Home?

Where is "home"?

As soon as I clicked "Save Entry" on my previous post, I couldn't shake the thought out of my head: I'm not "going home" to Dagupan, I'm just visiting.

Due to some "complications" a couple of years ago, I don't have a house in Dagupan City anymore.

Whenever people ask me where I'm gonna go for the holidays or during long weekends, my mind defaults to "nowhere" as an answer.

I consider myself NPA–No Permanent Address–because I really do not have a permanent address, like I said before. I've lived in four different places in the last two years: the Cityland condo in Makati, Ate Epie's house in Palmdale, Kuya and Ate Awit's house in Katipunan, and now my place here in Ortigas.

Now that I think about it, our family doesn't have a place we could collectively call "our own". Most people I know have their families' house to go home to during Christmas, while I go "Oh, shit" whenever Christmas comes because it means staying with my brother's family and his in-laws again where I feel so much like an outsider. It's not that they're not nice people. On the contrary, they are very nice and have been extremely generous to our family. Hey, they let me stay at their house for a few months for free after all! But you know what I mean, right?

So if there's a chance that we could all be together–like my brothers flying in from the US and London and somehow everybody's here in the Philippines–where would we stay? At a hotel? Hahaha! We are so screwed.

Province-bound?

So I might go home to Dagupan tomorrow after work with two of my high school friends, Ti and Allan. It's Gabby's (Gina and Micky's baby boy) Christening on Saturday. What a cutie!

I'm kinda excited to see my high school friends again. The last time I was with them was last March, I think, and Gina was still pregnant at the time.

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I've been a download whore for quite some time now. My bandwidth's usually dedicated to downloading torrents, be it music, movies or my favorite TV shows. Currently, I'm downloading the entire first season of Kyle XY, my favorite summer show while I was in the US. I'm so glad season 2 already started. The story's not too bad, and I still find myself enjoying each episode.

For my next download, it's gonna be season 1 of Dexter. Yes, my favorite serial killer definitely deserves some major bandwidth allocation. Oh, and it returns September 20th! *GLEE!*

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Hurrah for Victor!