summer is here...
Got a 3 days vacation in Baguio after the hectic graduation preparations and ceremony, with the school staff, "the mandirigmas" and their families. It's like being first time in Baguio. Did I enjoyed it? Nahh!! I ended up the cook because I'm the first one to get hungry. It's where my patience and my endurance to "inis" got tested! Di ako nakapagrelax , in one word. Sayang ang ten thousand pesos kong ginastos para sa trip na ito! Shukks!
After the Baguio hangover came the "bastusan na pala ito!" argument with a friend, whom I am suspecting of illegal intrusion to my friendster account, deleting my photo album and my inbox! Nagkocollect pa naman aq ng inbox messages. Kainis! In my mind came the big question," sziguro mahal ako nito?". E, may girlfriend and damuhong yon, na walang habas nyang ipinagmamalaki sa aking pagmumukha! Hayy, nakakalito talaga ang buhay...niya! Hindi akin.
I learned a lot of simple things this summer, some of them came from other important people in my life that keeps me happy:
1. Chicken adobo is much more delicious and zesty with strawberry wine.
2. Seahorses are small in size, most of them are only 2-4 inches long, so the little mermaid is really so little. Much little than the seahorse because, she is often seen riding a seahorse.
3. Your closest friends are the ones who could turn out to be your worst enemy. And could be the first ones to leave you behind.
4. Pearls are not "malas na alahas" for the brides. Kasabihan kasi na pearls are "tears". Truth? Pearls are "tears of joy" because they are formed when a small grain of sand entered the shell and got "kiliti"! Want to be happy, wear pearls.
5. Wanting to laugh, reading Bob Ong's book "ABNKKBSNPLA"- light and seems-none-sense stories of his school days got lessons and laughs. Real laughs!
6. Wanting some serious reading and thoughts about real life encounter with God's plan for your life, reading "Finding Favor with the King" by Tommy Tenney will give someone a deep thought about commitment and finding favor with God. It's a real life story of Queen Esther of Persia thousand of years before Christ, married and loved by King Xerxes of Persia, son of King Darius. The story is the story behind the Jewish festival Purim.
7. Favor from God can bring you to a lot of places and a lot of successes in life. It can bring you the happiest days you're waiting for.
8. Masarap ang nilagang hilaw na saging na saba na isinawsaw sa bagoong! Sagot sa crisis sa bigas! ha ha ha!
9. Masarap din ang kaning sinabawan ng kape katerno ang pritong dumpilas, este tamban!
What else could happen in the remaining months of this summer?
Abangan.
"I saw you before while I was sitting in a park,
you, with another one...
Never knowing that it was me with you then,
when you passed by this unfamiliar road with me,
a year later.
I smelled your scent in your absence, before,
while I was sitting in a park
that lingers on till I got home.
And I realized it was your scent now that I smell,
as I was cruising this unfamiliar road with you."
it's not the end.
Got a 3 days vacation in Baguio after the hectic graduation preparations and ceremony, with the school staff, "the mandirigmas" and their families. It's like being first time in Baguio. Did I enjoyed it? Nahh!! I ended up the cook because I'm the first one to get hungry. It's where my patience and my endurance to "inis" got tested! Di ako nakapagrelax , in one word. Sayang ang ten thousand pesos kong ginastos para sa trip na ito! Shukks!
After the Baguio hangover came the "bastusan na pala ito!" argument with a friend, whom I am suspecting of illegal intrusion to my friendster account, deleting my photo album and my inbox! Nagkocollect pa naman aq ng inbox messages. Kainis! In my mind came the big question," sziguro mahal ako nito?". E, may girlfriend and damuhong yon, na walang habas nyang ipinagmamalaki sa aking pagmumukha! Hayy, nakakalito talaga ang buhay...niya! Hindi akin.
I learned a lot of simple things this summer, some of them came from other important people in my life that keeps me happy:
1. Chicken adobo is much more delicious and zesty with strawberry wine.
2. Seahorses are small in size, most of them are only 2-4 inches long, so the little mermaid is really so little. Much little than the seahorse because, she is often seen riding a seahorse.
3. Your closest friends are the ones who could turn out to be your worst enemy. And could be the first ones to leave you behind.
4. Pearls are not "malas na alahas" for the brides. Kasabihan kasi na pearls are "tears". Truth? Pearls are "tears of joy" because they are formed when a small grain of sand entered the shell and got "kiliti"! Want to be happy, wear pearls.
5. Wanting to laugh, reading Bob Ong's book "ABNKKBSNPLA"- light and seems-none-sense stories of his school days got lessons and laughs. Real laughs!
6. Wanting some serious reading and thoughts about real life encounter with God's plan for your life, reading "Finding Favor with the King" by Tommy Tenney will give someone a deep thought about commitment and finding favor with God. It's a real life story of Queen Esther of Persia thousand of years before Christ, married and loved by King Xerxes of Persia, son of King Darius. The story is the story behind the Jewish festival Purim.
7. Favor from God can bring you to a lot of places and a lot of successes in life. It can bring you the happiest days you're waiting for.
8. Masarap ang nilagang hilaw na saging na saba na isinawsaw sa bagoong! Sagot sa crisis sa bigas! ha ha ha!
9. Masarap din ang kaning sinabawan ng kape katerno ang pritong dumpilas, este tamban!
What else could happen in the remaining months of this summer?
Abangan.
"I saw you before while I was sitting in a park,
you, with another one...
Never knowing that it was me with you then,
when you passed by this unfamiliar road with me,
a year later.
I smelled your scent in your absence, before,
while I was sitting in a park
that lingers on till I got home.
And I realized it was your scent now that I smell,
as I was cruising this unfamiliar road with you."
it's not the end.
