On a call:

R: So will you spend your Christmas with your family?

J: Nope… I’m with HP employees.

R: Well then if that’s your choice… or are you forced to do that?

J: Got no choice.

R: You must be a very good person. I believe that you can still enjoy the quiet DM time. So if you find time to do some TeG work… hehehe… but that would be selfish on my part… hehehe

Cheers!

Here’s the Christmas message I sent to ERP team some minutes past 12 midnight December 25.

/var/opt/saparch 99% na ang system ng globe

So bago pa mag-100%, eto na yung message ko:

mmc2yayf

merry merry christmas 2 you and your family.

let’s zpas love & peace

- Jonas

Of course, only ERP will able to understand my message. And glad they liked it and most importantly got it.

Meanwhile, here’s the message I sent to DCS folks, my classmates and the faculty who received 12 days of Christmas… on a patridge on a parse tree message last year.

printf(“Maligayang Pasko”);

System.out.println(“Feliz Navidad”);

Console.WriteLine(“Meri Xmas”);

paano man sabihin. paano man i-program.

Merry christmas to you and and your family.

Miss yah, DCS!

- Jonas

Very computer-scientific, eh? What surprised me is that two of my teachers replied:

Merry Christams and Happy 13th Month Pay!

Thanks Jonas for the greeting! I hope you didn’t spend too much on your first bonus as a working man.

Sigh. I miss Sir TJ and Doc Susan. I miss the day that I keep on announcing I wanted to teach (even that would mean a low pay). Peyups professors are living heroes.

Forwarded messages are fine. I appreciate every Christmas SMS I received from someone who hardly found way to send one because the network is always clogged. Since Jonas goes for the personal touch, creative should I add, I have to coin a message with the spunk. Another teacher replied, “Uy, jonas na jonas ah…”

Let’s say this is my tradition.