a great time ten years in the making

i simply can't pass up on writing about my day yesterday...

recently i found a very old friend at friendster. she was my adviser's little sister... her name is sarah. last time we were together was 1995. i was in sixth grade and she was in fifth grade (what exactly is it with this batch that draws me closer to them?!?!). i really don't have much memories of us together. i only remember her name, and that fact that she's my teacher's sister. which made yesterday something i wasn't totally expecting...

i saw her from another friend's list. i wasn't sure if it was really her, so i sent a note to verify my hunch. an expected reply came to me soon after. she still talks in a very feisty voice. it seemed she didn't recognize me from my pictures. anyway, i was right. it IS her.

then come pouring the seemingly endless list of questions from her side. i was happy to bump into her again, since i had her number before but i lost contact when my phone got snatched. the only weird thing i found in her questions was the fact that she wanted to knw about my lovelife, of all things. and being the gullible person that i am, answered her question. and to be fair, i asked her back, but i rather hear it in person, hence our "date" yesterday...

we met up at 10am, then went to megamall. along the way, we never stopped talking... even when we were having lunch. she's KAKULITAN personified. after lunch we decided to go see a movie. too bad i picked one that doesn't suit her taste (the island. its a good movie, but she didn't like those small things crawling into ewan mcgregor's eye, and the medical surgery parts). she slept halfway through the movie. hehehe. i told her to remind me not to go see something like that when i'm her. she slept on my shoulder, taking my jacket for a blanket, while i hold her hand to keep it warm. she snuggled up when it got colder. it was a good feeling... especially when its someone who accepts you as who you are, after such a long time of not having any form of communication... i felt... at home with her. i didn't have those gitters in meeting someone i haven't seen for a long time. i didn't feel that i had to make an impression. i didn't feel i had to pretend to be someone else. i felt at ease. i felt like myself when i was with her... at that time, i was happy...

after the movie, we held hands through the rest of the day. it felt nice. we teased and tested each other's patience. we had barrels of laughs. and even though we were joking around, we still made sense in what we were saying...

it was sad that i didn't get to accompany her home. she took a van to malolos while i tokk one to balagtas... the day's events lingered on my mind as i was headed home. it made me smile. it was really an unexpectedly great day with a person i didn't expect to have such a great time with. i know i already thanked her, and she probably won't read this, but thanks, sarah. you might just be my cure...