Let's backtrack a bit
Here are late posts of March 2007
Not a good day today.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The day should have gone well. All plans were set. I go to Leyte for work, the kids, on their vacation go to Baguio with Tatay and Ate.
Things had to go wrong. First, we got lost. We missed the left turn at C5 to the airport, ended up in Bicutan and had to take the service road back. Then just as we were navigating through unfamiliar roads and unexpected one ways, there were participants already coming in at unplanned times and places as a phone call reported.
When we got to Leyte, I texted the Baguio contingent. Apparently, Uling, the car we borrowed from tito mabi for the Baguio trip, overheated. They had to leave it at a shop in Concepcion, Tarlac and take the bus from there to Baguio. I was imagining all the crazy things my movie-based imagination affords me. I could just imagine them hot and perspiring, trying to catch the bus to Baguio. I panic for my family long distance. My only contact with them was the celphone. I had to rely on my OA imagination to make me feel worse than how the situation actually is.
Our participants have yet to arrive also. I panic again.
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"You had choices. You made the wrong ones. Now this kid is dead because of you." – Grisom, CSI
On Wanting
I want to make the right ones. Is it right to want what I think we should have? Is it wrong to want what I think has been long overdue to me and my family? So what are the choices? Plus minus. Total is I want the best for my kids. Not too much. But just enough like a house of our own. Most people have that. How come I don’t? They’re not much smarter. It’s not about the jobs we have or the money that we make. It’s all about making the right decisions.
Not a good day today.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The day should have gone well. All plans were set. I go to Leyte for work, the kids, on their vacation go to Baguio with Tatay and Ate.
Things had to go wrong. First, we got lost. We missed the left turn at C5 to the airport, ended up in Bicutan and had to take the service road back. Then just as we were navigating through unfamiliar roads and unexpected one ways, there were participants already coming in at unplanned times and places as a phone call reported.
When we got to Leyte, I texted the Baguio contingent. Apparently, Uling, the car we borrowed from tito mabi for the Baguio trip, overheated. They had to leave it at a shop in Concepcion, Tarlac and take the bus from there to Baguio. I was imagining all the crazy things my movie-based imagination affords me. I could just imagine them hot and perspiring, trying to catch the bus to Baguio. I panic for my family long distance. My only contact with them was the celphone. I had to rely on my OA imagination to make me feel worse than how the situation actually is.
Our participants have yet to arrive also. I panic again.
While having dinner, an officemate narrated how he had to go to a wake tonight. My jaw dropped. There was death in the family, and a complicated one at that. That made me conclude this weekend was not really going well, for everyone around me. At least, right now the family is safely in Baguio.
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"You had choices. You made the wrong ones. Now this kid is dead because of you." – Grisom, CSI
On Wanting
I want to make the right ones. Is it right to want what I think we should have? Is it wrong to want what I think has been long overdue to me and my family? So what are the choices? Plus minus. Total is I want the best for my kids. Not too much. But just enough like a house of our own. Most people have that. How come I don’t? They’re not much smarter. It’s not about the jobs we have or the money that we make. It’s all about making the right decisions.
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