Saturday, November 21, 2009

Friendship Sweets


Nothing compares a night out with friends before Christmas day. We don’t usually go out after Christmas Day but since others were planning to work elsewhere far from this place after the holiday, we decided to celebrate Christmas together after we spend Christmas with each of our own family.

It was not at all awkward despite the fact that it was our first Christmas celebration, which came in rush. It was even so much fun. We all gathered and prepared food, which each contributed. Our dessert was none other than Christmas Sweets. I believe that Christmas Sweets are made for purposes of bringing up friends together. All night we ate, shared stories and even cried our heart out during the process. We knew that few of us will be leaving soon to find work but we were not ready to let go. Our friendship all these years was tight and despite the obstacles that we went through, we all held on to each other. We already established love in our friendship and it was so hard to see them leave.

After noticing the chocolate stains in our cheeks, we laughed about the whole thing and decided to change the topic so that when someone leaves, she will carry with her the last happiest moment she had spent with us. Of course, we want what’s best for them and I could see that they really have the desire to move forward with their life and become somebody in the real world. We poured out all our support and congrats to the few who were out to venture the career world and wished them good luck in their journey. It is another chapter in their life that they had to undertake and I know I’ll just be here cheering for them.

Natural Yet Extra Special


I definitely love it when my younger cousins are around. I get to be myself without need of pretention and consciousness. They, too, act the way they really do with or without me in their side. We enjoy hanging out with each other and though close as we are we never fail to say our honest feelings about what each other has done or has not done.

Nevertheless, all in all my experience with them is nothing less fun and boring. In fact we are a bit wacky and unpredictable but in a good way. I recall that just last month we went to the gasoline station’s mini mart and posed inside for pictures while waiting for our car to get fixed. Another fun time with them is when we went for a joyride on the newly established bridge where there was a flowing river underneath. The view was awesome. My sister is our driver all the time and she doesn’t mind taking us anywhere besides she comes along too, obviously, so the more the merrier. Sometimes we also enjoy similar movies, food and hobbies. Speaking of movie and food I remember it very well the time when we watched “The Grinch" during Christmas holiday. We brought our own snack, which is the Christmas Sweets. From the beginning to the end part of the movie, we were feasting on the Christmas Sweets because undeniably, they are delicious and perfect for movie watching. We took a lot with us to make sure that we wouldn’t starve inside the movie theater.

Our getting together comes so naturally. I really love it that we get along pretty well even if there exists age gap and different personalities. Anyhow, I am thankful to Christmas Sweets that always make our adventure extra special.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

A Taste Of My Own Medicine


On a Christmas afternoon, my sister and I are planning to go to China someday. Well, actually I’m the only one who wants to go there while she wants to go to Europe. However, I managed to convince her that we should go to China first because I love its place, for one thing, and then its infinite line of tourist spots and restaurants. While making my list of to do’s, she is also making her own list of the things she will bring and buy when she arrives in Europe until it becomes a contest. She’s writing too fast and I am too. We both smile at each other but we never lose focus on our list. I know I was losing because I realize that it’s not really all about who gets to finish first but how many we can write.

Very practical, I thought because sure thing when you go on vacation is to have all that you need to be able to save for souvenirs. I use every trick in the book to get her to stop but nothing seems to work except for one thing. I trick her into showing the Christmas Sweets I have. I say that if she wins she will never have any of MY Christmas Sweets. I know that she will never resist my offer because she, too, loves Christmas Sweets especially the mouth-watering dark chocolates. She suddenly stops writing. She lets me win so I let her have the Christmas Sweets after I’ve taken some of my share. After we settle down, she quickly continue making her list, filling every line. She tempt me with the last piece of Christmas Sweets saying that if I let her win, I can have that piece. Oh well, she wins after all.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

A Great Gift - Christmas Sweets


It was already December and Christmas vacation was coming close and once again classes in second semester of College will be stopped temporarily. I had yet to buy presents for my friends and I know that the vacation will take long for us to meet again. I rounded up my friends in a small bench located at the corner of the soccer field and apologized for not giving them presents ahead. They understood very well because of the busy lives we portray in our studies. They, too, didn’t have any present for me. However, I brought with me Christmas Sweets and I shared it with them. I told them that it would be my present for them that year. It would be another long afternoon out in the soccer field bonding with each other and feeling the cool breeze in our faces clearly showing that Christmas was fast approaching. It was almost dark and we all prepared ourselves to go home, we hugged and kissed each other good-bye with glee in our hearts. Again, the evidence of Christmas Sweets were left on the path of the soccer field, which marked another enjoyable bonding of friends, whom I also consider sisters, who spent early Christmas in school without spending much.

I knew that even if we didn’t prepare ourselves much for Christmas because we were equally occupied with school work, we had it in our heart that it would be best to just gather and share our favorite Christmas Sweets. It was also memorable that way. May be someday we will all be looking back at this event in our lives and just be laughing about it because Christmas is not only about presents but the getting together of people and loved-ones to celebrate one very special day.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Christmas Sweets – Bringing Oneness in Friendship


It is so heart warming to be with friends before and after College Graduation Day.

The day before the Graduation Day, my friends and I decided to meet up in a certain place where none of us have completely been to for the sake of another new adventure but in the end we all met up in one of my friends’ house. We planned to meet before Graduation Day so we could chit chat or may be recall some of our funniest and never ending college experiences. We didn’t prepare much as to what we’re going to eat but one thing we didn’t miss to bring was the Christmas Sweets. We all laughed for the fact that each of us really found the effort to bring chocolates to lighten up the atmosphere of us being together.

We remember that the Christmas Sweets first came to us way back in freshmen year. All of us like chocolates but neither of us usually brings food during class because we are afraid that our professor would notice us munching chocolates and trace chocolate marks on our uniforms during his/her class and would put us all in detention. Well, nobody wants that, of course, but I can see it in their eyes how hard it was holding back to their cravings. That’s why we just meet after class and gather what we’ve got and lay them down the cafeteria table and savor that precious moment of having the break to spend time together, discuss our lessons and assignment, even gossips while sharing the same food that we all like so much. This went on until we reached Senior year in College. We even had the Christmas Sweets when we all talked about our plans for the future. That was the best. I wonder if we will still have our favorites when we will be working.

A month after the Graduation Day, again we all gathered. Upon seeing each other, we all noticed the same thing, change. Few changed their hairdo, others their lifestyle or way of living and others their viewpoint in the real world but one thing that did not change was our likeness to one thing that bring us together despite our differences – the Christmas Sweets.

Monday, November 16, 2009

My Christmas Sweets Love Story


Every Christmas, I always have time for my girl friend and treat her in nearest restaurant. I remember the time we used to laugh and have bonding with the chocolates and lollies. Before we decided to have a relationship, I always gave her Christmas treats and some other stuff she likes. In all those Christmas treats I gave, chocolates are her favorites.

When she said she loved me too, I felt lucky of having her in my life. She’s always in my mind every night and day. And when the sun rises again, she’s the first woman that came in my mind. But there was a time that we have conflict with each other and we used to be silent for a while, only Christmas treats like chocolates made her smile and let our love bloom.

Sometimes we used to go to an amusement park and spend a lot of time. We always bring chocolates and lollies. We both have a great time of spending our whole day in the amusement park. Afterwards, we decided to have lunch to the nearest restaurant, I always remember that after we eat, she always has Christmas treats with her.

When we got home and she let me see her room, I saw many sweets hampers and many stuff. I feel so lucky of having her in my life and with the presents of Christmas sweets I always got lucky. Things go by and still we stand for our love till the end and forever in our hearts.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Let Loose – Delectable Christmas Sweets


I always believed that there is more to sweet hampers than just merely sugary stuff. You can have lots of things that you want this Christmas, but it will not feel complete without our favorite sweets. In fact, Christmas is the peak season for all sweets business! This is not just because people wants Christmas sweet hampers for fun, but because everyone wants a dose of these heavenly sweets with their loved ones.

Yes, sweet hampers can have all the sweets that you used to enjoy when you were still a cranky kid. And you can share all those memories with your family more meaningfully when you have those sweets with you. Your children can start making their own memories too!

It’s also great to shop for sweets for your retro sweet hampers with your children because it’s fun choosing the various sweets to be placed in the hampers. I am pretty sure that you’re children will have great time choosing for retro sweets, and they might end up having everything of every kind! So prepare your budget!

Christmas sweets will surely delight everyone. If you have tried so hard to keep your family healthy all year long, this is the time that you indulge a little on heavenly treats. After all, life’s greatest moments are often shared during moments we have always sought to avoid. Let loose and indulge in Christmas sweets this season!

Retro Sweet Hampers – The Best Gift This Christmas


It was the eve of Christmas and while most were asleep, Dad was busy in his study working on something unique for my mother. My mother had been the rock of our family while father worked hard to give us a better life. In between taking care of three particularly restless children, I being the most cumbersome, she had managed to grow a beautiful garden at our house. During the summer months, these flowers showcased all colors that were pleasant to the eyes. Almost like a painting by Van Gogh, my mother painstakingly and religiously spent so much time caring for her flowers or as she would sometimes call it, her behaved children.

Father was always out of the country during those summer months and would try to make time to join us every summer at the residence for at least a week, before an urgent phone call would have him packing his suitcase for a meeting somewhere in the world. I am sure this bothered my mom but she showed no signs of it. From time to time, she would take Polaroid’s of us and of her garden, leaving it at my father’s study for him to see how the summer was spent. Father took great pleasure in looking at them and during supper, he would sometimes ask about my mother’s garden.

A week before Christmas, there were already several Christmas hampers near the tree, some were retro hampers filled with classic chocolate, butterscotches, lemon limes and the like. These sweet treats were always in the house during the season as it was something of a tradition among my father’s friends to give each other Christmas sweets at this time. It also helped that his best friend, Uncle Albert, owned a wholesale sweets business which was reputedly known for its imaginative and creative contents during the season. In his study, Dad was arranging his gift for mother: a very special Christmas hamper. It was filled with candies shaped like flowers of different colors and shapes. Dad had a Polaroid picture with him and was comparing the picture with his arrangement, adding or taking away things to see if the composition of the hamper was right. In the morning, mom awoke to see in front of the Christmas tree, a very unique retro sweet hamper which looked like her garden, with the arrangements and colors inside, filled with candy flowers. I think it was one of the best gifts he ever gave to mom.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Retro Sweet Hampers Checklist


Everybody has a sweet tooth especially the kids. Anybody who said they don’t like candies must be lying. At some point in our lives, we probably have been hooked to those retro sweets. Now, this article will let you reminisce about the sweets that you used to have back when you were young.

1. Fizz Wiz Pop Rocks – this is originally known as Space Dust and they look like nugget pieces of candy which explodes once it gets into your tongue. They come in two flavors: cola and strawberry.

2. Candy Kit Jewellery Set – This is the only jewelry that you could eat. It might be a little sticky in your neck but it’s a lot of fun.
3. Refreshers - It is tasty, fruity and fizzy.

4. Parma Violets – It has a distinctive floral flavor and these days they have jumbo-sized.

5. Chunky Drumstick Lollies – It comes in two flavors: milk and raspberry. These days, they are even chunkier.

6. Black Jacks – It used to be sold individually but now it can be purchased in packs. They could make your tongue have this purple color. Most kids would compare how purple their tongue is to their friends.

7. Fruit Fizzers – Some kids would pretend that these are tablets since they are very small.

8. Chocorillo Chocolate Cigarettes – Some kids would pretend that these are bunch of cigarettes and so this is a famous sweet for most kids.

9. Candy Canes – They are also being used as decorative on Christmas trees so it has two purposes: for decoration and to satisfy one’s craving for sweets.

10. Retro Sweets Pile – You’d like to get a pack of sweets then retro sweets is the one for you. It’s a bag which contains your favorite sweets.

These luscious retro sweets in a retro sweet hampers will surely make your day. Especially this Christmas season, kids and adult alike will love to have some of the best sweets ever.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Best Wholesale Sweets


One should be able to know the main source of the sweets you take. It is wrong to think that just because all retro sweets are being manufactured by the same companies and then you won’t have to be conscious about where it came from. It may have the same quality but the services they provide are different.

For wholesale sweets, there are factors to be considered and one of which is affordability. Since your main goal is for the business to work out, you need to ensure that your supplier’s prices would allow you to make the most profit in order for your business would prosper. It may sound quite easy but actually this task would require one to exert effort. You could make a research online about the best suppliers of traditional sweets. However, always be cautious as some websites could be quite deceiving.

Also, you need to check on its consistency. You see, you may be able to get your products at a good deal but then you need to wait for a month or two to restock. Well, that’s not a good practice as customers will surely get affected with this kind of procedure. They’ll end up looking for a different store and that would mean a loss on your part.

Then, you also need to check on the delivery. A supplier with own delivery system is a plus. What’s also important is that you need to ensure that your goods are in good condition. Demand for fresh stocks other than making sure that it is being delivered promptly. Who wants a flattened candy bar? No one. Some would even think it’s already expired. Everything must be in good shape.

Nowadays, wholesale sweets are a booming industry and if you want to be part of it, you need to work from the basics of ensuring you get only good merchandise and get it before your customers go looking around for another store.