My Sister, the Comedic Thinker

My sister and her kids have been staying with us here at Taytay for their Manila vacation, but there are days that we stay at their crashpad at Makati and have a condo-party because the trek out back to Taytay is invariably painful (that is for me the designated school bus driver).

My sister is a class-act comedian, I swear she cracks the craziest jokes without her even knowing it.

So it was past 3am in the morning, the three of us were on the gigantic bed, Ate, my niece and me. We had a post-Usher concert analysis for my crazed-fan niece. As I started feeling the powers of sleep overcome me, my sister comes up with a game, "Unahan matulog panalo." Then my niece started to laugh and I felt my sleep fade, my sister continues on, "Eh paano natin malalaman kung sino panalo?", we laughed some more. We come up with checks and balances of this game and end up falling asleep in the process. Sige nga, paano mo malalaman kung sino panalo sa larong ito?

Oh by the way, I won that contest, I don't know how we figured that one out.

Then there's the curtain-less bathroom windows. The major bathroom of the crashpad has a full wall of windows, of which was exactly opposite the set of windows of the adjacent building. Let's just say it's not a good idea to take a shower when the curtains are being laundered. This was the case last Friday, the curtains were in the laundromat and we were stuck with using the other tiny bathroom. Then my sister goes on to say while drinking her twice warmed coffee, "Teka, so paano kung super kailangan mo nang gamitin yung banyo, anong gagawin mo?". I and the other children come up with, we're so going to hold it until the tiny bathroom becomes available, knock at the neighbor's door, etc. Then she blurts out the best answer with the straightest face possible, "Ako, I'd look for a towel, drape that over my head and use the bathroom." We laughed until our sides hurt. Only she can come up with that.