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Sacha Guitry once said, "You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be witty." Oh yes, I'm the great pretender.
(pilot episode: 20 January 2004)

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

An Early Christmas

I swear, my mom and sister know me very well. While I insisted that I didn’t want any pasalubong from them (in my mind I was saying, “Just surprise me!”) from their U.S. trip, they went ahead and bought anyway.

They bought me a pair of casual shoes from Rockport, my favorite brand of non-rubber shoes. Not really in the color or style that I normally go for (I prefer a darker color), but I fell in love with them the moment I tried them on. When my bag was stolen a year ago, I also lost my lip balm; imagine to my surprise that they also bought me Carmex (my friends swear this is the best ever). Just last Sunday I rushed to the mall to buy me a pair of short pants for casual occasions (you know, like the khaki types) because I just realized I had no decent pair of casual shorts (no pleats, of course). Today I have three new pairs of shorts, including one that’s designed just a little, uhm, fey.

Cue in sound effects of studio audience: “Ooooooooooooooooh!”

And the best of all: my mom knows how I hate wearing watches. I don’t like the feel or the smell of the band and the back of the watch when I sweat profusely. And I am bothered by the lighter skin color on my wrist. So imagine to my surprise when I received a Timex watch as pasalubong. But it wasn’t a wristwatch.

Ang cute, ano?

Now I’m almost totally convinced they know about me, hahaha.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

you think they don't?

hindi ba nila alam na may blog ka?

btw, dati binibilhan din ako ng pocketwatch kasi nga ayoko nagsusuot. but once i got ued to having a cell phone, no more need for watches =)

joelmcvie said...

@GBITC: I like to think they actually do. But there's a difference between thinking that they do and knowing that they do.

I actually use my cellphone to check the time. But my cell is a clam-shell type that I need to flip open to check the time. Hassle na, nakakasira pa ng flip cover. So the pocketwatch comes very handy indeed.

Anonymous said...

Kilala ka talaga ng family mo ;)! What a happy feeling, early Xmas presents.

Anonymous said...

the watch is so sexy! shet!