Life’s Lessons

Happy birthday to my brat sister, Che-Che!

Been itching to post about my cousin’s funeral several weeks back but thanks to the slow upload speed of my ISP that until now I am not yet done uploading all the photos in flickr. I don’t wanna post the photos directly to my blog because it will eat up disk space that’s why I always count on flickr or photobucket. Anyway, I’ll rather post the photos from my facebook account so I’ll just have to copy the URLs.

one…twenty one guns….The twenty-one gun salute.

After the funeral, we were gathered at their house for lunch. I am dying to have my photo taken carrying one of the guns so I asked Ace to take a photo of me. Hey, we no longer have a cousin in the Military so this would probably be the last time that we brush elbows with the men in uniform. Ace was a bit hesitant but I am determined so I made the first move and almost everybody followed. Boy, the gun is so heavy!

Here’s a photo of the team who served as coffin guards 24/7. Two of them stood by the coffin for 2 hours on rotation.

group hug with relatives and the Armies

the men in uniform with Vivian (my cousin’s wife) and son Vintoy (in red)

Ace’ sick leave is over so as mine. We need to go back to the real world and continue doing what we need to do for a living. Hence, I am home alone during the day (again!). I wish we could both work from home. But since we still cannot afford for Ace to leave the rat race this soon, I have to accept the fact that it will be just me and the dogs around here. Here’s hoping everything will be settled and we will be given a chance for Ace to work from home so he won’t be going out to work and come home to have dinner and rest.