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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Changing and Memories

Earlier today, a friend texted us (Kaye and me) regarding transfering to ADMU. The question was fine, but the way she said it wasn't. Darn! I should've saved the message and typed it here. I really don't understand what happened to her. Last summer when we met, she wasn't like that and her text messages are simple. I even know her as someone who is quiet and simple. Now, the way she talks (erm texts), apart from the excessive use of Taglish words, she even tops it with conyo terms!! (e.g. "like...") I don't have anything against those who speak that way, but maybe what I find not right is the fact that (I think) she's doing that for the purpose of "supposedly" attracting the male species. A few months ago, she was bugging us to find her a boy and she was so desperate already. Even though we don't reply anymore, she still texts us insisting that we find her one. Now that she's planning to transfer to ADMU, it is somehow logical to think that it is something related to that. :-? Tsk tsk... Poor girl...

For the past two days, I've been working on our barkada page *points to picture* for our high school yearbook. Oo na... ggraduate na kami ng college haha! Anyway, it has been fun doing the layouts and all but I think I got something more than the fulfilling feeling from the arrangements I've made. Drama drama drama... but I found myself missing my highschool friends more and more. Seeing all the pictures of our overnights, adventures... even the little gimmicks that I seldom attended. I didn't even know that these pictures existed. Moreover, I was looking at my letters-shoebox to get more ideas on how to design the page and there I found the numerous letters we wrote to each other back even during grade school. There was one from Verna that was written in a xiao khai that indicated a Christmas wish. There was another one from her that had a big P.W. in it because that time I was attracted to Prince William. I started to remember her birthday gift for me back in Grade 7: a paper ball that was intended to be a volleyball. *LOL* I found so many letters from Jappy, where one was even written on a meter-long stationary. Jappy wrote me often back then, and most of her letters indicated how bored she was in [Chinese] class. It made me sad somehow, because I finally realized how much I miss her. The box was fully packed with so much memories. My sister once told me that she kept on keeping boxes of letters but eventually, she saw those letters as waste of space. Gladly I had my own experience to think otherwise.

.saw the world upside-down at 11:06 PM.

2 Comments:

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