MARGIENARY

CFM, Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya - I am home now, at last!  We arrived from Manila early Saturday morning.  We left for Sta. Clara (a village south of Bambang) after a few hours of sleep to go to my uncle's funeral.  It was raining that day and the road going up the mountains was so muddy and slippery that at one point, the men had to pull the double-tired jeep when it got stuck in the mud but the strength of  four men was no match to the heavy iron and steel and rubber weight of the jeep.  We could have left it there but it was carrying 3 sacks of rice and a huge pig that's going to be butchered at the funeral.  Anyway, some men came down from the village and they helped us free the jeep from the mud and so off we went until we reached the part of road where going on with the vehicle is no longer an option.  We abandoned the jeep there and started hiking.  It was good I listened to my husband when he told me to wear...

I just unearth some pictures of my people back in the 60s. I can't believe we used to look like this... :)

As always the case when I stay in Manila a little bit too long, the results are dulled senses and inexplicable laziness. After barely a week here, I started counting the days when I can finally go back home to the mountains. Anyhow, three weeks more to beat and I’ll be gone for good. The heavy rains caused the PAGASA to postpone classes even in the postgrad level last Thursday and so the rainy days gave me a lot of free time in my hands that was spent reading One Night With the King (Hadassah)-the fictionalized story of Queen Esther of Susa in Persia less than a hundred years B.C. I saw the movie too but I think the movie did not do half a justice to the book. The script seemed to have failed to include some very essential scenes. I also started reading the latest Harry Potter book. Somewhere along the middle of the book, I got tired and switched to watching Season 1 of the famed tv series Prison Break. Besides the fact that Wentworth Miller is cute (haha) and Domini...

As always the case when I stay in Manila a little bit too long, the results are dulled senses and inexplicable laziness. (So TB, you must understand why the mortar was still here even after two weeks in the page.:) After barely a week here, I started counting the days when I can finally go back home to the mountains. Anyhow, three weeks more to beat and I’ll be gone for good. The heavy rains caused the PAGASA to postpone classes even in the postgrad level last Thursday and so the rainy days gave me a lot of free time in my hands that was spent reading One Night With the King (Hadassah)-the fictionalized story of Queen Esther of Susa in Persia less than a hundred years B.C. I saw the movie too but I think the movie did not do half a justice to the book. The script seemed to have failed to include some very essential scenes. I also started reading the latest Harry Potter book. Somewhere along the middle of the book, I got tired and switched to watching Season 1 of the f...

I know it is an old bottle but why does it have a hole in its base? Does anybody know if it's worth anything? They said it weighs more than a kilogram but I do not know what it is made of.