Jennie's posts with tag: friendship
|  | Pics taken during the last two weeks of Client Specs and the first couple of days of Learning Lab. (wave one & two) |
One of my wave one friends, Kim, is leaving for Canada on the 19th of August. We were all kinda surprised as we all thought she'd be leaving in November. Hehe.. kahit sha nagulat. The day we learned she was leaving, we all made plans to have a despedida/reunion party. After all. we haven't seen each other much the past few months. Some have resigned, half of the ones who stayed are currently in training for the new program, and half is still with the old program. Like most of the gimmick plans of Wave One, nothing was finalized until the day before the set date. Hehehe.. yes, we're fickle-minded. But it's mainly because it's hard to set a date and time due to our different schedules. Final plans: Aug 4, 2007 6pm at Fats KTV in Malate. My training ended at 1pm. I didn't want to go home because if I did, I'd probably go straight to sleep and wake up in the morning. Mike & James thought the same thing, so we decided we'd either go to Megamall or Glorietta to watch a movie to kill time. Unfortunately, Mike forgot that he was supposed to finish something and I didn't feel like going to the Mall as I was sleepy (I had been awake since 1 am). So Kakai (who's going to rilette's despedida), James & I just decided to sleep in the lounge, while Mike finishes what he needed to do.Males & Females have separate sleeping lounges at the Shaw site (unlike in Libis & in Makati), but we stayed in the female's lounge because of the ghost stories we've heard about the new site (that needs a separate blog entry, hehe!). I had a hard time sleeping. James & Kakai were already asleep and I was still wide awake. My imagination (or maybe my paranoia? :p) was driving me batty. It was weird I tell you. Since its a new site, only the people undergoing training are there along with the workers adding the finishing touches. And, as out training classes ended at 1pm, the only people there, aside from the workers, security & gayren, were the four of us, and we were the only ones in the lounge. I kid you not, on our way to the lounge the lights started flickering. So, you can't really blame me for being paranoid ^_^. I fell asleep for about an hour and I couldn't go back to sleep because evry sound I hear was giving me the creeps. It was a good thing Kakai & James woke up after a few minutes and Rachel arrived. After touring her around the new site, we went to PBCom to pick up Mitch. Dads, Rom & their friend Joby arrived next, followed by Joanna. We got 2 cabs and proceeded to Malate. By then it was already 7pm. So much for the 6pm plan :p We were the first to arrive, as Kim was still in a bus from Baguio, and the rest were still on the way. We were joking around that we'd better sing what we want to sing already, because when Kayeee & Sofie arrives, the mics will be glued to them. Heehee! We took our turns singing and everyone had something to say about each person's choice of song, like, who was it dedicated to, or it fits his/her situation. It's hard to sing and laugh at the same time. Haha! I laughed so hard when Rach squealed that her murderer song was on the list. "Murderer song? Ano yun?!" I found out that it was Rihanna's Unfaithful (I don't wanna do this anymore, I don't wanna be the reason why, Everytime I walk out the door, I see him die a little more inside, I don't wanna hurt him anymore, I don't wanna take away his life, I don't wanna be.... a murderer) Kaloka!Next to arrive were JayR & his wife, Fin. We haven't seen him since he resigned so there was a lot of catching up to do. Then Sofie & Kayeee arrived. And as predicted, the mics were glued to them. Haha! Jena & her hubby came next. Another round of drinks, chikahan & singing. Finally at around 9pm, Kim arrived. :) It was time for the grilling to start. Hehehe. After 6 hours together, we decided to call it a night. I had a great time, but I suddenly felt sad before leaving. It finally dawned on me that Kim was leaving soon. I'll miss her kakulitan, the way she reacts to some jokes after a few minutes (hehe), or how we'd always tell her to move on after a bad call :p. Wala nang magtatanong sa akin na, "Paano nangyari yun? Eh bakit ganun? Eh, Ate Jennie, what if..?" Hay nakoh, Kimchi mamimiss talaga kita. I hope to see you before you leave, but if I'm unable to, as you said, "may Multiply naman." Love ya!
| | kimchi's videoke despedida bash at malate with wave one & friends. more pics to follow. |
Delinquent blogger logging in. :)
It's becoming a pattern. I've only been blogging once a week for 3 weeks now. And it's not for lack of anything to write about, but rather because I haven't been in a blogging mood. Heck, I haven't even bloghopped (sorry) lately. I think it's because of the weather - it's just too hot to do anything.
Hmm... I've written about this before, right? Hahaha! So things haven't changed.
I've been growing my hair for the past few months and it's now about shoulder length. The thing that irritates me though, is that I haven't been able to enjoy my longer hair because of the summer heat. :( I thought about cutting it, pero parang sayang, diba? It took months to grow it, then I'd just cut it off? No way! Hehehe.. vanity does have a price. ;)
While I was cleaning my room over the Lenten break, I found my shoeboxes of high school letters. Needless to say. I had to read each and every letter. I told myself I should throw it away but I couldn't make myself do it.
I felt a myriad of emotions as I read the letters. Some made me laugh out loud, some made me cry, some letters made me cringe and go "Ewww!", and some made me shake my head and say, "What the heck was I thinking?!"
The letters were mostly from my barkada and it makes me smile when I think about all the things we went through together. Some of them I've known for more than 20 years (since grade school) and the rest about 15 years. Yes, my age is showing. I don't care. :) After all, we've known each other most of our lives and we're still friends. I'll see them again next month for Ria's baby shower and Jacque's homecoming from Singapore, where she's based.
Aside from my best friend, most of my barkada letters came from another friend I've known since the first grade. Reading her letters made me sad because I realized through the years that we've grown apart. Yes, we're still friends, we see each other whenever we can, but now we don't have the depth of friendship that we had in high school and the first few years of college. We went to different universities, but we exchanged letters every week, with my sister as the courier. (yep, may email na noon. hahaha! but nothing beats an honest to goodness handwritten letter). Back then we could talk about anything under the sun. It doesn't matter how trivial it is. Sometimes the letters with trivial things were the long ones, at least 3 pages long and back to back. Sometimes an envelope would contain small pieces of paper with notes about how boring her class was and how she thought about writing me about it. Ganun kababaw, but I appreciated those and I know she appreciated my letters to her, too.
Whenever we see each other now, it feels different. It's like we both have to think of a topic before we have a conversation. It's probably because we have a big group (12 girls + hubbies and significant others). Just imagine our conversations. We're bound to talk in groups or worse talk over each other. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of conversations. :p
I should probably set up a lunch/dinner with just the two of us, but she's currently based out of town and frankly, I'm afraid we'd have nothing to talk about. Haaay... I know I shouldn't think that way unless I want us to grow further apart.
Maybe I should set up something when she's back in town. :) After all, I think the friendship is worth it.
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