We went to the public market today in our town to buy Filipiniana costumes for Monday.

The Linggo ng Wika celebration — supposedly slated on the week of Manuel L. Quezon’s birthday every August 19 — was delayed due to several class suspensions and whatnot. Good thing we still had this weekend to prepare my kids’ costumes.

Good thing we checked this out first before driving to Lumban because the outfits were a lot cheaper, around PHP 500 per set. The Filipiniana in Lumban are the real deal — the type that you wear for formal occasions and not as costumes so the prices are premium. I’m not willing to pay that price just for a school costume.

Meanwhile, one of my bffs saw that a high school classmate is selling their family home. The seller was my bandmate and we used to have our studio there, which was their former storage room.

This was just a storage room that we turned into our practice studio. I used to go here everyday for practices and every 7 pm, we drove to the city where we used to play regular gigs.

So many memories are packed into this small room. And that house. His parents welcomed us with open arms and they didn’t mind the noise that we used to make. His dad passed several years ago and now it’s time to for his mom and nephew/niece to leave the place. Climate change = stronger typhoons made it impossible to live here now. They often get flooded since they’re just at the foot of a hill and all the water from the hilltop cascades into their subdivision. It wasn’t like this when we were growing up. 😢

Sad.

Moving on.