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celine| 17 January 2008 12:31 amThere are a lot of doors in our house. We also have, four computers, wireless access and three TV’s, its pretty sweet…So I’m pretty sure if my family tried we could probably all go a day living in the same house without seeing each other. I mean our family gets along really well but like a regular day in the life of us means that Jess and I (whichever one of us was at home) would clean the house at around 4.30 (just before mum and dad come home) then we would retire to our respective rooms with a mutual agreement to ignore each others existence until our parents come home. When they do we give them a hug, then retire to our respective rooms, me to my study, Jess to her room, Mother to the kitchen and Dad to his solitaire. (Yes Dad the secret’s out we know that’s all you really do 
)
The point is solitude – giving each other space… well its just part of our family culture… (‘Family–time’ usually consists of A: packing the car and going on a trip to somewhere at least an hour away from home (Usually Dad will get mad at me at one point during the trip) or B: sitting on the couch and watching TV – our latest obsession was ‘Gulong ng Palad’:: Neither of these activities require large amounts of talking ). In fact, I think our ability to give each other ‘me-time’ contributes greatly to our success as a family unit In this sense the doors are important 
Anyway…. with the blackout that happened yesterday (There was a massive storm that hit us at about 4.30 yesterday arvo and pretty much knocked out the power for ages… for full details and video visit: www.rommelpascual.com – I’m not kidding we filmed it)
We couldn’t very well just decided to hang out in different rooms all night… (sitting alone in a dark room willing the computer to turn on wasn’t particularly enticing option for any of us) so our family chose to…. Horror of horrors… hang out.
hehehe…
It wasn’t so bad… we ended up playing 2 games of Cluedo, Pekqua, Crazy 8, Poker, BS, Pusoy Dos and Good, Best, Better (I don’t even know if that’s the right name…)
The scores were as follows
Cluedo Game 1 – Mum won: It was Mrs. Peacock in the Library with the Rope
Cluedo Game 2 – Jess won: Mrs. Peacock in the Hall with the Candlestick
Pekqua – hehhehe… I won both games
Dad won Poker and Crazy 8 and lost at BS
And I can’t even remember who won Pusoy.. and that last game…
As you can imagine card games can get boring after three and a half hours… And well, we weren’t about to break out the Monopoly (at best it would’ve taken 3 hours to play). At this stage Mum had spilt two glasses of water on the table… (near Jess ) and there was so much dripping wax on the table (from the candles) it wasn’t funny… By this time, I decided that it would be a good idea to go out; Coz lets face it… it’s 10.30 in the evening, we’re bored and it’s too early to sleep… so naturally we went to Starbucks…
As we walk out the door… that’s when the lights came on but we left anyway for a night of coffee, chai lattes and a debate on what a ‘miracle’ was exactly… Jess, Dad and I were quite specific… however mom refused to tell us whether her use of the word ‘miracle’ was a poetic synonym for ‘statistical anomaly’ or if it had it’s own special meaning… (I’m beginning to think that I have inherited my partiality to ambiguity from her – especially since dad is soooo unambiguous) …I think I can respect that she refused to give a black and white answer…
We tried to culminate the night by writing a family blog… which didn’t pan out too well – there are just some things that need to be done on your own – but by then mother had already decided that her computer screen was more interesting than Jess, Dad and I …
So yes, my house has a lot of doors. But I’m glad that we don’t always have to use them
