1/5/14

I attended a family reunion earlier. It's an annual thing where our clan from my grandmother's side of the family meet up once a year, during the first Sunday of the year specifically. It's not just a small clan, but there are like 600 people from that side of the family. Of course not all of them attend every year but it's amazing how I could have so many relatives. I often come when I'm available even though they're usually boring. I barely know any people there personally aside from my first cousins and close relatives. But it doesn't matter, it's something to keep myself busy and there's always lots of food!

This year, it was held in a school where the reunions has been held in the past couple of years so I'm already quite familiar with the place. The program usually starts with a mass then the lunch, games, etc.

I usually just watch and observe, try to remember familiar faces and just listen to other people's conversations or explore around. This year, it was quite the same. The host of the event decided to keep the celebration simple to cut the budget but the essence and normal activities were still there. Just no fancy prizes, decorations, etc. The host of these reunions actually change every year per family so everyone gets a turn.

In one of the games, my name was included and despite feeling a bit sleepy since I slept late last night, I tried my best to play the game with other random people called to play. 

The game was called Minute To Win It. You may be familiar with it since it was inspired by a reality show. It's a game where we had to accomplish challenges under 1 minute. There were 5 tasks overall. I'm not going to the details much but there were ball shooting, knocking down cups, eating challenge, etc. In the end...we won! Who would have thought! Our prize was a decent amount of money which I certainly needed at this time!

There were also raffle picks called on during the entire time with cash prizes but I never get called anyway. There was also another game which was like a question and answer type of game and even though I got eliminated early, the losing contestants still receive some cash as consolation prizes so that was really nice. I hope games and prizes will be similar in the future so I'll be encouraged to join.

As I said, in my previous post, I planned to clean up my room this weekend. That happened but not yet complete. My insomnia has been keeping my energy down so I find it hard to move a lot but I still managed to clean up some stuff int he room and even redecorate it a little. I'll try to continue this week.