family matters

something happens in the family it concerns ours and the widow of our uncle... my dad and my late uncle was brother's! this may not be clear if i'll not having a flash back...and this thing isn't really new cause the problem was there long time ago and the issues aren't being discussed by the family!
let's go down memory lane first...my father was the middle child and my tito rick is the eldest and ta loy is the youngest. my dad was working overseas before and stop working for 10 years na ata.. and they planned to rebuild our house back in the early 90's. actually it was my grandfather who owns the land of my family and tito ricks' .. so they separate it into two since my tita loy is still single she's living with us same as my grandparents. let's say my father got a problem with gambling before and untill now... the money both my mom and he had saved for rebuilding our house got lost. arrgh enough on my father's past cause it isn't the important issue here...my mom was in debt and our electricity was cut out and i remember i used to watch tv in our tita linda's and even used their phone whenever theirs an emergency.. no cellphone yet i think... but this wasn't long cause tita linda said that we should get our own line of electricity.. i didn't know yet what this talk is all about but my dad grumbles that "how could she did it to us plus the fact that the parents of her husband was living with us... can't she wait for us to have enough money to get our own...i don't know what happen then but we did get our own not for long...
even before my dad and my tita linda aren't really close they we're just cool.. and even to us me, my mom, and brother wasn't really close to her and children!! they most likely at the province if it's holiday and summer vacation so we grew up knows nothing about much each other! and my dad has one sister and we call her ta loy and i don't think she has a plan to get married pa cause she's already in her late 40's but who knows, right???i wish she still could find a good husband to be but if she aint' its cool...
in the middle of 90's my "nanay" grandmother got tired on living caused of her illness... its our genes to have diabetic....and she passed away.. since our house isn't rebuild yet we had funeral at the barangay and it's fine.. got to see some distant and not so distant relatives...

i don't know what stories to squeeze in pa cause its' so many and don't know where to put... okay.. since we started not being close to tita linda and her family... actually before i do respect her much and her siblings cause all of them are in good status they're not that rich but can afford things to buy for their family plus they we're really have family closed ties since every year they're having reunion.. hmm do i sounds envious.. nah.. though i don't see my other relatives every year am okay with it!just as long we have contacts!
our life goes on smoothly though the financial problem was always still there and me and my brother had finished college and last october 10 2004 my grandfather passed away and my cousin named ivan had a daughter on that very same day but she did not marry the mom whose name is aira. coincidental as i thought....
They named the child as ALEXA, and since our law says the child can use the surname of his/her father as long as the father accept that the child was his! so on the 14th of november 2005 alexa was baptized here and bear the name of alexa vanna repe!and it was also our tito rick's last birthday celebration.. since then alex and her mom lived with us...... we're happy cause there' was an addition to our clan! baby alex was so cute and looks like an angel.. hee hee.. i think every child is an angel... the innocent looking and the smiles she brings was addictive..
it was on the first month of 2005 when tito rick passed away because of the same illness of our grandmother'.. he was burried in the province of his wife in bicol and we attended it.. i wasn't that approved that my tito to be burried there cause he's a manila boy and his parents are burried here but it was his wife's decision so we didnt' question it cause even before i think he's underdog on tita linda cause he also not have a job because of his diabetis... whenever his wife says we have to go there.. to stay at bicol, spend christmas and summer vacation... he didn't have a say just stay there beside her!! i don't know what really happens.. i was just saying my opinion here and was not saying that what was on my mind over this matter was right and true enough!and nobody mind about my opinion on his family... it was sad for us cause though we wanted to visit him during special occassion we can't cause its far away!
aira and ivan had tried living in to give alex a family but the relationship didnt work out and the two went abroad but not for long ivan goes back home cause he can't and aira only had 6months contract... alex was either here in manila or her mom's province infanta, quezon.
this july of 2006 something bad happen to aira's family her mother passed away and aira don't have a job to give alex all her needs so she decided to give alex to tita linda so she can take care first her mom's funeral and burial.. after a month she went here in manila and stay with us... and the problems within aira and ivan comes again! you see this isn't much in details cause i wanted to jump at the present.... before alex sleep with my mom and dad when she was still a baby but when she reached her 1year old tita linda got here to sleep with here.... cause alex can sleep continously she won't disturv you in the middle of the night anymore... and every weekend she will brought alex to her brother and went home after 3 or 4days!! it's okay we didn't complain cause we don't have right...and she even brings alex in her activities and let other people take care of her than us!!this is my blog and this is what's on my mind i don't care if this is false for them but for me it isn't i will attest to all ive written here....
what pisses me off is what was tita linda's thinking about helping aira... she says that we just wanted aira to stay with us so alex was here too.. isn't that foolishness!! wherein we just wanted to help the person that her son abondoned and his son already has a new girlfriend whose due to deliver a child on december i think.... tita loy has planned to take aira to college so in time with this alex will goes to school to.... but tita linda doesn't sees this.. and another thing is that she's active in our church's activities so why she's thinking like that... i know aira wasn't like us to drag in this situation but we cannot just stay and stare because somehow we're also in it.... it's not just we want to elope ourselves here.. yes it's aira and ivan's problems but nobody cares what was aira's feelings... they were situations that i can't discuss further here cause it might take many pages.. like for example they can't take aira to their relatives in the province cause they don't know how they can introduce her to their relatives... but they were happy to tell everyone that alexa was her grand daughter!! and they don't talk to aira as in talked whenever she's around!! isn't it a shame!!a total baloney!!! she talks so much and she should be thankful cause aira doesn't talk back to her.... the thing is damN with her thoughts!!!"WE JUST WANTED TO HELP!!"
and my dad really wanted to confront her about this and talk things out but tita loy wanted to deal with her first cause daddy has a short tempered man!! a lil background about aira... yeah she's young so she has this traits that we don't like..i dnt wanna go on further but this pisses us off too.. i hope you know what im talking about but if you don't just asked me..
i dont' know what will happen next but this is the issue for now.. though i wasn't a good story teller .. m soory if i bore you to death... its okay to comment.. please do so... your opinions are needed!just focus on the last paragraphs...
ciao!! ttyl!!!
cheers,
jacq