You get out of bed early and notice your brightly coloured fluffy
bedroom slippers. You get your digital camera and take your first shot
of the day. About to climb down the stairs, you are surprised to find
the huge Christmas tree glittering with Christmas decorations you see
for the first time. Your mom must have gone shopping without you
yesterday. You promise to ask her during breakfast and try to get her to
give you an idea of the Christmas gift you will get tonight.
From
above, the Christmas tree didn't seem so big but nonetheless is
charming with the glitters of changing colours and hues. Without the
lights, its beauty seemed so natural. You want to preserve the wonderful
sight so you get your second shot for the day.
The dining
room/kitchen area is empty. Finding nobody home, you feel alone and
nostalgic. It will be Christmas by midnight tonight and everybody will
celebrate Jesus' birthday. You take another shot. This time, it's the
empty dining table and the kitchen area in the background, a lonely
pre-Christmas scene. You silently eat a cold, light and simple
breakfast.
Half an hour of silence seemed to have renewed you and
you feel ready for the day. You check your calendar and suddenly
remember it was supposed to be a busy day. You want a few things cleared
with your mom before leaving the house but you just have to deal with
it when you get back. A quick shower, a hurried change and makeup, then
you leave the house making sure the door is locked. At the gate, you
take a snapshot of beautiful stray kitten lazily lounging under the
shade of the large round lamp. That is supposed to be your fourth photo
shot for the day.
On your way to the mall, you observe how happy
everybody seems to be. Christmas has that inexplicable cheerful
atmosphere like an inexorable contagion freely floating in the air with a
charm that unfailingly bring smiles to faces of both young and old. You
take many shots in the bus, mostly of surprised joviality from
radiantly smiling faces.
Arriving at the mall, you find your mom
with your friends suddenly remembering last year's agreement amidst the
fun for a repeat of the get-together. Your brother and father will join
you by lunchtime after their pre-Christmas chores at work just like the
year before. It also dawned on you that you haven't yet uploaded last
year's pictures. You will have a lot of photos to upload this year. It
will be like a before-and-after gallery you will do for this year's
pre-Christmas rendezvous as the "official photographer" of the family.
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