A New Month, Perhaps A New Life...

Today is Friday, August 1st, 2009 and it is now 3:41 PM here in Brooklyn, NYC in the US.

Music wise, currently listening to my newest Buddha Bar compilation, Volume 6 (newest acquired of course since that one is from 2002). I have been reading "Into Thin Air" by the great Jon Krakauer, writing abou his expedition on Everest where many died.

Been nearly a month and I suppose I need to fill in some blanks. The biggest thing in my life lately has been a terrible affair where a close cousin in my Clan turned informant for the US Government.

Known as "Solomon Dwek" in English my cousin Shlomo was involved in a 25 Million US scam involving kiting checks and overseas Wire Transfers. After getting pinched on that he turned State's and is the man behind the much talked about "Political Corruption Case" in the Northeast US. He got something like 40 odd blokes pinched as well (some of which are people in our own community - including amazingly 2 of our Chief Rabbis for Money Laundering). It is the case with the Rabbis and Organ Brokering that is currently all over the media.

Shlomo is in the "Witness Protection Program (sic) and that is just too bad because our family honour has been tarnished. still, he will surface and then he will have to deal with the consequences. Meanwhile we have already paid out cash to those in our community who got taken in his entrapment BS.

Nothing worse than a man who cannot handle his business, he would deserve a painful death even if he was not my kin. To try and harm others because you wish to avoid your own fate is beyond reprehensible.

In more depressing news, I believe at this point my marriage is truly over. Rizza and I are no longer even communicating. I bear her no ill will, and her family seems to be taking it the worst. I will have to head over to the Philippines and deal with the fall out no doubt, and I am not looking forward to that clusterfuck of emotion. Thank G-D we have no children, and that she is young, smart, and able to do what she wishes. I left her much better than I found her and to be honest it was her decison, not mine so...

I still will not get into it too much, it is difficult for me to talk of those very emotional things (after all the 2 or 3 people who may follow my entires will know that my whole rationale in beginning my BL Journal and Blog was to help me to deal with repressed emotions, etc.).

I am dealing with that TB I caught in Asia, and will probablly head back in late August, and then bounce... though I will remain situated in Mindanao because of my personal financial investments, as well as my friendships and other relationships there (none of which involve females for anyone that cares). I am involved with a paramilitary which I have touched upon, as well as a host of other highly involved activities that will continue to draw me be back for the foreseeable future.

I knew when I came West that I might be here for a while and that this might happen (meaning my marriage falling apart) but when it actually happens it still seems so earth shattering. I truly never expected to be on my own again in this lifetime but you cannot make someone love you, dig? In any regard I have never felt actual love in my life so it really is best for her to move past me, if I am forced to be truly honest (after all what is the point of this shit if I do NOT deal with my life honestly?).

In other news, still on methadone, only 200 mgs. now but I only dose 3 times a week, banking my dosages, especially now that the FAA has relaxed its "Liquids Ban" on airlines (FAA is a US entity but all other nations follow suit). Now I can pour my dozens of banked dosages into a larger container (especially now that I am on the cherry concentrate as opposed to that Diskette crap) and haul ass.

My MD in Mindanao kicked the bucket, but I have already found a couple of others who will write, just that they charge alot more than my old MD and they are both many hours away, etc. Besides the fact that I always like having a nice supply with me when I return (so that is why I am banking my methadone, etc.).

For the interim Rizza will remain in our Cebu house in Barnagay Tisa and I will stay on the family compound in San Franz in Mindanao. I would imagine that I will probablly start a new compound up in the hills when I get our faction in the CAFGU-SS (the private paras) up and going. Col. Lademora is going to merge with me, and we shall see how it goes. He has been operating since 1980, after leaving the PC, the former official para that was dissolved over atrocities.

He escaped War Crimes trials but then that was a time when most people carrying guns in the Philippines were committing atrocities. At least he did it against non-Bisaya (he is Illongo which is a Bisaya group as well, my wife being Cebuano, opposite ends of the Visayan Island chain).

Col. Lademora is getting on now, will not be with us much longer and his son does not have the heart for it. He (the father) always liked me alot being that I am an Israeli-Jew. When I met him in the mid-80s I gave ahim a book that he used to carry around famously, about the MOSSAD Operation made into a movie with Eric Banna...about revenge for the Munich Olympic Massacarre by the PLO's "Black September." His son just lost the mayorship of the village to my wife's uncle, the leader of the faction we are feuding with, "Uncle Allan," AKA "Uncle Asshole."

In that area (our feud) he lost all his cases against us (wink) and now has to pay us 4 Million Pesos (roughly 80,000 US) but he is of course appealing it. Mom is nervous because when he loses that appeal, if not before, there will be real bloodshed. So far one death here, one shooting there but it will be bloody in the end, they always are. Ahhh, Mindanao...Gets under your skin after a while, what can I say?

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I am sorry to hear about your marriage being over, Rachamim. I like in this entry how you express that you "left Rizza better than you found her". That's an honorable way to look at what must be an incredibly painful situation for you. You are a brave man and there will be someone special who will come into your life to take care of you, perhaps even the "love of your life". The kind of woman you would want would not be able to love a married man so if finding that "other half" remains your wish in this lifetime, this could turn out to be a blessing.

Best wishes to you - and keep down that stress level as much as possible even if you need benzos! They are OK to use if you take care not to abuse them. You may need a smaller dose due to your liver.
 
Thanks Mariposa. Some days are better than others. She and I spoke for a couple of hours on Saturday (on IM), but she is avoiding family (most Westerners cannot comprehend the gravity of a situation like this in that part of the world). She is not very happy right now,and seems like she is not really dealing things but again, this is what she wants. Ipray she finds what she needs.

As for me? I am thinking along the lines of celibacy. I just cannot see myself being involved and I do not do the casual thing. Of course everything is raw so perhaps one day things will be different.

I always dreamed of finding a woman that I could truly relate to,intellectually, physically, emotionally instead of one aspect or 2....someone with all I desire but, at the same time...

Anyway, thanks for the kind words. Actually stress is really getting to me. I know how to control it extremely well from mechanisms they taught me in the army but still I am getting stomach pains, headaches and soon (of course the crapwith my cousin is also part of it....The saying I believe is, "When it rains it pours.").
 
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