After telling my family in the Philippines for several months that I could not afford to fly back home to attend my sister's Pearl Wedding Anniversary celebration, I decided at the very last minute to bite the bullet and use airline miles to buy a ticket a few hours before the departure time. After a 36-hour door-to-door trip on coach from L.A. to Manila via Tokyo and Singapore, I finally made it back to my homeland (11 years after my last visit). My friend, Jojo, was kind enough to pick me up at the airport and take me to my sister's house. On the way, I called the family acting like it was a long distance call just to say hello. The timing couldn't have been more perfect: they were all together having lunch. When I arrived at the house, the driver just happened to be opening the gate, recognized me from pictures, and let me in through the maid's quarters and kitchen (where I bumped into my niece, Amanda). I rushed to the dining room, jumped, and shouted, "Suprise!!!".
About Me
- Sean Saba
- I am the result of an accidental and final creative effort between my mother, a writer & retired hotelier who comes from a musical family, and my father, a joker & retired airline man who has an enormous zest for life. People who know them well have said that I've inherited the best of their gifts. This is an attempt to share parts of my mundane life, which include entries about my family, my "in-laws", my friends, my pets, my travels, my adventures, my goofing around, and some of my feeble endeavors in writing, poetry, and song writing, etc. Hope you like my bloggerole of rigmarole ... my bloggerdash of balderdash!
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