Kielbasa and Chilli

I had a revelation while eating alone at home. I told myself over dinner that I wanted to write something that told a little of everything about my life.

Life to me is the alone time I get from work to talk to God about how I am yet again thankful that no bad thing has reached me about my family and friends. Life is the friends I have around that take time out to let me know whats going on with their lives.. its Axel calling me on my sun mobile phone and we’d talk for hours about life, their plans for a new house, a new car, college and friendship. Its Jamie and I spending countless hours on the PC because we just downloaded the final version of Windows Vista and we so want to try it on our laptops. Spending even more hours trying to crack and activate the damn thing before time expires and our laptops become no more than an oversized paper weight. Its Joe telling Jamie and I how the shipping business worked as if we were to open our own shipping lines shipping out boatloads of things we think will sell to other countries. Its us boys spending nights at the love store, spending so much time there that we actually got robbed while I was asleep, Jamie doing his site and Joe naked in the bathroom. It’s the Velosos and how they’ve made me feel so much a part of their family by inviting me over for a couple of Sunday lunches at Tito Bens place. Its Celine whos managed to be part of us boys crew and being the only honorary girl to be part of it by being the only one who can take down Jamie Joe and I in a drinking contest. . We practically had to steal her beer because she was drinking too fast and we were running out of booze. Its us boys, settling down with a cold bottle of beer, conversation and a life long dream to be able to do this in some foreign country. Its Carlo, Kat and I having this short but sweet reunion in Bangkok and talking about everything that they missed about the Philippines. We had to spend for beer at a hotel because apparently 711 and all other convenience stores lock up the beer fridge until 11 am. We just had to reminisce about what life was back in the day. Life is Val telling me about how I should catch up and keep up with my heroes episodes because she wants to know what I think is going to happen next. Her being cool about hanging with Ax, Kd and I in cebu for those blissful couple of days. Its Candice giving me a ring when she was in town and ranting about how inlove she is with this guy and the next minute pointing out how shes so pissed about what hes doing to her. Its her gobbling down all that food and her friends still trying to figure out whether shes really done already or whether that other pack of snacks is going to disappear in a little while. Its Janella telling me about how she thinks my advices are real eye openers and that she thinks so highly of me when infact it’s the other way around because I adore her for being so relentless about life. Its Danna pressuring me to burn her episode 8 and 9 of heroes because her copy was seriously unforgiving because those exact episodes kept her hanging. Its Jacky always ”late for the party and early for bed” because she claims that med school is robbing her out of her career as a far more better socialite. Its Anne and Dave showing KD and I that they too can be a couple where the world doesn’t seem to exist when they are together, giving us a run for our money in the “perfect” relationship department. Its Alex, calling me a schmuck all the time and in the end telling me that im the only best friend shes ever had not to have spent time with.. Life is cebu and all that reminds me of home. It’s the barangay of Dachshund dogs we have namely Pumba, King, Nala, Dorky, Doggie, Bubbles and 4 new puppies that jump on me everytime I step down the car sniffing, licking and trying to get inside the house because the refrigerator is the only known source of food to them. Its my Dad telling me how he misses me and kyle and how he would work for us forever if he could for us just to be able to enjoy life. Its my mom telling us that we were good kids and even better sons because she knows that she brought us up right. Life is also my dad crying like a baby everytime he takes me to the airport because he thinks that I am away from home because I don’t love him that much to be able to be beside him while my mom tells my dad not to be silly. Its Kyle, my brother, and how we always used to fight when we were kids and not agree on virtually anything in this world but now being so close and being vocal about how we enjoy being with each other. Life is Kyle crying when I started schooling in manila and my mom telling me that Kyle said that he missed me. Its Kd’s dad and how he makes me so nervous everytime I come by visiting their house, stuffing my plate as if I was some malnourished African kid who cant grab a bit to eat at home. It’s the Syiaco family whose given me again another glimpse of what a family should be: Dinner, TV, Lectures and the occasional taking of daily supplements and vitamins. Life is KD and how I tell her that I really didn’t think id see her again after that blind date. How all of a sudden she has become part of my life and so much a part of each others lives. Life is how each kiss, each hug, each smile from her meant that I must have done something right for her to be so perfect to me.. and life is her telling me that shes going away for awhile and that its going to be all worth it in the end since shes coming back to continue giving me what I feel is the only reason why life could be so much better.