Poetic Justice

- i really like bacon and eggs for breakfast

- i’m really addicted to flip-flops

- i’m such a bibliophile. and anyone who’d ever seen our apartment will see books everywhere. there’s not enough shelves!

- the all-new magnolia ice cream is so great! the chocolate flavor tastes like frozen magnolia chocolait

- i never thought i’d be interested in futbol/soccer. but now, i’m all into it

- i collect journals, notebooks and pens. preferably with butterfly designs

- i love the beach. i wish i’m in a perpetual vacation state (but with pay!)

- roy and i are quite into photography right now. to preserve memories.

- my mom is migrating to the states to be with my brothers and i’m suffering from separation anxiety already!

- i love giving gifts. and wrapping presents.

- thank God for coffee pressess!

- i hate watching the news but can’t do anything about it because roy is much into it

- during the summer, ice-cold gatorade helped us get through the hot days

- the early rains spoiled our travel plans

- i don’t think i’ll ever get a tattoo

- i have great friends. i’m so proud of them

- i love simple things in life. a great movie. having coffee with friends. lunch/dinner with my husband. get-togethers with my family. great scenery while travelling. ang dami pa! promise, mababaw lang talaga ako!

- i realized the value and importance of having a family home. and its really true that "there’s no place like home."

- roy and i are obsessed about travelling. haaaay!

i’m blessed to grow up in a family, extended, in fact, (family as defined by our filipino culture and not according to its legal definition, ha!) with close ties. there are misunderstandings, of course, but just try to cross a member and the oppressor will find him/herself at war with not just one but the whole of us. i remember a lot of funny and absurd circumstances, part of our numerous family anecdotes relived every sunday (we spend sunday lunches at my lola’s house in medicion 2nd), which will testify to this fact. this post will be kilometric if i shall attempt to tell even one.

some people i know do not know the importance of family. generally, in the end-all and be-all of things, when things go awry (hahaha, paging bobbie! awry daw, oh!), one run to one’s family. relationships will fail but family will always be there.

so for you, you and you who take your family for granted, shape up! you might find yourselves alone with no one to remember you by as everyone erased their memories of you and then emptied their recycle bins!

as roy sleeps and i’m left alone with thoughts rambling through my head, i decided to sit down and let it all out (as meg ryan’s character, kathryn kelly, in the movie "you’ve got mail" said) "to the void." so there. hello, void! and hello, blog readers!

its now the month of may and i can’t believe our april went by in an instant. after our bisita iglesia in bulacan on april 5 (beautiful churches!), roy’s eldest sister ate babes died last april 7. it was a sudden death. one time she’s bathing the dogs and next thing you knew she’s on the floor asking for her meds and losing consciousness. in a span of 6 hours, she went into a coma, and between 3-4 pm, went into cardiac arrest. she had aneurism due to high blood pressure. it was a swift and easy death, as she often wished when she was still living. but too swift and too fast for those she left behind, who were not given time to say goodbye. we will remember her in so many ways, not only for her cooking (she loves to cook for everybody especially when there’s a gathering). may God rest ate’s soul.

nothing puts a person into perspective than encountering death in some way. it was the first death in roy’s family, or shall i say, the first death that roy encountered, involving someone he loves. his ate’s passing brought roy to the realization that life indeed is too short, that people do not linger as much as we want them to, that there will come a day that a person will not be present, except in memory and thought, ever again. so let us not spend our time being angry and vengeful. instead, let us enjoy the company of the ones we love. show kindness. smile at people. laugh out loud. and never have any qualms in saying "i love you" to people we love, or showing them how much we care. we might never have another chance to do so.