moving on.
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so my recent trip to manila wasn't the most ideal one, but i believe i still made the most out of it. i focused on the funeral and burial the first 6 days, and it was only the last 2 days that i was able to do whatever it is that i want to do. i didn't go and meet tons of people, because of the fact that i felt that it would be part of my sacrifice - to be honest, i am thinking of cancelling all my xmas meet ups as well.

anyway, here are some photos:


funeral was held at sanctuarium along araneta ave. they have the best service and i really admire their staff - they make you feel like you dont need to worry about stuff, i know this because i coordinated a lot of things with them.


when i stayed for the night, i didn't want to sleep, cause i would not be able to sleep properly anyway. i stayed up, lighted the incense every 30 minutes, and watched gossip girl with bespwet. she volunteered to stay with me.


everytime we come from a funeral, we have to go someplace else to do 'pagpag', since its a chinese belief that you might be able to bring the spirit with you when you go directly home, thats why you need to either stop for coffee, or just drink water in a gasoline station, but you definitely need to stop and step down. so here is a picture of me and my cousins doing pagpag, white is our color when we mourn.


i was able to catch twilight in manila. it shows dec 18 here in singapore, and that sucks. whats good is that, mom and ags accompanied me to watch it in trinoma, the movie was not so good. :(


i passed by dimensione in trinoma, i was thinking if i am living in manila, then definitely i would shop there almost always.

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today is my big preso, and in the afternoon, am off to phuket for a mini break.