Catching up

I get to catch up now on events. Last Wednesday, the day before I left to come back to the Philippines:

• I debuted my tight (girl's size medium) Alice Cullen shirt in public.
• I caught Moe at the Scream Shop to exchange contact info since that store was closing within a couple of days.
• I visited Brian at the GNC to discuss meeting with Johnny on Thursday, Brian's normal day off, under the guise of teaching Johnny to fight, but really to talk him out of going through with the gang trouble that he inherited from his brother. But Brian had to work on Thursday because GNC's shipment was late. Friday's long passed and I hope Johnny's OK.
• I went to church for Ash Wednesday. I saw Marius from high school. I've busted a #3 lots of times to his older sister Kit and I shook his hand with my hand that I use to do it. By the way, the chick in front of me in line for communion was jackoffable.
• Finally, I visited my Capoeira group for the 1st time since last December. They actually applauded when I walked through the door! Those present: Andres, the 2 Jesses, Kevin, Diana, Louis, and 2 new students - a little boy named Shane and a skinny guy named Carlos (not to be confused with Carlos now in Nebraska or Diana's Carlos).

I was supposed to come back to training on Friday, but had to break the news about going back to the Philippines the next day for my then dying aunt (Auntie Zelda passaed away hours later).

ANDRES: We were just talking about how we were gonna get you on Friday!

They loved the Alice Cullen shirt I was wearing, particularly how it was so tight that it made me look buff as I was "popping out of" it. Diana and I had a "hair battle" that ended with her whining, "You're supposed to say my hair's better!"

ANDRES: (teasing) It's all about Team Jacob.
JESSE II: (looking at the ashes on my forehead) I didn't know you were Catholic.
DIANA: (at me) I chose Team Jacob.

At one point, Andres accidentally called Shane "Taylor" and blamed it on me (as in Taylor Lautner, who plays Twilight's Jacob Black - my doppelganger). God I've missed these guys.

I went back to the Glendale Galleria to visit a store called Trend Theory that was going out of business by Sunday. I bought a pair of white dress shoes for about $20 that were originally $60. Thank God it came with a shoe horn. The cashier remarked that he forgot it was Ash Wednesday. The next day I came back just to put in my database some chick who was working there. I couldn't tell if she was Latina or Indian (as in from India, not Native American). And she had an accent I couldn't tell the origin of. It was noticeable she had acne on her cheeks that she covered with makeup. But she was jackoffable enough.

The rest is history. Auntie Aida and Uncle Mon picked my mommy and I up from the airport. The funeral was in some part called Gerona in a village called Tarlac, all in a jungle. People mistakenly thought it was my dad who died instead of his sister. That's actually the 2nd time that mistake has happened!

VILLAGE DUDE: I heard you had an operation. What for?
DAD: Only cancer.
VILLAGE DUDE: Only cancer?!

I slept in the dilapidated house my mommy grew up in. The next night, I slept in the dilapidated house Uncle Ben (Auntie Zelda's late husband) grew up in. What a shit hole this whole weekend took place in. I forced myself into hybernation to escape by sleeping for more than 12 straight hours. But I'm back in Metro Manila.