this is the day! ~ edu the great

October 20, 2012

this is the day!

saturday, a deployment is going on so i felt the urge of being online. since i have the privilege of working from home, i told my co-worker to go home and spend the rest of the day with his family in Quezon. after an hour, i saw this note saying one of our servers is down! lol! and there goes the rest of the day. working. ahehehe. i thought its going to be forever but i would not let that happen. luckily, issue was resolved @ around 4 pm MNL.

my mom is quite excited. she wanted to be in the meeting place by 7 pm though we talked it over and agreed on 7.30. anyhow, my fiance knows how my mom feel - so nothing to worry about. I NEVER THOUGHT that its going to be fun. doing bus ride with two of the most important women in my life. we laughed and talked about so many things. =) . my girl is also in a good mood. lol! bus will leave at 9.30 pm and its good to be there by 9 pm. they were seating in front of me and good that's good because i can see them whenever they have problem.

its kinda cold. lol! i am just wearing a plain shirt and my cargo shorts. so i took my towel to cover me. by 2 am, we were in gumaca, quezon. flor asked me to wake up my mom so as to go for a pee break and probably eat if she's hungry. the first question that my mom uttered is "andito na ba tayo?" and i said no. she quickly replied "ang layo naman." lol!

by 6 am, we were already there in Daet. i introduced my mom to the rest of my fiance's family. tatay and mom talked along with nanay. then, people started coming. kuya rey with his wife, ate arlyn and kuya totoy with cute hilary and kim.

we went to the market to buy food - ulam: nilaga and paksiw na isda. wapak! of course, i have nothing against beef but i still prefer fish. 30 mins before noon, tatay talked to me and initiated the conversation about the reason why my mom and i were there - this is pamamanhikan! a question popped out to my mind asking, "what if they will ask for a dowry? how should i answer it?...bahala na.".

tatay asked me only two things:

a. bakit kayo andito? my answer, we planned to settle down.

b. saan kayo magpapakasal? my answer, dito po sa Daet.

afterwards, details came in. like what's your plan? when? where? and so on. kuya rey, kuya oloy and kuya toy interrupted asking for more details and they said that they are more than willing to help. after the talk, i just realized na "ganun pala kadali yun".

few hours after, my three future kuya's are almost done with their two bottle of GSM long neck. that's the time to came in and talk to them. lol! then, kuya toy said that i should make "paki-sama" with them and drink with them to know more about the family. honestly, i was caught off guarded. lol! i simply said yes.

by 5 pm, we went to St. Joseph, Husband of Mary Parish in Brgy. Lag-On. flor said that this is the church. this is it! we attended the mass. i took a couple of pictures. then we went to the market to buy the pasalubong. we're about to go home tomorrow.