Moving things around is taking a toll on my body. First, there are the books. With more than a hundred books to carry home and then back to school, my back now hurts regularly. Second, there are the accessories – visual aids, speakers, laptop, and whatever else is needed. Good thing I’m now taking the service otherwise I would have to joggle everything while figuring out how to cross over the fence on the way to school.

Still, I’m thinking of having a few of my accessories permanently stay in the workplace not only to ease the moving back and forth but also to prolong the life of my electronic gadgets. (Moving around causes a lot of wear and tear because of the constant shaking and banging when being transported) Currently, I’m looking for an Energy subwoofer speaker dealer to purchase a set of sounds from. My old speakers I’m willing to leave in school while the new ones I plan on setting up at home. (Since we don’t have any TV yet, the laptop doubles as an entertainment system so we really need the speakers.)

Hopefully, I lessen enough load to keep my back ache-free for a long time.

It’s a good thing roadside assistance in the Philippines is always present. It’s either just a phone call away or just a few minutes apart (roving wreckers I mean). The likelihood of an accident in China, involving a child being run over twice by vehicles and  being ignored by passersby, happening in the Philippines is fortunately quite small. At least that’s one good thing about having a lot of nosy people around – there is always someone that would mind what’s going on.

It’s just extremely heart wrenching watching the surveillance video of the incident and seeing so many people ignoring what should have been a very basic, almost instinct-driven reaction to a person – more so to a child in such a predicament. Heck, never mind about being prosecuted for helping incorrectly. Any help would probably have made a big difference in this case. Aaarrrgghhh! Damn those who saw and didn’t do anything. Damn them all.

We have around a month and a half  left in the school year here in Brunei. We will have the whole month of December off and even though we will not be able to go home to the Philippine, I am looking forward to having a whole month to do anything with my family.

How I wish we have a car so we can go around and take the kids to the different parks here in Brunei. Andrea is hoping she can do some digital scrapbooking layouts or work on some of the things she has long been planning to do. We will have to keep ourselves busy so that we won’t feel too bad about not being able to go home this December. Right now, all I’m looking forward to is a whole month of vacation. It does not matter whether we’re here in Brunei or back home in the Philippines.