Last night in Manila
Peter and I are packing for our return to Hawaii tomorrow morning. We will be leaving my parent's house at 5 a.m. to get there by 6 a.m. for our 9 a.m. flight. It's a holiday tomorrow so we expect light traffic along the major roads leading to the airport.
The weather has been wet and rainy this past week. Classes were suspended for 3 consecutive days. I was happy about this because I was able to spend some time with my mom who's always busy with school and office work. I also spent time with my dad doing home improvement stuff in their house: installing a new toilet, install a new faucet fixture/replace a pvc connection, put in a shut off valve for the water tank, clean-up after the exterminators did their job (at the cost of their dog, Pepper's life, who accidentally licked the pesticide that day), and other minor jobs around the house.
This morning during the English service my mom and I played together, piano and organ, during the Prelude and Postlude; then I accompanied another visiting UPCYMian, Ruby Agnir, during the offertory. Her husband, the retired Rev. Federico Agnir, delivered message.
My mom, Peter and I along with my brother, Jun and his girlfriend, Heidi, went to the new SM City The Block to have lunch at the Healthy Shabu Shabu place, while my Dad was in a pot luck lunch/meeting with the UPCYM alumni.
All in all, our visit here in the Philippines has been very productive, work-wise. Lots more to do so Peter might return before the end of this year again to continue what he had started.
As always, leaving will be hard because my family are all here. But, knowing that we are all connected eventhough we are apart brings me comfort and assurance that we will all see each other again.
I will definitely return next year for three very important things: my Mom's retirement in July, the UPCYM reunion in August, and the U.P. Centennial celebrations and College of Music homecoming in September 6.
For now, thanks for reading our travel blog. I will resume my daily blogging at my other blog:
http://huakai1969.blogspot.com/
Mahalo!
Peter and I are packing for our return to Hawaii tomorrow morning. We will be leaving my parent's house at 5 a.m. to get there by 6 a.m. for our 9 a.m. flight. It's a holiday tomorrow so we expect light traffic along the major roads leading to the airport.
The weather has been wet and rainy this past week. Classes were suspended for 3 consecutive days. I was happy about this because I was able to spend some time with my mom who's always busy with school and office work. I also spent time with my dad doing home improvement stuff in their house: installing a new toilet, install a new faucet fixture/replace a pvc connection, put in a shut off valve for the water tank, clean-up after the exterminators did their job (at the cost of their dog, Pepper's life, who accidentally licked the pesticide that day), and other minor jobs around the house.
This morning during the English service my mom and I played together, piano and organ, during the Prelude and Postlude; then I accompanied another visiting UPCYMian, Ruby Agnir, during the offertory. Her husband, the retired Rev. Federico Agnir, delivered message.
My mom, Peter and I along with my brother, Jun and his girlfriend, Heidi, went to the new SM City The Block to have lunch at the Healthy Shabu Shabu place, while my Dad was in a pot luck lunch/meeting with the UPCYM alumni.
All in all, our visit here in the Philippines has been very productive, work-wise. Lots more to do so Peter might return before the end of this year again to continue what he had started.
As always, leaving will be hard because my family are all here. But, knowing that we are all connected eventhough we are apart brings me comfort and assurance that we will all see each other again.
I will definitely return next year for three very important things: my Mom's retirement in July, the UPCYM reunion in August, and the U.P. Centennial celebrations and College of Music homecoming in September 6.
For now, thanks for reading our travel blog. I will resume my daily blogging at my other blog:
http://huakai1969.blogspot.com/
Mahalo!
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