Prologue

March 20, Monday…It was the first Monday in school year 2005-2006 for the first year med students to never have to cram for a quiz, exam, synthesis or anything that concerns studies for that matter…and for us mag-sisters, the first Monday to see Cagayan in a different light…

Mi-ann, my friend since high school, who I also call Kaps (shortcut of kapatid, corny no? why kapatid? That’s another story) texted me ‘coz she wants me to go with her to Manang Inday for her clerk uniform…

Mi-ann: kapz, kanus-a mo manlugsong sa inyong bukid? Makuha na namo amo grades around 2 pm so naa nkoy confidence magpatahi kung k ang result

Me: sus kaps uy…o.a. jud ni o…kapasa lagi na..cge tx lang ko…humanon lang sa nkog compile ning mga modules den go nako…

While we were texting, my sis also received a text message from Peps, our classmate and kaberks and kawavelength and kauban sa kabuang and etc…She said that she’s already bored and magkta dw somewhere in divisoria. So since, maglugsong mi for Mi-ann, we agreed to see each other at also around 2-4 pm…

So minutes after…

Phone beeps…

Mi-ann: Kapz! Nkapasa ko!

Me: Conggratz! So asa ta after patahi? Hehe..tanawa o.a. ra jud ni o..cge hulata mi ligo sa ko

Mi-ann: k, email sad nko ako sisters..mamalita ko =)

At dunkin donuts, divisoria, the official meeting place of almost everybody that I know of in Cagayan…

Me: Tanawa kaps, wa lagi mabagsak na 3rd year…

Mi-ann: Naa lagi gihapon na..d baya na sila mu-ila…bagsak kung bagsak baya jd na sila

Sis: atik..kuyawa diay uy

Mi-ann: Tama diay, inyong grades sa 1st year humana daw, unya ideliberate pa na so cguro mga Wedenesday or Thursday ma release

Me: Ha? Abi nko nextweek pa…sa bagay para maka uli na sad mi uy

So, chika2x muna then out of nowhere, without warning, Peps emerge right beside me and said…

Peps: uuuuy! marelease na daw grades tom!

3 of us: hahaha….asa man ka gikan?

Me: grabe peps kalit lang mn kag sulpot, wala pa juy intro

Peps: uy kulbaan nko…unsaon na nko ni…kapasa kaha ko?

Sis: d pa man na tom..relax lang diha uy, mga wed or thurs pa man daw kay ideliberate pa, diba Mi?

Mi-ann: Ang ako nadunggan tom mahuman inyo grades, ambot kung tom dayon mahuman ug deliberate para release dayon

Peps: tom na jud daw kay maoy ingon nila Josie, naa mn cla skul karon

The 3 of us d makapaniwala…

So after the chika2x we agreed to go to Manang Inday for the clerk uniform, while Peps was so tarantated and mejo wala sa sarili, kaya malapit nahulog sa mini canal buti na lang, with the tight grip of Mi-ann and my sis, she’s back to where she should be standing …but anyway, dahil wala nga sa sarili, she still manages to say “uy d sa ko mouban ha, magpray sa ko”..so after we recovered from laughing in amusement of Pep’s acrobatic skills…

Me: k ra ka mam? au2x ug tabok ha, pa uban ka?...

Peps: ayaw na, patahi na mo..k ra ko, magpray lang sa ko

Sis: sure ka?

Peps: lagi, k ra ko..text lang ko kung humana

So we said our good-byes and pahabol…i-apil mi sa prayers ha…

To cut the story short, we again meet at Bo’s with Toto, Mi-ann’s cousin, went to Famous Dane’s where Mi-ann and the 4 of us celebrated Mi-ann’s success, billiards at Diamod Tip then after everything, Mi-ann and Toto went home while me and my sis end up sleeping at Pep’s . . .

success!!!

I actually finished a book in just a day!...it’s sooo not me…Just like I promised myself before, if this school year ends, I’d read books. I’m a slooow reader, maybe because I have slooow comprehension (i hope not). I’ve little vocabulary. Ever since I graduated from college and worked (before entering med school), I no longer know how to construct straight English, for crying out loud! Especially during reporting/synthesis, my mind can’t easily find words to fill up the ahhh, ummm, ahhh…Maybe my mind just suddenly stopped working, or maybe that’s just an exaggerated reaction…let’s just say, probably when you stop studying for a while and work, you’re no longer friends with lettersss, wordsss, sentencesss, booksss (like as if we’re friends before hehe) and so I decided to read books…naks!

Now that I’m actually home and have all the time for myself, without having to worry about exams, synthesis, assignments, readings, etc..etc..I now chose to read… again…No! not medical books hehe…I’m pretty sure some of you, my avid readers (ehem!) have read “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom…right? I read it just for the sake of accomplishing my plan to finished a book, maybe that’s the reason why I didn’t like the story as much as I like “The Alchemist” by Paolo Coelho (tama ba pagkaspell? Sorry, like I said, I’m not friends with books, but I’m trying to be one)…or maybe, the story is not just much of my type…or again, maybe I just read it because I was challenged by my friend *Peps, who also is not a book lover, but! take note: finished “The Alchemist” (my gift to her) in just a day…whow! So, a vision of me glowing, with matching halo above said: “If others can do it, so can I!”…check! so there, I read the book. And before dinner, voila! Done. wakekekek! You know dinner for me is detrimental to my readings ‘coz if I haven’t finished a book then nag dinner ako saying: ”I’ll just finished it after eating” then consider that book to be never read again. Just like what happened in “Thy Brother’s Wife,” “Da Vinci Code” and someone’s blog that I read…nakalimutan ko rin kc web site…

Okay so much for the intro…In fairness, I’ve taken lines that struck me (charing!). Why did it struck me? I don’t know, it just did…so go figure it yurself. Here goes:

Lesson 1

. . . in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

“Strangers, are just family you have yet to come to know.”

“No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

Lesson 2

“It’s the thinking that gets you killed.” (oh really?)

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret.”

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”

Lesson 3

. . . to be loyal to one another.

“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside.”

Lesson 4

“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form.”

“Life has to end. Love doesn’t.”

Lesson 5

“Nothing marked here.” (walang naka-marker, kaya nothing nakaka-struck cguro, kala nyo ano? hehe)

Epilogue

. . . each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.


Footnote: *Peps – I’ll write an article which includes her soon.

Papa's pizza

Composed: Feb. 21, 2006

24 years ago, this very same day… a loud cry was heard…Uhaaaaa!...and off I go bouncing to the world…bwahahaha…can you imagine?

Anways, that’s not the point…Today is my birthday, and I’m having mixed emotions right now, I can’t help it, you know, I’m getting older and more alone. Being away from what I call home is really difficult. Picture it…Although I’ve gained friends here, of whom I’m thankful by the way, but it’s still different if you get to see the place where you’ve lived your whole life and see the people that surrounded you when you were still in diapers to T-bak este! You know what I mean hehehe…I still can remember, how I celebrated it with my friends. Nakakamiss…That’s really how I’m feeling now that I’ve turned 24…But anyways, again, that’s not the point of this blog…Nasaag lang gamay.

The main issue here is, lately, I’ve been imagining things, more likely nag “iilusyon” as how my gay friends would put it…I’ve been visualizing my perfect “future”…again…you know, the “perfect” world that I want…I wanna have this, I wanna have that, I wanna be like this, I wana be like that, I wanna do this, I wanna do that, I wanna have him ay! hehehe…Things are getting more complicated na, I thought…Why can’t things be simple?…Why can’t I take things as it is? Why can’t I be contented? Why? Why? Why? Haaay…

19 years ago, this same day…It was the day I turned 5…What happened that day is still fresh in my memory…It was siesta time, I was sleeping and I woke up as my father went near me and showed me what he brought…As I opened my eyes, I was so delighted as I saw one slice of pizza…It was my present from my father on my birthday…Recalling it makes my eyes go misty, corny as it may sound but what can I say, it never fails to bring out the diva in me…How I wish things would be that simple again…

And so I figured, as things get more sophisticated these days, I will just always try to remember, how one slice of pizza could already make my day.

surprise!!!

This is long overdue na…I just wanna post this to show off my birthday party hehehe…anyway, this is my first ever surprised birthday party…Before, I thought that if I would be given a surprised bday party I’d be having goosbumps coz of kacornyhan but if you really have a real surprised bday party..you’d really be having goosebumps not because of kacornyhan but because of the overwhelming emotions that you get…sa sobrang overwhelming, I burst into tears..yaaak corny hahahah…

Tnx frens!..grabe! =)