02.03.09
Greetings from the Pines!!!
Well, I finally have a moment to add an update on my bloggy-do. Hope everyone out there is doing well. Brian and Matty have left us and are now safely back in Los Angeles as their two and a half weeks here is now over. Aaron and I are still hanging out here in the Philippines. I’ve got a lot of pictures to share (especially of food, heheh), and although I brought my USB cord with me, I realized that I don’t know how to shrink the pics here at the internet cafe to fit on the blog properly. So, pics will follow when we return after Feb 15. We’ve hit quite a few tourist spots along with a couple sentimental spots such as the family plots, but today we are just chillin’.
During last years’ trip here to the Philippines, Andrew and I got to visit WWII sites. This year, in addition to WWII history, I’m getting brushed up on Philippine history prior to WWII. Apparently, there is so much that I don’t even know about my own heritage. I am a bit surprised, and a bit more appreciative of my heritage (although a lot of it seems to take second stage here). There’s actually a bit more to us little Filipinos than I had known. My, we are lovely after all, ha ha! I just hope that we don’t get completely swallowed up in modern technology or westernization. Certainly there is good and bad in every culture, but I hope we can hold on to some of the good ole’ ways.
That’s all for now! Aaron and I are going to do a little shopping today and hopefully we’ll have a nice lunch, too.
Toodles!
Marlakins 
