Saturday night found Chu, Maya and me leaving the house just a bit after 10:00 to head for Greenbelt. And our mission? To watch Mission Impossible 3. We were expecting to get into the 11:20pm show or if not, the 11:59 shows. Greenbelt 3 was showing MI3 in 4 out of 5 cinemas. Surely, we […]
Drawing
Last night Reggie and Maya were complaining about the sweltering summer heat. Man, it was hot, even though it was the dead of night. We started talking about the possibility of installing an airconditioner in the house. But when we realized the implications it would have on our electricity bill, we also realized that it […]
Getting the Chicken Pox Vaccine
I don’t understand why I became such a scaredy cat when I became an adult. When I was a kid I was not at all afraid of injections. Doctors and dentists even used to praise me for being a brave kid because I didn’t cry when I got my first teeth pulled out or when […]
Housemate Bloopers
Funny thing happened to a couple of my roommates yesterday morning. One noticed that her towel was wet even though she hadn’t used it yet. Turns out that in her haste, our other roommate had used the wrong towel! Both were color blue and hung over the same bed railings, that’s why. But that’s not […]
Zenie’s Happy Hearts Day
Last year was a special valentine’s day, if not for me, then at least for one of my friends, and I was happy enough. Zenie’s boyfriend John had contacted me and asked for my help. He was in their hometown Basilan so he couldn’t give his valentines gift personally, so he asked if I could […]
Tongue Twisted
Growing up in a melting pot of cultures has made it quite normal for us to converse with each other using three different dialects all at once, knowing full well that the other persons could understand us even if we were, say, speaking in tagalog interspersed with a few chavacano or bisaya words. But that […]
Independence Day
One more full day and I’ll be off to my hometown. My first time to go back after seventeen months. I feel so excited, but suddenly the thing that had been nagging me at the back of my head comes to the surface this morning when my fellow housemate who had just arrived in our […]
My First Time
It’s my first time. As I lie back my muscles tighten. I put him off for a while searching for an excuse, but he refuses to be swayed as he approaches me. He asks if I’m afraid and I shake my head bravely. He has had more experience, but it’s the first time his finger […]
Too Much Excitement
It is boring at home. Not to mention very warm. So I take a quick shower, change, and head outside the door to go wherever the wind took me. The wind takes me outside, where some guy runs up to a couple of other guys and starts bashing them with a long piece of wood. […]
Outdated
An officemate cracks a joke and everyone laughs. Everyone except me. Huh? I don’t get it. I ask her to explain. “It’s the new TV commercial. Duh.” Oh. Right. We don’t have a TV at home. I’ve endured for half a year without the boob tube. Pretty amazing, huh? I once read an article in […]