Life as I Know It

I’m back in the big city. After 11 months of being regionally-based, I together with my other teammate was called back to the mother ship. So goodbye probinsya, hello manila na naman ang drama ko!

Sabi ko nga, it’s hard to look for a new place. I’ve really no patience for it. Nakaka-kulot ng bangs! Thus, when my very good friend Kras found me one, I was more than glad to grab the opportunity. Pikit mata! Di bale nang halos OD nako every payday. I just wanted to get it over with.

So how do I find my new place? Well, you never get to know a place until you lived with it, through rains and hot weather. After I triumphed over my war with the cockroaches, I am now trying to find a way to keep the dampness out. The non-stop rains have given the place a sort of moldy damp air inside. I think burning candles helped. But I used up a pack already and haven’t replenished my stock yet. Di bale, bibili ako ng sandamakmak :)  Hope this works.

Last Sunday was my first to be trapped inside the house. It was raining hard all days and I was too lazy to get my feet wet. I was sooo bored that I ended up staring outside my window. Wala lang… Tipong senti trip lang. Camera-perfect kasi. may silhouette, may bintana, may ulan. Until… I heard some faint music. Prosisyon pala ang patay. By the time it registered nakalagpas na yung prosisyon. I thought about the pamahiin of throwing coins. Pero sabi dapat nahagis na yung coins bago ka malagpasan ng patay. Fine. That turned out to be a blessing of sort though. Because that afternoon, inspite of the incessant rains, there were actually a lot of burials that afternoon. Kung nagkataon, mauubusan ako ng coins sa dami ng dumadaan!

Sabi ko nga, di na ako tatambay ng bahay ng linggo. But no! Nasa bahay ulit ako now. It’s raining yes. But for another reason. (HMP! Badtrip yung food sa natcon!) So while I was nursing myself back to the pink of health, I found myself staring at the window once again. As was before, rain was falling. And as if on cue, there goes the “karo ng patay”.

Huling Hantungan, July 30, 2006