I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes in curiosity
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
-Scorpions

woke up kinda out of it. its a good thing i got my senses together in time. well... not quite... sorry ninang!

spent the day with tita lot. she fed me putobongbong for breakfast then we left for her house where she freshened up. while she was doing that, i was left on the bed eating peanuts. i got up every now and then and wandered around. i found some pictures on the shelves... of us in jordan. i was so... small, haha. tita was fond of panoramic shot. theres a pic of a whole group of us spread across this line of pillars... astig. and there were pics of me, tita lot, mom, dad... all dressed in real arabian outfits. i remember how heavy the headdress felt on me. there was on of us in punta fuego (which was not so long ago)... in front of the vacation house of tito noelle. i loved the night sky twice as much there. it was so full of stars... and you could see so many 'falling' in the horizon... i think i lost count of how many wishes i made. and the moon was so bright and seemed so near. tito even had a telescope, and he showed me a planet, although i've forgotten which one. add to that the sound of the waves crashing gainst the cliffs.

anyway... we ate lunch at pasto in greenhills, then went shopping for a few tops (i ended up with a pink shirt... wah). then we met up with tita merle who had just got in from the states and went to look at the work of gawad kalinga in cainta and taytay. mass at christ the king... i hadnt been there in quite a while. i was shocked to find the place... airconditioned. wahahaha. sound system still sucked though.

we went to visit the crypt of tita lot's dad under the church. i passed one grave and something caught my eye. a card... child's handwritting and drawing... "happy holloween ate". i looked over at the dates on the tablet casually... then froze...

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april 27, 1998
april 28, 1998