Emotional Brat's Comment on Mount Everest

Three Filipinos finally summitted the Mt. Everest - a life long dream of most mountaineers (not me! I am fine climbing in small mountains.)

Pastor is a friend of mine, he is the second Filipino to climb the Dead Zone (thats what we should call it because that mountain has taken so many lives. Well, no one should really blame the mountain because, we do not really need to climb it "because it is there" and risk our lives.) He used to come to our house with our fellow CARE members and we eat and drink with them. Now, he is very famous for his Everest feat.

Congratulations Pastor Erwin Emata. (No, he is not a pastor or a priest, we just call him pastor because of the way he talks.)

There were several climbers who died this year (and its only May!) trying to climb and trying to leave the summit of Mount Everest.

I have read about the Australian mountaineer who was left for dead by other climbers who passed him by.

Anyways, I wept for a bit when I read this portion from 7 Days tabloid paper today:

"Hall, who lost several toes to frostbite on an earlier climb was also said to be suffering from frostbite.

Abramov said Hall later told his wife Barbara in an emotional phone call of frostbite in his fingers.

Barbara answered that she would love him all the same even if he lost them all."

Aah. I was weeping like a goat. I am so onion, so green papaya. I heaped and asked in my teary-eyed state "Is there such a love?"

I have been with various mountaineers and other people who do not climb do not know the joys of being in a rainforest, or walking in the woods hearing only crickets or seeing moss grow everywhere. Verdant grasses and pure green nature surrounding you takes you in an emotional state that we cannot attain in any other place or situation. Others just will never get it unless they try it or be immersed in mountain climbing. This is a treasure that every mountaineer has and will keep to himself for the longest time. The parents will not know the feeling, the wives or husbands or even best friends will not be able to share this feeling. This is inherent to every mountaineer. That is why I said, 'Is there such a love?' when Barabara told Hall that she would love him all the same even if he lost or lose all his fingers.

Mountaineering sometimes is the cause of fights if not seaparation between husbands and wives. Even if they were prolific mountaineers before they were married, most wives change and turn into possessive bitches that they will not let their husbands go climb due to lots of reasons, i.e. jealousy as there will be lots of prettier and younger female mountaineers, or just probably that they want them to spend more time at home with kids and the wife; and another is, lots of lady mountaineers climb in search of the good husband (hehe, I am being mean, really), so when they have tied someone err, tied the marriage knot with someone, they give up mountain climbing altogether.

Anyways, I am just an emotional brat sometimes.

Next issue that I have been wanting to write about is... men and pants... Hmmn.

Oh, Lewis was sterilized already (that is the politically correct term and not my previous castration!) He seem changed :( but I hope it is for the better. Even my sister implied a bit of sadness of Lewis' changes. He is not as hyper as before, but that was only for a few minutes of him being around us after the sterilization. By night time he was active again trying to catch our feet when we pass by him.

I had fun yesterday shopping at Carrefour with Djahan and Cheryl. Its good to have friends. But thank God most of all for girlfriends. Not that kind of girlfriend! Thea has that :-) Hi Thea, love you.

Mua!!