going down memory lane

tagged by Lars!

ten years ago i got out of high school alive - with fun memories of world youth day (and walking from taft to luneta in a gala uniform, then acting as markers during the mass with the pope), endless graduation practices, and class/batch song competitions.

it was the year i entered the wacky world of college, in up los banos to be exact. i was a dazed and confused freshie who wasn't used to having boys in the classroom, who vowed (on my first day nonetheless) that i was getting out of there after a year. i remember our freshman orientation day - we were given a grand tour of mt. makiling... err the uplb campus - by the public jeepney system used inside the campus (can't exactly remember what they're called since they're not the IKOT or TOKI jeeps), and i was such a dufus because i had never taken a jeep alone before so i didn't know how to pay the driver. so when everyone got out, i went to the driver's side and paid him - much to the amusement of my blockmates.

five years ago i was in my first job at a small ad agency as an account executive - a.k.a. the client's slave. i proofread, i counted merchandise (from strollers to make-up), drove all the way to quiapo to deliver ad studies, and stayed overnight at work just to get things done. by the middle of that year, i quit and became a writer in another agency (and found real friends there too!).

one year ago i packed and shipped my things from bangkok back to manila. i had completed my 2 1/2 year stint there, and had decided to go back home to settle our wedding and our immigration papers. i had said goodbye to friends who i will always hold close to my heart even if we're in different corners of the world now.

aldo got to manila a few days after i arrived, and before his jet lag even got to manila, we were in the makati city hall, giggling our way through our wedding vows, in front of a nice lady judge who had the ugliest fuschia pink curtains in her sala. in 10 minutes, we were married!

yesterday it was a wet, dreary day in vancouver. i tried reading the latest Harry Potter book but somehow, JK Rowling doesn't quite cut it for me in this book - so i'm still in the first 200 pages.

today it was sunny and comfortably cold, so i was able to run a few errands. i tried martha stewart's lemon squares recipe and it turned out pretty good!

tomorrow, thankfully, is friday - the start of the weekend! i'll be going with aldo to some light exhibit in yaletown with his co-workers, and probably have a drink in-between. as for this weekend - it's going to be Picasso for us at the vancouver art gallery!

*on a non-nostalgic-timeline related tidbit - Rent is out on the 23rd!


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