Due to a combination of homesickness and culture shock I had tried to rationalize a way to go home to Chicago before March 30, my scheduled departure date. The only thing I could come up with is the opportunity to workout all day before I went back to work at the hospital. I could use [...]
Archive for February 19th, 2006
No more excuses.
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Courtship, Filipino-style.
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Over the weekend my two aunts were telling me how my dad would come to the house when he was courting my mom. They were telling me how Lolo (grandfather) would sit in the parlor room with them and give the signal to my dad when it was time to go home. They never left [...]
Anonymous, kind of.
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The one thing nice about being in the city again is that no one outside of my mom’s street knows me. In my dad’s hometown people were coming up to me (drunk, by the way) asking me to buy them a drink. If there’s one way that’ll get me pissed off in a hurry is [...]
Ah, city life.
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It’s nice to be back in the city again. We’re in my mom’s hometown now, Malabon. We’ll be here for at least another week possibly more. I’ve got a lot of things I want to see here like the National Museum, Coconut Palace (Marcos’ former guest house), and a bunch of other things that you [...]
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