This was a draft post suppose to be posted last christmas but only managed to finish just now
It's already December and Orchard Road, as always, glimmers so brightly with all its christmas decorations. Shopping malls are all busy will a lot of shoppers, christmas songs in the background and a long queue of gift-wrapping service. Lucky Plaza, a Filipino lair in Singapore selling products from the philippines, restaurants serving filipino food and of course at this time of the year, all remittance centers are much busier than ever.
During this time of the year, we were one of those Filipinos in Singapore who painstakingly gather and packed things that we seldom use, chocolates, imported canned goods, laundry soap, old and new clothes, new state-of-the-art gadgets, perfumes, toys even toiletries like body wash, toothpast, household and kitchen stuffs which were sold cheaper here in Singapore. And everything were put in one box most commonly known as "Balikbayan Box". Boxes will then be shipped from Singapore to Philippines and from the office in the Philippines, they use vans or trucks to deliver them door-to-door to our family. KCDat or any other door-to-door delivery service providers are like Santa's sleigh with reindeers. They were like the cheaper version of UPS or FedEx. Only it takes two to three weeks before it reaches its destination.
And each time a balikbayan box was delivered at my family's doorstep, they would sms me right away which i would call back instantly and then i will hear shrieks of excitement and numerous thank yous. And I know that at that instant, in their eyes, I'm the real Santa Clause. =)
