INDAAAAAAAAAY!

whenever i have classes and i go home for the weekened, i am little miss pampered student nurse. my mom knows that i am oh-so-tired from all the hospital duties, never-ending requirements and nose-bleeding quizzes and exams. she would always cook 'special' dishes, my favorites. and when it is time for me to go back to manila, she has all the baons- the promdi foods you can never find in manila- prepared beside my bag.

but weekend breaks are way, way, way, different from sembreaks. from being little miss spoiled i was transformed into kikay inday. kumbaga kung lalaki ka, ikaw ang boy ng bahay. oh yes. it is a working sembreak for me. my mother, because i am just so lucky, got busy the moment i started the second half of my break... so if you already figured it out- i have to do all the cooking, the cleaning, the merienda-preparing for the carpenters, the answering of the phone and the yelling sessions with my younger siblings.

i never complained to my mother because i get these priveleges like free nail treatments and free loads. and the thing is it's a form of exercise. i have to burn these fats in my bulging tummy. those glasses of alcohol i had consumed during the past parties are smiling and saying hello to me in the form of adipose tissues when i look in the mirror. doing chores is also an excuse from watching texas chainsaw massacre or the grudge 2 or vacancy or whatever scary/gory movie there is.

maybe it is not a bad idea after all. and besides, classes will start next week... you know what i mean. *evil laugh here*

business

quoted from my friends bulletin:

"Sony PS2 with one original CD, controller and other accessories on it..

Hindi pa xa converted but bagong bago pa..

Di ko kc ginagamit kaya benta ko nlang..

pm me if interested kayo para pagusapan natin ang price..

-Manila Area Only-"

if you're interested. you can inform me in my tagbox. thanks :)

the walled city

it's a shame to say that i just had my first visit of intramuros. well, i have been to fort santiago during our field trip when i was in prep school. and that doesn't count, right? i don't even know back then that it was intramuros. sooo, yes... i had my first 'real' visit of the walled city last week.

my friend brought his space wagon with him. tamang- tama, vintage! haha! we entered the city and i was immediately fascinated with what i saw. i liked how the structures look. the buildings and houses reflect our history with the spaniards. basically, intramuros is a mirror of spanish architecture.

what more can i say? the place is simply breath-taking.

it's still not independence day

it's sem break again. the desire of each college student every mid-october. i love the feeling of having a break. you can sleep late and wake up late, you can watchTV ’til it smokes because it is turned on the whole day, you can bury your nose in a good pocketbook, and you can text all day long ’til your thumbs swell. yes, this is what you call a normal teenage life. i hate it that i am being deprived of these things ever since i started college. but what can i do right? a bright future requires some deprivations. like for one example, social life. BUT sem break can give it back to you! actually i've started my gala sessions last tuesday. FREEDOM, you are mine!

i am oh-so- excited for more. yes, 3 sheets of bond paper might not be enough for my long list of plans of what to do, where to go and what to buy. my ultimate goal this break is to be with my high school barkada. i really miss them so much. it is hard to accept that we are all busy with our own hectic lives that we barely have time to hang out anymore. so yes, i have to at least see them this vacation.

secondly, i have to go to bar. you wouldn't believe that my last bar visit was the past summer vacation. what the fuck, right? i want to dance all night and swear to hell because my feet are effing revolting already inside my high heels. i miss that. but enough of the alcohol-drinking sessions. i had more than enough during the first semester. because most of the celebrated birthdays for the past four months served alcohol as the main course. hehe!

blah blah blah. if i don't want to be here typing til the tenth decade of my life i would not recite all of my plans. believe me. i have thousands! hahaha!

anyway, i know you know how excited i am to accomplish my list for this sem break. pero dahil nursing student ako at ganito naman ang buhay namin- maybe i won't accomplish even one- fourth of my list. because, bloody yes, we will start our one-week training next monday. so our three- week semestral break will be gone. three weeks na nga lang nabawasan pa ng isa. grrrrrr.

really, bright future requires some deprivations. independence day will still be after 1 and a half years. I SHOULD BEAR THAT IN MIND.

sa malate

naroon siya. tumitirik ang mata. lumilipad.

naglalakad ako sa kahabaan ng mga kalye ng malate. galing ako sa M.H. del Pilar sa isang condominium doon. pumunta ako sa adviser namin ng research. maganda ang panahon. mainit ang araw ngunit ang hangin ay mararamdaman mo pa rin sa iyong mukha. maayos ang lahat. ang mag- asawang lagi kong nakikita na nag-aaway doon sa isang tagong eskinita ay tila tahimik ang buhay sa araw na iyon. ang mga babaeng nakaistambay sa labas ng isang bar ay hindi ko nakita. nagpapahinga siguro sila. ang mga batang paslit na naghahalungkat ng basura ay hindi pa nagkakagulo sa tirang pagkain na karaniwan ay pinag-aagawan- kahit butobutong manok galing jollibee.

nagsisimula ang kaguluhan sa malate pag gabi na. iba- ibang kulay ng ilaw ang makikita mo. maiingay ang kalye dahil sa mga tugtog galing bar at videoke ng mga lasing. kalat na ang mga koreano, hapon at kano kapag sumasapit ang gabi. mahal ko ang malate. tatlong taon na ako dito. magulo ngunit masaya. makikita mo ang night life ng maynila.

binagtas ko na ang kalye ng malavar. doon kasi ang kabilang gate ng aking unibersidad. patingin- tingin ako sa paligid. baka may bago. patawid na ako ng intersection ngunit marami pa ang mga sasakyan. tumabi ako, lumingon- lingon. naroon siya. tumitirik ang mata. lumilipad- isang bata sa nakaparadang pedicab. may hawak na plastik na may rugby. nasaan na kaya siya? siguro masasarap na pagkain ang nasa isip niya. siguro isang malaking mansyon kung saan siya at ang kanyang pamilya ay masayang naninirahan. siguro mararangyang mga damit. siguro lumilipad na siya sa kanyang mga pangarap.

marami ang adik sa rugby sa malate. bata, matanda, babae o lalaki. madalas may makikita ka sa daan na umaamoy mula sa isang supot ng kemikal na makakapagpalipad sa iyo. alam ko kung bakit. wala silang pera pangkain. gutom, hirap at kalungkutan ay binabawi nila doon. pag high ka sa rugby, wala kang iniisip. parang lahat ay abot mo. lumilipad ka lang.

sana ay malunasan sila. sana ay huwag pabayaan ng kung sino man ang may responsibilidad na tuluyang lumiit ang mga utak ng mga taong ito sa kakahithit ng rugby. wala doon ang buhay nila. wala...