Tadaima

Ahoy! Belated greetings and apologies and whatnot aside, I'm sort of back in Manila. It still feels strange to breathe in unsalty air. My fingers and nonexistent brain are on vacation after three weeks of semi-fieldwork in Capul, Northern Samar. And I do regret not being able to fully learn the language, and I am sure the previous batch of Capul fieldschoolers will forever tease us for not being able to. To say the least.

Anyway, as always, listing time.

I will miss:

1. the sea greeting me every morning
2. writing (delayed) field notes
3. hearing the sea
4. the pebble shores
5. Honda trips to the bungto
6. the somatometry
7. budles (tuna) every other day
8. squid every other day
9. burugkas
10. Timon-timon views
11. Shetland (ahoy Cyril!)
12. NW 01-12
13. Dioning's big store
14. Sparkle
15. Lookalikes (Jessie, Lilo, Marky Cielo...)
16. Evergreen and Sexy (*shudder*) and Little Boy Blue, aka THE NEIGHBORS
17. octopus wiring
18. planetarium meteor garden
19. chepar, inggitero frog, kadayaan, yahwn!, chepar chepar chepar
20. Peggy (RIP)
21. Tootsie, the fluffy white puppy with pink highlights (RIP)
22. Mana and Mano
23. Mahalap ____ (chepar)
24. kapno and samong
25. Muro Puro
26. Parola
27. Ate Bikah!
28. Free videoke unlimited (from 6-10pm lang)
29. long lashes
30. candlelit sessions
31. field note sessions
32. bull session
33. chismisan sessions
34. panghuhula sessions
35. sugarol sessions
36. dreffey, cyrus ryan
37. white kulangot

Wish we could go back.