pasalubong!

How I love the Filipino tradition of pasalubong. If you are not familiar with this yet, this is bringing a little something for your loved ones when you arrived back home from a travel, or in some cases, after living in a different place for quite some time. The habit is a kind of sharing of what the place you had been to, is. Some bring home t-shirts, sweet delicacies, key chains, ref magnets, mugs, caps -- whatever that has something in it that identifies the place. However, this can also be the other way around. If a Pinoy is visiting friends in another place, they bring gifts for those people, just to share something from back home. I remember once, we brought a Jollibee bucket to our friends in Japan as pasalubong and a local coffee beans for friends in Ireland. You see, giving something can make everyone happy :)

So for now, I am the recipient of this nice tradition when my sister's friend arrived from a 6-week training in Washington, D.C. All these came from my sister and I am so happy! Feeling lots of love right now! :)