Weekends

I was born and raised in Pampanga. Don't laugh, but I don't know how to speak Kapampangan. My tatay's an artist and the reason why we're in Pampanga is because he worked in a gallery and painted for his employer. Eventually, my parents built their own business by setting up our own gallery.

So our house is connected to the gallery. This means, our parents were stay at home parents because, simply, they run the business from home. Interesting, huh?

Me and my siblings all work here in Manila. So oftentimes, when we're not too busy, we go home to Pampanga and stay there over the weekend. Most of the time, we'd hitch a ride with Wenna.



Always, it felt like we are going on a long road trip, LOL. We would prepare our clothes, and even go to our favorite stop over - Burger King! We'd buy Mocha Joe(s) and Onion Rings. If we haven't eaten yet, we'd throw in a burger. Yum!



I probably just miss home. We didn't go home this weekend because we had to bring Wenna to the NAIA for her 2-week trip to Australia.

Sigh. I miss my bed. And cable {yup, we don't have cable here!}. And home-cooked meals.

Numbness and Pain .. Part 1

I just finished reading Breaking Dawn last weekend and had nothing else to read so, I am currently reading this book by Philip Yancey: "Where is God When it Hurts?". Sounds emotional, eh? Just borrowed it from one of my officemates/dgroup sisters, Kate. It's a bit a heavy read because you have to be really alert and awake when reading this.

Being the nerd that I am, I like how the facts were well investigated/researched. On the first part of the book, it talked about how we should be grateful that we can experience pain. Physically, this is the time when our body's screaming at you and telling you to STOP and take a rest. Or change something about your lifestyle. Like when we feel headaches or when we have sudden stomach pains - this should be a wake up call for you, to have yourself checked and see what's actually wrong with your body.

On this book, he also mentioned that some diseases (that I never knew about until I read this book!), the people inflicted by it, never ever experience or feel any pain. Limbs literally fall off because they don't feel that something's wrong with that part of their body and that it's too late for them to have it fixed. It was striking to know too that some become blind because they cannot feel the water that they use when they wash their faces, that there are times when, the water's too hot and they use it to wash their faces. Since they can't feel anything, they don't see the need to close their eyes while waching their faces with scalding water!

It was horrible learning about this - horrible to learn tha this is what our brothers and sisters experience, the ones inflicted with Leprosy. I have always thought that this disease was never about being numb -- what I knew as that, it was CONTAGIOUS. I'm not sure where I got that - I think it came more from the movies/tv shows that I watched when I was a kid.

What do you think about this:

To be able to feel pain, or to be too numb to feel it?

There are still a lot of good stuff in this book that I'm reading, and most definitely, I'll be sharing it with you.

When I run into some really good stuff, I'll just post it here.

See ya!

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