Ten years after I retired in 2015, everyone thinks I still care about so many things I used to care about.

Today is the Qing Ming Festival, also known as the Brightness Festival and the Sweeping of Tombs.

It is a day to honor, show respct to, and revere one's ancestors.

They should start replacing the 20-peso bills with new ones. They've become as floppy as dead lettuce.

One of our favorite restaurants is moving out soon from the old Shopwise/Fiesta Carnival building to Gateway 2. The old building, which is massive and an entire block long, will soon be demolished and give way to a new, high-rise, commercial building.

I was only in seventh grade when that building was launched. It housed the Japanese mall Matsuzakya, among other establishments.

Will surely be missing it, since it was part of my boyhood in Cubao.

Bank day with Marvin, Neil, and LM. Paid our electric bills, bought some hardware for a huge armoire, and had lunch out.

Photo by Neil de Leon

John completed the master file of Indakan Ng Mga Puso (Oktubre, Nobyembre, and Disyembre), Volume 15 of my Collected Works,  today, and we forwarded it to the prospective publisher.

This is my second, major trilogy of full-length plays. It corresponds to the later episodes of the adventures of Don Pedro, Don Diego, and Don Juan in Armenya, where they meet Donya Leonora and Donya Juana. 

 John reported for work today and brought me an unexpected, rainbow cake.

Yum! Love the strawberry and purple yam layers!