surreal

i got home very late last night (or very early today). i came from a four and a half hour figaro date with deirdre, so i got to moonwalk at past 12. surprise, surprise, my mom was there, waiting for a jeep with one of her friends!

nung naglalakad na kami, sinabi niyang nag-starbucks daw kasi sila. my mom & starbucks?! unfathomable. haha.

good afternoon, world! : )

one more chance

on the way to the cinema...

nel (walking briskly): bilisan natin!
me: bakit?
nel: baka may makakita sa atin!
(nel, maam maggie & i laugh)
nel: ganito din kami dati sa got 2 believe.

: )

the mermaid chair

" i had thought our lives together were vouchsafed. it was of those unpremeditated facts that i'd live with every single day. like the sun going through its motions - coming and going, an automaton. like the stars fixed in the milky way. who questions these things? they just are".

- jessie sullivan in the mermaid chair
by sue monk kidd

kita-kits sa mcdo : )

one night, after the prayer meeting, at mcdo philam. thanks to ate malou for the pics. : )

mabel & i.

with cleo, & some articles from his collection. : )

pinagtinginan kami ng ibang customers. bakit kaya?! hehe!

in the pressure cooker again

i found myself in a messy fix last week. i had information that i thought a new friend needed to know. sadly, "what you don't know can't hurt you" does not apply in this situation. if i don't tell her, she can get hurt. but if i tell her, she will definitely get hurt.

if she finds out from someone else, i'm sure that she will get mad at me for keeping it from her. but if she finds out from me, she could also get mad at me, & even think that i had an ulterior motive in telling her.

thank heavens, there is a pinprick of light shining from the end of the dark tunnel. if i tell her, she might appreciate my honesty. telling her could, in turn, become the start of an open friendship.

in the end, i decided to tell her. & she did appreciate my honesty.

whew. : )