SIOPAO, LUGAW ATBP

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cha siu bao hot bun

cat meat for shredded sweet pork?

fried brown, steamed white

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boiled Chinese congee

arroz to champorado

lugaw and pospas

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tokwa at baboy

chicken, eggs, tripe or nothing

breakfast from the trails

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siopao from the dead

Saturday arroz caldo

real men wear aprons

A ONE NIGHT STAND IN BORA (The Graduate IV)

40 minutes to Iloilo from Miag-ao, 20 minutes from Molo to Tagbak, 6.5 hours from Iloilo to Caticlan, an hour from the jetty to The Boracay Beach Resort 

a two-piece surfer in Station 3, a muscled paraglider in Station 2, dressed Chinese tourists in Station 1, dream catchers for sale at the Night Market

the Brain Train knocked Tatay, Balong posed for free espresso and a puppy, Nanay flirted with two Chinese chicks

American and English for breakfast, barbecued sea creatures for lunch, Italian for dinner 

4 years and 2 family trips in Miag-ao, adobo with mango in Guimaras, inasal and piyaya in Bacolod, food trip in Iloilo, rain and surf in Boracay

Thank you UP-Visayas! 

MIAG-AO REDUX (The Graduate Part III)

Miag-ao's grand church is as it was except for the repainted statue in front of its ornate facade.

The yellow flowers too were in bloom as before although we have grown bigger and Balong is now taller than Nanay. 

We were here 4 years ago to enroll Bulan and we're back now for his graduation.

The Oblation still stands proudly nude while we wore our semi-best for the Baccalaureate Services and Commencement Exercises. 

In the covered court where we gathered, the College Deans announced the number of candidates, the Executive Vice President proclaimed them graduates, and the sablays shifted from right to left shoulders.

That was it, four years done and Bulan is now a a college grad!

We will miss our time by the beach, Bulan will have no more oily breakfasts that cost him a gallbladder, and Nanay is happy she's going to Bora!