Tintin and I arrived at RTC at 8:30 am but, we entered the court room at 11 am. The pairing judge was hearing the case of a minor rape victim so we had to wait outside until the inquest's done.

Our case is number 9th in the court calendar. The authorized representative of the Mun. of Cardona, Rizal, testified but, she will again testify on Sept. 24th. The pairing judge had to hear the rest of the cases and it was already past 11:30 am.

As usual, I paid my lawyer and my witnesses their appearance fees. I didn't know how we got home. My mind was flying, I was worried how I will explain to Randy that there will be another hearing set on September 24th at 11 am.

At home, even though Randy was disappointed, there is nothing we can do but, wait for the next hearing.

We had buffet merienda at Cabalen's before we we went to do some grocery shopping.

At the mall's grocery, the first item I always pick when shopping is the rice. I normally buy 2 - 5 kg of Jasmine Rice (enough for one week consumption). To my surprise, from Php 47.50 per kilo ten days ago, it went up to Php 62.50! A Php 15.00 per kilo price increase was very shocking and they told me it will still go up.

Two years ago, the dollar exchange rate was Php 55.00 and the cost of Thai rice was Php 40.00. Today, Thai rice is Php 68.50 and the dollar exchange rate is Php 41.00!!!

Budgeting these past few months is quite hard to do in spite of lower dollar exchange rate, I still cannot figure out why prices are going up while dollar rate is going down?

I now realize why evening news always feature rice buyers falling in a long line to buy 3-4 kilo of packed NFA rice. Commercial rice is now over US$1.50 per kilo! Even if I want to buy more rice to save some penny in case its price will go up again, I still have to balance my spending...

Randy told me prices of commodities in San Diego are also rising...

In a third world country like the Philippines with nearly 90 million population, high unemployment rate, and prime commodities' prices rising, most overseas Filipino workers (OFW) abroad who contributed to the country's economic growth are also suffering from their lower take home salary since the dollar to peso exchange rate went down.

I have three brothers working in Saudi Arabia and a sister working in Hong Kong. They're complaining how hard it is for them to send money to their families here in the Philippines to meet their families' daily needs.

At times like this, I was wondering how I will manage our budget on my next shopping if every other day, the prices of commodities shock the consuming public.

Next hearing is on June 18th, 2008 at 10:00am but we are going to visit the Civil Registrar's Office on Friday, April 18th at 10 am, to explain to my witness the importance of his appearance to the above case.

In spite of the postponement of the hearing, I paid my lawyer and the representatives their appearance fees... such is SOP :-(

This case is causing me so much depression and sleepless nights... please pray for me...

I called my lawyer, Atty. R and informed her about the reset of the hearing. Fortunately, she is available on April 4. I've waited for several more minutes until they're done with the correction on subpoena the sheriff (Darwin) will serve to the Civil Registrar in Cardona, Rizal.

As agreed upon, Pacette and I went to Cardona, Rizal to talk to the Municipal's Civil Registrar. To my dismay, I found out that Mr. Esteban died in October 2006, 8 months after he issued Non-Marriage License Certification under my name. No wonder the guy was not able to attend the hearing on November 12, 2007.

Edsel Natividad was the new Civil Registrar now. Upon reading the subpoena, they checked again the old records to verify Marriage License but didn't find any such figures on file. He promised to send a representative on April 4th hearing, since he has also another hearing scheduled on that day.

We're fortunate that Ramil, our cab driver, serviced us the whole day and didn't charged us too much.

Pacette and I did some grocery shopping on our way home.

We arrived home at past 2 pm. Randy was still online on Skype but, was so tired sitting my 3 world account in Tribal Wars. I told him to go to bed and I will sit his accounts as well.

After he logged out, I spent the rest of the day and night overeating... I think I am depressed.

Here's the copy of the two messages from the Tribal Wars Team:

Account banned

The forum is not the right place to discuss a ban, please don't start a complaint topic. If you do want to appeal the ban, please use the support system. The account will only be unbanned if you open an appeal. If a punishment has been offered it is advised to just accept the punishment or the restart if it is offered as it is very unlikely that it will be changed. In those cases please only appeal if you have very good reasons. Please do read the rules again before appealing. We do not accept the excuse that the rules weren't know!

Reason for your ban: Each player is allowed only one account per game world (except account sitting). Sharing your password with another player is forbidden http://www.tribalwars.net/rules.php (§1) Accounts: Retiredwarrant + chris3141

Punishment: points will be deducted to 2,071
» Accept punishment
» Raise appeal (Only successful and therefore necessary in exceptional cases)

Your account can be attacked while this ban lasts.

Here is Randy's first reply:

I have no idea who this Chris guy is but I have only one account in worlds 8, 10, 12, and 13. I have been very cooperative with the staff even letting you know when I go to my fiancee's home in the Philippines to let you know that I am playing from another IP address.

I am shocked to even be accused of having a second account and would like this resolved quickly before I lose any of the hard work I have put into this world thus far.

Randy messaged me: "This is very shocking to me as you know I don't do duplicate accounts and I have put a lot of work into that world. I hope they correct the problem."

Impatient for not receiving any reply, Randy sent this:

Any word yet, I am losing time, could you please check my IP and you will tell I have not been using a duplicate account. If this is not resolved ASAP I will quit all the worlds and you will lose all my paid accounts and the accounts I am paying for others. Your choice. I have never been accused of cheating and I am getting quite angry now.

I was worried Randy will stop us from playing if Tribal Wars Team failed to reply to him when he logs in back to the game in the morning. Anyway, everything was fine as he logged in to his world 13 account, he sent me this message that he was unbanned and can access now to his account:

Thanks for explaining about this. Our system flagged you as being on the same IP and password for some reason but it seems this is not the case.

You have been unbanned.

Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.

Regards,

Jon Dawson
Tribal Wars support

This ban inconvenienced both of us because Randy has to do his smithy and academy so he can noble a village next to my village in K54. I told him my tribe, GEN-X, is a very active one and tribemates watch everyone's welfare. I wish to invite him to join us but, I have to wait until he's ready to move to my location.

In general, we are all doing fine, it just happened I had been too busy with Randy playing Tribal Wars...

I was dismayed at how the military handled the situation. Who would believe that armored personnel carrier rammed the elegant entrance of The Manila Peninsula Hotel. It's kind of overkill and I felt some kind of embarassment how the world would view it.

Anyway, when Randy woke up, we're eager to know how the news would be like in the USA and he watched the entire morning news but there was nothing about the Makati standoff. Or, maybe because the media personnel covering the news were also arrested, along with Trillanes group?

We didn't pray the rosary because I wasn't feeling well from the iced tea I had at the mall. Paul Denise and I bought early in the evening a 4-pin lamp for my table lamp and we also paid some bills. We had dinner at Chow King and maybe the iced tea I had upset my stomach.

When Randy logged out to work, I was getting ready to bed when I heard on TV that curfew is up effective tonight, between 12 midnight and 5:00 o'clock in the morning and I'm sure it will inconvenience everyone.

I found this site from inquirer.net, SUNDALO: Tagapagtanggol ng Pilipino and I googled Senator Trillanes website.

So, my daughter provided me the above youtube video... and, I lovingly dedicate this song to my dearest Randy. Happy 52nd birthday, Randy!

You're my world, you're every breath I take
You're my world, you're every move I make
Other eyes see the stars up in the sky
But for me they shine within your eyes

As the trees reach for the sun above
So my arms reach out to you for love
With your hand resting in mine
I feel a power so divine

You're my world, you are my night and day
You're my world, you're every prayer I pray
If our love ceases to be
That is the end of my world for me

With your hand resting in mine
I feel a power so divine

You're my world, you are my night and day
You're my world, you're every prayer I pray
If our love ceases to be
That is the end of my world...
End of my world
End of my world
End of my world for me

Pearl and Shiela were with us when we went to Queen Mary Holistic Center located at Medical Plaza. Dr. Chavez is still in Canada so her assistant was the one who treated my son's dental concern. They explained to me the difference between Dental Treatment Plan A and B. So, I choose Treatment Plan A, for practical reasons: root canal treatment wouldn't last because my son is a smoker! I only gave partial deposit in the amount of Php 10,000. Next appointment will be on Nov. 3, at 2 pm

It was past 6 pm when we left from the clinic. Pearl and Shiela picked us up so we went home altogether. We're supposed to do some grocery shopping but since my son wants to rest, we went home after buying the prescribed medicines. At Mercury Drug Store, it took us about 30 mins before we were accomodated because many people were in line buying the medicines. Guess so many people are ill these days...

We've made it home finally, before Randy comes back online. I forgot to run Skype and I found out only he was online when I checked OP. He was upset he couldn't login to Tribal Wars so I activated Account Sitting request he made few days back. I was able to login to his account and researched wood, clay, and iron. The game wouldn't let me logout but fortunately, I remained logged on in my actual account.

Anyway, am relieved my son finally have time for dental treatment. He always set aside appointments before but since he has to undergo full medical checkup, he realized it's about time...

Trixia was admitted yesterday after spending a day waiting at the ER, under observation. She has stage II Dengue. They kept monitoring her tempearture, blood platelets count, and BP. The lowest platelet count was 117 and highest BP was 100 / 80. Normal platelet count should be between 150-450.

We stayed there for about 2 hours with Egay's wife, Ana. Ana was happy when she saw her daughter, Trixia, had fun playing Deal or No Deal game on Nintendo DS Lite Pearl brought with her. Pearl went out to buy some food from Chow King and I fed Trixia. Both of her hands have IV needle so she couldn't hold anything.

Time ran so fast though... we had to leave so Trixia can rest.

"Pursuant to the Decision dated March 13, 2007 rendered by Judge T of the Regional Trial Court, National Capital Region, Branch XXX, Quezon City, under SPE. PRO. NO Q-06-XXXXX, the date of birth of the child is hereby ordered corrected from May 26, 1960 to June 6, 1960."

Certified Correct by Lenna L. Bosito (Archivist)

We're done with two cases and I am looking forward to Case III's last hearing on November 12th... many thanks to Randy for making these things possible.

Speaking of Randy, it's the fourth day he does not go to work. All classes are suspended due to wildfires in San Diego. It's unfortunate that another Sta. Ana winds is forecast on Sunday, which might make the wildfires worse.

I have stomach problems and suffering from diarrhea... I slept the whole day but the Skype was on and Randy talked to me from time to time updating me about what's going on. I couldn't talk much because I feel vomiting. I was able to eat something only at past 9 pm.

Moral-Majority believes this is a political ploy intended to shift the focus of public debate away from the ZTE scandal and palace payoffs towards this potentially divisive issue. "We [Moral-Majority] are not against pardon per se, especially if it is granted for humanitarian reasons. What we oppose is the timing and the motives behind it." (Ref: [Moral-Majority] Digest Number 44).

State prosecutor questions legality of Estrada pardon but, it is just fair to release Estrada after 6 long years of sufferings under the hands of the country's political ruling class...

Arrggghhh... it's like 5-6 times the size of Metro Manila!

Anyway, I was mad early this evening because I didn't have Bayantel DSL connetion for almost an hour. I called several times but no one's answering.

When DSL was restored, I couldn't do anything either. I had Bicol Express for lunch and since then, I feel like vomitting. When Randy comes back online I was still chilling, I couldn't find any reason why I had a fever.

Randy sounds sick as well and been coughing. After we recited the rosary, I logged out so both of us can rest. The air quality in San Diego is getting worse.

Firefighters get break from winds, aircraft and chopper attack the flames with water, calming the tail of Harris Fire on advancing near Randy's area. I could hear most of nbcsandiego live news feed via Skype while Randy and I are playing uc.

On the lighter side, Randy's daughter, Judy, bought me some game points in Tribal Wars - World 10. I started playing it two nights ago while busy monitoring the situation in San Diego's website while Randy was at work.

It is past 11 pm on Randy's side, he said the fire near his area was put out, no orange skies but, no one knows what comes next, when everyone is asleep....