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Posted January 04, 2009 01:20:00
MANILA, Philippines—In this enchanting cranny of Antipolo’s rolling hills, visitors are transported to a different time and place, where one becomes a child again, it is Christmas every day, and Santa Claus is, quite literally, everywhere.
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Posted December 27, 2008 22:11:00
MANILA, Philippines—Decking the halls and rooms with Christmas decor is a sacred tradition at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, with its spruced-up building on Roxas Boulevard a sure Yuletide eye-catcher.
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Posted December 25, 2008 22:11:00
I simply wish for happiness. For as long as you have happiness, everything will follow: love, peace, joy. Every year, I also wish that my family stays together. Every Christmas, we hang out at home, eating from morning to night. I’m still far from owning my dream home—a glass house in Antipolo. I’m saving up for it.
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Posted December 24, 2008 17:41:00
WHO would care to read the papers on Christmas Day? Still, write we must even while the un-Christmas noise out there threatens to drown out the silence in our souls. We hang on to the silent music deep down and refuse to be overwhelmed by the glitter and the excess.
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Posted December 24, 2008 16:14:00
LONDON—I’m dressed as if for Siberian outing. The cold winter’s night was deep, leaving hoar on the ground, frost melting on leafless branches dancing gaily against a naked sky. The winter solstice is nigh, and Christmas, too.
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