In the Spanish Catholic calendar, which we brought home from Winchester, CA, November 2 is called The Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed. Do an early morning jogging to the Catholic cemetery near the Magat irrigation canal going east. I pay obeisance to my father-in-law, Vicente Co, and mother-in-law, Alberta Eugenio, whose bones are contained in a big white concrete structure. I am the only person in the area. Opposite it are two large tombs with name plates beneath a newly-constructed shed
My in-laws' tomb was cleaned yesterday, the grasses around it cut and Esteling laid flowers on a glass container on the top. It is a gray day, and drizzles when I start walking on the bridge. Buy two packs of beef Homi noodles and two eggs from the store, which cost P25.00. Cook the noodles mixing it with cracked egg, marunggay and camote leaves, which I picked inside the yard and in front of the house where Raul's Lechon Manok stand is located.
The sun is out and I do the laundry as usual in the old washing machine, with less than half a pack of Ariel powder costing less than P10. Enough for 4 maong pants, a brown polo, brown shorts , a polo and 2 sweatshirts that Anib-Israel purchased in a California store, in Temecula?
It's 11:12 in the morning. I will eat outside, perhaps play tong-it at Jimmy Ang' s place.
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