Earning My Stripes…
So after thirty eight days of vacationing, I am finally on my way back to the place I also call home. Being away again from my wife, daughter, mom and loved ones, I kind oftook this trip back in a less dramatic manner. Was it because I would not miss them that badly?
Thetruth is that my wife and daughter will be back with me within six months time so it isn’t as bad as before where I had to wait for a year or even more at times. As for my mom and my sisters, I guess you can say that we are a bit parted. I will miss mymom and I already miss my dad. However, my mentality is set that he is still in Dubai although we know that he has already moved to Indonesia. I do know that there is still a lot to do particularly with my brother and sister who is back in Dubai. Marlon,with the ideas of entertaining marriage and moving out of the apartment we’ve called home for more than 15 years and Myra, although we can’t see the mess she is in right now, I am hoping that we can help her in getting back on track, she is taking this bachelorette thing a little bit too far and I am very concerned about her. I guess this will be the family projects I will be working on for the first half of 2009. I do have little side missions as well, completing the change of my passport to machine readable as per requirements of the Philippine DFA, I think the deadline for this is set to April. The next thing is to also get UAE National ID which has a deadline by the end of this year.
As for major things coming up ahead, I have to deal with the flights of Angie and Isa this coming July. Priorities first, to get the appointment that Isa needs for her right eye. Unfortunately a small cyst has formed up on the upper eyelid which can be surgically removed within 20 minutes. It isn’t life threatening at all but of course we would like to make sure that Isa gets the best for her health and appearance. I would like to extend my thanks to Fahad, the clerk in Opthalmology in Tawam who has helped me arrange the appointment with the good doctor.
As of right now, I am not really sure if the wait to July would be long. Travel and communication has really made this world a smaller place to live in. Sometimes, I feel that my wife and daughter is a stone throw away from me. It’s so easy to get in touch with them that sometimes I feel that I my wife is watching right behind me. Hehehe. I love my wife. Shesalways been there for me even though I am such a bum when I get back home in the Philippines. If it weren’t for the computer games I play, I could actually pay more attention to Isa and her. Unfortunately, this is how I am as a father. It does suck and when you are put away from the things you take for granted you sometimes realize the chances I’ve screwed up. It almost seems to be a crime but somehow, my wife has understood how I can be such an @$$, for this I love the way my wife cares for me even if sometimes I prefer that she give all her love to Isa who needs it more than I do. I’m a lucky son of a gun, to have a wife life her, in-laws who really don’t hate me for being like that, although I don’t send a lot, I just hope somehow they know that I care.