Memories of Ilocos 2009 (DAY FOUR: Ditoy Ti Paapan Iti) 5-1-09

Spend 1.5 days in Pagudpud before headingh back to Currimao

Memories of Ilocos 2009 (DAY THREE: Paso de Blas) 4-30-09

From this point on, people other than me took shots on several photographs :D



^Update to ng isang magandang kuha sakin from 07

Memories of Ilocos 2009 (DAY TWO: Naragsak Iya Isasangbay) 4-29-09

Witness the bromance brewing between the two "Magpinsang Sangko"

Memories of Ilocos 2009 (DAY ONE: Dios Ti Kumuyog) 4-28-09

Yes! After two years, the trip to Ilocos finally went ahead as scheduled, with me included. Last year didn't work out for reason ranging from 1)unavailability from members of the Sibucao clan and 2)No LOA's were approved to many who wanted to come.

I had summer class that time, taking my advanced crash course in Business Mathematics (Bmat2x) in school, occupying 4 weeks of my 5 week summer break.

At least natuloy right?




*To check out my previous album from 2 years before, click on: Memories of Ilocos

When She Left Me Part 6

       The play became a success and many of the student participants knew that they did a good job. No parent is as happy as Larry who is all the more jubilant to see how great his children are on stage. Together with Finz and his kid, they all head out to the school's parking lot where their car is parked.

      As they're about to leave the premises, Larry came across a familiar face.

"Marla?"

     Marla was watching them from afar but she doesn't want her husband nor even her kids to see her. She ran but Larry followed her, trying to know what's going on. He had Finz look after the twins in the meantime.

    He looked everywhere inside the school. Feeling hopeless, he texted Finz and told him to let the twins stay at his house for the night. Just as he was about to search elsewhere, he heard sound as if someone's coughing really hard.

     The sound is comin from the girl's restroom. Thinking that no other person is there except who he thought is in it, he went inside. He caught Marla at the most unfortunate time:

She was throwing up blood.

"MARLA?!"

"Larry? What are you doing here?"

"I was looking for you but I saw you....here and..."

"Yes honey...I know what you're thinking. I have cancer?"

"SINCE WHEN?!!"

"I had this since I was a little girl..."

"But...I don't understand. I mean--"

"My family has a long history of having cancer...but it's a long story, Larry. I just don't want you to bear the fact that i'm dying!"

"No, I want to know! Never once have you told me anything that makes you feel any comfortable! You never uttered a single word of what you wanna have instead. I just don't get why AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, you just---let it happen. I don't get you Marla, even after all the years we've been together, I thought everything between us is okay..."

"IT'S BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID, LARRY! I'm afraid of what you'd think of me once you found out I have cancer in all the years we've been together..."

"If you told me sooner, I would have helped you!"

"There's nothing that you can do Larry! I found a lump on my breast seven months ago. I made a visit to the doctor and received the WORST PIECE NEWS I HAD IN MY WHOLE LIFE...that I have Stage 3 breast cancer."

Marla broke into tears...

"I thought I was recessive because both of my parents didn't have cancer. But I knew that sooner or later I'll be the one with a genetic disease!  But early on, I already planned out my life but everything was out of control!"

"You shouldn't blame yourself for something none of us has any control with it...You just have t be strong...", Larry tried to comfort her.

"Strong?! Is THIS what you called "strong"?", Marla points to herself as she continues.  "The reason I filed the damn annulment is because I don't want to live with some guy who always think that everything's going to be okay. Guess what? I'm NOT OKAY?! The moment I learned that I was pregnant, I thought the world is going to end."

Larry tries to reason with her but she's blinded by her anger towards the poor guy.

"Because of those kids, I never had the chance to live a life free of worries and responsibilities. At least I only have me and my family to worry about. And I have my own dreams that I want to fulfill. But because of you, none of what I want to achieve in my is ever going to happen."

"Yes I know but we can't changed what happened. Even if we didn't married, you know you're still going to have OUR kids whether you like it or not!", said Larry.

"But that's just IT! Aughh, Larry! Don't you get it?! I never wanted to have kids to begin with? I don't want them to inherit the kind of disease that I have...Hell, I don't even want them to suffer the same fate as I am having now!"

After hearing all of these things, Larry collected his thought for a minute before he could say anything else.

"And that's the reason you want to annul our marriage? To get away from me and from our own children, not knowing that you are dying from something we can't cure?"

"Honey, you know how much I love you. You mean so much to me. The moment I laid my eyes on you I know from that point on that you're going to be the one I want to be with for the rest of my life. Life as we know is never what we intent to be but we have to embrace life as it is. We made a mistake but this mistake became our pride and joy, and they're two of them. It's impossible that after all these years you didn't learn to love your own children? You gave brith to them for God's sake. And you showing up for our kids' play tonight meant something for sure..."

    And from that point on, Marla made a life-changing realization. She cannot turn her back as a mother for her own two children. She knew that she cannot avoid the problem she made years ago. Marla did love Larry for the right reasons, it's just that her ambition to live her life in full had her blinded from the very things she want to achieve in life.

All of these she said to Larry just before...

"Marla...Marla? MARLA?"

To be continued...

When She Left Me Part 5

           Karla kept asking her dad if their mom is coming to the play. But for every question she throws to her dad, he only gives her one answer: "I'm not sure". Yuichi, who's already in his pirate costume, is already about to cry when he asked Larry this heartbreaking question: "Doesn't Mommy love us anymore?".

    Larry assures his kids that their mom loves them so much. He also told them that they are not to blame for whatever it is is happening between their parents. But heaven knows he's lying.

The dad is worried if the mom is ever going to attend. He already sent a barrage of text messages to her phone but still no reply. Finz suddenly came into the picture, asking if how thing's are doing about the annulment thing. (FYI, Finz got kid of his own who goes to the same school as the twins. Who knew?)

"I'm not sure. I really haven't heard from Marla since God-knows-when. Hell, it must have been seven or eight months since she left me and our kids on our own."

"But you still love her right?", out pops Finz' forbidden question.

"I still love her. I love her for right reasons. I know she loves me too. I would have understand if she hates me for what happened in the past but marrying me means something right?"

"It may have meant something...But it is possible that it may have meant something else?"

"Finz, I don't know what to do. I'm so confused. I...just can't believe that Marla is actually leaving me...for good!"

"Hold on to your tears dude. You don't want your kids to see you like that, you know."

"You're right. I should be strong for my kids. I know we could get through this somehow."

      It's past 4:30pm and the play is about to start. Many from the audience are in their seats, awaiting for their little ones' spot in the limelight. The same goes to Larry who continue to try and keep things together with his kids.

     As he sees Yuichi and Karla singing and dancing, he couldn't stop himself smiling in tears. He's so proud as a dad to witness what could be his kids' best moments in their lives, yet he knows it won;t be complete without their mom.

    Speaking of "mom". Amidst the crowd of parents inside the school theater, one familiar rose is found there among the thorns, standing at the very back.

It's Marla and it turns out she got Larry's messages after all. She sees Larry but the guy didn't notice.

In silence, she uttered a few words:

"I'M SORRY..."

To be continued...

The CSB Experience 2: Sched Update

Here's a sched update as to whose class I'll be for next term next school year:

M
1. 2DANIM DMA1 8-11am A1106 (N/A)
2. WEBDEV DMA2 2:45-5:45pm A1103 (Santiano, KD)

T
1. CNCPTHO DMA4 8-11am A1114 (Gregorio, JB)
2. 3DANIM DMAA 2:45-5:45pm A1003 (Borres, AN)

W
1. VIDPRD1 DMA8 8-11am A1101 (De La Cruz, AM)

H
1. CADVIS1 DMA8 2:45-5:45pm A1107 (Latumbo, JC)

I may start blogging new entries starting either tomorrow or next week before the 28th. :D