MEGA UPGRADE

I like facelifts (I mean home facelifts, renovations, etc.) but I think this has just gone overboard.

Our house is being renovated in preparation for Lola's arrival at 11 am later. Hours ago, I saw the manongs scrubbing the pebble and concrete walkway outside the garden. And Im like HELLO?! Tinatapakan kaya yan ng tao tapos katabi pa mga lupa at halaman. Bakit kelangan pa i-scrub?

I pitied the manongs doing it but they seem to be so used to the work. I was never even called to help in the cleaning and renovation of the house. For the past few days, I have been pitying the manongs and I feel so bad about it because there's really nothing wrong with what they're doing. And my gosh, they clean better than me. They've scrubbed every corner of the house, repainted the farthest windows, and cleaned the decades-old dust in every little carved part of each furniture here at home. They restored every table that has cracked and lost its luster over the years. (You'd actually think it was new!) They swept every clump of dust behind the tv, strangled in the wires of the sound system. They wiped every shampoo bottle in my bathroom because it's been covered in paint ash during the repainting. The best I can do was greet them hello when they greet me good morning or good evening, provide them merienda or just being cooperative when they're cleaning like not walking on the newly mopped floor. Basically just being nice to them. I have no idea how much they're paid to do these things. But I hope they're paid well because they really did a goooood job. You should see the house now. haha

Hours ago also, my uncle came home with a new 32" plasma tv. AND THIS WAS WHAT PISSED ME SO MUCH. I like the tv but I don't think we need a new one. Not just that ha! Complete with sound system which really got into my nerves because the tv here is just 4 years old. They got it when I moved here for college (thank you for that). It's still in tip top shape. Then two years ago my dad received from Lolo (his dad) a home theater system which we installed on the tv. (We never even used it because the tv's speakers are more than enough.) So I can't find a reason to justify it. Sayang sa pera. Probably it is part of the upgrade but they should have just repaired the bathroom and rooms upstairs, changed the stove, bought a new baking oven, restored the library, or just save the money.

Haaay. I just feel like it's OA na. My lola's staying for two weeks only so I really feel they're over preparing. Oh well. My mom said I shouldn't react too much because I didn't spend a cent for it anyway. She's right. But I still wish the money was spent in a different way. Now 'my' tv is going in the master's bedroom and the tv there is going upstairs. I dunno what to say.

Gee, thanks.

*I will post photos if I get the chance to take some. hehe