Today started out early, I got to Starbucks (Divisoria) before any of my friends. As I met Joan and her mom I had already drank half of my Espresso Frappuccino and lit up a couple of fags. The last to arrive was Fran who came waltzing in from the morning traffic still looking poised despite the heat, Sarah at this point was still missing-in-action. By the time Fran arrived it was past 11am so we wormed our way towards the heart of the chaotic world of "Cheap Central." We allocated materials needed for Joan's upcoming nuptials and scavenged for other things...Sarah joined us after the lunch hour, she sat with us discussing the "DRESS" and i mean the dress where we will be brides-maids in Joan's wedding...It terrified me...the thought of one of our friends getting married and asking me to be her brides-maid made me feel...OLD. In the past, I didn't mind being the bridesmaid for my aunt, uncle, etc. I was young...it had not occurred to me that we were already getting older and now it's my friend who's getting hitched...one by one we were getting plucked off from the social market. Our other friends had gotten married in a civil way so I guess i didn't really mind, but this wedding of Joan is in a sacred place...they had always thought i'd be the first to get married in a church, but that was just it...a thought. Never the less, it's a sour thought for me still...I'm getting older each year and yet the future is still unknown for me especially now that i'm back in the market. Well, what can i say things just don't work out the way we want them too...
Moving along, to our story...After Sarah had already filled our heads with images of the "Dress" we set off again to search for more things for the wedding. We walked a mile along spit filled streets and trash abundant alleys to get everything we needed...until finally...success! The end to a busy search...and what more to do for celebration but to eat fried siopao...yumm!
After that much intense walking marathon wherein i thought i might have lost 10lbs. in the process, Me, Sarah & Fran parked our butts at Seattle's Best Coffee place at the Greenbelt to savor our favorite drinks, people watch and discuss about everything, something, anything and nothing...enjoying each other's company.
As I write this I still have one more dilemma...the wedding march song i'm supposed to sing on the wedding day...THE song that i have to sing as the bride walks down the aisle...THE song that will hightlight the event as a remembrance of it's meaning and importance to the couple and to the people sharing the memories...so what would it be then?? Well, my search is over...after 4 hours of thinking about my old repertoires...the title "You first believe" by Hoku. If you're curious as to what that song is...just look for it on youtube.com for i have no idea how to attach it to this blog...by naive sense of self cannot estimate the brilliance of technology as of yet.
FINALLY
16 years ago
2 comments:
You are funny... of COURSE you're getting old... of COURSE ur expected to be married first hahhaha jks... don't worry, for what it's worth... u can count on me not marrying before u... Yeh it's weird how we used to go to weddings and we were the little ones.. now it's our friends who are getting hitched - I remember when a uni mate of mine got married, it felt surreal... like we were all pretending coz i couldn't grasp that we are in the age bracket where it's going to be common.
Oh and by the way... how the hell are u gonna be losing weight if you're drinking starbucks and eating fried siopao!!!!
Who else? hehe If you read it PROPERLY I pretty much tell you :P so where are your new posts ay? Mum and Dad got me a new camera for my bday - better than that shitty one I had... so you can expect me to be taking a lot of pictures when I'm here
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