Weekends with Archie

All About Love and the Future

February 18, 2007

A Post-Valentines Date

Since Feb 14 came on a weekday, and since the whole week was full of exams and deadlines of projects, and also since hugmate has work on that day, we decided to celebrate it on a Saturday!  Yes for this year, our valentines was not Feb 14 but Feb 17.

I was planning to take her in a so-called best-kept secret Itallian restaurant somewhere in Cubao, its name is Tratorria Uno.  My roommate told me that it is cozy and that there are only a few people who knew about the place so that hugmate and I can really enjoy our time.  He also said  that the food is great.  But when I got there to check the place twenty minutes before we met, the place was really empty.  It was dark and it gave me an eery feeling.  In fairness, the place was good for couples who wanted intimate moments together.  But I guess it won't be a good place where hugmate and I can talk much and enjoy our times together.  Maybe some other time.

So we spent the day by eating lunch first in Pizza Hut Bistro, watched Music and Lyrics starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, and ate our dinner in Sbarro (whew! it was an Itallian day!).  I knew it was like the normal going-out time and I knew it was different compared to our old happy days when everything was simpler and more intimate, but I guess for now we just have to live what we have and look forward to the time when we both have a common world to spend our lives together.  I am hopeful and I will be waiting for that time.  I love her.

A Call from my Long-time No-see Relatives

The next day, I thought it would just be about work and deliverables and projects as I was to spend the whole day with my groupmates to finish our thesis in MIS.  But what a surprise when minutes before meeting my groupmates, I received a call from my mother telling me that she is with our relatives in GenSan.  I was able to talk to Ate Babylyn and Auntie Nitz who I haven't seen for years.  The conversaton was quite long and the things that they told me brought a smile on my face.  They were asking about how my studies are and that I should not marry anytime soon (Good Lord, it will still happen in a decade! haha.. ).  I knew mommy was behind these things.  But nevertheless, I was glad they called.  For a moment, I felt the the love and presence of my family once again.

A Night with my Old High School Friends

 

And who said that my weekend will end like what I thought it would be?  Surprisingly, I received a call again, this time from Mour, telling me that Miguel, our old high school friend was in Manila.  You know, everytime this happens, a sort of reunion will immediately gather the marisian friends who are now studying here.  Bintoy was not in the pic because he was also out in a group meeting (good thing mine just got finished that time).  We ate in Steak Joint (if i'm not mistaken) somewhere in Timog.  And afterwards while on the trip sending each one home, we can't help but talk about this phenomenon called "growing old".  We both talked about work and love life and our future plans.  It scared us because change and uncertainty is inevitable but again we are hopeful that someday, we can be who we dream of becoming to be.  It had been a long time since we last met as a group, thanks to Miguel for giving us the reason to do it again despite the busy soon-to-end college life. 

Oh no, next week will be our last academic week - the last of my entire school life.  Sad.  Happy.  Mixed.

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