As I can't get to sleep right away, my mind wanders... I've been missing a lot of things.
I miss:
- riding my bike; going back and forth along Escort St.
- Saturday dentist visits in Cubao, then going to 3M pizza and order their Combination Pizza
- the salad bar of Pizza Hut
- struggling on learning to play the guitar using a big one readily available at home
- waking up at 4am for school, and sleeping before 9pm at night
- volunteering on going first on speeches and oral tests
- playing jackstones during recess and lunch
- carrying chairs to the multi-purpose hall for singing practice
- the loooooonnnnnggggg recess after school mass
- asking permission to sleep over at a friend's house
- being invited to YFC and Christian summer camps (and never attending one)
- playing the organ / guitar / tambourine for the church choir
- learning to commute
- being exempted from taking quarterly exams
- studying with the barkada at the back of the library during 1-hour breaks on QT days
- Science investigatory projects, Geometry projects, class plays, Ecology week
- receiving letters from busmates who never spoke a word to me
- listing weird words with Chrissy
- hanging out along the highschool corridors
- having my turn at sharing my reflection on the Gospel during morning prayer
- having perfect attendance
- palanca letters on recollections and retreats
- COCs march practice after school, COC summer training
- visits to the Guidance Office to patch things up with friends
- lining up by heights, in equal distances from each other, before entering the classroom after recess and lunch
- hangouts at the lagoon, playing patintero with blockmates
- sem-ender and Christmas parties at Jen's
- block G-27's logbook
- watching the Lantern parade
- lining up outside classrooms as early as 5am during enrollment
- org activities almost every school weekend
- visits to orphanages, rehabs, daycares, etc.
- walking from UPS tambayan to the Katipunan terminal
- God-cell-a: my cell group at UP Student Catholic Action
- interviewing applicants of UPS
- playing billiards during breaks or after school
- sleepovers at Ailene's
- summer classes
- ordering siomai and iced tea at Hen Lin every other day
- tutoring 3 students every other day
- having lunch at GMA 7's cafeteria
- John Mayer's album being played by my boss the whole day, every day
- playing Higher or Lower at DOST-ASTI's library
- the tambayan at our Cainta house; falling asleep at the sofa bed
- 7am - 4pm work schedule
- Decadence, Bahay Kubo and Secret Spices
- 10am breaks
- sneaking to view non-work related sites during office hours
- composing email whenever a sosyalite is celebrating his/her birthday
- copying pictures from events
- overtimes that got me closer to friends
- playing my playlist enough for my teammates to hear
- Peak 2, Mt. Makiling which we never reached
- Christmas get-together at Tagaytay
- the nightly chat conferences with former officemates after I resigned
- coming up with code names and our own sosyal! names
- always sitting near Tesalette in the foodcourt of Megamall
- gradeschool bestfriends and the exchange of letters whenever we want to say something to each other
- highschool batchmates who stuck together; always stood up for what we believed in
- close friends who are not from my barkada; sharing stories over long talks on the phone
- OOC Wacked Homies and our barkada logbook; how we'd figure in almost all batch and school events; and just how we grew up together
- UP Sandigan Batch '98-B and how 21 of us made it all the way
- Friends Beyond Forever Club (FBFC); our get-togethers playing billiards, bowling, spending time at Ailene's
- Sosyal!ites - our picture-taking, mascots, color days, declarations, horoscope reading, word of the day, and how we developed friendship with trust in less than a year
- Triangle / Inseparables (we don't actually have a name), how we're seated together then separated by some forced sitting arrangement, how we'd sing in 3 voices, our cryptic conversations, our emails and netsends, and how we still make sure that we spend time together now that we're with different employers
- my Far-Away Best Friend (FBF), and our almost daily chats then, how we became FBFs, expressing ourselves through email, the promise of sharing more and the hope of spending more time together
- my Best Friend Beyond Forever (BF squared) even though we kinda bug each other everyday. I don't know what I'd do without her.
- Survivor, Ally McBeal, Friends series (need to find a new series to watch)
- reading the Book of Life (gave mine to a cousin; need to get a new one)
- playing the guitar (need to get a new one too)
- having passion for something (need to get a new one as well)
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