived at Mom and Dad's place the first thing i noticed was how low all the counters were. Then I noticed how low all the sinks and chairs were, and then how low all the door knobs were, and how low all the doorways were. The streets seemed to be narrower and the blocks seemed to be shorter. But over the course of a week, everything seemed to slowly 'grow' back to normal: by the time I left the counter tops weren't as low, anymore. Nor were the door knobs or doorways. I don't think I shrank in that period of time.
Goh thinks I'm probably more accustomed to how big things are out here in the mid-west. Possibly.
In any case, it was good to see all my brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, friends and relatives, again. I can't believe how much my nephews and nieces have grown. They're the only things that seem to get bigger and bigger each time I visit home, unlike everything else.
Opening gifts was always an impressive spectacle: 15 people randomly tearing open gifts and boxes until Goh's living room was nothing but a sea of moving wrapping paper being torn open and scrunched in to balls accompanied by the cacophony of rustling paper and 15 people speaking all at once . And of course there was the occaisional camera flash every 10 seconds. In the middle of all that, Quinn managed to actually converse with a few people over my cel phone.
Eventually, the chaos and excitement came to an end. The presents were randomly placed all over the living room and people went back to their activities immediately preceding the ritual: for the adults, it was hanging out in the living room and for the kids, it was playing video games. That lasted for another 30 minutes or so before people started going home.
Eventually, by 10pm the night's festivities came to an end. We all said our good-byes and parted once, again. Another Christmas Eve had come an gone just as the year had.
For example, when I first arrived at Mom and Dad's place the first thing i noticed was how low all the counters were. Then I noticed how low all the sinks and chairs were, and then how low all the door knobs were, and how low all the doorways were. The streets seemed to be narrower and the blocks seemed to be shorter. But over the course of a week, everything seemed to slowly 'grow' back to normal: by the time I left the counter tops weren't as low, anymore. Nor were the door knobs or doorways. I don't think I shrank in that period of time.
Goh thinks I'm probably more accustomed to how big things are out here in the mid-west. Possibly.
In any case, it was good to see all my brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, friends and relatives, again. I can't believe how much my nephews and nieces have grown. They're the only things that seem to get bigger and bigger each time I visit home, unlike everything else.
Opening gifts was always an impressive spectacle: 15 people randomly tearing open gifts and boxes until Goh's living room was nothing but a sea of moving wrapping paper being torn open and scrunched in to balls accompanied by the cacophony of rustling paper and 15 people speaking all at once . And of course there was the occaisional camera flash every 10 seconds. In the middle of all that, Quinn managed to actually converse with a few people over my cel phone.
Eventually, the chaos and excitement came to an end. The presents were randomly placed all over the living room and people went back to their activities immediately preceding the ritual: for the adults, it was hanging out in the living room and for the kids, it was playing video games. That lasted for another 30 minutes or so before people started going home.
Eventually, by 10pm the night's festivities came to an end. We all said our good-byes and parted once, again. Another Christmas Eve had come an gone just as the year had.
posted by V-Hume at 11:25 PM
2 Comments:
that was funny. i think the best present opening was when i buried nicole in all the wrapping paper in christmas 2002.
That sounds hilarious! Too bad I wasn't there. Anyone catch it on film? Hey Wei, I'll kick your butt on 2K6 when I come over, again.
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