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2016 Highlights and #Lifegoals for 2017

January 2, 2017 / Filed Under: about me, New Year

2016 Highlights and #Lifegoals for 2017

Happy New Year! How was your start of the year? Were you able to wait for the clock to strike midnight? Did you celebrate with friends? family? a reunion?

I could say that my start of the year went really well. I was able to celebrate with the most important people in my life but let me start this year with the highlights of my 2016.

2016 wasn’t only filled with ups and downs like what went on with most of us. For me, it was a bit of a struggle. I was juggling Twinkle, a homebased job, no helper, and everything else in between.

And my year started with death…

My Tatay’s Wake and The day of His Cremation

January 13, 2016 / Filed Under: about me, family, peach moment

It has been five days since my tatay’s cremation and it’s only now that I’ve had the courage to take a look at all the photos and remember once again.

The wake was like a mini-reunion for all my relatives on both my father and my mother’s side. We were all there to show our love and offer prayers to my tatay who had gone to be with our creator.

My tatay’s bff, Mang Pedring and his daughter was there as well as Mang Teddy’s daughter. Kumareng Badet and my bff, Bren also came. I was surprised to see a many of our neighbors and I couldn’t thank them enough for their condolences.

I was touched when Chele and Jerome of my Stratworks Family came, I felt the love and sympathy.

I know I couldn’t thank each and everyone but I’d like to say thank you to all those who offered their sympathy, condolences, and prayers.

January 7, 2016

My tatay’s cremation is scheduled at 3pm. That morning, sis and my tita eva started cleaning out some of the drawers and cabinets at home. Sis found my nanay and my tatay’s senior citizen’s booklet in one of the drawers. We’ve been looking for it for almost a month! My nanay kept it but since she had been having problems remembering things (nag-uulyanin na), she didn’t remember where she kept it when we needed it.

Together with the senior citizens booklet were cards I gave my tatay back when I was still in grade school and some of his photos. Plus a cut out of a poem from a magazine or a newspaper. These things he kept in his drawer for as long as I can remember. I never paid much attention to the poem up until that thursday morning.

Tears came streaming down my eyes when I started reading it…..

Rest In Peace, Tatay. You will be missed.

January 4, 2016 / Filed Under: about me, family, peach moment

My tatay passed away yesterday morning.

We discovered he has cancer early last year. It was a stage 1 cancer in which he underwent treatments.
It was a battle he was prepared to fight. It was a battle we were all prepared to fight. He had such a jolly personality and such an optimistic outlook on life that I knew he would be able to make it.

Then came the deep vein thrombosis last November 15 which weakened him and got him bed ridden. He lost his appetite and his body became weak that he wasn’t able to make it to his cancer treatments.