RUSH I.D.

What happened last week was probably one of the most embarrassing moment in my life…out of great deal of despair, I actually posed for a picture at the park near the city hall…can you imagine? with all the crowd staring at me huhuhu...can I like, sink now?

I was in a hurry to get a one-by-one i.d. picture to get a student permit so I could practice driving around town…it was almost closing time so I should be at L.T.O. with the picture as fast as I can…and by God’s grace! while we're getting the cedula [one of the requirements], my cousin and my sister saw a coupon bond on top of a wooden table at the sidewalk, written on it was: RUSH I.D. 5 MINS. All in caps lock…so they insisted me to go get that picture and so I thought…Oh what the heck!

And so, here's the memoir my sister secretly took while the so called photographer and my so called audience convinced me to smile…

solace

Love it here…here in my room…cold…calm…

I’m lying in my bed... mind wandering…walang iniisip kundi ang kawalan… gazing at my glow-in-the-dark stars…listenin’ to good music…listenin’…wanderin’…stayin’ awake…waitin’ for my sleepy head to come…

Sigh…these are few of the things that I’m gonna miss when I leave home.

chicharap

One week ago, I promised myself to never eat junk food and to never drink coffee this sem break …but then again, promises are made to be broken.

Junkeez! Truly irresistible!..so by the time I’d reach 50’s or 70’s [if I’m lucky], see you at the Dialysis Unit.

words

While reading through cover pages of the displayed books at national book store…here’s what I’ve got…

“Real success comes when you learn to act as if everything depends on you, and pray as if everything depends on God. God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can ever dream for yourself.” [Oprah Winfrey]

the others . . .

This is the start of our looong awaited sem-break…after our never ending Monday exams, new modules to be researched, [actually, research from upper classmen’s notes], reporting of what we’ve researched [actually, reading our hand-outs in front, pretending to know everything written in it], memorizing, analyzing, studying, drinking coffee like it’s water, long sleepless nights [supposedly, but still ends up sleeping], after having plans of what to do when we have a break….at last! Here it is! Finally! Sem-break has started!...

After our last exam, my classmates and I proceeded to our idea of “gimik.” While some rushed their way to their dorm and packed up to be finally home…vacation! One of the sweetest things in life…

Now that I’m in my hometown, I can finally mark one-by-one my looong list of things to do this sem-break: “done”…spend time “bonding” [vomit] with friends, coffee-coffee and discussing who got hitched and who got ditched, chika-chika with friends and laughing our hearts out [miss that already]… check out what’s new around staying inside my room listenin’ to mp3’s, movie marathon, , update my friendster account, write an article about my dorm life, med-tech life, about how I got myself to Cagayan and study medicine [actually that’s long overdue already], but to such dismay, my card reader is out-of-order [murag toilet] and I haven’t brought my u.s.b. thinking that my card reader is okay, tsk! [sigh] so I can’t transfer my pics from my phone, u know documentaries are better seen with pics, right? so i‘ll do it next time na lng…I have so many plans, I planned to “read in advance” about genetics, metabolism, reproductive system [para d magmukhang tanga next sem]…buy nice dvd’s, watch it till dawn, sleep all day, papayat, eat home-cooked food, get back my original skin color, go to beach, cut my hair, go visit my dentist and derma…all are just plans, galing ko jan hehehe…

But here I am, this is my third day of our sem-break and so far all I did was opened photo albums, and take those pictures which I think best to look at whenever I get sentimental when I go back to Cagayan, listen to mp3’s, and sing to the top of my voice, letting air out from my lungs `till it gets deflated…and now, I’m in my room, savoring this mocha-slash-caramel flavored cake nga d masabtan murag kyamoy [too much calorie] and marveling the works of Jessica Zafra, “The Twisted Menace” [never thought that reading would make a great past time] and this is one of the lines that caught my attention:

“A good writer lets you get into his head so you can see the world as he does.”

Hmmm, so is that how to measure a good writer?...makes me wanna check-out good books and take a glimpse of their world…

Guess magmumukhang tanga ako next sem hehehe…