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May

fiction

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Categories: thought release

xx and xy

xy: hi! what’s up? for a while there, i thought you have stood me up.

xx: hey!.. yeah, i thought against meeting you today. am sorry.

xy: forget about it. am glad you’re here.

xx: <smiles>

xy: so how are you doing?

xx: couldn’t be better. you?

xy: i’ll come to that later. wow! i really couldn’t believe you’re here. how’s your fiancee?

xx: come on –, you didn’t invite me here to talk about him. let’s cut to the chase. why did you want to meet?

xy: why? is it a crime to call on an old friend?

xx: after 8 years? i’m surprised. we had no communication. as in zilch… for crying out loud i only bumped into you once.. said "hi!" and that was it… we never spoke after all those years and here we are. what’s going on?

xy: i’d really love to see you tonight?

xx: what?

xy: the song.

xx: you got me confused here. what has gotten into you? i wouldn’t have imagined you to be this pathetic. dan and coley, huh? tell me, what’s really going on?

xy: remember the letter i wrote to you about?

xx: what letter? did you write me one?

xy: forget about it.

xx: tell me, what letter and what’s in it?

xy: never mind, you obviously couldn’t remember if there ever was a letter. so just let it drop.

xx: i only got one letter from you… the year after we met. are you referring to that spur-of-the-moment letter? i remember that letter. how could i forget? it’s rarely that i get a letter from a guy thanking me and detailing everything i’ve supposedly done for him. i would have replied, but you were nowhere to be found. you just left without a word. no forwarding address, whatsoever. never had the chance to say thanks in return. it was very touching. i realized you have a good memory. you also made me laugh reading that letter. looking back, i never had so much fun. i’m so touched. i was happy reading that one. thanks by the way.

xy: sheez, you’re a moron, you know that?

xx: <incredulous> what?

xy: woman, that letter was me trying to tell you that i fell for you. darn.

xx: fell? what do you mean?

xy: come on, don’t make this harder for me. what do i mean? geez, — you’re a lot smarter than what you’re letting on.

xx: apparently i’m not.

May

may 20 reunion afterthoughts

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Categories: thought release

may 22, 2006
4th level, ayala center cebu
waiting in line for the movie, ‘the da vinci code’

april 16, 1996. that was the date we all graduated from high school. some of us braved continuing our college education at the institution right across U.P. High. While some others had enough of being called "iskas and iskos" and opted to go to other universities in and out of cebu. some one hundred [or so] of us went our separate ways to go where the tides took us. now, several days and a decade after, the tides once again brought us back together to provide opportunity for us to bring back the memories that we all shared when our identities were then 92-xxxx.

random thoughts
26.6% of the whole U.P. High Batch 1996 went to ratskys and bbq.com to attend our so called reunion. the turn out wasn’t as good as i had hoped it to be. although, seeing the other thirty-one classmates after ten years more than compensate for those who were unable to attend. observing all the other 31 was truly exhilirating to me. like i said in one of my earlier blogs, i live vicariously, thus i take pleasure in learning things by observing and listening to other people. thus, it was so great to see for myself the people whom i literally grew up with became what they are now. the little people that we were once turned out to become doctors, teachers, bankers, accountants, sales people and what have you. ha. i think of all the people who were there, i think i was the only one who ended up working with words and got paid criticizing other people’s writings.

as in any typical reunions, each of my classmates had stories to tell. of all the stories that i heard last night, i was saddened to hear the story of congressman. i don’t know if it was just the effect of tequila and beer combined, but i swear i could hear the sadness, regret, and a little bit of anger and confusion in my classmate’s voice as he related his lost love. well, i’m sure said classmate will find his way to the partner that he longed to have, so long as he stop challenging fate by beating red lights on his bike.

sex stories and sexcapades. the night was full of them. that’s when i came to realize that indeed we all have grown up, or have i? well, vicarious learning again… what can i say..

missed people. most of my closest friends in high school failed to attend. primarily because they are now based outside the country. flying in for the reunion was out of the question. yogi is in the u.s, cheryl solon is in thailand, cheryl lee is in dubai, while florence is in taiwan, and barbra is in the u.s as well. meanwhile, the others had reasons of their own. muriel got sick, jennifer was out of town for a company outing, ellen - i sure wanted to see her, but i lost contact with her. i believe she didn’t know that there was one. jonathan - i don’t know exactly my seatmate’s reason/s for not coming, but seeing him there would have been great. dobe - well, she’s out of town for reasons that i’m in no position to share. truly miss this lady. lilibeth - according to ems, she had to go to work then. it would have been good to see her too, as she’s the most transformed among all the female classmates in high school. speaking of lilibeth, i’m reminded of amethyst and i can’t wait to find out if she has passed the medical board. mark marinas - ha, i’m curious to meet a former classmate who turned out to be a surgeon, way cool and i honestly have not seen him since high school graduation.

the others whom i’ve wanted to see in the reunion are the following;
alexander calago - i remember him to be a great artist, so if there’s anyone who care to read through my crap and knows of his whereabouts, please do contact me, i sure want to talk to him. ha, for selfish reasons as our company is continuously seeking for artists and flash animators. i don’t know if he’s knowledgeable about photoshop, but that’s what i want to find out, that is of course, if he’s currently out of work. johnny polancos - ha, just to see if he still has that broad shoulders. lloyd suico — the height and wide grin, that’s all i remember of him and super buotan even if la jud ko ato ka.istorya. raymund berdin — who could forget his trendy khakis for a uniform? birthie oporto — i wonder what has become of her? donna domasian — hehehe, had a little incident with her husband over a mc do crew’s accusation of scheming on our part. chelle castillo — she’s as unforgettable as ever, so it’d be good to see her again.

May

reunion after effect

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may 21, 2006
4:17 A.M. desktop clock

arrrggghhhhh…. i got home from our high school reunion with the worst headache imaginable. what, with several shots of tequila and few more glasses of beer, the glowing pain on the left side of my temple is unavoidable. ha. back track for a decade, and you’ll never see me imbibe any alcoholic beverages. high school tagged me as one of those silent packs, who’ll <probably> never do anything stupid as getting wasted. well, preference and tolerance for alcohol changed. i changed. just a little.

May

opinion: changed

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a friend back in college invited me to join friendster sometime october 2003. not wanting to offend the said friend by rejecting the invite, i accepted and joined the <group!?!?>. initially, you wouldn’t find anything on my page. except perhaps my footprints. neither would you chance on me surfing the site. the reactant me believed that joining the group was tantamount to a person relinquishing her basic right to privacy. add to that was my responsibility over my writers. i thought i wouldn’t have the authority to reprimand them from frequently visiting the site if i myself does the same thing. it was several several months after that curiosity got the better of me.

perspective changed when i saw old friends from way back. more so because of the delight of seeing them getting ahead with their lives. perhaps because i live vicariously that i take pleasure in seeing friends and acquaintances putting their marks on the globe. i’m honestly proud that some of them are out there circling the country, and the globe. i’m honestly happy seeing those little women became mothers. i’m equally happy that there are also some of us who remain unchanged despite the passing years.

mein, i’m so hoping i’d be well enough to see all these guys in person again after 10 years. four more nights till our high school reunion. i wonder if people are actually coming, haven’t heard any buzz lately.

May

under the weather

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Categories: thought release

my foreign boss injected into the heads of all the TLs in our small company the idea of having NO RIGHT to be sick. work, work, work is our mantra. if you’re not dying, then you have no business crawling into your bed. you haul your ass and report to the office. my co-workers and i jokingly refer to him as a human work machine. even the guy is a self-confessed work machine. thus, imagine my dismay for my ill health the past days.

may 1 started out bad for me. ha, i had to take several trips to the john to take care of my complaining beautiful u. what could have been a wonderful trip to several towns in bohol was ruined by my beautiful u acting up while on the road. tsk, tsk, tsk. naturally, instead of reporting back to work tuesday <may 2> i had to be confined at home. hopefully, to recharge from being drained, literally. as if the beautiful u complaint wasn’t enough, good old fever and loose bowel had to join the party. voila! two more days out of work <may 3&4>. of course, the workaholic kuno that is vet, couldn’t succumb to the terrible headaches. hard-headed that I am, i couldn’t resist logging in to the net and check on my men. right, i chatted with my co-TLs to discuss plans for May as they were to have a project meeting later in that afternoon. heck, i even had an online orientation with my new writer. pretending to be slightly better <with just a tolerable headache and acidic stomach to contend with>, i reported back to work friday. looking back, i had no choice but to report back as the salary of my men was on the line. i needed to submit my payroll report, so my men and I would get our pay come salary day. weekend, monday, tuesday passed like a blur. an earthquake hit leyte, disrupted power in the visayas, ergo no work. caloy kicked in. rain, rain, rain and my fever and colds were back. but then again, i wasn’t dying so i had to report to work. at least, i had the saturday afternoon off, and i successfully resisted going to the office sunday. now, today’s monday and I’m only battling bouts of colds and cough. life couldn’t be better???

am crossing my fingers that the coming days will start to look up.

May

four in a series of X

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Categories: Travel

April 8
Andy’s Room
Tagaytay City

bummer. day before, i rented a fan room. the place is just a few steps away from picnic groove. well, i opted for a fan room since i was trying to scrimp on money, hehehe, tried to save two hundred bucks. it’s P1,500 had i opted to get the airconditioned room.
i woke up a little past 4 A.M. today. definitely, so unlike vet to wake up at this time of the day. nope. i wasn’t excited to roam around the city again. i’ve been to people’s park in the sky and picnic groove. in my opinion, i’m done with tagaytay. i’ve achieved my goal. the goal - was very simple, to step on tagaytay land, stay for the night and that’s it. i’m not much of a nightlife person anyway. heck, i even passed the opportunity to watch in person the object of many female fantasies, good ole sam milby. yeah, he happened to have a concert at the nearby local restaurant. nway, back to what caused me to leave the land of zzzz… . he! i woke up with a clogged nose! i had to literally breathe for air through my mouth. ha! my room was freezing cold! the temperature in the room equalled that of an airconditioned room whose unit was turned to high cool and its thermostat turned to 10. mein, i could even hear the wind howling outside. the wind was so strong that you would think someone’s trying to open the door of my room. as much as i wanted to crawl back to bed, the cold temperature outside didn’t stop me from hitting the shower. in my mind, i’d brave the cold morning and hopefully catch a good sunrise. hmmm.., i got frustrasted yesterday when my 6-day old cam’s batteries went D-E-A-D on me just when the mighty sun decided to set. the view/sunset over people’s park was spectacular, only i wasn’t able to capture it. perhaps, it should be the reason for me to go back sometime soon.

May

three in a series of X

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Categories: Travel

April 7 2006
Andy’s Room at nearby Picnic Groove
Tagaytay City

spent the early morning at carmona. jen’s aunt prepared breakfast for us. jen and her ‘nay prepared for their trip to batangas, while i prepared an overnight pack for my solo trip to tagaytay. around 9, jen’s brother in-law picked us up. jen and her ‘nay were to attend her niece’s kindergarten graduation. thus, jen’s in-law robert drove them to batangas and dropped me off somewhere in tagaytay.

prior to reaching tagaytay, jen informed robert na ihagbung ko sa tagayatay… good ole robert thought it was a cebuano joke and dismissed jen, thinking that i was going with the pack to batangas. newsflash: we just passed the area where i was supposed to be dropped off. too late to make a turn around, told jen that i’d be all right if they’d proceed driving to batangas and just leave me where we are. splendido viewing site?!?…

splendido. it’s where robert drove us to see a magnificent view of lake taal. the area was a favorite stop for those with private vehicles. the place solely served as a viewing deck as there were no facilities nearby. that day, a lot of people, both local and foreign, pulled over to check the view. few minutes after, all 3 of them headed to batangas while i was left to fend for myself [btw, at my insistence].

ha. truthfully, i got a little scared as soon as they left me. unlike my solo trip to CDO and Davao where i had accomodations arranged in advance, i didn’t have any idea where i could stay for the night. armed with my lonely planet philippines edition travel book and robert’s instruction to hop on a jeepney or bus going back to olivares rotunda, i was set to explore tagaytay. minutes after they were gone, a jeepney passed by Splendido. hopped on it, didn’t even bother to ask where it’s headed. <heart thumping>

first off. tagalog. had to remind myself that people here don’t speak bisaya nor english AND they don’t knock the jeepney’s roof. "ma-ma, para po!" as soon as i spotted the rotunda, where earlier robert bought something at the drive-thru of jollibee. hah, for some reason i couldn’t remember where we saw Rooms 4 Rent signs, nor of any hotel except for Taal Vista Hotel.<more likely ‘fright’ kicking in>. nway, Taal Vista was dollars, so it wasn’t an option. i swear we passed by several, thus the safest decision for me was to follow robert’s instruction. the area near the rotunda houses several familiar places [Shakey's, Chowking, Greenwich, and Jollibee]. thinking that i’d be in for a time-consuming accommodation search, decided to grab an early lunch. after lunch, proceeded to nearby 7-Eleven and bought myself a bottle of water. still no idea where to go, i approached a lady selling peanuts. <this was where my poor tagalog was put to a test>. i was hoping she could recommend a place for overnight stay. heck, the lady was clueless. good thing there was this tricycle driver who seemed to have the answers I needed. at first, i was hesistant to trust the guy. he looked like he’d ripped off somebody like me. what did it for me was the guy showing me a catalog-looking object. it showed the typical spots of tagaytay. so i thought, this guy’s probably a legit pseudo-tour guide. thus, i hopped on his trike and he brought me to Andy’s Room.

1:00 PM - got to Andy’s Room. the trike driver talked me into checking out the famous spots for a fee. found nothing wrong with the arrangement, thus agreed for him to pick me up at around 4 o’clock.

Andy’s Room - as soon as i got myself settled. i got the worst headache imaginable. bummer. i’m in tagaytay and my headache decided to tag along. so much for my theory that it’s office work that’s been giving me the headache. ended up texting my sister and one of my officemates about my plight. both of them urged me to not let my headache ruin my trip. sure, that’s what’s in my head too, but the throbbing headache made it more difficult to enjoy the trip. thus, i popped a pill and slept for an hour or two, hoping for the headache to vanish. ha. when i woke up, the headache was still there. got into the bathroom, showered, waited for the trike driver. after 15 minutes of waiting, no trike driver in sight, and with a now tolerable headache, proceeded to exploring tagaytay on my own.