Alright, I'm back!!

heheh not that I've been away for that long, just a weekend stint to Baguio to witness my nephew's Incorporation into the Regular Corps of the PMA. That made sense, right? Anyway, it basically means that my nephew got accepted into the regular classes, as it were, in the PMA after a summer of training and what-not.

The drill was amazingly synchronized, never mind that when we watched the practice the day before, there were a couple of mistakes. But it was alright, all the cadets looked alike, or similarly alike, what with their almost bald heads and ramrod stiff stance, even the female cadets were like that.

The trip was bloody tiring, that's for sure. We travelled for over 12 hours, I think, counting the fact that we had to stop for an hour or less to pick up the others who were coming with us, and the lunch break over at Luisita. If being a passenger in that trip has made me tired, I don't want to think of what it'll be if I get to drive that distance.

I suppose it was a tad emotional, after all, he hadn't been home for the past two months and this is the first time he has seen his family since then. That and the fact that they can't really go home for any kind of break in their first year. Maybe it'll change as he progresses into the system, but I don't know. I got the feeling that as he was talking to us about life as a PMAer, he was trying to convince us and him as well that this was a great thing.

Maybe it was just a case of nerves and homesickness, after all, the next day will be his first real day as part of the Academy. As with any other institution, there are after all, rumors and legends about certain peers, teachers, and what-not. Who's the terror? Who's the bully? That kind of thing. I think he's experiencing the full brunt of it all when he was with us for that six hours.

It's like going to boarding school -- which actually it is -- and I think he's going to miss all of us something terrible. But what can I do? It's his choice, his dream to go to the Academy.

But enough about that. I have some other news I want to share.

The computer... this soddy bloody computer... got reformatted. Thank the gods I managed to save as much of my files as I could.

Oh shit, I just did something really stupid! Bloody fast mouse reactions of mine...

Anyway, the computer just got reformatted and I'm outfitting it with some necessary programs.

Damn.

I'm not that too depressed to face the computer again, like before. I even had a "vision" right before I woke up this morning, that I was going to sit in front of the computer and go on the Internet, just like I'm doing right now.

Bloody hell, stupid me, it was just starting to download properly!! And I had to click Cancel. Damn, but that wasn't Close!!

Argh! Stupid!!

So back to me... after all, this is all about me, right?

Eeww, stop me if I'm starting to sound like Lockhart.

I just received an email from Sandy, and I must say, she's right. Not that I didn't have those thoughts at the back of my mind since then, but it's nice hearing it from someone else... well, reading it is more like it.

Argh, back to zero, damn.

So what else is up?

Wen's in the country.

I think Wendy is too, or she should be since she said her flight was slated for the 20th.

I'm supposed to be making plans to hang out with them, separately, of course, since they're different groups of friends...

Then there's the trip to Feifu's...

Exciting life, ain't it?