Sunday, November 25, 2001

i had one of the "best" weekends i'd ever had in quite a while. i really doubt i'll ave the time or energy to type EVERY single thing down here but who cares ...

FRIDAY
-came to history class late so i was counted absent, but who really minds that =) it's just history. i'll just have to read whatever's next.

-had marketing group meeting for our case study presentation. i'm actually starting to like my marketing group now. i don't know any of them at all. no one in my group has ever been my classmate, so it's a completely new thing for me. this rarely happens because around here everyone is always someone's friend who is the friend of your friend. it's a pretty small world ... somtimes one gets so used to the smallness .... complete strangeerness becomes a welcome thing.

-got free ice cream from the hpair exhibit .... actually i kinda cheated, just as everyone else was doing. we were supposed to collect 6 stamps from participating in 6 activities or visiting 6 booths in the exhibits, well we collected the stamps .. we were just passing the stamp pens around and running after people who had the pens =) they had free internet at the exhibit too ... i being the incredible cheapskate and hater of long lines took full advantage of it
-got to talk to isabs crystal eric jerome and this girl i didn't know the name of for a while [after talking to caloy about the video] then i coerced eric into helping ian at the booth.

-spent some time in the library [good girl] and helping ian out at the shake and buger booth in the ama mall

-IAC had their opening so we didn't havekarate due to lack of venue. well sometimes i really hate having to do all this stuff for karate, but when i'm actually there in class it's not so bad.

-watched the free AMP music performance because ian was going to play his zither [or as eric so nicely put it .."oversized guitar"] ian was pretty good ... it was a lovely "cultural" event.i saw oz play his violin [fially] ... though half the time he was playing i was just wondering why on earth so many girls liked him. matthew was there to view the performance , so i got to talk to him. manny showed up too ... he was reminiscing his times at school though.

-watched harry potter with my family after the mini concert. it was a really nice movie ... bt i would have to say that it didi get rather boring towards the end. i LOVED the quidditch part ... oliver wood is adorable ... ok so was harry potter but that was completely expected! ron looked almost exactly as i pictured him to be. well i still think the book is far better than the movie.

SATURDAY
-saturday morning was spent at G4 hunting for a birthday gift for jason. i actually gave him a card btu my dad and mom told me to get hie something nice. apparently it was because his mom had told my mom's friend that she thought i was such a nice girl and we [my family] were such nice people.well she also told my mom's friend that at one time she asked jason "jason siya na ba?" [trans: jason is she the one"] and jason answered "di ko po alam pero sana ma develop" [trans: i'm not sure but i hope something happens] well it's nice to know that at one point he thought or wanted his first girlfriend to have been me =) well things are rather different now. i ended up buying him a basketball shirt [the sleeveless type because i figured he needed one] at toby's world which is in the slot previously occupied by the glico's center. i made several new discoveries on that floor ... there's a branch of the ayala museum on that floor as well as a whole bunch of clothig stores. i bought myself [multiple] hoop earrings and a blouse.

-i slept for a few hours after my mom and i got home from shopping then i took a bath and dressed up for Shingdig the ajma party at fgm studio in bel air makati. i got there at quarter to nine and hardly anyone was there.... the party actually started becoming interesting at around eleven, after the fashion show [well it kinda sucked it was just a bunch of people from ateneo walking up and down the catwalk in reipped jag wear] .... well i had loads of fun helping cori, raymz, etc mix drinks and serve them to the general public while washing down quite a few of them. it seemed a lot like we [the mixers and servers] were the only people actually dancing [on the catwalk/stage thing] .... we probably had a little too much of the lambanog =) so basically we were all in various stages of tipsy and drunk... manny was probably the most drunk [shame on him ... he's supposed to be the chaperon hahahaha] while i think maybe iya and naz were the more sane ones .... i was ok, there was just one point of the party [while dancing] where i could really tell where the floor was. i was getting kind of worried when by 1030 marty and company [jc, em, mark fernandez] hadn't showed up yet because they were my ride to jason's thing [yeah i decided to show up at jason's thing... bascially becasue his mom thought i was nice ... hehehe] but they showed up at around eleven thirty and they weren't half as scary as i thought they would be. i actually had a lot of fun riding to betterliving with them. at around 130am i kissed everyone goodbye [yes i kissed them] and headed off to jason's house

- the ride to betterliving was fun. we stopped by a&w to eat a bit and basically goof around. jc tried on my earrings,and mark fernandez figured out i was from woodrose. the ride home was pretty much similar to "dinner". i enede dup sitting between em and jc in the back of the pajero, while marty drove with mark sitting shotgun [why is that seat called shotgun anyway?] the ride more or less ended with the song "nobody knows" by tony rich project playing repeatedly on the sound system... with most of them belting it out on the top of their lungs.

-well jason's things was pretty much what i expected .... a boy thing. it was funny i kinda just showed up and well ....nothing really happende di got to meet the people in the barkada that i never really ever met [shang, marc] and got reacquainted with the ones i met in highschool [josemarie, ron] ..welll em, jc, and mark ... i had the entire ride to get to know then better [nosiy kids] i spent most of the time sitting between caloy and ron just chatting about stuff. caloy ...as promised drove me home. [3am]

SUNDAY
-went to mass at magallanes [12 noon] and discovered that the church had been sealed and airconditioned [whoopeedoo!]

-at lunch at greenhills [after a good amount of time searching for a parking space!] we ate a sun and moon where they serve the best spicy calamari on earth =)

-my mom and brother went shopping while my dad and i had to give in to our "duties" at lasalle greenhills where the kda club champoinships were being held. the guys got their butts kicked ... adn well i realized they ahd a lot of the formalities and respect to learn.i just wish i could teach it to them withuot having to drill it into their craniums!
less than 2 weeks till my birthday .... i don't know how i'm going to celebrate it =( ... i don't even know if i want to celebrate it

Thursday, November 22, 2001

well i haven't posted in quite a while [apparently some people do notice such developments or regressions in my online behaviour] stuff has happend ... life has happend .. on monday i went to class, helped out ian and kathy with their shake and burger booth at the ama mall, hung out with caloy, manny, ed, and michelle... we went out to watch "serendipity" [even if i had just watched it the evening before] over at megamall. manny spent most of the megamall waiting time reminiscing about his ex-girlfriend. apparently the place contained quite a lot of memories .. poor guy. well the movie was still pretty good and "kilig" even the second time around .. [maybe i'm being biased because it's a john cusak movie] on tuesday .. i did something good =) [i will post about it when there are not more security reasons or precautions to take care of . on wednesday jason celebratd his 19th birthday last wednesday ... he treated us out to lunch =). i got him a card and quoted a few lines from "the missing piece" .. i was going to give him the book but i decided against it and just bought it for myself. i also cut history class that day. during the walk to kamirori [where jason treated us out to lunch] i got to talk to alex .. he was a bit depressed because the girl he really likes doesn't like him back ... seriously almost everyone around me is experiencing stupid relationship problems ... i'm kinda happy i've soemwhat kicked that stuff out of my system. boys ... when one starts thinking of them as things other than friends... tend to screw life up. all is well for me right now in that department [or rather due to the inactivity of that department] so i'm more or less fine =) i watched "ninja scroll" on jason's pc while my friends were all out watching harry potter =(... i [promised my brother i would watch it with him over the weekend so i didn't go with my friends [yeah i'm sweet.. whatever] "ninja scroll" was lovely [graphically] except it was preoccupied by all the spurting blood [yes all the blood spruting defied the laws of physics and biology] and well the sociological aspects of the naked womena and rape/sex scenes.... the women always have m\less clothes on than the men even when they are supposedly havign sex .... oh well. thursday wasn't too eventful... a full day of class and a lot of studying. kara had to go home because an uncle had just died.. so i was all alone in the evening =(. right now i'm typing at a computer in the hpair week exhibit =) in a few minutes i'll be helping ian out at the booth selling bug\rgers and shakes again =) on saturday i have to attend shindig [some major ajma event i have yet to fathom the purpose of] and maybe i'll show up at jason's party ... it all depends on my mood ... either way .. marty promised he'd bring me home =) well i'm off to go help ian now .... i'll be back when i finish the layout chage or whenever something significant happens ... whichever comes first.

i still WANT a DVD of "THE GOONIES" ... *sigh*

Sunday, November 18, 2001

just sneaking in an entry before i head off to school] i had a pretty good weekend despite something ... i watched "serendipity" and obsessed over "the goonies" [i want the dvd like hell now!], and well i felt bad because i ended up mulling over something i thought i had already resolved.

i got one of the nicest surprises today .. lisa [ found me again!!!! woohooo! now i can complete my link page =) well i'm modifying the layout [although it's adorable! ... it's just getting a bit messy]

Friday, November 16, 2001

someone hit me on the head ... for the first time in three weeks [?] im starting to miss him again ... this is not fun
i just got the nicest welcome home from my brother
time now is 5:23
bro: i need the computer
me: 6pm
bro: 530
me: i need to erase stuff 6
bro: get off at 530
me: 6
bro: PUCHA! YOU HAVE YOUR OWN COMPUTER AT THE FLAT I ONLY GET TO USE THE COMPUTER FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY!
me: 6 asshole [of course he doesn't hear me]
so what's wrong with this conversation ... 1] he could have asked nicer 2] he should have agreed to 6 ... and not bothered me till then, i could have finished whatever i needed to do earlier 3] cursing and shouting was completely uncalled for 4]grrrrr.... i think i'll delete the internet connection program now ... bye

Thursday, November 15, 2001

i've been digging into my childhood entertainment. it all started with this particular test result.



i was basically like "who the heck is corey feldman?" then i thought about it a bit and looked at the pic and figured the guy looked a lot like the guy mouth in "the goonies". i really loved that movie =) ... i still love that movie like anything. i guess it's a generation thing .. i think most older and younger people think it's a really dumb but I LOVE IT ...well i did a bit of research and i was right he was the guy mouth in the movie. =)

speaking of the goonies ... my favorite character was data the vietnamese gadget kid played by jonathan ke quan . he's the same guys who played short round in indiana jones : temple of doom [which came out the year before goonies did]. well he was an adorable kid ... he's old now [around 29] and he's still in the movies doing behind the scenes stuff.



so basically i spent the day researching and surfing goonies and indiana jones sites =) I LOVE INDIANA JONES =) it used to be my ringtone till i changed it to weezer. i swear if i were to make a favorite movis list all the three indiana jones moivies [raiders of the lost ark, temple of doom, and last crusade] and the goonies would be on that list =)

more kids stuff. i took the transformers test and i ended up with this...

If I was an Autobot, I'd be:



Take the Transformers personality test at android5.com!


yet another childhood memory refreshed. sigh. i have no idea which autobot blue streak is though.

Wednesday, November 14, 2001

my layout is kind of getting messy ... i think i'll fix my tomoyo layout later after the marketing party. i'll have the entire evening anyway.
last night kara and i were discussing how instead of following the norm [meaning that the beginning of the 2nd sem is break up season] people are just mating and coupling like hell, whether it be official or not. it would have been a pretty interesting demographic paper to study the entire phenomena but i doubt anyone has the time right now to study such "un serious" matters. well neither of us have any significant others to break up with, if i ever did i probably "broke up" with him a long while ago.

spekaing of strange pair ups. i heard from dych that parej and his finance teacher inah went off to baguio together ... for "tutoring and maybe some casual sex" as parej would jokingly put it, apparently it was pretty close to that... as dych put it more accurately "3rd base and a half, probably because they couldn't find a condom". of course she was telling me this during finance class .... it was rather strange that we were dscussing the odds of parej going for his finance teacher [last sem ... he's done with the subject already so it's technically ethical enough.] and we said he wa the type to go after her, because he already knew she was head over heels in love/lust with him [the rick factor concerning rejection is very low]. apparently she told him this and i promptly received text from him saying my hypothesis was wrong ... and then he tells dych about the entire baguio thing and the third base and a half escapade in full [gory] stripping detail. ha! and he says i'm wrong. seriously he's a kiss and tell person ... and he'll tell the enitre WORLD. [probably one of the worst kind of guys you could ever do crap like that with] well that's his thing ...
kara and i had guests last night. dindin and crystal were over. we discussed the oikomous website and it's future contents for a while... this conversation digressed into execom member [actually just one particular member of the execom] bashing. later we basically stayed up till 3am doing "girl stuff" ... reading [and trashing] the local teen scene mags like seventeen, chalk, meg and candy, talking about people in the mags, in school, etc... we were online for 6 hours straight just taking stupid personality tests [this is after we exhausted the stupid dating and flirting tests in seventeen, meg, candy, and chalk] it was a lot of fun. i left them for a bit to watch "the weakest link" over at burg, and i hung out with "the boys" for a while... actually more of "a boy" coz caloy wasn't home till i was about to leave. so i just watched tv with jason and we chatted. he was feling bad , but he didn't know why ... poor guy. oh well. after that i came back home to kara , dindin and crystal and continued being jsut plain silly. we spent probably half an hour just matching people with the candymag.com match maker / love calculator thing! we capped the evening off with a game of garter! it was hilarious. we were incredibly noisy. i bet the people in the neighboring units and the ones below must have been wondering what on earth we were doing! after the game our feet and knees hurt [due to old age] but our cheek muscles and stomachs hurt more from all the laughing. whoever said college makes you grow up must have missed out.

Tuesday, November 13, 2001

F I N A L L Y !
grrrr now blogger refuses to publish my new layout properly .....
i skipped my history class this morning because i wasn't feeling too well. it probably they monthly girl problem coming. oh well. so i stayed home all day, and decided to renovate. i'm done with the first page .... i'll do the rest later

Monday, November 12, 2001

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Sunday, November 11, 2001

new layouts [a rather overdue announcement]
carlo has a new "geek in the big city" layout
dru has a new layout to match the url change

i'm trying to modify my comment code so it'll look nice and proper =) and seamlessly fit into my layout. i'm also making a quiz to put on my site. i got a quiz your friends quiz from a few friends and i even made one myself. unfortunately it works only on an email invite only system and your quiz when created will only be up for 30 days. well its fun anyway ... now i'm making an alxnet one to put on my site =)
i just finished lunch and setting up my pc. yaaay! one week of not having a complete pc [i left my cpu at home last week] so i sorely miss my pc and need to make up for lost time .. hahahaha i'm done with my one and only class for today [history 166]. i finished at 930 and i went straight to the library and read for my marketing class. i read non-stop till i finished the chapter ... i feel so darned accomplished. i kinda miss this whole geeky feeling =) [it'a great one by the way!] it's strange ....
"well books are good ... studying is good ... i'm actually making amends with the library nowadays. i spent more than half my day in the library reading for all my classes. i'm forcing myself to feel bad if i go to class without reading. god, i read for my marketing class during my break instead of hanging out at the bench and it paid off ... i answered one of the discussion question [woohoo!] i swear i felt sooo damn good i looked like elle woods [in leagally blonde] when she answered her teacher's question in class ... you know the whole goofy smile bit. it probably sounds weird coming from me because i'm supposed to be the resident nerdo, but i haven't been that in ages. i haven't studied this hard in ages and i do have to admit it feels nice to go to class prepared ... ok enought of the nerd/geek manifesto/testimony you're probably cringing right now"
-exerpt from my email to asia
oh well it's nice to be feeling good nowadays

Saturday, November 10, 2001

i was just surfing around the personal site / blog circuit and i saw that most people joined a million and one cliques. i was just wondering if cliques and rings were a collect and collect thing. it certainly seems that way .. oh well
i just watched jet li's "the one" at g4 [g4 again?! hehe]. the first 10 minutes of the movie really grab your attention. the action and fight choreography is pretty good, the story is ok ... not that great, well it's an action flick so it doesn't really matter that much. does it? today is definitely rest relaxation and recreation day for my family. we all went to g4 to watch a movie together and eat lunch, then my dad went off to watch the miss asia pacific pagent at the fort, my brother went to ateneo to watch the wolfgang and barbie's cradle concert, and my mom and i went shopping at glorietta. so basically i'm a happy girl yet again.

the shop till you drop list
- cute black shirt that says "i *heart* this shirt from surf world [the heart is pink and glittery =) hehe]
- a slytherin backpack [long overdue birthday gift, i'm just waiting for him to get home so i can give it to him]
- 2 scrunchies [my hair is getting longer i'm staring to need these again]

there was another shirt i wanted to get at surfworld [they sell quicksilver, roxy, ripcurl and split ... the shirt i bought was split] also from split, it was a white shirt that had in pink glittery lettering "more me, less you"... cute. i'd rather wear that than a "boys lie" shirt because the latter is rather common =).

Friday, November 09, 2001

reading stuff not addressed to you is bad for your sanity .... i survived the first week of school ..... i just watched "don't say a word" at g4 ..... i think it's disturbing [visually] ..... i'm really really sleepy ..... i installed the comment code [finally!] but i don't know how to customise it ..... i'm starting to hate myself for ever liking him again [bad.] ..... bonded with someone today [nice] ..... finally got my acp [webdesign!]..... met up with the boys and the girl again [luv em!] ..... i'm really tired and kinda sad so i think i'll write about the tail end of my week tomorrow morning when i'm recharged. zzzzzzzzzzz..........

Wednesday, November 07, 2001

yesterday i found out someone was in my finance class. i guess i now have some type of motivation to get a good grade [the better grade] in finance. i don't exactly know what in particular is going to drive me to get that grade ... or rather what in particular about that person. maybe it will make me feel better [somehow]. i guess i'm sad but i do need something to make me feel better about all this. my teachers for my other majors [operations amnagemnt and marketing] are supposed to be the worst in the departments, i really seem to be incredibly lucky when getting assigned teachers. *sigh* i still need to get a good grade, even if i have to sit in other teacher's classes, i'll do it.i also lost anna's operations management book in national bookstore yesterday. i wasn't having that great a day, honestly, but i surprisingly didn't feel very bogged down by it all ... which hasn't happened in quite a long time. so i guess the good bit of that day was that i had a bad day and didn't get depressed about it. yaay for me i guess! oh well another good thing would be that i got to hang out with some of my friends. maybe because someitme last sem, i somewhat contracted my circle of interactions ... i kinda missed being with all my other friends [see what pseudo couplehood and dependence does to people] i realized how much fun they all were and i realized how much i had missed out. *sigh* how i wish i hadn't missed out on so much....

today was ok i guess =) i woke up really early to go to my hisotry class. i got paired off with ian for the reflection and we're going to be reporting on "the fall of manila" . after that i bought my textbooks and then got a text from caloy. he basically needed to talk to me about jason't birthday [which kind of made me feel guilty becasue i reallly was planning not going participating or whatever on his birthday ... just the usual card i guess] but i sat down and planned something with them. it was fun... caloy actually ended up telling me stuff about them [him, jason and friends] which i wished he didn't tell me. it was yet another moment in my life that prooves that i'm "one of the boys". though there are advantages to being one of the boys, i sometimes hate it. i have to live with it, i've always been one of the boys .... not that i'm a tomboy or anything [gawd... i am the epitome of kikay] but it is such an awful thing when guys act like guys in front of you ... i guess desensitization settles in eventually. maybe this is something that contributes to my diminishing self worth.

i actually got myself to sit in the library and study today. i'm proud of myself =) and well we finished noting down all the revisions on the electoral code. it took us from 6 to 9pm to finish the darned thing. it was pretty crazy. we were all sitting in burger king debating about the articles, rules, wording etc... and occasionally we would digress into less sane topics such as a particular staffer's body parts.... it was wierd. wierd but fun.

i still haven't registerd for an ACP [alternative class program]... if i don't attend on i get 4 cuts in my philo class .... augh! their stupid online registration keeps killling itself whenever i go on to register. i hate it! i actually just want to get a class that takes up the least amount of time in the day alloted for it so i can go on and do other things! grrrr.... i can't afford to get the 4 cuts. i really dislike this program at times [though it provides you with a breather] it's just such a huge hassel having to register. oh well.

Sunday, November 04, 2001

there was a huge luzonwide brown out last night ... from about 530 in the afternoon till around 1130 in the evening. i had to finish packing up my stuff in the dark. my family headed off to makati where there was a bit of electricity in the mall. we hung out at starbucks [yuck how conyo] and bought a whole bunch of magazines from a near by magazone stand .... reading and rereading seventeen was rather torturous.

my first day of the second semester

a] got up at 5am, took a bath

b] got to flat at 615am nd hauled all of stuff up to flat

c] at 616am i realize that i brought all the parts of my pc EXCEPT my cpu [smart!] so i'm stuck to library computers for the rest of the week.

d] had breakfast with jason at 730 in the school cafeteria

e] had history 166 from 830 to 900am with Ms Santos. My only consolation for this class is that it is in an airconditioned classroom. Ms Santos is pretty much like MOJO JOJO the evil arch enemy of the powerpuff girls. She constantly repeats herself! "you will not be graded as a group. you will be graded individually ... not all together *nod* but as individuals*double nod* ... so basically you only have to listen to her every other sentece to get the message.

f] 905am i bought Fr. Arcilla's history book for Santos' class and started reading it in the library ... wow i'm really starting to be such a geek. Ian and i firgured we might as well read the entire coverage from now till Christmas break because once mArketing Finance and Operations Management kick in we simply won't have the time anymore

g] 10am Dychiao swings by the library to give me my id and my receipt

h] 1030am hang out at SEC with raymz, cori, pat, fort, jc, ja, maits, iya etc...

i] go to starbucks with them all and have a really loooonnng lunch =)

j] which brings me to NOW.. where i'm happily typing away on a school computer in the library ... i don't have anymore classes for today and i don't have my CPU with me *sob* so i might as well use a school computer and then maybe later finish section one of my history book. this sem i'm going to be geek goddess extrordinaire .... otherwise my grades will suck. that's all for now i guess

Saturday, November 03, 2001

yaaaay all i have to fix now is the darned archiving bit of my site then i'll be done =) but right now i have to pack my things and clean up my mess. school starts tomorrow.
progress report:
-remodeled index page because it looked too washed out
-remodeled me page because it just looked too ugly
-remodeled guestbook to fit into site [fave page!]
-finished index, me, guestbook, contacts, info
-reapplied to reach

today
i watched "down to earth" today at g4. it's a really funny movie, chris rock just really ... rocks! hehehe i really like him, even if he is a loudmouth, he just has this "happiness" and life in him. oh well whatever.

got a phone call from jenny today. she was just gushing about her current boylet and the crazy stuff going on in the lasalle student government. the highlight was her story about how she got into a physical fight with some girl in the parking lot because that girl thought she stole her boyfriend.... well she kicked ass =) and i'm proud of her.well i'm afraid fro her too because that girl she fought with as well as that girl's barkada follows her around [even in alabang]. i'm glad i haven't encountered anyone or anything of that sort. well in some bit of the conversation she asked if i had a boyfriend and i said i didin't. apparently sometime ago someone told her jason was my boyfriend but she wasn't able to ask me then. a lot of people think that it was "sayang" i try not to think about it anymore because thinking about it isnt too pleasant an experience. but the conversation actually prompted me to go through all the emails i sent the boy. i read through them and i got some strange feeling of stupidity, sadness and relief i guess... i don't know why. maybe it's because while reading all my letters i noticed that change of endings from a simple cya to mwah to luv ya [etc] to bye .... it sums up my bit of the entire stupid relationship i guess... jason is living proof i am stupid. [and it's a good thing he does not know it ... it would depress the hell out of him for about 5mins of his life if he knew so what's that point]

Friday, November 02, 2001

four down two to go... i'm growing rather crosseyed from designing and uploading...
i spent the last few days at cabanatuan living out my potential to being a mah jong hustler. as planned my family and i minus my younger brother who's off frolicking in pagupod, went to cabanatuan. it took us 8 friggin hours to get there due to all the traffic. it took us 3 hours [which would normally be the time elapsed for the entire trip] to get to the balintawak tool gate from my dad's office. SHEESH! my butt really hurt when we got to my grandmother's house.

so i spent halloween evening playing mah jong, and clearing out my older relatives =). i *heart* mahjong like anything. it's actually a family requirement, EVERYONE, save for very few exceptions knows how to play mah jong. it's a major social function or thing in our family. i've been playing [unsupervised] since highschool, but i've been playing [supervised] since i was a kid. i wouldn't say that were' a gambling inclined family ... there is the double standard that we're all allowed to gamble [mah jong, pusoy dos, tongits golf etc...] ad long as it's all within the family [aunts, uncles, cousins etc...] because the money stays within the family ... gambling outside of it is definitely a no-no. i guess it's a pretty good standard becasue the money simply changes hands rather than exits.

of course we all woke up early to spend a few minutes visiting my dead grandfather at the cemetry, then we all returned to playing mah jong. ist's rather sad that my grandfather is just buried in a cement block above ground without even a nice marker to tell people who he was and when he lived. he's buried beside his mother in a little unfinished house of cement. the brass name plates ahven't been put because the little house hasn't been finished so there's no way of enclosing the area to prevent people from stealing the plates, floweres or candles [yes people steal everything nowadays]. my dad says when they finish deals and recieve money for a tract of land they sold, then the little enclosure will be finished and the plates and marble will be installed. i sure hope they get it done by next year because visiting an unmarked concrete boulder isn't great.

the trip home was the total opposite of the trip leaving it, we left cabanatuan at 1pm and i was home by 430 ... not bad at all, hardly any traffic anywhere. i guess it's because everyone in manila is still on vacation.
I'M BAAACCCKKK !