Something Fishy

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After our PDOS my batchmates 

and I ate lunch at KFC and

went to Quiapo to shop for 

abayas and tarhas.

After purchasing we parted ways

and I went back to Quirino Ave

for my bus ride home.

It was so uncomfortable

because the local bus companies

tend to pack us passengers like sardines,

dangerously overloading the bus.

Imagine if the bus had to brake suddenly

everybody standing would fly

straight out of the windshield.

So going back,

I had a major headache

because the weather was really 

awry -  very sunny one minute

and then rain afterwards.

I rarely get headaches

but it is unbearable

when I do I have them :(

I stopped by at Mcdo

to buy some junk food dinner

and saw a uhm

friend?

acquaintance?

I do not know where to qualify him.

He is nice and all,

very chatty and brutally frank.

But...

He would always start the conversation

with a polite how-are-you first

and then

ask about my love life the next.

Parang ganito...

"Kayo pa rin ba ng boyfriend mo?"

"Uhm oo."

"Ang tagal niyo na no?"

or

"Balita ko wala na kayo ng jowa mo?"

(or something along those lines)

I know he is gay and all,

pero sana wag naman obvious.

Kasi hindi ako comfortable sa

ganong pagtatanong.

I mean alam ko may mga masasamang balitang

sumisingaw pero sana hindi

sa relasyon ko magfocus.

Sobrang uncomfortable ang ganitong

scenario sa akin.

Pakiramdam ko kasi may hidden something 

siya para kay hubby.

Hay, ano ba ang dapat kong 

isagot o gawin?

Careful With Your Tongue

Received Mama's cargo 

a few days back

delivered by two men.

The older one seems to be in charge,

he was asking too many questions for comfort.

He was annoyingly scrutinizing my

midwifery id, thank heavens my nursing one

was expired, and I rarely take out my passport.

It was like he was eying everything in the house,

and my home was in shambles, 

I was doing the laundry while trying to clean up 

my old magazine stack plus the dried laundry 

was on the dinner table.

I must admit I am not a tidy, prim and proper lady.

When he was leaving he mumbled something

about me being lucky that I get to stay at home

and wait for my mom's cargo and do nothing in return.

I retorted that what I received was not solely for me

but majority of the stuff are for my relatives,

I then shoved 100 pesos in his hand.

What an ungracious, impolite, narrow-minded fucktard!

What does he think of us children of OFWs?

That we enjoy receiving material presents in lieu of a 

warm hug and kisses from our parents?

Does he actually think that presents and money can

replace the love of a parent?

His remarks made me so uncomfortable,

it actually made me cry.

I hate narrow-minded people.

Your lot will never know what we have been through.

You just don't care mister.