The 150th episode of Bleach entitled: “The Oath! Back Here Alive Again” has been subbed and released by Dattebayo and is up now for download here. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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Naruto Shippuuden Episode 035 entitled: “Making An Unnecessary Addition” introduced the new Team Kakashi composed of Yamato, Sai, Sakura and Naruto. Together, they head out for their very first mission. Episode up now for download here. Rejoice Shippuuden fans because this week will be an hour-long special. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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Bleach Episode 149 entitled: “Through the Crumbling Forest, a Million Menos” up now for download here. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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Gundam 00 Episode 08 entitled: “Indiscriminant Retaliation” up now for download here. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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Naruto Shippuuden Episode 034 entitled: “Formation! New Team Kakashi” features the formation of new Team 7. An ANBU member was assigned to lead the Team Kakashi as Kakashi’s regaining his strength from their previous fight. The Fifth referred to him as Yamato. Later on, it was revealed that Sai – the guy who attacked Naruto is the newest member of the Team 7. Episode up now for download here. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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Bleach Episode 148 entitled: “Ashido, The Shinigami Who Came From the Past” up now for download here. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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Gundam 00 Episode 07 entitled: “Unrepayable Spirit” up now for download here. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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Episode 033 of Naruto Shippuden entitled: “The New Target” is the start of “Sai and Sasuke” arc. On this episode, Naruto reunites with Kiba and Akamaru, Shino, Hinata, Ino, Chouji and Shikamaru. Later on the episode, a mysterious guy tried to attack Naruto with a powerful jutsu, the guy is no other than Sai who was sent by Danzou, head of the ANBU Root. Episode up now for download here. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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Bleach Episode 147 entitled: “The Forest of Menos! The Search for the Missing Rukia” up now for download here. I believe this arc is a filler episode. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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These posts forward are long overdue since I am away for almost two weeks, so I’m gonna continue to post previous episodes of Gundam 00, Bleach and Naruto Shippuuden anime. But each post will be quick, no episode review for now. Thanks for understanding. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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I’ve been away from the blogosphere for almost two weeks, family thing it is. We lost our dear father (and a husband to my mother) last November 11. The past few months have been really hard for the whole family. It was August of this year, when my father was diagnosed to have lung cancer. He had his successful kidney operation last year but this news freaked us out and saddened the family. And to show our love and support that we are one in this battle, my siblings abroad come home. Most of my siblings have their own family now but from that month forward, we all live under one roof. There are days that some of us would be emotional but we have to be strong and sometimes would rather hide our emotions since he’s getting his strength from us, and for him to see that we’re fighting; that there’s always hope; that we love him; and that we are not gonna abandon him. Since then, he’s been in and out from the hospital; and has four doctors that are monitoring him. It was November 1 when we again confined him due to fever. His doctor advised us to confine him whenever he gets fever. The same day, I asked permission from him and the family that I am off for Baguio for 3 days that I’ll be staying with my friends. I was in Baguio then when my sister sms me that my father’s in pain and has to undergo operation – critical operation. I don’t want to ruin my friends’ vacation with the sad news so I kept it myself, though I’m sure that I’ll have their sympathy. Miraculously, he survived the operation, that if not for that operation, he could have been dead on-the-spot. After the operation, he remains on the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) of the hospital. There was like 5 of them on the on the room and my father was the only lucid among them. The doctor keeps on saying that he’s really a fighter. Yes he survived the operation but that doesn’t erase the fact that sooner… we’ll loose him – that’s the harsh truth that we must all face, the truth hurts and it’s out there. Being on the ICU is really hard for the family especially for my father. There’s a very limited time for visiting hours that children are not allowed inside – that’s damn hard and surely breaks my father’s heart. When visiting hours was over, he would always look on his door all the way to the “blue line on the floor” which marks the distance between him and visitors can take a peek on the patient’s room. He also keeps on saying if it’s possible that he will have one of us on his room, but of course that’s impossible with the hospital’s policy. Later that week, the doctor consulted the family for the consent on the “DNR – Do Not Resuscitate”, a written order from a doctor should a patient get resuscitation or not if the patient suffers from cardiac or respiratory arrest. Painful it is but we signed the consent, my little sister, and a nursing graduate and is the youngest in the family was very emotional and disagreed on our decision, but we explained everything. After spending almost a week in the ICU, the doctors granted my father’s wish to be transferred to general room. There are terms and conditions with the transfer and that we have to expect the unexpected. Two days after the transfer, our dear father bid goodbye, it was fast. Every other day, you’ll notice that he’s like running for his life. November 11 around 7:30 in the evening, I just got up from my bed having some few hours of sleep from my whole night post on the hospital; I neither have my meal of the day nor take a bath, when my cousin ringed my sister’s phone telling that we have to get back to the hospital fast, that there’s something wrong with my father. Somehow, I feel like “this is it”. My mother that time feels something wrong because she noticed that we are in a hurry. Teary-eyed, she asked what’s wrong, my sister tells her that we need to get in the hospital immediately and she should stay in the house. My mother’s been taking her own medication for high blood that’s why we’ve decided for her to stay in our home. The hospital is just 10-minutes away from our house. We arrived there with the door widely open, there were like 5 nurses in the room. One checks his blood pressure; two monitoring his heart rate; another checking the water drained from his heart and lungs; and others keeping an eye on the machine. My sister, the eldest is the family was already crying really loud. My siblings from abroad who visited him few months ago then returned for their respective work made their calls, talking to my father, all was blurry because everyone was crying, there are times that my father will make a loud snore-like-noise which we think he’s responding on every message that we are saying. We keep talking to him, and then we’ve decided to bring in our mother. All of my siblings are in the room now along with some nurse. Everyone is emotional, and we keep on saying that mother is on her way to the hospital, that she’ll arrive in few minutes. After few minutes, my mother arrived, she rushed into my father’s bed and said, “I am here now on your side”, that very moment my father open-up his eyes for 3-seconds, look at my mother then he passed away. That was very tear-jerky, no exact words can explain of the feeling of losing someone – not just someone, but a father who fathered us all his life. Tears shed the room, my father’s gone. My mother and the eldest in the family was like in-denial for few minutes, insisting that he is still alive, they referred to an oxygen that keeps on supplying air on his body and so we keep on explaining to them what happened. We had the funeral wake at our hometown in Anilao for 6 days, there are overwhelming people who attended the wake and also became family gatherings for the Umali-de Chavez clan. We had his funeral last Saturday, November 17. Since then, I consumed the remaining days for my bereavement leave and stay with my mother along with my sister and cousins. There are nights that I know my mother’s crying especially when she’s in my father’s room with TV turned-on tuned in a boxing/wrestling/basketball channel.
Seeds of grief:
1. Denial – I would say part of me is still in denial. My childhood with my father was that rich and I can still clearly remember those days when I got scolded; his whistles that means it’s time to go home; the night and day we spent on the farm; my graduation; the day I was circumcised. That it’s him that you’ll see in every side of the house.
2. Anger – That we shouldn’t focused on his kidney problem, that we discover his disease earlier where there is a chance for survival, for curing.
3. Fear – Losing him…
4. Guilt – None. We did everything. He knows we did everything – financially, physically, psychologically and spiritually. He have us on his battle; that we didn’t abandon him.
5. Depression – As I’ve said, I am still in denial. I am back from my 2 weeks leave; back to my desk here spending long hours for work; having conversation with colleagues; exchanging laughs with friends but behind my smiles, there lies a sadness. Soon it will be Christmas and I can’t just imagine that we will celebrate the Holiday without him – physically.
6. Acceptance – It’s a fact that he’s gone. We all have to accept that. I have to move on. We all have to move on. He doesn’t want to see us this way otherwise he too couldn’t move on with his new life.
He is 64 years old, still young isn’t he. But he’s with HIM now. Please continue praying for his soul.
Mr. Rupitacio D. de Chavez Sr.
March 2, 1943 – November 11, 2007
May he rest in Peace.
Pray for my family as well especially for my mother.
We all love you father, we will miss you.
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II. The Big Day
Tere and Tiny woke up early; as usual I’m the last one to get up on my bed. I can see that Tere is excited; well, we all are excited and looking forward for Tere’s session with BenCab. After dressing up, we headed somewhere north and have breakfast at PNKY Café – another gastronome experience. While waiting for the food, we have some photo ops at the café’s garden. After 3 clicks on my DigiCam, it died out. I blamed Tere for the happening, I instructed her to buy an Energizer battery but she had Eveready instead. I shouldn’t have replaced the bundled battery of the DigiCam. Tere made her way out by saying that she once watched an Oprah episode where the host said that it doesn’t matter whatever your battery’s brand is, that they are basically using the same substance. Luckily, Tiny has the DigiCam with her. Couple of hours past, and we head to Pinsao Pilot, somewhere south to meet up with the master Mr. BenCab. We got lost on our way but we’ve finally got to his place after having some ups and downs, twists and turns on this maze-like road. BenCab was standing on their driveway, though we have no idea [at least Tiny and I] where in the world is his place located, we are very much sure that it’s him standing on the driveway and waiting for us. He humbly welcomes us to his place, what else should you expect from an artist lair but fantastic works of art. Man, I am stupefied as I gazed on his gallery. After a short tour on his place, time has come for Tere and so she lay back as the master draws her. Tiny and I, on the other hand wanders on BenCab’s garden. There was like 5 levels of his garden beautifully trimmed wherein a pond and a hut lies on the 5th level. As Tere strikes a pose for BenCab, Tiny and I on the other hand, are busy taking pictures, striking our own pose for the sake of photography. Few hours passed and Tere sent us a message telling that she’s done and that she’s looking for us. I said to Tiny if it was BenCab who’s slow or it was us that really didn’t notice the passing of time. Looking up from the 5th level of his garden – it was a long and tiring walk, but it’s all worth it. Tere, approached us with the masterpiece – yes, BenCab let Tere have his work. Before we left BenCab’s place, he took a picture of the three of us and offered to drive us downtown since he’s also going to meet some colleague for lunch. Again, we had our lunch at Café by the Ruins; there we’ve also met Dave, a colleague from ABS-CBN Global. For lunch, I tried their “pinikpikan”, heard it was their specialty, silly thing is Tiny described pinikpikan as made from blood with some organs in it, that’s why I refused to have it the first time we had lunch, but for this time she insisted for me to try it out. Surprise! Pinikpikan was like the typical “tinolang manok”. After the mouthful lunch, we headed to North Haven SPA, to reward ourselves by having some massage. We decided to be in the same room, all the three of us – the reason – so we can still chat, funny thing is as soon as we lay down on our respective couch, we are all still throughout the session, I even fall asleep that the attendant has to wake me up to tell that we’re done. We then have some lemon grass tea afterwards. For our dinner, its time to try Barrio Fiesta, just across SM, well, I must commend Tiny for a job well done having all the places researched prior to our trip; she’s been like our tour guide. Back to the food, another mouth-watering native food we had. Now, I must say this is the most exciting part of the trip – our photo ops on Barrio Fiesta. The compound houses amusing statues, some of them are Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Former Presidents Cory Aquino and Fidel Ramos, the late Cardinal Sin and members of the famous Igorot tribe. To wrap up the evening, we travelled few kilometers leading us to Camp John Hay and have some coffee at Starbucks. Day 2 of our trip ended the same way as Day 1.
III. Realization
“Wake me up, when September ends”, famous line from Greenday’s popular song. Day 3 of our trip, Tiny left 5 hours earlier than us. Now it was only the two of us, Tere and I have our brunch at Don Henrico’s but we were able to gazed upon on the display at Vocas, an art space that defies any notions of gallery in your head, Vocas is a wonderland located on the roof of the La Azotea Building along Session Road. You’d be hard pressed to find a right angle anywhere in this place, crafted out of old wood, twisted metal and creative juices. Sorry Tiny for not seeing the place, that’s for leaving early. Tere and I left for Manila at 12 noon, its time to finally bid goodbye. Surely we will miss Baguio, time flies but memories linger for people who treasure every bit of experience. I guess that applies on this experience. And as what Tiny, Tere and I always say, “It was a blast!”
IV. Aftermath
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Episode 146 of Bleach Anime entitled: “The Name Is Nell” has been subbed and released by Dattebayo. This was a funny episode, after this arc, they’ll finally have a serious fights so watch for it. Episode up now for download here. Anyway, there’ll be no Naruto Shippuuden and Manga released this week. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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James Blunt released his sophomore album entitled: “All The Lost Souls” last September 18th. At first, I am hesitant to buy the album because frankly speaking, I branded him as a “one-hit-wonder” artist. Let’s admit it that “You’re Beautiful” was the only single that really made it to the music charts wayback 2005. Now, I am intruged when I saw the promotional album cover for this album – photo mosaic inspired it is. One and a half month after the album released, I give it a try and bought the album. The first thing I did was to ripped the CD thru my media player and imported them on my iTunes player. Comparing this album from the previous one, I must say that now the tracks are more distinctive, he was able to bleand rock and mellow music. The opening track “1973” was very nostalgic track, though it wasn’t the carrier single, the first track would made you fall in love with the songs [and the album] and would give you a glimpse on what to expect on the other songs. Listening to the album itself, I can’t help but realy fall in love with the songs. Album up now here for download, password is “http://hethler.blogspot.com“. var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘006699′;
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