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Surely the city of gamblers.

Las Vegas you been so kind to us. All our dreams and aspirations started here. The nursing licenses, the chances, the professional and personal growths and the friends I can call family.

This is always a state we’ll call home.

This is where Ate mong nars is born. This is her home.

As a nurse, if you can make it in Nevada’s crazy ass patient ratio then you can make it anywhere 🤭 (there I said it).

Let me say my “peace out” and see you guys again soon.

This baby nurse has grown!

From LTAC to Hospital to Government Health District nurse I cant be any more so proud of every step that led me to what I am now.

Thankful for my preceptors, to the one I get to precept.

To the military, to clinical supervisors.

So much to thank. 🙏🏿

All the good things you say about me as a nurse really melts my heart. If only I could have been my brother’s nurse then I would gladly accept those kind words.

Never the less, we need to move forward and be the ”Ate” (big sister) my James thinks of me.

Ate mong Nars, is signing out of Las Vegas!

Out of nowhere in the midst of may everyday videocall with the sibs, I started google-ing where we were born and raised.

3-C Loans Extension, Proj. 8, Q.C., MM, PH.

Oh diba shook kayo. Some of you prolly thought I was raise with manners. LMAO.

I am literally ghetto AF.

I am street smart before becoming book smart.

So when I say we grew up poor… I mean it.

We would always have utang sa kaptid bahay. And some of my FB friends would vouch to that truth.

We would eat ”kanin, tubig, asukal” (thats water, rice and sugar for taste) when we really have nothing.

On good days we would have sinangang na kaning lamig sa lumang mantika (days old rice fried in overly used cooking oil) then sprinkle a whole bunch of rock salt.

We ate junk food served as a dish alongside rice as ulam.

Worst case scenario, we would have to sleep on an empty stomach. We’d have to sleep the hunger away, so that when we wake up it be the next day and we’d solved yesterday’s problem.

I mean, it wasnt really all bad back then. We learned to share “equally” (literally since there was 5 of us one bite each literally).

So this life we have right now, we didnt pray for it.

We worked ourselves to get where we are.

And that is something I am proud of.

Naisip ko, maski ano marating ko kailangan matuto akong mag pasalamat sa dating ako. Kasi ang layo ng narating ko ay dahil sa dating ako.

Sa hirap ng buhay, I could have been lead to the wrong path, but somehow I managed to be in a much better situation.

Out of nowhere in the midst of may everyday videocall with the sibs, I started google-ing where we were born and raised.

3-C Loans Extension, Proj. 8, Q.C., MM, PH.

Oh diba shook kayo. Some of you prolly thought I was raise with manners. LMAO.

I am literally ghetto AF.

I am street smart before becoming book smart.

So when I say we grew up poor… I mean it.

We would always have utang sa kaptid bahay. And some of my FB friends would vouch to that truth.

We would eat ”kanin, tubig, asukal” (thats water, rice and sugar for taste) when we really have nothing.

On good days we would have sinangang na kaning lamig sa lumang mantika (days old rice fried in overly used cooking oil) then sprinkle a whole bunch of rock salt.

We ate junk food served as a dish alongside rice as ulam.

Worst case scenario, we would have to sleep on an empty stomach. We’d have to sleep the hunger away, so that when we wake up it be the next day and we’d solved yesterday’s problem.

I mean, it wasnt really all bad back then. We learned to share “equally” (literally since there was 5 of us one bite each literally).

So this life we have right now, we didnt pray for it.

We worked ourselves to get where we are.

And that is something I am proud of.

Naisip ko, maski ano marating ko kailangan matuto akong mag pasalamat sa dating ako. Kasi ang layo ng narating ko ay dahil sa dating ako.

Sa hirap ng buhay, I could have been lead to the wrong path, but somehow I managed to be in a much better situation.

Lately,

Packing our things on my own.

Driving on my own.

Grocery and going shopping on my own.

Dealing with people alone.

Drinking coffee outside, having brunch alone.

Just over all doing things alone.

Is it bad? No. It made me realize how I can stand myself. How much I like me (on a non narcissistic way) .

Made me see who would check on how I am, and separate the “Magaling lang mang utang” from “matatakbuhan ng tunay”

Is it sad? It probably looks sad seeing someone eating on their own but it is not as bad as it looks. I dont have to pretend I am listening while someone talk, I dont have to make small talk.

If anything… its peaceful. Its new. Its out of my comfort zone, and I am okay with it. I realize, big crowd doesnt make me happy as long as I am happy with me, Im okay.

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2019

I slept at 5am.

woke up at 9am.

Reminded that today…

today marked the

2 years since

I last saw him.

…

Me and titay went to 626market 2 years ago with him. We ate and walked.

We stopped by this stall that sells jelly cases for iphones and airpods

(the then 2019 airpods).

His phone would often to always being taken away from him. So he didnt have a phone.

Yet ye asked me to buy him a phone case.

Funny enough he also asked for an airpod case.

He said “Tita buy me a case para sa airpods ko”

I remember saying “you fool! you dont even have an airpods. why would you need a case”

He dont have a phone so he dont have an airpod either.

And yet I bought him a case 😂 kasi thats #TitaDuties

We went home after eating random things and taking pictures of random stuff.

on our drive hom he was just looking at the case saying how it needs an airpods, he was being the mischievous kid he is.. he is imagining the airpods making sure I hear him.

That night I told him me and Ninong will leave early (since I leave in Vegas and thats where work is), i told him “if you wake up early i might buy you an airpod” they wake up late in that house, so i didnt expect him putting effort.

The next day as early as 9AM he was awake.

(boy that kid was determined)

Me and Ninong along with this determined kid left and drove to target,

i remember hims asking “Tita are you sure? I can get this?”

I said yes. Lets go pay for it. Is therw anything else he might want.

He then went to the game section (me and him has this thing for PS4 so ofcourse he educated me on which games will be releasing soon and that NBA 2020 is what he is waiting for. We roam for a couple minutes and then headed home.

I bought his airpods and he i mediately put it in this case we bought the day before. He said “Ha! Perfect fit, tita” I just smiled.

He went upstairs and ran down and he then handed me one of his game. The one I told him I wanted to buy and try. Red Dead Redemption. He said just return it when I finish it.