CLEANSE THIS CONSUL

So happy the local health and travel conditions were favorable enough for the Consulate to resume its annual Consular Outreach Mission at Tamworth's parish center and we could meet and serve the community once more and OH MY GOD THE HAND SANITIZER DISPENSER I WAS USING ALL DAY IS ACTUALLY THE CHURCH HALL'S HOLY WATER HOLDER   

i will burn for this

GATHERINGS GONE WILD

Yeah, nah, that's a bit of a clickbait-y headline but I just wanted to convey the feeling that the indoor gathering rules have NOT put a damper on fil-com festivities judging by how quickly these recent events went next-level in their revelry 

Newly-formed non-profit goes from Kids Choir to Queen's toast to...the Copa...Copacabana

they fell in love

Boholano group goes from officers' induction to officers' dance-off to officer smashing Cats

ah, Memories

Women's group in Wollongong goes from cake-cutting to gift-giving to LOCAL MAYOR CLIMBING A LADDER AND FURIOUSLY CHEERING ON PHILIPPINE-AUSTRALIAN RELATIONS

wave your hands in the air, and wave them like you just don't care

Party on

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR APPLE PICKING MINDS?

Au contraire! Mid-autumn Blue Mountain fruit-picking/leaf-peeping/cidery-picnicking constitutes socially-distant outdoor activity, supports local tourism, and provides free labor!  Heck, we paid for the all-day walk-and-work-in-the rain-and-mud experience! You're welcome, local econo-mates!

getting loaded and turning into truckers just comes with the territory 

LOBBY GETS A GLOW UP

Many thanks to the Tourism Office here in Sydney for taking one look at our humble consulate entrance and thinking "Yeah, we can Dream Home Makeover that, easy"

and now we wait....

STOP YOUR CRYING ITS A SIGN OF THE TIMES

A looong while back I wrote about finding my handwriting double in China  and how disturbing that was. Well, today I discovered I have a Sydney signature double -- from a person whose name is nowhere near mine but whose John Hancock is so similar I literally returned the paper handed to me because I was certain I had already signed it earlier     

I'm as shookt now as I was shookt then

LOVIN' OUR DOZEN

On the 12th year of marriage, my true love gave to meeee...a...Moroccaaaan...theeeeeeemmme

(and thanks to my swolemate's support, pareho na kaming fit at puwedeng mag *toned* belly dance) 

(in other words, malayo pa sa Marrakesh kayo Wurtzbach at Jauncey before you GET TO OUR LEVEL)