november 1986
… less than paradise …3 Nov 1986
Monday
Back to school again. The sem break was way too short. We went to the cemetery last Saturday and prayed over Lolo Pon’s grave. I wondered if we should have prayed for Papa, too, but what a thought. What a terrible thought.
ON THE way to school, Kuya Alan listened to the radio. He refused to switch to FM, despite Kitty’s pleas, so instead of music, they had to listen to the news and then to some blaring commentary by the radio announcer. It made Kitty completely depressed. The announcer said that for the longest time now the Defense Minister did not agree with Cory’s soft methods of dealing with communists. Meanwhile, the man who once insisted that Marcos had made him the new President of the Philippines was no longer welcome in all
