Families and friends said their greetings.

Ninoy, my younger brother called me during his "lunch break", and that's around 1 or 2 in the morning because he works as a human answering machine in a call center.

He told me that he's giving me something that I've been longing for years: a window panel made out of capiz shells. I've been longing for that window for almost 5 years now, it can be used as a low-cost yet elegant material for a dim light. I thank Ninoy and bid goodbye.

Got an SMS from Nanay (mother), my younger sister and Ate (elder sister).

A friend who's based in Australia sent me a personalized card using a photograph she took in one of her trips in Sri Lanka. It's sooo amazing. The portrait of the child has it all.

I felt sad with the culture of impunity that's going on with my country. "It's worse than the Martial Law ", as my late father will always say.

Students, activists, journalists are being shot or abducted in broad daylight and the government will just call it as "unexplained killings."

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