Facetime

My daughter taught me how to use the new Iphone Apps Facetime.
The first time I used it, my sister Aileen, who lives in Hayward, California and I spent two hours on Facetime and the second time was last week. She first sent me a text message if she could call me. We spent a good hour looking at each other and I also panned our house, showed our dogs, the kitchen renovation and our kalat around the house.

Aileen and Bong arrived this morning for a 3 week holiday kaya no Facetime muna kami while they’re on vacation here, face to face lang.

My daughter left last night for a much needed R & R. She would go snowboarding with her close friend Kat. Just a few minutes ago, I spoke to her on facetime. She’s at LAX waiting for her three hour connecting flight to Calgary. She left Manila last night and arrived in LA last night too. She spent a night at a hotel near the airport and she’s been intouch the whole day. Letting us know where she was and what’s she’s doing.

The technology is just unbelievable. These are the things that I’ve only seen on James Bond. It’s happening now and I am glad I am able to experience it.

While Oyen and I were on the phone, I panned the camera and showed her sleeping father, her sleeping dog Stitch. I also walked to her room where my son’s watching tv so they could say hello to each other; and also showed our other dog, Tyler. Amazing.

Edmund was the first one who used an Iphone among the four of us. He started with Iphone 3, then 4. I was impressed by the quality of the pictures, I always borrowed his Iphone everytime we’re in a restaurant. He gave me an Iphone 5 because he said it takes better pictures than my point-and-shoot cameras.
Last Christmas, he gifted Oyen and Nyke with their own Iphone 5.

While Edmund and I were having a romantic dinner at the Hill Station restaurant in Baguio last December,
I suggested that we should give Oyen and Nyke their own Iphones, so all of us could call each other using Facetime.

Me——— Tart, dapat si Oyen and Nyke naka Iphone na rin. Para lahat tayo pwedeng magtawagan sa Facetime.
(He didn’t react.)
Me——— Tart, mag-facetime tayo, maganda yun. Nagtawagan kami ni Aileen, kitang-kita ko sya. Nakakagulat. Ang galing. Mag-facetime din tayo.
Edmund—– Nagkikita naman tayo araw-araw.
Me——— Maganda yun, we can see each other.
Me——— Para pwede tayong magtawagan, tapos i-pan mo yung golf course kung nag-go-golf ka.
Edmund—- Patay tayo dyan.
Me——— Pareho ni Raymond (Garcia), nung may meeting kami, naka facetime sya kaya naki- Hello kami sa wife nya and kids.
Edmund—— Huwag na tart. Tama na yung magka-sama tayo sa bahay at sa gabi. Wag na facetime.
Nagkikita naman tayo sa gabi.

I didn’t show him that he hurt my feelings so as not to ruin our nice evening in Baguio. Pero nakaka-hurt talaga.
I felt unwanted, undesired, unloved.

Nung mag-boyfriend kami lagi syang naka dikit sa akin. Kahit umaga, tanghali, gabi. Kahit mainit, umulan, kumidlat, sobra nya akong miss, lagi syang nakadikit. Tapos ngayon, tama na daw na sa gabi na lang kami magkikita.

Bakit sa gabi na lang ako? Ano ako pang graveyard shift?
Comfort woman ba ako at sa gabi na lang kami magkikita?
Ano ako Security guard? Bampira? Manananggal?
Ang mukha ko ba pag patay na lang ang ilaw? Ganon?