Nothing But Squiggles

So maybe we haven't seen nor talked to each other in a long time. So what?

I've spent half of my life with these people and I suppose that is enough justification why getting them out of my system would kill me. I fooled around, laughed, cried, and dreamed with them for too long a time to simply just ignore or forget them.

After graduating high school, we traveled different paths. Mine brought me to UP, away from my comfort zone. Once in a while we get together and I really enjoy spending time with them. It makes me remember those times we had together. This year I had 2 opportunities to bond with them again. Thank God for the board exams! haha. Recently they took their exams here in Iloilo and we decided to celebrate after finishing their exams.

First came the CPA board exam. We never really got to see each other during their review stint here in the city so out of nowhere we decided to hang out after their exams. We had lunch and believe me, the people in the restaurant were witness to just how noisy we can get. Nica was arguing to three future accountants and an engineer about her change. Haha. And I swear she wouldn't shut her mouth until she got it and we had to explain the same thing to her over and over again. We were technically arguing about it inside the restaurant until we decided to settle it outside.

Then came the nursing board exam. I was a bit in a tight schedule but I just felt like making time for them. Perhaps, I just miss them that much. We had dinner together and I;m not really sure if going to Smallville to drink coffee at Coffeebreak will count as a night out.

When we get together we always seem to have the same topic. A topic I never feel awkward talking with them. Actually I find it weird why talking about it with them seems so natural and easy as to compared to my college friends. Perhaps it was a topic that always pop out in our high school days and now we find discussing it as something normal. haha.

It just amazing how far we can be from each other and how much time had passed by but nothing changed, well except our age or bodies perhaps. Being with them is just so easy and fun. I just hope we won't change especially now that we are in a new era in our lives. I just hope that someday we could all sit down together and laugh about our past and talk about any topic we can think of.

It's exactly month now. It has been one month after Yolanda brought destruction to the country to earn her retirement from PAG-ASA's list of typhoon names. It has been a month and I'm still alive. That's what matters, isn't it?

November 8, 2013. I woke up after a good night's sleep and was thinking that PAG-ASA made another mistake. Little did I know that I was going to experience literally the 'calm before the storm'. It was the longest 2-4 hours of my life. I never thought a day would come that I would come to hate the wind and the rain so much. I've never been more scared in my life than at that moment. All I could do was curse at the wind and rain to stop as I felt completely helpless while Yolanda went around knocking trees down, ruining houses, taking lives. This is by far the worst and most memorable typhoon I have ever encountered and I never want something like that to happen again, never again.

After Yolanda left, this is how our place looked like. All of a sudden, the place felt foreign, unfamiliar to me.

Disaster after disaster. A typhoon after an earthquake. An earthquake after a war. It makes me think that someone up there is really punishing us. Perhaps we're getting a little out of hand so he's sending us something to tell us that we haven't been good lately. Shouldn't we at least thank him for sparing our lives? I think that these disaster aren't just some sort of coincidence but some sort of wake up call to change our ways.

How do I tell you I love you without sounding so melodramatic? You always tell me I write too long a poem that you always skip to the end. Too bad you missed the best parts and never really know how much I love you.

I love you like a kid who wouldn’t stop crying until he got his favourite teddy bear back. But this I am certain of, I would never outgrow these feelings. I have tried, but always failed. I love you like how a writer is with his pen and words. For what is a writer without words to ease his aching soul? I couldn’t imagine what would become of me without you.

Just as days always turn into nights and nights to days, I would never run out of energy to tell you again and again that I love you.

First Stop: Breakfast Buffet

Pardon me if I can't remember the place where we had breakfast and for not taking any pictures. The breakfast was not something memorable as the food was nothing extraordinary. Also, I was busy thinking about our unfinished AIS paper which is due that afternoon.

Second Stop: Jewelpico

Jewelpico is a company that manufactures and export pearl products and stuffs.

Thrid Stop:Bigfoot Studios

Call me ignorant, but this is actually the first time I have ever heard of Bigfoot, so it makes no impact to me or whatsoever that the Smallville Travel and Tours emphasized that we are so 'privileged' to have been granted the permission to tour the studio.

A 20ft pool. Whoah.

I couldn't get nicer photos because everywhere I go, my classmates just keep posing and flooding the frame. haha

Fourth Stop: International Academy of Film and Television (IAFT)

IAFT is a sister company of Bigfoot.

Fifth Stop: Dimsum House

The tour of the Bigfoot Studio took too much of our time that I barely enjoyed my lunch at the Dimsum House. To be honest, I cannot even recall the complete name of the buffet where we had our lunch.

Sixth Stop: Gardenia

Due to time constraints (after Bigfoot has eaten all the time, haha) we had to shorten our tour in Gardenia :(

The aroma of fresh bread is so delectable.

We took the plane to Kalibo and bus to Iloilo because our booking in the ship got canceled due to some stupid reasons and we wanted to watch the last HASA of our college life and support Arlan. The ceres bus was moving like turtle so we only got to watch the part where Ms. HASA 2013 is announced. Arlan was fourth though, so somehow the efforts we expensed in sharing ang liking his photo and support went not in vain.

I want to put the places where we went for the second day but if I do, the title of this post would be tooooo long, that's why I ended up with 'Too Many To Mention'. haha.

Room 434 Girls

Picture taken at the lobby of Sarrosa International Hotel

First Stop: Ding Qua Qua Dimsum House

That was one heavy breakfast!

Second Stop: Taoist Temply

On the way to the Taoist Temple.

Third Stop: CEFEDCO

Thanks for the ice cream and Milkee!

Fourth Stop: Cabalen at SM Cebu

I'm so full from the breakfast that I had that I wasn't able to eat P370 worth of lunch :(

Fifth Stop: Puyat Steel Corp.

Sixth Stop: Chapel of San Pedro Calungsod at South Road Properties

The chapel looks like some 100 walls sprouting out of nowhere from afar but they architecture and design was just so awesome no matter what distance you look at it. I was really amazed by the walls of the chapel. Try to knock on it when you're there and you'd understand what I'm talking about. :)

It just happened that when we arrived there was a an exchanging of vows, so we didn't get close enough to the altar.

This chapel is worth more than a hundred million. This was built through the efforts of Henry Sy. Talk about extravagant huh. But the atmosphere was very serene and peaceful in this chapel.

Seventh Stop: Sto. Nino de Basilica

Cebuanos are really religious, aren't they? At certain scheduled days, the mass is held at a wider venue (just in front of this church) to accommodate the large number of people attending the mass.