Christine

A few weeks back, I took some snapshots of our labandera Tiya Nelly, with the intention of giving her a printed portrait for herself. This inspired me to do a little personal project wherein I fill our home with portraits of my family members. I started out with the two other males in the family, first my father in his papaya grove and then my brother in his wife beaters. Today, it was my sister's turn.

This is my sister, Christine Anne Lee Yuhico. She was born with Down's Syndrome, which basically means that the slope of her learning curve isn't as steep. But that's not a problem, she's still pretty smart. She's the most communicative from all the Down's Syndrome children that I've seen, she has memorized the birthdays of almost all her acquaintances, and she actually learned Filipino on her own. I guess I should thank all these mass media telenovelas for that.

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Amen to Seven

"How about Baguio?"

I blinked twice, scarcely able to believe what was being suggested. I was standing on the parking lot of Alabang Town Center at 2:30 on a Saturday morning, my friends Mias and Mario prancing around beside me. We had just left San Mig Pub having what we had planned to be a steady Friday night. The pub closed at 2am, but we weren't done for the night, and were thinking of where we could continue the party.

One of our other friends, JL, was already in Baguio for a weekend getaway. He had promised us a bottle of scotch should we decide to join him up there, thinking (with good reason) that a bottle of scotch wouldn't be worth the 4-6 hour drive to the mountains. Too bad for him, the few pints of beer in our systems were telling us otherwise.

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