To My Little Sisters

Ten Things I Miss About Kaye...

1. Eating green mangoes with bagoong sprinkled with sugar while sitting on the couch watching television.

2. The quaint naivety uncommon to her age.

3. Her murderous versions of the songs in our videoke sessions.

4. Her leg on my leg whenever we would watch t.v. together.

5. The way she would respond every time our dad would call her "princess".

6. The way she would curl up in bed like a baby next to my mom and daye.

7. The way she eats "krispy pata". The way she munches on the ligaments with gusto. As if she has not eaten for a few weeks.

8. Her deformed finger... it's ugly but it gives her personality.

9. Buying our dinner when we were in med-school together. Of course, she would do the dishes.

10. Her sweetness when she is in the mood, I DON"T MISS, however, the "toyo". It's really annoying hehehe.

Ten Things I Miss About Daye...

1. She's my eating buddy....'nuff said.

2. Kissing her. rarely can I do that now. Dalaga na raw siya e.

3. The way she sleeps. Very similar to the way dad sleeps. Right hand overhead with the right leg elevated hehehe.

4. The way she argues about political issues with dad's friends.

5. Her company here at home. Rarely does she go home now because of work.

6. Watching ASAP with her. Mahal nya si jericho, mahal ko si maja hahahaha

7. How her tears easily fall when she is touched by a movie or even just a scene.

8. Her cooking... she's a very good cook...

9. Her hand massages. Hay hay... she no longer does this to me...

10. Her sweetness and thoughtfulness..."pasalubongs" when she does come home.

I never realized it would be this hard trying to list 10 Things you miss about a person even though you have lived with that person your whole life. I thought it would be very easy and I never was so wrong. But the bottomline is this... I love my sisters and I will forever be a Big Brother to them. I miss and I love you both.