Updates for the past 2 months

Unexpected Relations

I unexpectedly met 2 other relations a few days ago when I went to collect some documents from the place where I used to work. While in the city, I learned that an Uncle is in the hospital,so I went to visit, and discovered a very warm person. I first met him at Lola's interment in Kabankalan a few years ago. I'll call him Tito X. He's 71 years old and is in town because he has colon problem which needs surgery very soon. A very cordial gentleman, he entertained me with stories of his days with Dad when they were younger in Visayas. He was accompanied by Tita Y, his youngest sister who returned to LA last Sunday since school will start soon and she has young children. Another one of their siblings, Tita Z, is afflicted with throat disease and went to PGH for ultrasound last weekend. I haven't met her yet, but maybe I will soon. Getting older is inevitable, but I wish we didn't have to get sick. I think its fortunate that these relations of ours have a sibling who's a medical doctor and has a hospital. A lot of people out there can barely scrape enough to get through the basic needs for the day...


Net in Laguna

Net is one of my best friends. She was one of my classmates in Nursing School and from there, we formed a click. She is now one of the best real estate managers in the country and because of that, the company gave her a new vios and assigned her to work in Laguna together with 5 of her best agents. We were in Makati yesterday, looking for gifts for Zola's baby shower on saturday, with me buying my presents for the precious Baby Girl. Net will start working in Laguna in October. I guess we sort of traded places because I used to work in Laguna and am now back to Manila.


Friends from decades of old

Last August, I went climbing Mt Makiling with 2 old friends from primary school. Among the 3 of us, I was the only rookie. It was a pretty rough climb, especially because the first climb I did was about 5 years ago when I was with other nursing students who decided to go trekking where we could enjoy the falls. The Makiling experience was phenomenal! I got to meet a pal after almost 3 decades and stayed in her place and shared life experiences with. Umm, we're not old. It only seems so in numbers but our hearts and minds will always remain arduous, creative and curious. :P


Cyrano, Anyone?


Have you ever met a Cyrano? Well, in the flesh? I haven't, but fiction has a way of making them exist and a few days ago, I had the pleasure of encountering him when I read Cyrano de Bergerac--a play by Edmond --uh I forgot his last name. It was a comedy and a tragedy at the same time. Cyrano's love story that ended in tragedy which gave me a hodgepodge feeling that all was not lost and yet all was lost at the same time. Kind of the same feeling you get when listening to news on the radio about Philippine politics. Well, almost. Cyrano, in the end, was able to let the object of his love know that it was him all along who wrote all the love letters daily in the middle of the war, but it was too late for he was dying from the head wound inflicted by an unknown assailant's fallen wood. Cyrano also had other qualities rarefied by the kind of people we see in office. I'll try to update this so I can give the author's complete name. It's a good read. I wonder if there are still Cyrano's in the world today?..