Daily Report: Full House

The Gontinas Family: Susan, Ednil,
Epril, Dimple, Doreen, Inday, mom
and dad (Nila and Eddie).I gave my broken alarm clock another try: I figured, how can a digital alarm clock keep bad time? I set the clock, and set the alarm for 7:00 a.m. When the alarm went off, I hit the snooze button... and then again and again and again... until 9:30 in the morning.

When I sat down at my computer, it was 6:30 a.m. I guess my alarm clock really is broken.

I got to work at about 8:00, and Epril showed up with her family at about 10:00... including her father, who made a surprise appearance, managing to get away from his fishing boat for Easter.


Even the streets outside are packed
for Easter Morning sunrise service at
the Catholic Church in Jassan.For lunch, Epril's mother cooked afritada (pork, potatoes, carrots, and other vegetables stewed in a pot), and pansit guisado (some kind of Filipino lo mein), along with fried chicken. With 9 of us in the house, it was quite a change from the lonely tranquility of yesterday.

We spent most of the day watching movies. We watched "Monsters, Inc.", "Pirates of the Carribbean part 3", and "Toy Story". (I do my best to keep things "rated G" when little kids are around... while Epril and Susan chose "Pirates".)

For dinner, Epril and I drove up to SM Mall and bought a bunch of fried chicken from the fast food joint "Greenwich", which was quite good.

Tonight, Susan, Ednil, and Inday went to sleep in Susan's bedroom; mom and dad and little Dimple slept on the bed in my office, while Epril and I slept with Doreen in our bedroom.