Santa

Alright, alright - before you hit the comment button, let me say a few words about the picture above.

An officemate of mine here in Warsaw was compiling a list of Christmas traditions from all over the world - these traditions will be published in our local, in-company magazine. She asked me about how Christmas was like in the Philippines and I gladly told her about hearing Christmas Carols over the radio as early as September, about our penchant for going to mass early in the morning ("Simbang Gabi") every day for last 9 days before Christmas, and how we eat food with Spanish names (Jamon, Queso de bola, Paella, Lechon de Leche) on Christmas eve. I also mentioned that although pine trees do not grow naturally back at home, we make do with decorating plastic versions of these trees in our houses.

She then wanted to take a picture of me to publish in the magazine, and I gladly obliged. They did some photoshop "magic," and this is how it turned out. I have no problems with it, though - it looks fine. Really, it does.

I think I should mention at this point that the lady who took my picture and did the photo-editing is the Country VP of our company here in Poland. :)

Here is another picture of Santa that Mav asked me to put here - she somehow thinks that it is related to this blog entry:


See the resemblance? Hehehe...advanced Merry Christmas everyone!