For an OFW, a month is always 'too short', and most often, there's that numbing feeling of pain as we leave our family. No matter how many times we've been through it, the feeling is the same as when we first left the Philippines -- painful, disheartening, tear-jerking. What do I have to ease the pain? These. The memories of my short vacation.


Rolled bilo-bilo.
Violet-y ube.
Bongga banana.
Whitish gabi.
Creamy kakang-gata.
Image of suffering.
His fall is our redemption.
A shameful walk for man's salvation.
The face of agony.
Rain-soaked freshness.
Watered color.
Malunggay -- green and wet.
Our veranda's produce.
Hitik sa bunga.
Rainy roof.
A lowly walis tingting soaked in rain.
Untitled.
Janine.
Ate.
Jillian.
Mag-lola.
Leaving.
A tail in the sky.