Article# 3

Unexpected
March 29, 2011

it really was that unexpected..

it has been a very long time since i last updated my blog. i have so many words to say which ended up being corrupted. but this group of words are worth jotting down.

here it goes.

i was sitting, watching thunders burst its emotion down on the window of the plane when suddenly i thought of the things we've been through these past days.
just like how i wanted to burst right now as i type these words.
it was very early in the morning three days ago when we departed manila to be a tourist in another town of the philippines.

destination cebu. nice place. cozy, clean, green and romantic?

it was the first time for me to meet most of our companions upon arrival at the said destination. and i was happy to meet more people. additional contacts to be stored in my life's phonebook.

but there is this one person who stood out, not on the first day, but on the third day, the day when i have absorbed a bit of them. and now, i can't help but think, then smile, about that person. and now, i smile.

i never thought i would be this intacted to the place and to the people i was with the past three days.
maybe it is fate that in every trip, one will be knowing someone, even a pinch of them. but this pinch is most likely to be the size of who they are. then you start to estimate where they are to be kept in us.

i caught that person one time about to take my picture candidly. but turned the camera down slowly when i caught that person and just smiled.

it was on our third day there when i heard the song i am listening right now over and over again. don't say goodbye, say goodnight (sang by binoculars). the day we say "ingat sa pag uwi!" with each other. it just did shatter my chest as we departed.

we found this thrill in cebu. physically, emotionally. as a matter of fact, i am tired.

i hope the trip didn't end up so soon. or should i say, it should have ended right when my dreams started. all i can do now is wait for the next trip. to meet more people, or still meet and be closer with that person.

it's hard. excruciating.