Of pets and life

I have grown up in a very large household with a very large extended family of pets. My earliest memory would always have pets on it. We've had cats and goats and chickens and dogs, always dogs. We're never without dogs. Our pets are always treated as younger siblings. They'd always be addressed as "Uli na Krooky, gitawag naka ni Mommy" with matching "Uli na, suko na raba to si Mommy!" Hahaha, yeah, we're like that. There was a point when we had a Kaber, which was treated like a donkey a dog and a toy truck on leash. That chick was so huge, we can hug it without difficulties. One rainy day, as all chickens do, it sat on the top off our little back house, still with it's leash. It fell down a drum filled with water (it was empty but the rain filled it up) and it drowned, we weren't able to save it. My mom, cooked the chicken for us but me and my brother didn't ate a bite. We didn't ate chicken for 2 weeks until we are 100% sure that it wasn't Kaber that we're eating.

My Easter Weekend

Summer is here...finally! 

I went to Bantayan on the weekend of the Holy Week for a much needed escape from the city. This is the first time that I have ever travelled alone to Bantayan. The ferry ride shook me (literally and figuratively speaking). The tide was huge and the wind was strong. If I didn’t had a strong stomach, my entire breakfast and lunch would have gone down the drain. Stayed on the beach for only a couple of hours, it was packed! It was also my first time ever going to Santa Fe Beach on the weekend of the Holy Week; we usually go there the Monday after Easter, when the crowd already left the island. The real gem of my visit was the time spent with my nieces. One was skinny and small-framed like me and the other one is all big-bones and booming-voice, but they bonded so well that we had to sleep on my cousin's house without toothbrush and change of clothes for a night. They would stop playing until they dropped dead of exhaustion! It was one of the happiest moments I have with them, and I may never get another chance.
My Bantayan Holy Week visit? Short but definitely a blast!