i headed over to my parents' place around 11:30am, stopping by the cafe to put the tea eggs in the fridge and grab some cilantro. my mother made rice noodles for lunch.
my sister showed up around 12:30pm. esmei caused her usual amount of mischief, both inside and outside. she now completely ignores you if called when she's outside, but instead will just watch you as you yell out her name. i teased her with a long reed stalk but my sister not to let her jump because her joints aren't fully developed yet.
i played around with the bird whistles i bought. i tried making some noises out of them but had little luck. i could make a noise that sounded like a wet loud fart if i held the whistle with my hands and blew across the thin membrane. i gave my sister one and she tried to make noises out of it, but also had no luck.
my sister took esmei home around 2pm.
my parents and i left the house around 3pm, to pick up my sister's godmother and my 2nd aunt for christmas eve dinner at my aunt's place in arlington. we went to my sister's godmother's house in central square first. we went up to her apartment so i could help her install the iyf.tv app on her android HDTV, even though my sister told me she'd already installed it months ago. sure enough, the app was there, just buried in the apps menu. i moved it to the front of the apps queue and also updated the app. it worked perfectly from that point on, just like it did at my 2nd aunt's place. my sister's godmother made some pork soup for us to try. she'd also been cooking with clams because her apartment smelled like seafood. we finally left around 4:30pm.
we went to go pick up my 2nd aunt out by porter square before heading over to arlington. my aunt and matthew ordered blue ribbon BBQ takeout for dinner. they had to order it yesterday and pick it up today as they were closing around 2pm. the place was so crowded with customers, they had auxillary trucks outside to service those with larger orders. my sister showed up shortly afterwards, after feeding and putting esmei to bed early.
i ate so much my stomach became a balloon and i thought i was going to burst. my aunt made a pineapple cake for the very first time, said it was even more difficult than the coconut cake she made one year. my sister just by coincidence also bought a bottle of sparkling pineapple water.
we left around 8pm. my parents dropped me off first at their place so i could ride home on my motorcycle. it started getting foggy earlier and a little drizzle fell on the landscape. i wiped the rain off my motorcycle before returning to cambridge.
i installed a new app on my xiaomi streaming box called vivaTV (v1.6.4) that allowed me to watch unlimited movies and shows. i had to side-load it the same say i installed the iyf.tv app. it also made me install another app called tplayer. i rewatched the first episode of the first season of fargo. quality was excellent, 2K with subtitles. i had to tweak the resolution of the streaming box to 95% because it clipping the edges. it did show me one ad but i didn't see any after that.