A funeral and sore throat

Okay. So my dad came home from China now. And the first thing that my mom told us was that we’re now grandparents — our cousin’s kids have kids now. To which my sister asked her, “Why are you so happy? That means you’re great grandparents now (referring to her and my dad)!” 

So then we went to the room to view the pictures from the wake and funeral. And we noticed one thing:

The guys are BALDING.

Oh man. I’m so glad I’m not a guy! Add to that the fact that my dad’s hairs fast becoming white–it’s a disaster (old age)!

Oh. Interesting fact. We have an uncle who’s a science teacher, and one who used to be an Olympic swimmer. Yay.

Oh. And dad had this weird black thing on his eyebrows earlier this evening.

My sister asked, “What happened to your eyebrows?”

My dad went, “I’m dyeing it black. White eyebrows are scary.”

This comes from the same guy who gave our dog a Strepsil because, according to him, doggie had a sore throat.

HAHAHA.

I LOVE MY DAD. 

My Dad: The Big Spender

If you have to know, my father used to have a Globe postpaid plan which cost us around Php2000 a month. When he went to China for a year, my mom “inherited” the line and I got hers. Now dad’s back and mom finally ditched the 2k line. I gave her back hers and dad’s now a prepaid user.

If you check his account balance, you’ll see that he has 5400 free texts. He was in China from late 2006 to early 2007. So that’s a year and a few months that he’s been back.

A Globe 300 denomination load has 35 free texts. But he doesn’t usually load a 300. Sometimes, he loads a 100 denomination load, and sometimes, mom uses GCash to load his account.

Roughly calculating that, if there’s 35 free text for every 300 denomination load, then that means that he has loaded 154 300-denomination cards (a rough estimate) — not counting GCash and his other means of loading. So that’s 46,200 worth of load in a the span of a year plus a couple of months. My dad, the big spender.

When he found out that I have a Bayantel wireless landline, he started using it when we’re both home. And told me that after Bayantel’s promo, to ask if we can keep it so that he can continue using it. So far it’s been cutting down his spending. But not by a lot — yet.

So…

Dear daddy, can you just give me the huge bulk of money you spend on loads? I wanna buy some clothes, shoes, bags, alcohol, more clothes, Hello Kitty, movies — I’VE GOT LOTS TO SPEND ON!

P.S. This isn’t really an advertisement for Bayantel. They’re not paying me to write this.

Let’s see

There’s Benjamin Button whose selling point was Brad Pitt’s hotness.

And then the baconator, which I couldn’t finish. 

You should seriously try it.

By the way, Wendy’s also does the planner thing. 12 meals and you get it. Maybe next for me, huh. 

And then we went to Aunt Susan’s house for dinner.

Tips when kids are around:

1. Have Avatar (or any cartoon) on your laptop so they finally settle down.

2. Have a camera phone for them to play with (if you don’t want them to play with your phone, hide it).

3. Drink coffee before engaging them.

My Hello Kitty Fanatic Tendencies

Akshully, the interview I answered for level up games was wordier. Heehee. I just kept writing and writing and writing about Hello Kitty. Heeheeheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Read: UP Student Shares Love for Hello Kitty.

I refuse to read it because I might have come off as ishtupid. 

NBI Clearance

It took me two hours of lining up to get mine. 

Guy monitoring the line exclaimed, “Chinese or Filipino?” in this loud voice and everyone turned their heads to look at me. I meekly said, “Filipino,” and he waves me off to the line. Geebus. 

But… True fact: UP lines train you for the real world. 2 hours of lining up is NOTHING! NOTHING compared to the lines at NBI clearance! 

Okay. So… Seriously– I can’t seem to hold on to cellphone pouches. Our house probably has a black hole for cellphone pouches.

I bought one for 10Php and lost that one a few hours after buying it! Meh.