In Silence

San Diego. Blumentritt. Dapitan. UST. España. Recto. Carriedo. LRT. Grand Central. Bagong Barrio. SM-North; The Block. Home.

5am up arrived around 7:30 home.

6:30 I arrived at Matni’s, knowing that he was still sleeping.

Acting just himself, “give me five more minutes,”
and so I waited… “Gising na, magse-seven na oh”
“Magsi-six pa lang…”
“Ay adik, gising na”
So he got up.

So before anything else, I just wanted to tell you guys how my examinations at UST went. It was nice, interesting. We (Mat and I) took our test today, as always, the last batch. But, we did enjoy it. It was easy, or so I think it was? But yeah, like any ordinary exam it was plain — I kind of liked sitting at their plastic chairs, we were at the Benavides Bldg., most commonly known as the High School Department Building. It was fun. Four hours of thinking, hahaha, or not.

After the exams we ate at Chowking, a lot of food establishments, bought drinks at Ministop. Surely I was happy. Walked through UST Campus to España, realizing that there wasn’t any jeepney that goes straight to Monumento — only Project 8. So we went through UST again, and went to the right exit where we found a jeepney to Blumentritt, but out of our senses we then realized that it would just take us back to Dapitan, stupid. So finally, we walked through España rode a jeepney, stopped at a street at Carriedo walked through Raon and passed by by tita’s office: PCCr, and finally we found the LRT.

We went on Twilight Book hunting when we arrived at Monumento station at Grand Central, no sign of the book. So I just hoped that somehow I could see one, but no, I didn’t saw any of the volume. So I went home, happy still. Then I got to my tita’s house, talked to her about my examinations, then she said we’re going out — shopping for Christmas clothes and gifts — though obviously just mine and some for my cousins.

We started off walking inside SM, experienced the newly built foot-bridge. Went first at Bayo I don’t really like the clothes, even if I liked one, I don’t like the price, so we went off to Kamiseta, still didn’t like the price, I’m more of a bargain priced person so expensive clothes are a no-no for me, and so off we go again to Bench, still no sign of liking, I got my pants there so I think I’d like to go to another place, Giordano, Arrow, People Are People, still nothing amazed me there, oh yeah we got to Soda too; and guess where I found my clothes? At Surplus, HAHAHA, their products were cheap, but very fashionable, at least for me. I’m really not the expensive type.
So walking we walked — HAHAHA. Searching for Power Books was not the problem, it was finding a strange new bookstore that got my attention, sabi ni Tita Mami, “Ay Gel, maganda dyan, kaya lang mahal yung mga paninda”, so I said, “E mga libro ata yan e”, “Hindi lang, halo-halo rin.” So we went inside, and guess what, to my surprise people were surrounding a specific place, and there is was… The TWILIGHT SAGA, except that Breaking Dawn wasn’t available anymore, so yeah, I got a hold of the first volume, my tita said, “Sige, bilhin natin ‘yan.” and to my expectation, “A prayer was answered.” Kaya kong unti-untiin ito, God is good, He hears my prayers talaga, so I’m very thankful na my accidental na pagsama to my tita shopping was super worth everything, even yung pagod. Sana nga e ipag-pray niyo rin na manalo ako sa raffle, I still have my hopes up. Isang set rin yun and a limited edition of still pics magazine I saw inside that book store.

I was happy. Really. Imagine I have Twilight, yes, the book, a SOLID copy of the book that I read only at PDF format for three days, and yes! Finally, my tita bought me a copy, I just suggested that, or not, she voluntarily bought the book for me after I went shouting inside Fully Booked at The Block. Inside my head I was so so excited. Well,  before that we went through a Christian Bookstore, I’m sorry I forgot the name (and no it wasn’t PCBS) of the bookstore but I found the revised cover of Women’s Devotional Bible NIV there or was it called the hard bound version(?), I surely want one. HAHAHA. Though I’m not a woman yet, a lady maybe, wala lang, gusto ko yun. Ipon, pray, ipon, pray.

Congratulations for Psalm and Astrid’s practice, kahit practice palang ‘yun. HAHAHA. (at De La Salle Araneta)

Bottom Line: God rules and rocks my world!
Original Date: December 7, 2008 from my Blogger and Multiply account.