today i heard a very sad news after phoning my mom in the philippines, the vacationing american former love of my cousin in new jersey died of drowning while scuba diving in the province. their 12 year girl daphne is now fatherless. that is probably why i was very sad while driving home today, the sky is dim and it is raining...it is this, but i was really crying because i was thinking about the tsunami victims in japan and the earthquake victims in haiti. life is like time that once it ticked it is gone. but this man was very nice to my mom when she was in new jersey. i tried to talked to him at my brod's place when he just arrived but he was asleep they said. i lost my dad when he was 60, but to this girl i know it is very devastating. a sadness that won't go away even as time moves on. a piece of you now had permanently vanished, gone. and what is left is a vacuum, an emptiness unsurpassed. i know everyone dies, but for jimbo, his nickname for us...his time came so sudden, unexpected...thanks jimbo for what you've done for my mom, driving her, welcoming her into your home...you've told her that you will be happy dying in the philippines...you are... but we are not...
