THE CLEANING OF HOUSE #02 (Part 1)

"every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" (Seneca)

The evaluator evaluated that the mother title and a technical description are needed, that the tax paid should be updated, facts concurred with by the assessor's assessment that Lot 03 is yet to be subdivided into the 5 parcels as it should be, that amilyar is not the imperative at this point but the fixer who said she will call but did not yet again.

Reset for Oplan Land Titling.

"motivation is what gets you started. habit is what keeps you going" (Jim Rohn)

Rote determination conveyed the 7th AWG to Phnom Penh along with the resolution of delayed safeguarding matters, punctuations to a 4th cut of an updated proposal that almost triumphed over the 45th year of vanquishing genocide before succumbing to a rescheduling of the Lao Big Event to February as proposed during three virtual meetings about mid-year report requirements.

New role, clean slate.

"start wherever you are and start small" (Rita Bailey)

Dusty stuffed toys crawl out of empty bottles like abandoned hangers for broken toys and the faded medals and a trophy displayed in the brittleness of ancient plastic furniture like sacks of used clothes and a dilapidated wood cabinet for the garbage truck that smelled like the ashes of burnt grass covering a heavy marble table that will demarcate boundaries of the Almaguer Settlement. 

Fix the roof leak or build a new house?

"the best way to create your future is to create it, one day at a time" (Peter Drucker)

Novelty rides launched between Monday's Golden Bee and Friday's Solid North --- reheated ham that tasted like pinangat sa gata and morsels of grilled chicken and sinigang na lechon for the dog --- an arrest-less warrant notarized for a flight booking to Phnom Penh --- Balong unleashed as the first invoice to RAN during a hospital visit for a moment of cheap light brandy through Pura. 

Lost land recovered in Almaguer.

2025: THE PERFECT SQUARE YEAR

A rough proposal 52 pages long.

Too much even if for 5 years that it required two cuts: by the gemcutter whose first meal for 2025 was marked with the sour broth of a sinigang na ulo ng salmon that sparkled with four types of grilled meat the size of a mashed potato and the unmuffled noise of New Year's Eve with 6-packs of pilsner, lager, and stout resisting...

..and by the lapidarists who rescued abandoned spirits from New Year's Eve for a New Year's Day of reducing the roughness, planed into 22 readable pages with the brilliance of risk assessments that were polished and submitted as a safeguarding report, an invoice for December 2024, and a Box restoration.  

It was hoped that 12 round fruits will indeed reel in good fortune while 5,000 rounds of firecrackers shall ward off evil including weekly meetings that were purged and not as the new year was ushered through familiar bike trails when almost all due bills got paid to honor the ritual of a pamamanhikan for leftover tiim na pata and fresh adobo.

Being a perfect square, the year 2025 is said to "carry deep spiritual and cosmic significance" that in the past resulted in the rise of the Mongol Empire in 1225, the unification of Japan in 1600, the invention of photography in 1849, and a king's stunning abdication in the name of love in 1936; that for 2025, huge advances are predicted in the fields of medicine, space exploration, defense, and technology as well as a potential cloning catastrophe. 

2025 is the pivot year to the second half of our lives, our coming to terms with our vulenarabilities and new realities, and the year when we will bravely embark to new beginnings as the luster of ancient traditions like the 18th Lodge installation rites in Baloc fade to the contemporary experience of a grand clan reunion in Bakal 2...

SANTA'S REINDEER FOR NOCHE BUENA

But it was not venison and there 's not one single red nose. 

In fact, the burnt flesh have the markings of a farmed salmon and wild catch tuna, the sizzling beef and lamb smelled of grass, and it was the stewed lima beans not the salad greens and buttered veggies that triggered hyperuricemia in the  Rastafari's rendition of a Biblical Psalm to serenade a holiday in Bakal 2 with a videoke night of Christmas carols.

With the patronage of St. Rose of Lima, pinot noir was poured from the shelves of Sol & Robert Price into 6-pack Indian pale ales, lagers, and wheat beers that stunned the Thursday Group who were enchanted enough to chill leftover tiim na pata, treat the dogs with a Christmas Eve dinner of tubbed kalderetang baka in a pot of sinampalukang manok and a platter of tokwa't baboy, and threw flakes of inihaw na bangus into a pinakbet casserole.

The offer was accepted, not from NGO Recruitment though, with the caveat that the Lao Big Event should have a chapeau in the joint statement of the 5th AMMW meeting in Nay Pyi Taw despite D's felicitations for missing Monday's Christmas party in Bantug but not Thursday's funeral and a request from Jakarta for additional data.

Thus was how the Phantom Biker rode for P6,000 worth of pork ribs disguised as Christmas trash with trimmings of cat and dog poop, and a fervent wish to win any of the lotto jackpot prizes so evenings of menudo, lechong paksiw, tinapang bangus, patatim, and cold Red Horse beer will last forever and ever. 

 The wine and the cake is Puregold Price Club.

The 12 pieces of round fruit is Supermall.

But the ginataang karpa is for an 84th birthday in Dizol to honor the children with small heads, a twitching chako master from Pantabangan, and the ageing saxophonist of Barrio Militar...