Life as Usual

Everything's normal and pretty smooth sailing... oh, except for our ongoing bathroom renovation project which left us waterless this morning.

Wednesday was my sister *Liz's bday and although I have a lot of unexplained feelings for her (regret, anger, resentment, ambivalence) I also can't help feeling proud and happy for her. She's obviously trying her best to prop herself up and I really hope she succeeds. She deserves to feel loved and appreciated -- even though that's how we would like to believe we tried to do to her, and we--- I kinda failed. Oh well... I'm still dealing with how to let go of these feelings.

I still fancy myself being the favorite sister of my sisters. And I've come to realize that I may be so NOT.

Life goes on, and we deal with things, whether they be peachy keen or crockful of s**t, the best way we know how.

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I also got some sad news. Terrorist attacks in Jordan and mob riots in France are bad enough even if they happen far away and you wouldn't want that to happen in your country... and sometimes you forget that bad things just happen, without reason.

I learned that a friend of mine was stabbed in Gensan. He was unwinding after a tiring day of work and was enjoying his time with his friends. When he rebuffed something somebody offered him and his group, his friends were beaten and he was stabbed. That's so frightening. Especially since Gensan is so far away from Manila.

To make matters worse, even if he was on official business, the office is flaking on support for his hospitalization! That's why there's insurance coverage, bub. Sure sign of age: when you realize you need all these health plans and life insurance. Cheeeez.

That is so sad.

I hope something good happens this weekend. Not that there weren't some nuggets of beauty and kindness these past few days, there were a lot... but, you kinda gloss over them in the face of unfortunate events.

Tonight, I watch Noli Me Tangere at the CCP and tomorrow, I watch Creeps at Sinag Arts. Hope they're all good.