There, I have a temporary playlist. I still can't figure out that radioblog. It's so complicated! I have to download this and that program and the inner Luddite in me is freaking out! Anyway, at least I have the songs-- the ones that are on repeat in my music library.

Last night, I came home and found out my tito will file legal charges against his wife. I was not surprised coz their marriage has been on the rocks (and really on the rocks) for the past five years. Tito is a seaman so he travels a lot. He met his wife in Thailand. She was a Vietnamese who migrated to Thailand during the Vietnam war but she claims she's a Thai. As if! She doesn't have the exotic complexion of Thais coz she's as white as a ghost! We were all surprised when tito brought her home. She even stayed in our apartment in Makati when I was a kid and the moment I saw her, I felt something wrong. My late cat, Garfield, doesn't even like her. She used to put Garfield on her lap and Garfield acts like a witch was carrying him. Years past and she really is the wicked witch of the Orient. She was so evil to the point she hates our family. She doesn't like my mom and gratitude didn't even exist in her. Mom welcomed her in her home when they still don't have a place and she even bought a house for them! Now she hates my mom and creates stories about my mom that are so untrue! But mom's a tough momma so she doesn't devote even a minute in plotting vengeance against the witch. If she wants to, she can. She have all powers to stop tito from getting a contract. She'll just talk to the port captains in the company who are her and dad's long time friends and to the shareholders of the company who are my dad's relatives. But she doesn't want to coz aside from her God-fearing qualities, tito's her brother and she's known in our family as "the Guardian" of each and everyone.

To continue the story, tito and his wife adopted a kid coz the witch can't bear a child anymore. She had two husbands before and has two kids from different guys before she snagged my tito. The kid was her daughter's son. We absolutely love the kid like our real cousin. I love James coz he's such a good boy-- a complete opposite of his grandma witch. He would always ask me how my day was and he always brags about me, his only "smart and pretty 'ate'", in his class. Mom loves James like her youngest child but I don't hold it against her coz I'd love to pass my rank to James . Kuya love him too coz he was the little bro kuya never had, because I am a girl as-- straight as I can be.

James may look like a normal kid but the witch is physically abusing him. She hits James as if she's hitting a horse and James would go to our house and tell mom what happened. Mom would put betadine and band aids on the wounds caused by that witch. Mom wants to do something but she can't coz tito kept her from doing it. But now that tito was awakened and realized his wife was the wicked witch of the Orient, he consulted a lawyer. On top of all that, tito works his butt off on the ocean for months and he doesn't have a single penny coz his bankbook, his credit card and his ATM card are all in the possession of the witch.

If you wanna see a real life goldigger, see the witch. She has all my tito's money including the money mom kept for tito when he was still single. Mom transfered the ownership of the house to tito but tito gave him an SPA. The witch wants the title transfered in her name but she can't do that coz of what tito did. What does she want? She already has my tito's money. She even wants mom's lot in the province coz she talks mom into sellin' the lot to her. Duh! My mom's wise enough. On the last argument tito had with the witch, she said tito will not get anything from her if she goes back to Thailand not even James. That bitch!

So mom and tito decided to take the fight in a legal manner. They were calling mom's lawyer friends last night and they were plotting of something in case the witch gets James and brings him to Thailand. James doesn't even know how to speak Thai coz he grew up here and he hates Thailand. So mom keeps his passport, birth certificate and all the important documents tito sneaked out their house. Then they made James memorize all our cellphone numbers including all important landlines just in case something bad happens. They told him who are the persons he needs to call if the witch takes him somewhere.

I'm getting scared of what might happen. I went home last night and mom told me James was hit again (for the nth time) by the witch and tito got so angry. Then the witch kept saying that we were not James' relatives so he should not love us while hitting him. James ran in our house to mom and she saw the lashes. Mom couldn't help but cry coz of what the witch did to James. So last night they planned what they should do. Tito and mom are planning something I couldn't quite understand as of now coz I was so in to their directions on what I should do like take James somewhere where we would meet tito or mom. Everything's just so complicated for me. If it's already complicated on my level, what about James who is really involved with this whole mess. Honestly, I don't want James to go with that witch in case tito and the witch separate. He's like my little bro-- the little guy who looks up to me and believes I'm the best 'ate' in the whole wide world even if I'm not. I'll really do everything that I can to keep James from being taken to Thailand by that witch. The kid doesn't even like Thailand. If he goes to Thailand, I won't have my little bro anymore.