it is accomplished!

I’m significantly poorer but loads happier that I was able to buy gifts for people today. I have officially finished my Christmas shopping. Places I went to include a small bazaar in the Petron gas station on the way to Mt. Makiling, the Ayala Alabang Cuenca bazaar as well as the Alabang Town Center.

I was planning to be a bit Scrooge-ey this Christmas but as Tyke said, “It’s Christmas, everyone deserves a gift, no matter how small!”

Now I’m going to apply my amateur gift wrapping skills. I sucked at arts and crafts back in grade school.

Speaking of gifts, one of the nicer ones I’ve received was from the Nokia people – they usually give next-year planners + something else. Last year, I got a really elegant Nokia bag that was a perfect fit for my iBook.

Now this year, the something else proved to be a 128MB Nokia USB thumb drive:

Here’s the Nokia bag I was talking about: