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Family traditions are family traditions.  That’s why even if I am on my first New Year’s celebration away from home; I still forced myself to overcome my laziness (hey, it’s still Christmas break and I am entitled to being lazy) and went to the supermarket this afternoon to buy 12 kinds of fruits and other stuff to usher in the new year.  When I got to the supermarket, I realized that it’s not only me who is preparing for tonight (I thought Thais celebrate New Year in April during the oh-so-famous Songkhran Festival), there were a lot of people doing their last minute buys.  I even saw David, my department head, following a line to the cashier’s! 

As always, I ended up buying more than the stuff that I was planning to buy.  It’s a good thing that TOPS Supermarket offers free home delivery for purchases beyond 1,000 baht.

And when I got home, I tackled the house cleaning and then arranged the fruits in the fruit basket and offer these for a more bountiful 2009.  Oh, I ended up offering some eggs, too!  And some mint chocolates and cookies! J

Happy new year and all the best for 2009!  The present year is full of learning experiences for me and there wasn’t a dull moment especially during the second half of the year.  I cherish every heartbeat of 2008 and I am as always thankful to God Almighty for my family, aunties, uncles, cousins, friends, colleagues, everyone whose paths crossed mine in any way.  I love life and I love living it, and am thankful for this chance to live it the way I wanted.  Nothing is perfect and that is precisely why life is spectacular!

Hail Mary!

(Originally posted on 31 December 2008)