internet was down

when i was a little girl the rains would come and the power would go. couped up in a the house with no electricity and just our imagination to keep us afloat (no pun intended) we needed creativity to stay amused.

that was an excerpt from my 365 entry but there was a bigger story and a hella lot more pictures to that than i posted...

we weren't exactly sitting in the dark but the internet was down for FOUR days! looking at these pictures you might say we went stir crazy but really we were just having fun. cosmetics, a willing victim, a household of entertainers and a trigger itchy camera finger later we had a montage of insanity. it's too bad i'm not as handy with a video camera. these would make for some great home movies.

discombobulated

is that even a word? really? i feel as confused as it sounds. we went to go see eagle eye the other day. great movie by the way! it comes at a perfect time. the 25th anniversary of wargames. but i digress...

sometimes i come out of a movie theater and get really turned around. a piece of me gets left behind in that dark theater... my sense of direction. i get so engaged in the movie i forget which path i took to get there. this time it went a little farther. american actors, cold air and the lack of humidity in the room made me think i was home. HOME! that was the term i had floating in my head as the credits rolled thru the screen. the conversation around me snapped me out of my american haze and brought me back to manila. it was then that i realized how i used the term HOME.

in the past, home meant a warm bowl of sinigang, laughter around the table with family and a world full of greenery. now it was a freezing theater and an american accent? i was somewhat surprised by my disorientation. it made me pause.. i guess i have 2 homes. from the colder side of the world i would think of home and sigh at how much i missed it, here i am now in that place wishing i could easily jump back.

dual citizenship has its pros and cons. i can never have both worlds easily. i can never bring all that i love and cherish into one place. i can never be truly home.

church candles

say a prayer, light a candle, hope for the best.  the church of manaoag is the home to the shrine of our lady of manaoag.  people flock to this church daily to pray for a miracle. 

mariles' bday

we made it in time for my sister's bday (mariles)!  we had lunch at this neat lil restaurant.  you go thru the wet market next door.  buy all your fresh seafood and have the restaurant cook it up for you.  THAT's what i call seafood shopping!