I'm having it (at last)

I’ve already decided. I’m buying a car for myself and I’ve initiated it’s purchase. After having lived in the flesh how frustrating it is to meet so many demands for your services and yet be so helpless and immobile for want of a vehicle, I’m buying myself one. It may not be a luxury car nor is it new (it’s a 1995 model, from the same year that I entered high school seminary 14 years ago), but it’s still in reasonably good shape, and it’s certainly more preferable to a motorcycle. This time I’m not talking about it to a lot of people, since listening to a lot of people speak about a certain opinable thing could open before your eyes so many views, most often contradicting. This time I’m listening to a select few. For me the car is as good as sold. As soon as I could take the car after having paid its worth (Php 185K), I hope to be more mobile and take things more under my control..

I'm back!!!!

Hi there! I’m back again after a very looooooong absence. A lot of things have taken place since the last time I posted anything in this blog. Well, at this point everything is silent here in the seminary, except for some weeks wherein the seminary grounds was invaded by scores of athletes and spectators due to the Palarong Pambansa. The seminary was the venue for three sports events: lawn tennis, archery and taekwondo. However during the games I was all the while in Tanauan, which was my first pastoral assignment before I came here to the seminary. These two pics are those of the church belfry and the rectory. I spent two weeks there, enjoying a brief stint in the parish. This was however marred towards the end since I got sick, perhaps due to over fatigue (as if fatigue were not enough). During my last Sunday there I had to take over most of the schedules in the parish since the pastor went someplace else and I was left to celebrating six masses that day (actually it was seven, but one sked was canceled, perhaps due to the Pacquiao-Hatton fight). What made the day was when I came to celebrate Mass for the gay association of that town who were holding their Santacruzan de Mayo Devotions. Not that I have anything against them, but usually you don’t see a bunch of gay guys and transvestites asking a priest to celebrate mass for them…to put it loosely, one could say that their interests belong to another sphere.

I should’ve devoted the next day to more rest and relaxation but I think I overloaded my “day-off” (priestly life doesn’t have such a thing) with so much activity that by evening I was feeling really wrung out. The next morning I was wracked with fever.

Anyway, I’m back here in the seminary and to its relative serenity. I’m taking things more calmly…