Happy Father's Day Tatay!

Neri, Daniel, Tatay and Geli

To Tatay,

The hippiest, happiest Tatay in the world!

Happy Father's Day Tay!

And Tatay wrote on his email to me last sunday:


The whole day was spent just like any other sunday.

We woke up around 7am; swept clean our surroundings to include Tricia's and Pito's abode; had breakfast consisting of hot goto with very generous sprinkle of pepper, calamansi and special patis, big hot pandesal with butter, sandwich spread and CHEESE, butter cookies and nice hot great taste of coffee; a quick shower, special attire for the occasion (this time the shirt was tucked in), then off for the mass.

After the mass home again; read newspaper, fill the puzzles and sudoku; monkey around; play billiards, answer all fathers day texted greetings; clean the dogs' mess; buy your nanay's needs for cooking then presto, lunch is ready: steaming white rice, bulalo with pechay baguio and saging na saba, patis with calamansi and sili, boneless bangus foil wrapped and fried (incidentally the word wrap reminds me of Nico singing and rapping), kalabasa con hipon dumpling, pineapple juice with ice and to top it all, TOOTHPICK, a post lunch siesta, then coffee.

Then Makay arrives making the day a very special day. She brought a fathers day card addressed to Lolo Ben but I'm sure there is a grandparents day. She sat on my lap, her pampers smell. Off she went for pamper change. She paraded to and fro. How I wished that  Bambino and Ninja  were also here to share the moment. So we exchanged pleasantries with Makay.

But I had to leave at about 6pm to join my senior citizen colleagues. We chatted till 8pm about the same things but told at a different angle. Usually one of the topics is about health.

Come to think of it, this turned out to be a special day after all.

But nobody knows what the next day will bring.


Tatay