The house isn’t empty. 🙂 My friend Val, escaped the fire that broke into their home a few months back. Had she not, I would have been shooting walls. Only walls filled with faint memories of her, and me being left clueless about what she was last thinking, or feeling, or doing. When I met her, a few days after the incident, she said, “Buhay Ako!”. And I think I replied something like … You don’t know how happy I am to hear that.  And no matter how cinematic it might have looked and sounded, we did hug like we have never hugged before. ( Insert tears here). 😛 I…