not much happened during this year's holy week observance.  it's just by sheer coincidence that my rest days fell on maundy thursday and good friday, so i'm back to work on saturday night (sunday morning).  sans the holiday pay, i would still prefer to have those two days off and do the things we usually do on good friday which was the way of the cross by visiting churches.  we have always done two stations per church, and it's no different this year, although i wished that we would visit churches we haven't been to before.  what stopped us from doing so is my cousin (who owns the auv we used to visit the churches), saying that we should only visit the churches nearest to our location so as to save on gasoline.  i found that a bit out of place, since holy week was about sacrifice, so what better way to sacrifice than to spend time (and fuel) going from one church to another.  just before we left, we found out that one of our relatives actually visited 14 churches.  that's one station per church!  now that's something that i hatched an idea on for next year.  14 churches from north of manila to south of manila.  now that would be a real sacrifice-slash-adventure.  i'll be looking forward for that one next year.

so it's a long weekend.  a very long weekend.  well, not for me.  to think that with all the years i have spent working in this industry, by now i should be used to not having the same perks (such as real holidays with real work stoppage) as everyone else in the working class.  but noooo.  having holiday pay doesn't do justice.  some people may think otherwise, but hey, a holiday is a holiday in my book.  in any case, it's easter and this day should be a cause for celebration in the catholic world, so i'll leave bitching about not having a five-day weekend to another day.  my birthday is coming up in a few weeks–a month and a half to be exact–and i can't help thinking that i'm one year above the third decade.  plans come and go, and my grand plan of adopting a child to raise on my own upon not being married or engaged by 30 is officially shelved.  i have my reasons for doing so, and i just felt that it would be better to not force to change the status quo and just let fate and nature dictate it's course for me, not to mention the big G upstairs, if he has something for me.  but in any case, i'll just continue doing what i do–be a person for others–and take everything else in stride.  i still believe in karma, so as the old saying goes, "what goes around, comes around."

happy easter to everyone!  🙂