It’s officially Sunday and I haven’t started anything with the schoolwork I brought home. I may be unproductive lately but I don’t regret anything a bit; after all, I’m giving up schoolwork for time spent with my family and relatives.
Today, we celebrated my grandfather’s first death anniversary last January 7. It’s customary in our family that we gather on the 40th day of death and on the first death anniversary which we call “babang-luksa”. I don’t exactly know how you translate it in English but “babang-luksa” only roughly means that the immediate family of the dead has now finished mourning. At the most superficial – “babang-luksa” meant that the immediate family can now wear “happy” colored clothing like red. I, being one of the grandchildren have shied away from wearing red (unless really needed) for the past 12 months since my grandfather died. All my red-colored clothing have been put away to the back of my closet until today.
My mother decided we’d do the gathering at the memorial park where my grandfather was laid to rest. When my grandmother and when Brent died a few years back, we held the gathering here at home. Perhaps, the experience of being tired and stressed with the preparations prompted mom to just order food and hold the gathering somewhere else. I have to agree with her on that. My mom’s hypertension coupled with her OC-ness are not exactly the perfect ingredients to a gathering.
So, I went there this afternoon and met a lot of my relatives whom I rarely see on regular days. Whether I like it or not, I should be attending family gatherings more often because soon, I’ll be the one holding parties and inviting my relatives over. The pressure is killing me. Belonging to a large family didn’t help either. I always end up calling all the adult females “tita” and all the adult males “tito” without even knowing if I’m addressing them properly. If there’s anything I like about the Filipino culture, this is it – the close family ties that we have managed to keep intact through the years. It’s especially more pronounced in the provinces where everyone knows everyone else. When my paternal grandmother died and we had to go to Antique back in 2007, I was amazed by how I can virtually trace my lineage through the elders who still lived. I think my cousin even plans to make a family tree so that we’d have something to show off to our children someday. With the technology now, I don’t think that’s impossible to do. 
Anyway, I haven’t had Bee check my laptop yet. It’s already getting on my nerves. I talked to my father last week and he did promise me a new laptop when he gets back (though I would have wanted to get a DSLR actually 
). He said he’s gonna fix my old one, get a memory upgrade, reformat the hard drive (after doing a backup of course!) and give this to my youngest brother. I am not to keen on the idea though. I am pretty sentimental about the things that I have and it’s going to be painful to part with my lappie. Four long years of being together is not a joke! But then again, at the same time, getting my hands on a new laptop also excites me. 
Confused much?
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