it's was pasig city's fiesta today! too bad i didn't get the chance to invite some of my college friends. harhar.

anyways, since my family isn't quite into the habit of dishing up pasigueno delicacies for public consumption, i decided to come over to my friend's house in bambang. going there, i passed by the first pasig city fiesta i ever witnessed since our side of the city just practiced stoic merriment and self-indulgence. wow! pasiguenos do have the festive spirit after all!

my friend and i decided to get a bit nostalgic so we unearthed all our year books from elementary and highschool. he decided to play some very suitable mp3's to pad up the mush to come.

alas, the mushy mood was set because for every turn of the leaf and for every face that was re-acquainted to us, we exchanged stories that time wove and twisted with the sinews of our lives. we backtracked to the elementary days---on who dumped big time on the boys' room, who had a crush on whom, the somethings that happened during our camping at mount makiling, teachers who were the object of affections of juvenile love, who always farted the noisiest of our batch... those stuff.

then we went on to stroll the highschool boulevard, the time of our lives when we asked who we were, realized who we really were, asked again if our realizations would hold water against the threshold that is life. some took another road, somewhere they never planned to be in but ended there nevertheless. some started an early life, plunging into the cold realities of life head-first because neccessity weighed more than the fulfillment of their dreams. some were just faces with names, some were just memories and tears of a past that we could never change.

highschool was really something. you come face to face with pre-reality---more like a mock exam of adulthood, a barbed simulation. i found love for the first time, i snagged the friends that i want to spend the rest of my so-so life with, i felt the happiness amidst the torment of seeing my mother live off of the affection i showered her with, i lost my mother to diabetes a few months before graduation... all of these, in highschool. it was then that i knew i was alive---came to terms with my existence.

before we ended the so-called sojourn, the player sang this song:

graduation (friends forever)
vitamin c

and so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
where we're gonna be when we turn 25
i keep thinking times will never change
keep on thinking things will always be the same
but when we leave this year we won't be coming back
no more hanging out cause we're on a different track
and if you got something that you need to say
you better say it right now cause you don't have another day
cause we're moving on and we can't slow down
these memories are playing like a film without sound
and i keep thinking of that night in june
i didn't know much of love
but it came too soon and there was me and you
and then we got real blue
stay at home talking on the telephone
we'd get so excited, we'd get so scared
laughing at ourselves thinking life's not fair
and this is how it feels

as we go on, we remember
all the times we had together
and as our lives change, come whatever
we will still be, friends forever

so if we get the big jobs and we make the big money
when we look back now, will our jokes still be funny?
will we still remember everything we learned in school?
still be trying to break every single rule
will little brainy bobby be the stockbroker man?
can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?
i keep, i keep thinking that it's not goodbye
keep on thinking it's a time to fly
and this is how it feels

la, la, la, la, yeah, yeah, yeah
la, la, la, la, we will still be friends forever

will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
can we survive it out there?
can we make it somehow?
i guess i thought that this would never end
and suddenly it's like we're women and men
will the past be a shadow that will follow us round?
will these memories fade when i leave this town?
i keep, i keep thinking that it's not goodbye
keep on thinking it's a time to fly

damn. it was just the right song for the moment.