Woke up yesterday morning to the sound of a jungle cat growling … errrr, to the sound of my sister mad at my little electric oven for burning the top of her normally perfect pound cake.
Naya’s horrible to hang out with in the morning. Especially before breakfast. She has a rather extreme version of the now world-famous Valdellon temper … mixed with sweetness though and oddball humor and often brilliant insight.
I suppose it would start to bug me if I woke up to this temper every day. But on this occasion, the hummphs and scarrumphs from the kitchen put a huge smile on my face, made me jump up from bed and face the day with more than the usual joy.
My sister’s home! Just for the month. And living with me half the time. It’s made me so happy!!!
Some people grow up with their siblings and never seem to really know them. Naya, well, she has always been one of my soul friends. Even if we weren’t related, we would have found each other somehow.
I would like to be her protective older sister, but I am in many ways the younger one … and so she laughs at my puny justifications for not going after what I want. Because while I was hiding out practically pain-free in my cubicle all these years, she was hurting and living and learning and loving. And now she is a woman who knows who she is. And I’ll miss having her to talk to.
It’s a little heartbreaking for me, to tell you the truth, that Naya returns to her real life in Toronto tomorrow.
Typhoon season is back with a vengeance and my lovely, magical summer is ending … 
may temper kayo? sa lagay na iyan?
asus! ano ang tawag sa aking disposisyon?
isa kang gabriela. isa kang matapang na babae. isa kang huwaran para sa mga kababaihang pilipino.
(haha, diplomasya ito!)
iba ang bola. malayo iyon sa diplomasya.
at lalong malayo at nakakahiya kay gabriela.
nice try, valdellon!
asus, wag mong ikahiya ang pagiging makabagong gabriela.
we are living lives of such freedom and power that our mothers and grandmothers could never have imagined.
Haha, you really like that shot, don’t you?!? It was an awesome three weeks, sissy pie, and totally what I needed to face this other life with renewed enthusiasm and more groundedness. Thanks for that great gift.
And here’s a secret: growing up, I always looked up to you.
O sya, go after what you want na.
always looked up to me even when you were reading my diaries? nyahaha! grabe ka, girl! and i used to think you were so not nosy!
you have the funniest pictures actually — i was choosing between your shocked at the crazy old man in toronto face or your rockstar ala prince face or your reaction to my i haven’t had _ _ _ in ages face. hilarious!
am so proud of you naya and so happy for you. and my wish is we get to see each other often — no matter where in the world we may end up!
Waaaah!!!!! I miss my sisters!!!
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Kuya! Miss ka rin namin!!!
Ang comedy nun.
Kung sakaling nakauwi ka, tatlo tatlo tayong nagsusungit every morning dito.
I can just imagine more masungit and kengkoy shots of us three. Haha. Kelan kaya mangyayari yan, Kuya? Maybe sometime in the next two years, Ate Nes and I will find a way to get to Hayward.