POST-HOLIDAY THOUGHTS...

my last official day in davao. i'm not psychologically prepared to go back to Manila. for the first time in 7 years, i felt at peace being at home. i actually started thinking of the possibility of working and living here in Davao. there are a lot of problems in the family but i didn't feel the need to escape them anymore. i felt that i could and should help. and i say that without grudge or bitterness of heart. i guess the only thing holding me back is Bucky. also maybe the job opportunities in Manila. I'll give myself a deadline. If I can't find a good job that i'm happy with by the end of the year, I'm going back to Davao.

so much for serious thoughts.

my days here in davao started out slow. For approx 3 days, i was just in the house, watching VCD and playing PC with my bros (and getting addicted to SIMS!), or doing the chores. then we went to my aunt's wedding in Kidapawan (Dec26). I saw my ickle cousins, my aunts, and uncles. it was fun but stressful. they came with us to davao to visit lola's bro who was just recuperating from a bad stroke. we also went to SM for the kiddie's toy shopping (stressfull.....). after they all left on dec28, we cleaned the house (coz the helper was fired) for new year. had a day's rest on 30 pero went to the ADDU Alumni Reunion at around 10pm. had lots of batchmates there. pero meron ding hindi pumunta for reasons unknown to us. on that night, we, headed by robert, had a meeting for our ADDU HS 96 reunion. we started getting the names of the people and their phone nums. hopefully, we'll have a good turn-out next december. on 31, my mom and i went shopping and did the groceries for the new year's eve. by the time we went to mass at 8pm, mom was dizzy with hunger, i with exhaustion. when we came back home we had dinner at 10pm. we didn't get to celebrate the eve like we used to. just clanging the calderos and that was it. we were just so tired. jan1: cleaned the house and planned for beach. jan2: went to beach with friends. jan3: cleaned onchie's room. jan4: check email and ukay-ukay. jan5: BACK TO MLA. arg!