i'm officially sick. my head feels like it's being mashed and cudgeled to smithereens. but i guess i'm still good because i'm writing this blog entry.

our house is a ghost structure today. the kids have all gone to school. some of the oldies here are off to work... the others that remain are having their siesta.

i have the house to myself. this situation is one of the rare times that i get to have a sense of serenity in this house---not that i hate their company.

i live in an exaggeratedly extended family. it's like having a darn family reunion everyday. in a usual time, there are about three families that live here: my aunt's family, my other aunt and her husband's family, my sister's family and then there's me and my dad. it's really a riot here. i've grown so used to it that i can't review or study appropriately when it's dead quiet in here. i grow comfy seeing my nieces running about our bungalow cum botanical garden of a house. i wanna grow old in this house.