Friday, March 29, 2013

here is auntie angekica(90 )and celine(11) and moi. philippines
loaned 5000 to edgardo.. gaining weight, belly popping, aye ayeyayyy
trying hard to reduce belly pot..

Sunday, March 10, 2013

auntie belen

auntie belen passsed away march 1/13.  massive heart attack.  dave left for edm. feb 26- march 9.  visited his father, his mother and anne. 
the visitation for auntie belen was  very organized.  so as the funeral.  reception at st. dominic's church after the funeral..

trip to the phil..

feb 12.. tuesday,, arrived from the phil.. feb 7.  we cettaily missed the snowstorm,  how lucky can we be.  this time, our holiday to the phil was not well planned. however, from the beginning to the end, our schedule was arranged conveniently and the trip from each place was very comfortable. at the beginning, cres, my HS friend, scheduled our pick-up from the airport.  sr. myrlie was  in the airport terminal, under F... a very frail looking nun, but, very alert. she took us to her convent or office.  the room has 2 beds, shower, and comfortable.  precy my cousin arrived shortly afterr 2 pm.  she took us for a merienda, inihaw,  a crowded place .. the food are assorted merienda meal, pancit, puto bumbomg, chocolate soup (dinuguan) lumpia and many more. 
rene and chris arrived before 4 pm.  had a good chat, i gave precy their pasalubong and money for my aunt.  we headed back to the convent.. slept until cres and co. arrived.  sr. myrlie feed us before leaving for batangas.  i gave some money 50 for her time and pocket money. we were picked-up by doc ed, cres and doc larry.  arrived in sta. clara batangas early morning.. the home of larry's sister , violy was well kept, huged and good facilities.  stayed there for 4 days.  drove to lipa city had halohalo at chow king which dave enjoyed very much.  visited cres's lot in a very expensive private golf  facility.  we also travelled in a farm where fresh buko's were harvested.. we got drunk.. honestly, we all fell asleep upon arriving home.  at night relatives of larry came over for a visit.. saturday, sunday we attended mass then left for polo's reunion. 

brought our 3 big luggages b/c we are heading for baguio.  my cousin ferdinand will pick us in alabang.  the reunion was enveloped with darkest immediately.. too bad, no chanced to take colourful pictures.  a swimming pool, well groomed garden, met the pantaleon's children+apo'sheaded to batangas almost midnight, then monday morning waited for the van to pick us on the way to liliw.  shoe capital of batangas. bought several little bags and shoes for ashley and tiena lyn..arrived in polo's place evening, then waited for ferdinand to get us. hhad a little swim at polo's pool.  ferdinand arrived around 9 pm.  droved straight to baguio.  appx. 3 am we arrived.  mylan, jeffing and celine were there.. sad stories sometimes.  the nexr few days was filled with good, travelling to the mountain, palengke, and around baguio.  by friday we left for manila with everyone.. stayed at la breza hotel..  dave and myself was left in the hotel, took a taxi to shangrila?? hotel.  met all the mission people,(middle aged, retirees like me) boarded the bus that took us to malolos
great time, breakfast with rice, sausage and eggs.  i was trained to dispense medication .. forthe next 5 days this will be my job.  dave was with me with not much to do.  but, i am comfortable he is with me. i can't do this without him.  the first night we had a reception and entetainment, next morning i paid for fruits and pandesal plus our regular breakfast.  we were not too busy.  i search for the lab.. chem, bb, heam, pathology.  so different.  people has to pay for pathological analysis if they wanted slides done from body parts.  wed, a grandiose reception offered by the congresswoman and her husband the governor.  see video.  by friday ferdinand has to pick us again.. there, mylan, celine and jeffing were with him.  arrived at la breza again.
 met ed, neneng and another girl.  the son of nen arrived the next morning, but, i showed him i am not inter4ested in making connections.  we had a swim at the pool saturday , visited auntie angelica, precy in caloocan.. same house, same windows, same same.  hot hot.. excellent food prepared by precy..  sunday,  we left for baguio. using mylan's car.  had only 4 days left.  in baguio we did the zipline, climb the mt, sto. tomas.  bought coffee and berry drinks from a resort place (the first wk in baguio).. bought the bidet, a few souvenirs for gabriel, the boys..
wed, we drove to manila again. stayed at maxim's. pd>300,, dinner with ed, mila (10) >300$.. left the phil , oyong drove us to airport.. bye..
summary\;  jan 15 tuesday left , batangas
                   jan 20 sun reunion, jan 21, liliwjan 22-24 baguio
                   jan 25 mla,
                   jan26-feb1  malolos
                   feb2-6 baguio , mla.
                   feb7 home