Reunion

I've got more than what I bargained for...

From day one that I had heard of our family reunion this year, I had hesitations for attending. One, I really don't feel like mingling with some of the members of our extended family and extended extended family for that matter. Second, I find it as a waste of time, c'mon it is a sunday and I need a rest from a week of labor right? Lastly, I just don't feel like going.

Yet, I have no choice but to attend. The trip to my lola's house was such a hassle. Like we need to wake up and take a bath at 2 am in the morning and what I slept for about 4 hours, because the original plan na dadaanan kami ng Tito ko was 5am. The ride was so bumpy and uncomfortable,nanakit na nga yung pwet sa pag-upo dun sa jeep. Fortunately, nakarating naman kami ng maayos dun.

Then daig ko pa yung nagmall dun. Di ko ba alam for some strange reason, kasalanan ang magkaroon ng trabaho when you are with my extended family. 600 din yung nawala sa akin. The 500 ay sapilitan pang kinuha sa akin. FREAK!

I used to say that I am comfortable with my body. I mean I'm ok with it eventhough I'm fat. But attending to the reunion really lowered my self esteem. Its like everyone saying "bat lumaki ka ng ganyan?", "anong nangyari sa iyo","jerson ang taba mo", "sobrang laki mo na" and the best hirit "yan si jerson nung bata, payat yun, ang poging bata tas nung lumaki nagkaganyan". Fine Pangit na ako, I'm soo ugly and I'm sooo damn very fat ano pa? Parang sana di ba may pakiramdam yung kausap nyo. This is really one of my top reasons why I really don't feel like going to these kind of get together. At least I'm not like one of your children who have babies without a father or hindi nakapagtapos ng pag-aaral. Lech.

Although, somehow I enjoyed the events. Like bonding with my close cousins and I even won in the Bingo game (which hindi ko naramdaman yung prize kasi di ba may nanghingi at natira na lang sa amin yung basket nung grocery).

The most freaky thing? Narealize ko na kamukha ng second cousin ko (na hindi ko kaclose) si toot like sobrang hawig and everything the kilos the mannerism the tawa and all. I even texted Bitter Cess about it and the weird part? When I saw the pictures from our digicam, there is no resemblance between them. I told Bitter Cess about that maybe I just missed toot. Just maybe..

Freak I'm so damn tired.