I Promise

Last Night I had a very memorable moment with my Nanay.

Nanay and Tatay were watching a teleserye over ABS-CBN.

And since they were not attending to me, I kept on putting off the tv.

Nanay told me that she would give me leche flan if I would not put off the tv.

And since I really like to eat this food, I came near to her. But she ignored me.

Then Tatay told me to raise my right hand and told me to follow him.

"I promise not to put off the tv."

After saying this, I would ask my Nanay if she had heard me.

But mother would not answer me.

So I told my Tatay to say "I promise".

So we did it five times.

Each time, I would ask my Nanay if she had heard me.

Finally, she said yes.

And she gave me the leche flan.

I ate it with gusto.

But Nanay and Tatay had a surprise.

I went back to the tv and put it off again.

Nanay told Tatay: " If I have ten more of this kind of apo, my hair would turn white so soon."

But not only that.

Because I still had another surprise to them.

I played in our sopa.

While I was playing, the remote control of our tv fell down on the floor.

It broke down.

Then I got out the rubber part of it.

Tatay got the remote control from me and tried to fix it.

Incidentally, the whole thing locked close.

But the rubber part of it was not put inside the remote control.

And Tatay could not open it.

So for whole day today we had no remote control.

It was fixed when Tatay phoned my Tito Dodong who is now in Makati.

Tonight, I did not put off the tv because Tatay would say again to me: "I promise not to put off the tv."

I felt ashame.