09/08/05

 

Everything is within darkness below...

To the fans of QnS: August, 2005

This is something I have pushed aside the last several weeks esp. with all the problems I and my family are facing at the moment but I can no longer put it off.

First, I'd like to thank everyone who has supported this site and has continued to support this site and most especially, our great ship, HMS Pumpkin Pie. I would also like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to those who sent me their prayers and well wishes. My grandfather, though weak, is doing well and is currently recuperating with my aunt's (a doctor) care, though she had to take him to her home in another city. I miss my grandpa something terrible, but me and my other cousins are holding on, still praying for him.

On to matters of the site.

I don't know if I'll be saying as much as the others, but I share your sentiments: to say I'm hurt is an understatement. I don't want to bad-mouth anyone, but it feels like having your own mother (you know who I'm talking about) strike a knife at your back and if that wasn't enough, stabbing you all the way and twisting the sharp blade.

Some of you cynical anti-H/Hr may be laughing at our expense, but I'd like to think that there are still non-H/Hr fans out there who sympathize with us (which is more than I can say about HER).

Yes, she made us feel like idiots. Yes, she made us feel humiliated. Yes, she made us feel inferior. She really shouldn't have done that. She should've explained, sympathized, soothed, but she chose to whip out the machine gun. I still think she owes a lot of people an apology.

Yes. I am hurt too. But I'm alive. She may have sunk our ship. Our ship may have a ghost captain who had decided to abandon us. But even though I'm only a crew member, I will go down with the ship. Not one of you, not anyone, can convince me other wise. I'm stubborn, yes...but I'm not neutral. I've taken a side and I'll stick to it. I hope fellow fans will to.

As you may expect, there'll be major changes in this site. I will not stop drawing artworks of Harry and Hermione TOGETHER as well as all the other sister ships of ours. In fact, now that it may just me *fannon* instead of cannon, all restrictions have been lifted and so, I can do as I please.

Please wait for me. I'm holding on to the wheels just as you are.

LONG LIVE HMS PUMPKIN PIE! (Think Titanic! It's Romantic!)

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I am so sorry for not showing up (again). I had planned on surprising you all with a FLASH site but as it turns out, it's getting harder to learn it myself and I realized not all browsers are compatible with it and so I've decided on another HTML layout.

Before I could start working on it however, my keyboard broke down and my mom won't be buying a new one 'til the middle of this month.

But perhaps my greatest reason would have to be my grandfather. You see, me and my cousins all love my Lolo Tanciong. He is the perfect grandfather! He jokes along with us, tells us different stories (our favorite of which is "Daguruan", a story about a white crocodile) and his experiences in World War II as a civilian volunteer (which I took into account for my current working novel, "Pearl of the Red Sun"). He also makes fishing poles for us and takes us fishing and boating. Truly the kindest....simply BEST grandfather ever!

Just last month, he had a stroke. All of us immediately went over to see him in the province. He thankfully pulled through and is walking and smiling and laughing along with us like he always does. We stayed long enough to nurse him back to health. I even celebrated my birthday there, for the first time, in my mother's ancestral home.

The day after we went home, August 1, he had another attack and was sent to a hospital here in my city. Me and my sis rushed there at dawn. I offered to be Lolo's watcher for the next few days in the hospital. He pulled through again but is now weaker than he was before. That's why I have to drop everything and help him along with my other relatives. He is currently staying at my uncle's house. My aunt and uncle watch over him during the day. I take the night shift.

Please bear with me and pray for us during these troubled times.

To my grandpa, Lolo Tanciong, "Pag-pa-ayu na Lo! Dapat kita pa ka sa among mga anak!" We love you, Lolo Tanciong! ---- Baliog Clan

~*Gwendy*~