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HMMM. The perks of old age. My sis showed her lab results to a doctor and the latter said, Considering your age, the results look great!

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There will come a time when our cholesterol levels are 400 and above and a doctor will say the same thing: Considering your age, this is the best thing ever! Keep up the good work!

I may have to go back to the lab after one month to see if the two not-so-great levels have improved now that the diet has no rice and paksiw isda. I suspect the paksiw also contributed to the high sodium result, thus, the need to switch to tinolang isda with malunggay. O my gas. Puasa pa more!

But on Monday night, after learning about the lab results, there I was, celebrating the levels that were OK by feasting on Simplejoys’ chicken teriyaki, baked ziti, baby back ribs, ube cake, apple pie, etc. with the Zone 1 Council of Presidents of Rotary International District 3870. Hey, these are the presidents who have been toiling over their thicker-than-Leo-Tolstoy’s-War-and-Peace accomplishment reports, so, yes, we deserved a break. Deserve na deserve.

It was a meeting, though, not a party. A meeting to have two projects for all Zone 1 clubs before our term ends on June 30, 2016. Obviously, the accomplishment report doesn’t mean we can now relax and simply wait for the induction and turnover ceremonies. I had this stupid idea once upon a time that it’s vacation galore after submitting the report. But we may have more projects now that we can focus on other things outside of that report.

During the meeting, some of us asked, Are we still invited to the clubs’ inductions? The SOP is to invite only the incoming presidents for it’s their turn to shine. We, the outgoing, are so out, time for us to sit back, relax, and write that valedictory address already.

There’s that feeling of bahala na si Batman with the incoming president. Unless we’re promoted to a higher position in the district and have the responsibility to guide the one who replaced us. In the ideal world of Rotary, though, the immediate past president (IPP) has to be there for the one she convinced to accept the presidency. Heh heh.

At least two of us in the outgoing group were surprised to learn that other clubs have an automatic role for the IPP–public image chair, service projects chair. That made the two of us look at each other and say, Ay, sa amin, wala! We will be doing nothing! Bwahahaha!

Sarap ng buhay! I’ll be reading books the moment the clock strikes 12:01am on July 1, 2016. But I’ll savor the first minute of that day by listening to the silence of the gavel and gong that our club president uses for Rotary functions.

It does sound like retirement, eh? But not exactly for this Council. At least half of our batch have roles in the district in the next Rotary year. Not as busy as the presidency, but still, voluntary work forevermore.

A friend asked aloud, Unsa na lang kaha ang presidente sa Pilipinas? O my gas. Yup, unsaon na lang. Imagine, it’s the whole Pinas, not a club with 49 members, but a country with almost 100 million Pinoys! Any sane human being would rather climb a mountain and hibernate.

But the thought of being prez to millions of Pinoys doesn’t seem to intimidate the five presidentiables, including Grace Poe who finally received a go-signal from the Supreme Court, thus, her team can now continue to post photos that have her posing with her late dad.

I think vice presidentiable Leni Robredo also has that kind of photo, with her late hubby.

Why bring back the dead! But the photos remind voters of the history behind these candidates’ political careers. If you believe they’re as great as the father or husband who made the surname respectable and popular, then, go ahead, make your day.

Think Tita Cory, PNoy, Mar Roxas, any of the Marcoses–there’s a history behind their surnames.

Should make you wonder, if that history doesn’t exist, would it have been harder for Kris to love love love?

For now, though, Kris is, ahem, retiring from showbiz. And not a few people are celebrating that with the loudest, Yehey!

The reason behind her latest retirement: her health. Hmmm, not old age?

But this has become a hard habit to break for her: retire, comeback, retire, comeback, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, ho-hum, zzzzz, like a man who says, “Wa na mi,” only to return again and again and again to the arms of the girl whom he said is giving him stress. But then, that thought was a misinterpretation by the person who thought that girl was the stress. Di man diay. On, off, on, off, on, until you no longer care about the latest updates on that story.

Old age hopefully gives the old person some wisdom to rise above his cholesterol and sodium levels, to the extent that he no longer cares? But health is still wealth. Last Wednesday morning, the wellness coach emailed to me a new meal plan. There’s progress there: two solid meals instead of one! Yehey! Is that the reward for a younger metabolic age?

I can have fish and veggies now for lunch and dinner. No pork and beef as usual. But as last Wednesday progressed to late afternoon and late night, I had burger, fries, and diet soda. And, as usual, I texted the wellness coach afterwards, as an FYI. FYI: I had burger, fries, and diet soda. Which might be TMI for him: Oh, no, not again!

The morning after, which was yesterday, for the first time in so many weeks, I woke up relaxed and smiling: Finally, the accomplishment report is with the district governor! I was so happy. Yes!

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