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it was already 6pm…we just finished going around 168 mall in  divisoria (where anything can be bought at the cheapest price…) we came by taxi cab and we spent 3 hours looking around and then we realize we didnt have any more money…

four shoes…one pair of pants…3 blouses and lots of accesories… where did my money go (oh right…i didnt have any money, i borrowed from ate promising i will pay her on the next pay day hehehe) tsk tsk tsk..

i felt that the facial i got last friday was useless… saturday night all the grime are back on my face– and they felt like they are clining onmy dear skin with a vengence… last item on our list were gift wrappers— looking for the 100pcs for 75.00php kind— but the shop was nowhere in sight… after walking for like… 20 minutes we gave up…

jr was waiting for us in mall of asia and we need to find a cab pa… sigh*** well at least with all the walking that we did, i have now a virtual map in my head where it would take us if we want to get lost again towards the fabric district of divisoria.

So anyways… sa ilalim kami nang bridge dinaan ni mr taxi.. yikes may barangay sa ilalim nang tulay nga (totoo pala) and take note may mga balcony overlooking the roadside… well, i was scared but since the taxi was locked naman and i texted nimi the taxi name– it was ok. The taxi driver was not ashamed to blatantly tell us that we should pay 30php on top of our metered amount… why? coz it was traffic and moa was a long way off divisoria…

our feet hurted and i was in no mood to argue so we gave in— spent 300+ on fare… saan ka pa? parnag dun napunta yun discount namin di ba?! so anyways… what made our night was that there was a fireowrks display pala… we ate sa grams diner…

i had fish and chips…  ate had burger and jr had carbonarra… y grams diner? well coz it was near the fireworks display (and yes, i also owed ate money for dinner) hi naku!…

look at the pretty fireworks…

armed with my digi camera (that i had the nerve to bring sa divisoria!) i took photos and videos of the short-lived dance of fires in the sky… but although short lived i felt great knowing that the holidays are really just around the corner.

we actually left all of our stuff and went to watch the fireworks. we never even bothered to leave it secured… wait baka kaya nawala ang isang pair nang shoes na binili ni ate…baka yun yung nasungkit? hehehe..

we went home full– full of food, full of experience of an adventure… may isa lang hindi full eh— my wallet. sigh*** ayan… but hey— that is the law of fair exchange… hehehe

Bright sunshiney Day…

Well, it did start that way. It was late when i finally got myself out of bed. took lunch and drove to the cemetery with my family…

ho hum right? but as i was sitting there bored and uninterested in what is going around me.. i fiddled with my camera and started taking diff pics of people… flowers, brightly colored umbrellas… and even my family.

I begun to realize how this simple tradition that went on and on (commemorating our dead) has brought my family together before..now… sparse number would just drop by, leave flowers and leave…

when i was a kid… my cousins and i would spend the whole day making candle balls… balls made of wax as we eagerly await the candles to melt so we can add them to our collection…

i also miss when we would stay up till the sun sets and that is when we would begin to tell scary stories and would each take turns holding the flashlight… my cousins are all grown up now…like me. and i didnt even get to spend one minute with them this all soul’s day…

my best friend texted.. I thought that i rarely spend time with him so this was a good chance for us to catch up… with his family, they don’t really believe in the sort of tradition— he says that teh person is dead and that is that… i wanted to say something but i didn’t want to argue so i just kept quiet… we walked…talked…ate… i realized that it was just the two of us. Years ago, we would be a bunch of teenagers going from one tombsite to another, dropping by to collect our friends from their families and then hang out.

Now, only two or three people from high school were in sight… where were they? busy with work? with their families?…

I also saw some people from church but was shy to say hi, they looked so preoccupied… and i like the fact that i was just watching…observing… makes me realize how one can easily disappear in the crowds… Just like the dead whoose purpose serve as the reason for this particular occasion… but did we ever spend time really talking about them? remembering them?…