Thursday, January 12, 2012

Monday, January 2, 2012

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The Goal.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

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PreChristmas Blessings from God. Already.

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It’s almost December 14. I’m going to miss our possible film viewing in Humanities 1, I’ll be absent on our Pharmacology class leaving me to do a self-study on Anesthesia but- I’m going home earlier than my ‘other’ classmates. [note: OTHER classmates- classmates who’ll be riding on the plane to get home].


I’m excited to go home primarily because it’s home. AND some ‘other’ reasons:

#2. I have two Libera CDs waiting for me! And they’re not just Libera CDs since they’re only available online nowadays.

#3. We finally got a bike! Yea~ my dream of cycling across the province might just come true this Christmas break.

#4. I got five pairs of shoes. That’s the most number of pairs I’ll be getting at once in my whole life. AND they’re all flats. [last line: I hope so.]

#5. SKC camp. The SKC camp brings back a lot of childish yet good memories. ♥

SUPER thanks to Tita Nemy. Without her, I wouldn’t have reasons 2 and 4. [SUPER- may kapa at lumilipad. –Bob Ong]

And to the Canadian missionaries who gave us 2 bikes. Red was so happy to have the smaller one. I bet my brother and I would be fighting over the other one when I get home.

Guimaras= 
lots of water and vegetables+
swimming on the beach+
very fresh air
(no mangoes and avocados yet)




Saturday, November 12, 2011

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5th of Part 1

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Manang Ai-ai. She was our cousin who stayed at home during one of her summer vacations and she used the simplest but traumatic way of keeping us inside the house. She would just say that something's waiting for us outside the door: either the ido buang (rabid dog) or worst x10 , Maria Labo.

From that moment on, every time we go outside and play, we would just suddenly think of ways on how to escape from a rabid dog. It's either that we run very fast or climb up a tree.
Believe me, I grew out of the Maria Labo thing but never of the rabid dog. Up until in high school I would just suddenly practice climbing short jackfruit trees in case an ido buang suddenly shows up. I got over it afterwards, when I proved to myself that rabid dogs are actually scared of water.
Manang Ai-ai's The classic... "Na hala, sige, ara da si ano sa guwa ay..."
[note: Maria Labo, for the Visayan people, was a fictional (?) character made popular by various invalid firsthand testimonies over the radio. She was said to be an aswang who ate her own children leading her husband into cutting her across the face with a binangon (tagalog bolo). She had been arrested and was put into prison but was released moments later after disguising herself as a child and in some accounts, she escaped by transforming into a lizard. She was said to roam around the Visayas and Mindanao area looking for potential victims especially children lurking outside late in the day. AND in our case, children refusing to take a nap in the afternoon.]
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4th of Part 1

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the other people. 


Nene. Not so much. She just threatens to leave us (She's been practically our taga-alaga alongside Nanay). She would padlock the house so that we would sleep during the afternoons. And as if it weren't enough, she would chain the bike as well. The bike---the main reason why we want to go out. It had been so for almost 4 years.
Nene: "Baya-an ta kamo da karon." [emphasis on baya-an.]
[note: my Tita Nene. Most of us , her siblings, nephews and nieces, call her that way. Nene which might either mean a little girl/boy had been her nickname ever since; up until now that she's on her mid 60's.]
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