happy new year

it's been a while since i last posted. been to cebu for four days only as i had to rush back to manila to spend more quality time with joseph. i can't believe that there's barely two weeks left of his vacation. after that, we won't be seeing each other again until august of this year. that's a mighty long time. i can't wait for the wedding to be over. until then, we'll have to sacrifice a bit.

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i got the chance to finally meet some of his friends from australia. we were supposed to go out for bowling but unfortunately, one of his friend's mother died and so we had the little meeting at the funeral home in arlington. what a weird place to meet. there i was introduced to mike and beth, ricky and vi. i also met edwin aka "attorney" who was joseph's classmate in high school. ricky was also their classmate at st. anthony.

we also met up with joseph's other high school classmates after christmas. ruel and leni, alex and jane, and edwin was there. i had a great time just listening to them reminisce about their HS days in st. anthony. it was fun. pigging it out on good earth's food and italianni's desserts was also a highlight.

because i was the only one here during the new year, joseph suggested that i spend it with his family. we went to their house for dinner and some fireworks. on new year's day, we went to his aunt's house (tita citas) in fairview where i was introduced to more relatives and close family friends. the food was good!

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i was in cebu for four days. i must admit that it was a very short trip but well spent. i met up with girlie and peggy, just 2 of my good friends from college. they were kind enough to pick me up at the airport and treat me to lunch at harbor view dimsum. of course, i ate the very famous steam rice and siomai with quail egg. their other halfs joined us for lunch, eric and jayson.

in my trip to bogo, i stayed at my maternal grandparents' house in pandan. it's a bit old and really needs renovating. i suppose my lolo nene hasn't had the time to fix the house because of lola. lola meter hardly walks these days. she stays in bed for most of the time. if she gets bored, she'll ring her bell to call julie, our helper, to have her transferred to her wheelchair so that she can go around. when she gets tired of sitting, she goes back to her bed. i noticed that her affected leg has atrophied already. lolo tells me that she hasn't been very cooperative in doing her exercises. that explains it. mama is keen on transferring lola to manila so that she can persuade her to take therapy more seriously. we think, lola can easily manipulate lolo. lolo claims that he has given up already in trying to convince her to get stronger. i hope our plan works.