1st half of Cebu Vacation.

I still have 5 days remaining. But god, all we do here is eat, go to some random swimming spot, and then... eat. have i told you that we just eat here?

anyway... i think my cousin and i got TONS of pictures from day 1 to day 4. until i think we already got burntout taking pictures. god im still not over that we just eat here.

on our first day (saturday, june 6) we arrived at around 745am, and stayed an hour in mandaue city to buy some lechon (which i dont know why!!!!?!?!) and bibingka to have some "snacks". i just ate 3 pieces coz my cousin and i are still (until this very moment) amazed that you can actually eat lechon and rice inside a moving van. and we arent even hungry since we had some breakfast before our flight. and had some cinnamon sticks in the airport.

we slept our afternoon away after arriving tuburan, cebu at around 12nn (coz i think they stopped thrice to buy some food! god! i figured my aunt just missed cebu delicacies THAT much.) invaded rooms and looked for our sungkaan, then played 1-2-3 pass til morning.

sunday, it was our grandmother's birthday, and wow... i woke up seeing this BIG ROASTED PIG on our table. i actually removed the knife on its head and told my mom that its too barbaric and morbid to see a dead animal stabbed on its skull. how can you fuckin eat that!?!?!?! afternoon, they said were going to the beach but the sun wasnt too friendly coz it just hid itself behind the clouds. as much as i wanted to get darker, apparently, the sea alone cant do anything about it.

monday, my mom and our aunts went to the city to grab some grocery coz my cousin and i wont survive without cheetos and ruffles and chocolate chip cookies. they were out for 16 hours. geez. so i thought of cooking hawaiian adobo and told manang to get some pork in the market. hello... 1 kilo of pork. its actually 15/16 part fat and 1/16 meat. so we just ate the 1/16 meat (and divided into 5) and the pineapples. then spent our afternoon scouring through the streets here and bought some slippers.

today, we went to the cemetery to visit my dad and our relatives then... spontaneously, my aunt and my mom went straight ahead to mantawihan, a river where... carabaos uh... relax. its like a spring... pretty though, but still... it's a carabao spot. AND THEY WANTED US TO JUST DIVE IN. i really found it ironic. coz i bet, there were a lot of people our age who would want to jump in whole-heartedly and their parents would say "NO.. ARE YOU CRAZY?" but it was the opposite way around. i dove with my pants on, and had fun for 20 minutes until we realized there might be snakes or whatever. oh... and there were no carabaos around. just goats. and they werent taking a dip during our race. :p

i pretty much loved it. and i guess the following days would get more exciting. and somehow weird. but enjoyable.

annoying part: NO WIFI. ok na sana na merong internet shop pero POTA ANG MGA NAGLALARO NG DOTA. MAINGAY NA HINDI MAINTINDIHAN.

so i just spent so little time facebooking. ugh facebook withdrawal. :(

The End Of Summer.

I remember when we get excited when summer arrives. We strip away our uniforms and go to the mall, look for shades and spontaneously swim on kiddie pools. There were almost two decades that we wait for it. Watch MTV the whole day, random movies, and sing-along with the songs we wanted to sing. I remember that we promised one summer to both have braces. So we could go to the dentist together.

We spent our childhood memories together. And as far as i can recall, you were the most annoying brat who acts like an indian and goes inside the area we play around. And everytime we talk about it, we laugh so hard and reenact it while eating junk food in your living room.

We went to the same school so we could try to see each other everyday. But there came a time that we drifted apart. For reasons i still cant remember. 

And there were almost 6 summers we didnt talk, didnt see each other... and deleted each other on profile accounts. which actually means on this age, is "friendship over". Until again, we forgot we resent each other, we forgot why, and tried settling our differences. But life occupied so much time, we forgot the essence of one's presence. The time we couldve, shouldve and wouldve.

Until one summer day, we met each other again. Inside a hospital room. But instead of wearing a smiling face, i was stricken that you had so much tubes attached on your body. And i was furiously stopping myself to break into tears. Until you reached out your hand and you said... "I miss you."

The hope that i had was amazing. Or should i say i was in denial. That i never tried visiting you again, never that i shed a tear again, coz i know for sure, that you will be okay. Coz i am still waiting for one day that well do the same things we usually do. And then your surgery went okay, and you won the battle against the war many of us fear to deal with. Cancer.

So both of our hopes were there. That youre just recovering, That we will be going out as soon as possible. But alas, of all false things, why would it be our hopes and your lab results?

You celebrated your birthday a week ago and that was the last time i saw you smile. I heard you talk. And you said, youll be okay. I thought you said youre going to be okay.

Again, you ran away. As much as i wanted to accept it, i still cant. Coz i know youre not coming back anymore. But i know it wasnt youre choice. It wasnt anybody's choice. And i still cant bear the fact that we missed a lot of summers.

After it ended, rain started pouring. And i know that the sky is also crying along with a lot of people. Especially for me. But still, i will always remember you as our "sharky". The brat i mostly got annoyed. And one of the best friends ive known.

We'll miss you Wine. You know that i love you very much. Farewell. We'd still hangout and then... well not wait for summer anymore.