I ended up my first semester with the “Tagayan ng Grupo” and I have to pay the remaining fee for another semester for not finishing the 2 semesters. Imagine that! We were under the impression that  something is not right with the “timpla ng inumin namin”. So after a couple of discussions. one by one, we decided that we don’t want to risk the chance of getting poisoned. We know, its kinda of waste. Maybe, some other time, we would be considering of sitting down again with our katomaan. After the poisoning scare, things have pretty much fallen back into the normal routine without nothing to worry every Wednesday of the week.

Today, I just came back from a fair. I had another vaccine and a little health and wellness pampering. Glad to found out my  cholesterol a little lower. But my weight a little  over (Ouch!!). I had facial and diamond feel, a l15 minutes hilot and I availed a promo for warts removal. So by next week, I will be visiting again the dermatologist to work on that tiny bumps on my neck and face.

While we were having our lunch, I asked my companion if she was in for an adventure and she lighted up saying “of course, wherever our feet can get”. While we were eating, I was texting friends asking for direction of our next destination. After our lunch, we took a cab and the driver asked us where we were going. I read the direction from my mobile and the driver commented “Ah alam ko yan, mahihirap ang pumupunta dun” and  we replied “Mahirap nga lang po kami”. The driver then said “Tama, mahirap kayo, mahirap kayo kausapin kasi di ninyo alam ang pupuntahan nyo”. We all laughed but we were there in just 10 minutes. When we were paying our fare, we commented to the driver “Manong, siguro may date ka kasi nagmamadali kayo”.

In 2008, I heard about this place and I’ve been wanting to visit it since then but I never gotten had the chance to do it. It is a little out of way from where I was working then and very much far from where I lived. Then last September 23, 2011, I made a plan to go to this place since I learned it was its feast day. But then again, the person I was supposed to bring there refused to cooperate  (well, I didnt told that person about my little plan, and I might over-estimated him. Or  maybe I assumed too much when I requested for him to take a few hours “day off”) I just got a bit over-dramatic. I was really looking forward that I would go there on that date and afterwards I would be donating blood, which did not pushed through either.  Its sad to to think that some things are never really an options and sometimes we cant do anything about it.

Anyways, somebody delivered my wish today (Very simple person with very simple wishes, that’s me… hahahaha). Me and my companion finally visited the place….the Padre Pio Church in LIbis. It was really unplanned schedule and I was out of dress code (again!). They are strictly observing the church dress code and I was given a shawl to use as a skirt. It was a bit early but there were many people inside, both able and disabled. We prayed, lined up and held the hands of Padre Pio and asked for his graces (I think He almost got deft with many graces that I asked and prayed for others and I was too engrossed on praying for them I almost forgot mine). I  even prayed to take away all the pains. We did not contented ourserlves in praying, we even lighted candles, read the history of St Pio, wrote a letter to Padre Pio and put it in a box with other requests. .

My companion endlessly thanking me for taking her to the Padre Pio Church saying I just fulfilled her wish of visiting the Church. And I said “No, Thank You…for being also a part of my overdue wish”, She told me that she will also be bringing her husband and another friend there soon. For me, I plan of visiting the Church again, probably with another friend or one of my sibling.