Is Christmas over?
Today, I just handed my valet the last of my Christmas gifts, though I had given him an earlier gift last Christmas. I just so appreciated that over the past week or so he has been making it a point to park my car safely and without blocking other cars so he could surrender the key to me before ending his shift at 7 p.m. His explanation was that he didn't want to share responsibility over my car with the nightshift valet. He wanted to be solely responsible for my car, so I had only him to blame in case anything went wrong or missing.
It's been a hectic week, though I've been very happy and so looking forward to the year ahead, which is nothing but promising from this vantage point. Also, it's been quite a hell of a time for reunions with my friend K in town from the Netherlands and my niece Rafa, now two months old, beginning to be more responsive to me.
Last Sunday I spent with old friends in K's ancestral house in Cabuyao, Laguna. Her brother A has really restored it with a twist, with a touch of a spa resort. The bathroom felt like El Nido, but a million times better because it was private.
Tonight, I am heading to Tagaytay, where I will camp for the night at the Discovery Country Suites in preparation for a fashion shoot tomorrow in an old, old house in the old, old town of Taal nearby.
In a week, I will be flying to Boracay with top supermodels Tweetie de Leon Gonzalez, Apples Aberin Sadhwani, Suyenne Chi, and Annette Coronel with a crew of 15 to shoot my cover story for my summer issue. A week later, El Nido here I come!
What a great way to get the year started!
If only I could live my life this way, one step at a time, like a car driving to a place a thousand miles away. Its driver can only see 20 feet or less ahead of him, yet he is confident that 2o feet at a time is all he needs to know that, soon, he will arrive.
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