Lame, but this is my Valentines post. :p

Saturday, February 14, 2009

I shall start from yesterday.

It was a gray day. I just realized (as in right now) that it was Friday the 13th :)) Anyway, woke up to go to school to get a little more training for NSPC--I took this 3-session crash course--and got finally semi-perfect feedback, only maybe that's just because it's my last day and Mr Trainer Guy (I'm not sure I'll get his name right) just took pity on me. Anyway. I also passed some papers, the security waiver and the add'l expenses budget. When we got home, I slept, only to be woken up to go fetch the checks back at school again. Also dropped by SC to get my shirt, the Love God, Love Man, Glorify God, Edify Man one. And then I had to go pack.

All throughout the day, I felt a little deflated. Okay, very deflated. I'd waiting for this day, but that day was not a day of traveling for me, not a day of leaving and going out of comfort zones. I think rain does that to me sometimes.

Anyway, because of my our last minute packing, we checked in only an hour early, not two as everyone's supposed to. My mom told me to keep an eye on everything because I'll be on my own on the flight to Legaspi and I just kept low and said "opo" to everything.

I noticed a group of kids and adults that, by a pretty good shot, I guessed were on the way to NSPC, too. The guys were gay, the girls were stressed, the adults were jologs. Most like male and female student journalists and school paper coaches.

We landed seats with 25 Koreans. 25 bumbling, screamy Koreans. One had a seat beside Mama--I had window--and was a Pastor, gone to this Presbyterian mission in Cabantian (ole!). One of the male flight attendants became the first caucasian guy I ever found cute.

I picked up mood as we took off, as Davao was reduced to an amazing black pond of stars.

A little afterwards was the highlight of the whole flight for me: Mr Flight Attendant asked if I would like coffee, tea, water or juice? :))))) Just kidding. But he did ask. And I am a huge sucker for decent guys, which, being a flight attendant, he was. :)))))

We landed 10:55pm at NAIA 2. It was sleek and much prettier than Domestic and 1, and outside, it looked like a hotel. The first thing I did outside, which instinctively is the first thing I always do as I step on Luzon soil, is take a fresh deep breath of some good Tagalog air.

We caught a metered taxi (NEVER get those taxis with which you have to haggle some fixed price, unless you're in, like, MOA where lining up at the taxi stop is hell. We passed by Nayong Pilipino, and it made me remember taking field trips n places like that which in turn made me remember how this place was my home, and just like that, I fell in love with Manila again.

We got to the condo around 11. I missed my gramma and my Tita Con, even pregnant Ate Marichu, our most favorite so far helper. But after she gives birth we'll have to go find another one. :(

I was cramping from eating irregularly all day, so I downed mik and mocha chiffon. I tried out the MP3 my tita sent me from US, which is really small but is killer cause it's 4gig. I fell asleep on FM radio, past 12.

I realized that the 5 of us were really lame Valentines Day celebrators: My Alzheimer-stricken grandmother lost her husband a little over a year ago, although when he died she thought he was her father :( my mom is on errand and is terribly missing my dad, kahit wala nung wala pa silang isang oras magkahiwalay. Tita Con is an old lady; she used to have lots of suitors but turned them all down. Ate Marichu's family is in Naga. And me? I am on a one-in-a-billion wish on the odds of being in the same plane with Mr Flight Attendant again. :))

My devotion today: 1 Cor 13.
And it says it is not about love, and receiving it.
It's about GIVING. ♥
And guess what?
In my KJV Bible, the version whose translation is nearest to the original scripts, the word love was not used in 1 Cor 13.
It was Charity.
"...but the greatest of these is Charity."
So, again, it's about
GIVING.

So, despite the morbid people refusing to greet and the lovesick people out on dates right now...

Happy Valentines. ♥