Piglet & Tigger

I've been meaning to write about this for quite some time already, but only now found enough time and the right mood. Anyway...

One of my best friends and I dubbed ourselves "Piglet & Tigger" whenever we did a trascript for our old org, Cor Christi. She was Piglet-crazy while I liked Tigger (even though I've never watched a single Winnie The Pooh show). We were around together so much that everyone knew we were "partners in crime". We were also called "cheeky girls" and they all knew that where one was, the other was always around. I s'pose we hung out together so much that one person thought we were lesbians (if only I could remember who the heck ask me, "Kayo ba ni Kem?" during the first few months of our first year... although I think Rain's taking credit for that). It was always, "Oh, asan na yung partner mong si Kem?" or vice versa. And, especially when I started second year, they'd be all, "Pano na yan? Wala na si Kem?" And sometimes, people still mistook me for Kem because, they said, "magkamukha kasi kayo eh". I always teased Kem na, "hindi tayo magkamukha noh! Di hamak na masmaganda ako seyo!" and she'd always respond with that 'ah ganun' look on her face with matching, "haaaa?!"

I miss her. After spending day in and day out with her, that to suddenly not have her around is just... weird. I've gotten used to it, really, but there are still days when I just wish I could turn my head to look at her and share a comment or two. Or that I'd open my door, crouch down, and check to see if her lights are on (I can see her dorm window from my door). I miss giving her a missed call just so we can have a yelled conversation on the street outside my dorm. Once, for lack of anything to do and since I missed doing it, I did open my door and crouch down and glanced to Kem's old dorm window and saw the lights on. I guess someone lives there now, although I do miss the very girly curtains that used to flutter in the breeze in her window. I miss our 'sariling breaktime' break times, I miss our craving for baked mac (for w/c I have her to thank for introducing me to that yummy dish). I guess I just miss her presence.

She's off in nursing school... going through some tough times and good times. We don't get to talk much often nowadays since we're both busy. But I guess there are times when I want to text her about how things are in med school and I have to remind myself that, hey, she's not taking up med anymore, she won't be going through the exact same things you are.

I miss talking about boys, about family, about our moods. I guess basically, I just miss her. There are people in my class now who're fun to be with, who I get along with, whom I can call my friends and, maybe, hopefully, the beginnings of a new barkada. But, still, nakaka-miss din yung bruhang yon :p hehe it's not the same.

She went through some tough times... and, weirdly enough, I missed that I couldn't be there for her, not like I used to. I can't just barge into her dorm and/or drag her off to grab a few alcoholic drink and forget our sorrows for a little while.

If at night I feel like going off to Tagaytay or somewhere, I don't really have anyone I want to be with. Because sometimes, I want to go out and yet I don't feel like having this big happy-talking-kwentuhan hang-out thing and all I want is just to go out but not necessarily to talk much and she got that.

A small part of me feels so selfish, like I wish she stayed. But a part of me is really happy because she's happy where she is. Because she's happier where she is. Just as I'm happy (though I complain a lot) where I am.

That's just life, isn't it? We cross paths with so many people and some of them walk the same paths we do while others move on or decide to take a right when you hit an intersection. Sometimes you get to walk with them for a little while, and sometimes you get to walk with them for quite a long time. But you never lose your friendship with people who've mattered a lot to you. Time, distance, it doesn't really matter. The friendship's there and it'll remain, especially when you've got a strong basis for it.

And isn't that enough? :)

Balding Gels

After that ridiculously sentimental post :p off we go to something lighter...

I was sitting in the back, not in my proper seat as usual and sitting beside Verne as usual when I was looking at the many heads blocking my view of the projector, when I noticed... a lot of guys were going bald. Or at least, had thinning hair. I could clearly see their scalp! It was amazing. I started looking at the back of the heads of the boys who were seated in front of me (after all, how was I took at the back of the heads of the boys sitting behind me if they were seated behind me?) and practically all of them had thinning hair. Especially dun sa bumbunan (?). Was it stress, I wondered. Was it the rigors of medical school that had most of the guys shedding off hair? But if that were the case, then the girls should be affected too, right? Even a little? But they weren't.

I told Erika and Verne about it after, being all, "alam mo ba ang dami nakakalbo sa mga classmates natin? Siyempre hindi ako nakinig sa lecture, diba? Tinitignan ko yung mga ulo ng mga lalaki sa class. Ang ninipis! As in! You can see their scalp! Kaunti nalang, kalbo na yung bumbunan nila. Gawa ba yon ng med?" The two girls just kind of laughed and agreed that, yes, a lot of boys seem to be suffering from premature balding. Erika, though, thought that it might have something to do with gels. Like, those guys who use gels, they lose hair too. And when I looked back at the images of premature almost-bald guys, I realized... they were all using gel. In fact, one of the reasons I could clearly see their scalp was coz their hair was fixed all spiked up in the usong hairstyle nowadays.

See? I knew there was a perfectly good reason why I dislike guys who use gels.