I always believe that “Life is what you make it to be.” I couldn’t say that the Year 2012 was a quiet year, but it certainly was more quiet than the years before that.
MOVING BACK TO “THE PROVINCE”
When I was a little girl, what gave me so much comfort was being with my grandmother/s in San Luis,Pampanga, or Baguio. She would cook simple food, but it tasted so much better than the food we had with my parents in Quezon City. I can remember that tinolang manok where she would mix the malunggay leaves with the boiled chicken, ginger and patola. Or the munggo with tinapa. Or the pesang dalag with the sauce of miso. Even daughter Lori who lives in New York thinks munggo with tinapa is heaven. During the first year she lived in the States, she asked me for the recipe of the “get well chicken soup” which was nothing but chicken porridge with ginger root.
When I became an adult, I migrated to Toronto. Then I remarried, gave up my Canadian immigrant status, and lived in many countries with my new family. I would evaluate a place and think either, “This is just a temporary posting” or “Yes, I could live here forever.” I didn’t think of retiring in a specific location.
When my husband decided to retire, it was just Manila that was on our radar screen.
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