Thin Peruvian Santa was in town on Sunday...bearing gifts from the land of the Incas - translate: my sister KT and her hubby Z just flown in from Peru for their vacation here. And Z the nice Santa has actually lost a lot of weight, and he's proud of it. The happiest ones would be all my children, nephews and nieces as they were showered with lotsa presents from the home-longing happy couple.
The best of all was to see Amir's face lighted up when he got a pair of Spiderman-lit sneakers. His eyes were gleaming with happiness, followed by a trickle of giggles everytime he jumped up and down to trigger the lights on his brand new pair of shoes. I wish I had a video-cam at that moment...that look on his face was priceless...just like that Mastercard advertisement. He wouldn't want to take them off at all!
Aina & Adam also got their dream sneakers. Another pair of Spidey-shoes for Adam and a light purplish-pink Barbie sneakers for the girl...and everybody's eager for our next family trip out to parade their long-awaited gifts from "Mak & Uncle Jack".
Later I lamented to my sister how we were deprived of such gifts when we were that age, even until we went to college - everything was hard-earned. Being in a large family taught us to be responsible and un-selfishly share whatever we got. During those day, when Apak brought home a bag of red-apples or mangoes whenever he came back from an out-stationed trip, we would carefully count the fruits or nicely cut them into little pieces, enough to make everyone felt that they were getting an equal share - hey! 7 siblings for a pack of apples! Can you imagine the pulling and chasing when one felt that his/her share was unfairly divided?
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