While grocery shopping at Royal this week, Christmas carols played in the background. I got a chuckle from hearing “Let it Snow,” knowing it never snows in the Philippines. And then the very next song was “Winter Wonderland.” Yeah, right. At least it ain’t raining.
Braving the winter solstice, we made our way out to Baloy Beach.
So, that covers the day before the day before Christmas. Let’s do Christmas Eve now.
The Wednesday Walkers traveled all the way out to San Antonio to see some different terrain.
We finished our hike back at the FRA after a 7K jaunt.
And now it’s Christmas. Not my favorite time of the year, to be honest. I seem to miss the life I left behind, and my current estrangement from family is harder to ignore. Welp, this is the life I chose, and I guess loneliness comes with living on the other side of the world.
On to May 2016 in the LTG archives, and here’s another pictorial post of a weekend in my Seoul life. I miss the good ol’ days.
For today’s YouTube video, we check in with the Filipina Pea for her take on the pitfalls of choosing the wrong country to live in after marrying a Filipina. I’ve heard the horror stories before, but it should be common sense. You’re old and invisible to the women back home, so you come to the PI and find a beauty twenty (or more) years younger than you. The best part is she thinks you are amazing (and rich). You can share a happy life here, and she’ll be content with the man she married. Take her back to your homeland, and she’ll soon see how much better she can do, and it won’t be long until you are replaced by someone younger, hotter, and richer. That’s life.
Let’s get into the holiday spirit:
Maybe I’ll do better in the new year. Going to spend some time with my neighbor and high school alumnus, Mike, this afternoon, and enjoy the Christmas dinner he prepared. We’ll see where things go from there.
While grocery shopping at Royal this week, Christmas carols played in the background.
Good God, errors even on Christmas!
So according to the above sentence, Christmas carols were grocery shopping. I’ll give you an elf to slaughter and eat as elf-lechon if you can name the error in question. Here’s a hint: da_________ mo_________ .
A real Christmas miracle would be an error-free post!
And while I’m at it:
Going to spend some time with my neighbor and high school alumnus, Mike, this afternoon, and enjoy the Christmas dinner he prepared.
You’ve got a comma before the “and enjoy,” which interrupts a compound predicate, but the parenthetical commas around “Mike” make it awkward to just remove the comma in front of “and.” Also, calling Mike a “high school alumnus” doesn’t tell me anything about him since most of us are HS alumni. The important thing is that he’s a fellow alumnus, i.e., graduated from the same HS as you.
So I would rewrite the whole sentence as:
Going to spend some time this afternoon with Mike, my neighbor and fellow high school alumnus, and enjoy the Christmas dinner he prepared.
Now the parenthetical commas make sense, and since it’s a pair of commas interrupting the compound predicate, it’s now okay.
Damn… makin’ me work even on Christmas.
Kevin, I gave you the gift of disappointment for Christmas, but it appears you don’t like it. Damn.
I can solve the Wheel of Fortune question without even buying a vowel: dangling modifier.
What I should have said: “Christmas carols were playing in the background while I was grocery shopping at Royal.”
I admittedly struggled with the alumnus sentence, and your rewrite captures perfectly what I was trying to say. It is great to have a volunteer (i.e., unpaid) editor. Thanks for that!
I’ve trussed up your elf. Do you want front-door delivery? A precise airdrop onto your roof? Do you need a spit for roasting?
Kevin, you do the roasting. Then buy a drone to deliver it. Thanks again!