The current time is 09:00AM and we have arrived from morning mass and Sunday breakfast. I’ve logged online and read my usual dose of articles from my favorite websites and of course this activity makes me think too much. One website seems to be down for the past few days. Hmmm.
So I heard Paw walk twice upstairs and knock three times in two rhythmic sets on my bedroom door of ‘tock, tock, tock.’ Of course, I said sleepily, ‘No!’ Then at 06:43AM, I heard the same rhythmic knocks again from downstairs and in ten minutes I found myself waiting in the car on the driveway and had the heater turned on.
After two minutes of waiting for my parents, we headed to church and drove over the freshly oiled avenue. The crunchy sounds of little pellets were heard hitting the underneath of the car as I made my way to the very end before exiting to another road.
So there we were sitting in the mass and the sermon was said by a very old Filipino priest. His sermon is long-winded and almost academic. For whatever reason, he mentioned the story regarding Ben Hur. I have not read the novel and have yet to get my grubby hands on a nice copy soon (and possibly sometime this week).
The priest described something about Ben wanting his freedom and something about water as the gift of life. I did not ‘nap’ with my eyes closed during this particular sermon out of boredom and sleepiness from being awake too early from my normal time in the morning. All I got out of this sermon was to understand; be patient and find any shred of humanity left.
Breakfast was scrambled eggs, fried rice, tosino (fried pork strip) and longanisa (fried pork sausage). Atchara, which is sweetened pickled veggies to help to digest the meal, was included. Now we are off of walk in the mall, pick up the two sharpened knives and get my gel mouse pad. Paw knocked on the wall and it’s time to go. Bye for now. 09:18AM.
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