I was driving back from dinner with a friend in QC last night when I decided to fetch my girls from the free open air concert. They were begging me, “Mommy, let’s not go home yet, Lola Amour is next…”
My sis-in-law was with them so I relented. And I watched this set.
So what brought me to QC?
I picked up my new checkbook from my bank. Then I attempted to open a new S&P 500 UITF. I say attempted because I can’t open a new UITF unless I open a new USD savings account. I wasn’t prepared for it yesterday because I would have made forex losses if converted at this time…
Status quo for now.
On the way to the bank, I saw that the Persian restaurant was still operating so I checked out the place by having lunch there.
Then I knocked on a familiar gate.
I visited our old home… Well, the old apartment
The new tenants completely sealed the unit and installed aircons everywhere. I wonder how extensive was the tenant’s repair job just to seal the apartment because it was porous, especially in the laundry area.
They also covered the transoms that provide light! What if there is power outage?
Messy neighbors nextdoor are gone; they left after we did. They messed up the apartment with dog pee everywhere and destroyed the wooden floors upstairs. Credit card companies have been sending demand letters to their unit for unpaid credit card bills. Landlord had spent PHP 70k for repairs, more than what their deposit covered. Had the gall to demand the return of their deposit.
I think I have influenced my former neighbors to become cat people. They have adopted stray cats and one became a permanent outside cat but in-compound resident. Another one is a completely indoor cat with supervised outdoor (in-compound) playtime.
They have also set up shelters for stray cats outside the compound and some kind-hearted people who do their daily walks provide cat kibbles for the kitties.
I felt nostalgic. It was home for a while, you know.
But then I can feel the heat due to the absence of the mango tree that they had cut down shortly after we left. I told our ex-neighbor that it’s still cool in our province and we haven’t turned on our aircons yet. But in this compound, I can already feel it was several degrees higher already and that summer is only a week away.
And unlike Lola Amour’s song, no, it hasn’t been raining in Manila. It’s only in my hometown where it has been wet, cool, and muddy.