Ising arrived at around 8.00 in the morning,i was still asleep. Then suddenly the phone rang,i said to myself who would this person bothered to call at this time. I picked up the phone and say hello in a low voice. It was my auntie,my late dad's sister,so we talked in less than 3 minutes. I stayed awake instead of getting back to bed. I tried to pick all the dirty clothes and put it in a washing machine. There was this time,when i accidentally sneaked on my brother's house,and i saw the car of my cousin,but i saw two old ladies so i just ignored it and just think that it was my sister-in-law's auntie with the same car as my cousin. So i started putting all the clothes outside where the washing machine was and then the phone rang again,and i said geeh who would this be. The person on the phone was my brother across the road,he told me that my uncle which is my dad's brother will visit me. So i panicked and kept my room tidy and as clean as possible. Ising was just staring at me and i told him that my uncle was coming. What i did while waiting for them was that i prepared the foods for our breakfast and lunch the there it goes the phone rang again and it was my brother again,telling me to go to their house instead. So i change my clothes wearing white masskara tshirt with short and an old dirty blue slipper.
I knocked on my brother's gate and amazing, someone opened it, actually it would take my skin to get burn under the sun until someone open the gate, it was my brother that opened the gate. So i came in and i saw my uncle, then he stood up and started to introduce his wife, which i forgot how does she looks like,the wife sister and the daughter (Laarnie). So i kissed the checks of my uncle and auntie while i blessed on the hand of my auntie's sister. Of course, no one can take away my perfect smile (laughing), so i smiled at them as if i am in a contest, suddenly my auntie (used to be a terror aunt, which would prohibit you everything that is against Chinese culture) told me in Visayan language (Cebuano) that "ikaw ba to and muhilak nga pwerte kalawig, ayaw pag untat", and i smiled confusedly, since i really did not remember if i was that kid or my twin brother. So they started talking, from simple topics to our careers (toinks). This time, i told them that i am rendering a service in a big big big hospital and from the three of us, Laarnie who is a dentist nurse and my brother who has a compensation in the hospital where he works, i am the only one that serve the government with a labor of love. Then there was this point that my uncle asked me, what was your first course prior to my Nursing, i told them Political Science, and asked me how old i am, i said i am 28, and then my uncle said, so you are still young and why did you not proceed to Law (toinks, strike 2), i think i explained something, but suddenly someone cut our conversation, but it was continued asking, how many years was the college of Law, i said, it was 4 years. Then the conversation, went to his brother (uncle), and then they were asking if i was able to see his brother. Their brother was the 3rd oldest from the male siblings and he was strict, very strict, that would even clean everything that he uses, even though you have already cleaned it. Now, their brother was old, with less love from his children i guess, every day he just stays in the city area and talked to his friends and would stay in 3 spots of food chain in Bacolod, i know the one spot since i saw him there, and he was so thin that i could not imagine, since he was not that thin before, he had this flesh and bones and of course he stay the same as a strict person.
My uncle asked me, if i know the place where my cousin was in Eroreco, i told them, i am not sure where it was, but i think i might know if i could go in that street. So we travelled from my brother's house and then they just followed us, when we reached the place, i forgot which way, since my land mark before was this black unused car, but it was not in there, so i gazed around and i saw this gate, thinking it might be the house, so i stepped out of the car and then went to the gate and knocked the door. At first i was not sure, because the person that answered who was it, was i think my niece, but since they were only oriented to their own family, i might consider them as my far nieces (laughing out loud). I was right, the house was my cousins house, there it was my tang xiong di an
d then they invited us inside their house, so we had a short talked and they were looking for his brother but as usual, my tang xiong di, did not knew where he was and did not knew when he left. It was only sad that, no matter how strict your father was, i think he still deserve a little love and concern and my tang xiond di should have known the process of aging, since she is in the filed of healthcare system. So we left the place and i thought we were looking for him, but then we did not, we went to Bar 21 to have our breakfast or maybe it was just a snack.
d then they invited us inside their house, so we had a short talked and they were looking for his brother but as usual, my tang xiong di, did not knew where he was and did not knew when he left. It was only sad that, no matter how strict your father was, i think he still deserve a little love and concern and my tang xiond di should have known the process of aging, since she is in the filed of healthcare system. So we left the place and i thought we were looking for him, but then we did not, we went to Bar 21 to have our breakfast or maybe it was just a snack.When we were inside the bar, we ordered snack foods (merienda), so ordered for batchoy which was ordinary without eggs since i do not like having eggs in my batchoy, while John my brother's friend ordered this Banana Foster (known to be as Banana split) and the rest ordered this Tuna melt bread. The Banana split was served first and it was nice, it had three big scoop of ice cream and a banana split on each side of the boat like shape bowl, and with cherries on it. Then, it followed my batchoy and i was not shocked since i knew they served big bowls in there. My brother and others waited long for the bread, i was expecting that the bread was just small and what was special about it was the ingredients, we were shocked when it was served because the tuna melt was almost 5 inches long, with a base of almost 3 inches and a diameter of 5 inches as well and with its thickness of 1.5 inches, and not only that, it was two pieces of the b read and everybody started laughing. The foods were worth it, since it was cheap enough and i think everybody can afford it. After our snacks, my uncle paid for it and then we went to Sta. Fe , it is a resort that has two big pools with sporting areas and small zoos.
We arrived in Sta. Fe, the entrance gate was hell expensive, it was 25 pesos per persons head. So we settled in one place and then talked, i was talking to Laarnie, and then my brother to my auntie and uncle. It was so amazing that i did not care that they spoke cebuano while i was using ilonggo dialect,and i knew there was some missing words in our communication often times. My brother picked up his kids and relatives, since according to his wife they have an unplanned outing (which fairly i believed). So they had lunch in there at around 1.00 pm while i did not ate because i was still full. At the end of lunch, my uncle asked permission that they would like to go first, so we thanked them because of a once in a blue moon visit and of course they gave me "chi", we walked together upstairs until we were in their car. And then my auntie, which was not my so so so
close auntie, told me before that i will take up Law, and she pointed her pouting lips that my uncle will be the one to cover all the expenses. To my surprise, since the Law story was not in my life anymore and no one ever bothered to blame me why i took up nursing, i smiled at her, without a single word. Then her sister, hold my hands, as if i was that close to her too, and asked me, would you like to go to Olotangga, it is a small island in Zamboanga, where it is very dangerous but it is where their life line is, i smile at her again, and she told me, i will bring you, i will just keep you safe inside the store, and i grinned. She (the sister of my auntie), asked her if i could go, she said, you want to go, yeah you can (in their dialect), but now it is very dangerous because of election (again i grinned and smiled). When they were about to leave, my auntie surprisingly hold my hands and then asked me, promise me (3x i guess), you will take up law. (To my surprise and confusion, i smiled again, since i did not knew what to answer), and then my uncle told me keep your promise in a simple low tone voice (but i did not promised anything) and i could not forget what he told me, we (my uncles and my dad family) wanted to maintain the 2nd generation of our family, we suffered enough before and we strive hard, we want that the 2nd generation of our family to live in harmony, ayaw pug wander for the rest of your life (toinks, i was hit my a bow,lolz). I knew that maintaining the existence of our family is important and that becoming a lawyer was my grandfather's dream to his sons, and the dream of my father, that was almost about to come true when i passed the entrance exam in law school but then it did not came true. And now , it is my dream for someone in the line of our Chinese clan to have a lawyer itself, i asked my twin brother that i will be the one to pay for the tuition of his son once it goes into college as long as he will take up law (lolz). I knew sometimes that i regret why i did not pursue law, but with those regrets, i said to myself, i choose to become a nurse and i should prove to them that i made the right choice, but with all this traps in my life, my hope of proving them that i am right was becoming hazy. I called up my mom and told her what had happened, since my mum and my auntie were enemy since then, she was surprised that my auntie asked me and i told my mum that she was not that so strict, unlike before. My mum told me that, sure
go to college of Law, and she then made a concession that, but you're sister already made a plan for you, we will asked your sister. So while we were on the phone, my sister arrived in their house, since i heard her voice over the phone, and i told her what happened again, and i told her what my auntie told me and she laughed out loud, really. She told me, that why law, you should asked them to send you in school of medicine instead of law. I said to her back, yeah it is true. But you should be cautious since our auntie was good at first and then in the middle of progress her mood will changed. I said okay, if i will decide i will ask for a car and others (lolz), it was just a joke.
close auntie, told me before that i will take up Law, and she pointed her pouting lips that my uncle will be the one to cover all the expenses. To my surprise, since the Law story was not in my life anymore and no one ever bothered to blame me why i took up nursing, i smiled at her, without a single word. Then her sister, hold my hands, as if i was that close to her too, and asked me, would you like to go to Olotangga, it is a small island in Zamboanga, where it is very dangerous but it is where their life line is, i smile at her again, and she told me, i will bring you, i will just keep you safe inside the store, and i grinned. She (the sister of my auntie), asked her if i could go, she said, you want to go, yeah you can (in their dialect), but now it is very dangerous because of election (again i grinned and smiled). When they were about to leave, my auntie surprisingly hold my hands and then asked me, promise me (3x i guess), you will take up law. (To my surprise and confusion, i smiled again, since i did not knew what to answer), and then my uncle told me keep your promise in a simple low tone voice (but i did not promised anything) and i could not forget what he told me, we (my uncles and my dad family) wanted to maintain the 2nd generation of our family, we suffered enough before and we strive hard, we want that the 2nd generation of our family to live in harmony, ayaw pug wander for the rest of your life (toinks, i was hit my a bow,lolz). I knew that maintaining the existence of our family is important and that becoming a lawyer was my grandfather's dream to his sons, and the dream of my father, that was almost about to come true when i passed the entrance exam in law school but then it did not came true. And now , it is my dream for someone in the line of our Chinese clan to have a lawyer itself, i asked my twin brother that i will be the one to pay for the tuition of his son once it goes into college as long as he will take up law (lolz). I knew sometimes that i regret why i did not pursue law, but with those regrets, i said to myself, i choose to become a nurse and i should prove to them that i made the right choice, but with all this traps in my life, my hope of proving them that i am right was becoming hazy. I called up my mom and told her what had happened, since my mum and my auntie were enemy since then, she was surprised that my auntie asked me and i told my mum that she was not that so strict, unlike before. My mum told me that, sure
go to college of Law, and she then made a concession that, but you're sister already made a plan for you, we will asked your sister. So while we were on the phone, my sister arrived in their house, since i heard her voice over the phone, and i told her what happened again, and i told her what my auntie told me and she laughed out loud, really. She told me, that why law, you should asked them to send you in school of medicine instead of law. I said to her back, yeah it is true. But you should be cautious since our auntie was good at first and then in the middle of progress her mood will changed. I said okay, if i will decide i will ask for a car and others (lolz), it was just a joke. To my confusion, i asked Ising, should i go to college of Law, he told me it was up to me, and then i told him, if i go to Law, i would be old enough and i won't enjoy life to the fullest and he proposed something to me that continue my nursing processing and enroll in Law, once your papers are in then quit in Law school. I told at him, what a pretty nice advice with a very unaccepted idea.
So i asked him to go with me, because i wanted to have my haircut done, but then we did not, instead we watched Clash of the Titans at around 6.50 p.m, and we waited there for an hour. I will give my critics to the movie, since i was not so happy with the arrangement of the story, although i was so happy with the graphics of it. One sort of advice, read the books of Greek mythology before you watch this 2010 Clash of the Titans and try to watch the old Clash of the Titans movie first, which was in 1951, for it has a much clearer story than the new one.
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