After attending the 40th “Death Anniversary” prayer at 11:00am, which really started around 11:45am because Father Johnathan was late — which is typical of Filipino “time of attendance”, the attendees were invited to eat at Milpitas Buffett (in Milpitas, CA), except Manong Ben and his wife “Minh” — both of whom didn’t attend because the guy had a spat with Manong Bert, the guy’s party for his late mother.
The three of us sat with a windower named Fred and a single woman named Poi, who continues to “brag” about everything — from her nephews and nieces posting nonsense on Facebook to traveling in Switzerland. The parishioners know she tends to “overflorish” too much, which doesn’t benefit me or serve the Lord. Even Carlos winked at Maw that Poi had FOUR plates of artery-clogging food!
Maw had sushi and other light food because her tummy hurts. Paw had his filling, too. I had four helpings of plates: 1) stuffed seafood mushrooms, stir-fried mixed seafood vegetables, 2) crispy wonton, one banana fritter, two spears of asparagus; 3) mixed corn, edame soybean pods; and 4) four types of bite-sized cakes — coffee, biscotti, cinnamon and cream-puff.
Later on that Saturday evening, Father Michael lectured about the Gospel in which Jesus asked a woman for some water from the cistern. The priest mentioned that the only way to get the well water, which was deep and in between steep rocks, was by hauling a container with some ropes. The water that he tasted was VERY sweet to the tongue.
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