Reminisce...
arrival: April 13,2006, exactly 5:53 am at Tandayag Wharf, Tampi, Negros Oriental. We ride a PUJ bound for Amlan municipal office then a tricycle to Tambojangin, our destination where a wake is waiting for the time of interment at 9:00 in the morning.
The place? It is more like our place in Bohol. One of the edge the place got is the electricity and i am experiencing it the first hand with my gurl and her mother. Its her mother's side so i'll have the chance to meet the rest of the Ramirez clan. Well, not all actually, because there are some who did not make it back home and still in the other region seeking greener pasture.
The burial? Same procedure, only this time the layman did the blessing because the priest is busy.(they say that maybe he celebrates the holy thursday with his family. not sure though, i don't know)... After the mass and the blessing we walk straight to the cemetery and then back home... We had a nice meal and an early good night sleep. Talking about and early sleep, that was the first time since September when i was still in Manila. Imagine, i sleep around 7:00 to 8:00 in the evening and woke up around the same hours or later than that.
April 14, 2006. Good Friday and our second day in Negros. We had our breakfast with coffee and milk. At around 10:00 to 11:00 in the morning, we went under the bamboo tree by the river bank. It was a sunny day but the breeze is cool specially under the tree. Lots of kids and teens swim, play and bathe in the river. The river has a clear running water because of its rocky basin... time passed and envy came, we decided to take a bath in the river and ask one of my honey's cousin to go with us. We bathe, fix ourselves and spent the rst of the afternoon chatting, cuddling and daydreaming in the cottage near the river. That was the most wonderful afternoon spent in Negros so quiet, breezy air and alone with my honey. By the sunset we played "tong-its" together with her cousin and had dinner in her auntie's place. Her older cousin, Irish invited us to go to there place on Saturday which was the supposed date for us to leave for Cebu. supposedly, because we agree to her cousin's invitation... back in her grandmother's house, we played card games until the rest of us fell sleepy and called it time for bed, that was around 10:00 to 10:30 in the evening.
April 15, 2006, 7:00 in the morning, we ready ourselves without taking a bath and went to her cousin's house in a pedicab. We drop by in her auntie's house(Irish mother) on our way to Irish's crib. We climb up and down a mountain to reach their place. The place is nice on the hill top, sugar cane field on the front yard and a cool wind. We had our breakfast and lunch with an hour or two intervals. We ate "seniguylas" and some junkfoods then we head back to Irish mother's house. The house is located by the sea shore(not white sand though) and its nice. Roxanne and me, had our short moment in the shore. We stroll, talk on stuffs and laugh. In the shore, she scribbled, "I LOVE YOU FELIPINO CASTORICO my honey" with her signature and so i also scribbled "ROXANNE my LIFE" in gothic. After she read what i wrote in the sand and exchange words of i love you's and kisses, she guides me in a distant feet away. It touch me when she added, "till death do us part" in the sand... everything stop at that very moment then the world starts to move in slow motion, she smiled and i turned into violet(i never blushed because im dark in complexion)... we walk, holding hands, laughing and sometimes i carry her on my back... when her cousin called and that it is time to go home, and the world rotates in normal-fast motion. When we reach Tambojangin, it was already late afternoon, left us a few minutes to take a bath before six and so we rush to the river and bathe. Again, we had our supper in one of her auntie's place. Bloated still a ate and after the supper we watched family pictures then went home for a short talke and rest. The following morning will be the day to say goodbye to her relatives and a 5 hours travel by bus...
it really feels good when i sit and reminisce this one.