en passe requescat....

I’m back! Whew, it's been a long time and I haven’t made anything. I visited my blogsite only to check if it’s still active. I’m afraid that it might be erased due to inactivity. Thanks it's not!
With those napping days, many things had happened. But I won’t spend time enumerating those but would rather singling-out one very sad thing. My kumare and classmate in high school, Connie Benito Martin succumbed to her long illness, the deadly and ferocious mr. C. It was very sad since she had battled long enough, finances, body and spirit all she spent just to come up free and clean. But it wasn’t successful. Even she emerged with the clean bill of health before, she was anxious of the dreaded disease to come again. And she’s right,
Mareng Connie was a very quiet but intelligent girl when we were in elementary. Unfortunately, she transferred to UP IS when we’re in the fourth grade and graduated from there. She transferred to St. Dominic during high school where she graduated also with flying colors. Still the very quiet but intelligent girl, she went to college also at UP. I don’t heard any news since then but we met again in the middle of 1980’s. I’m working at the Provincial Office of the Department of Trade and Industry when she applied for work. She’s very lucky though that we need people to occupy positions in the municipal level and she landed one. She’s a very resilient, patient and hard working officer. Even if she’s assigned to the very remotest place, she never complained.
We’ve parted ways when I joined a private company but never lost contact with her. To seal a friendship to last, I made her ninang of my unica iha, thinking that my angel might inherit some of her beautiful and nice traits. Although inflicted with the dreaded C, I find her strong and jubilant whenever I saw her. She’s always smiling.
Now she’s at peace with the Mighty One. My prayers will always be with her and may she be in her rightful place. Surely, I’ll miss her.