Birthday celebration
Posted by: Fats in: Fats, Vitamins & Minerals > Takaw at Sursur!Celebrated my mom’s birthday today at home, which was really nice, so much better than celebrating in a restaurant. All my mom’s sisters and brother and their kids and grandkids were here so Alwin was so happy to have cousins to play with. 
It was a wonderful lunch - my sister ordered some food from a catering service they had at work. There was spaghetti, pancit, beef gravy with mashed potatoes, rellenong bangus, embotido, fried chicken, pork barbeque, icecreams, cakes but my favorite was the laing.
After lunch, my mom and her two sisters went to Gateway in Cubao to check out the furniture shop where my mom got her new kamagong wood divan, bed and rocking chair. I felt so happy seeing her going out with her sisters and having fun. She seem to be much happier now after all the pain and trouble I had caused her. Last night she seemed rather depressed when I gave her the flowers and some gifts that came from my ex-partner; basically, she was depressed because I was seeing my ex-partner again.
I was rather depressed last night too, partly also because my cat Fortun is sick. He wouldn’t eat and wouldn’t drink and has been salivating. Before bedtime, I saw him climb the old divan and sit next to the pillows. Seeing Fortun still surviving today made me feel better. Since he doesn’t like visitors too much he often just sits among the boxes and junk at the back of the house. However today, I saw him sitting in the garden. Whenever I call out to him he always answers but would not go near me. Here’s a photo I took from a distance of Forun in the garden.
During her birthday celebration today, my mom seemed to feel much better and much happier. When I got home tonight and I told her that I was at the Healthway Center to accompany m ex-partner to the doctor, she didn’t seem to mind and she was happy all throughout dinner. We had a very happy dinner because Alwin’s dad was here and everything felt happy and just right. It was also so much fun with the family teasing each other.
It really makes it so much easier to deal with my own personal problems when my mom and the rest of the family are happy. I really hope that my mom continues to be happy.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:52 am
what do you mean, you’re seeing that monster again?
grrrr.
December 19th, 2006 at 4:27 am
When I think back, I still wouldn’t regret saying he was indeed a “monster.” In fact, he kept telling me “if you’d seen me years back in Holland…” suggesting he was even more monstrous before! And one of his ideas on “survival of the fittest” suggests that changing the environment changes people, so I can imagine that, despite last few years being there in relative isolation, he was shaped heavily by Dutch society (and his responses to it) over the past 30 years, and perhaps now, contrary to the adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, he has been somewhat changed by the Philippine environment (yes, despite his age). I think Dutch state systems and support (as in other wealthy countries with such welfare and social systems) make it rather easy to survive in isolation, but here, even dead people live in the company of the living!
Life is complex and whatever happens, I certainly wish for the better.