What a relief to know that someone can take care of the POBAPians when ready for the loony bin. I admit though that someone from my extended family had a similar experience with their daughter. This one was a vicious case. This girl took revenge to the outer limits. Talk about premeditated assault. She went to her chemistry lab and put together everyting caustic she get her hands on. She then went home, roused her over-achieving, intelligent, popular and pretty sister from sleep and threw the acid concoction on her face. The poor sister is now blinded and horribly disfigured. They had to send her to the US in the hope that she would regain her eyesight and to repair the damage done to her gastric system (she was able to swallow some of the acid). She is now learning braille and how to become self-sufficient in the pathetic life she has left. The perpetrator daughter was moved from nut house to nut house until finally with the help of Lithium and its variants, she was brought home. My story is just an abbreviated version, there is more to this nightmare. However, it might bring comfort to your friend to know that it happens in other families too. She ain't alone.

Moving on to more pleasant topics, I was given a bunch of coins from the 70's and 80's. Mainly 50 centavo ones with Marcelo H. del Pilar on one side and the Philippine eagle on the other. Remember them? What in Marcos' name can I do with these? Sayang naman to throw it out. I don't think that they are rare and old enough to merit even a once-over by a collector, or are they?. Should I wait another 50 years? Bury them in my backyard? Or should I wait until I build a house and pour them in the foundations? Necklace, bracelet, earrings? Anyone interested? Any suggestions?

Hope you are better Red Lobster. I guess we all got the bug except for Porpolhaze. Tatag mo. I purposely included Oranswit in all our planned outings in the hope that she might eventually plan a trip out here. We would more than welcome the Filipino-Irish-American contingent of POBAP. Barrio fiesta na yan. But for now its dinner at Vivere on the 30th. Okay?