Dekada

Kaeiy is listening to: Secret Garden - Bruce Springsteen

Isang dekada.

It's been ten years. One decade. 3,657 and a half days. 520 weeks. 120 months. Well, more or less but you get the picture.

Sampung taon, pare! Sinong mag-aakalang makakatagal tayo ng sampung taon! Who would've known we'd actually NOT kill each other after spending so much time with each other and knowing the darkest sh*t about each other. Who would have believed that you'd still be alive after I almost skinned you with a cutter way back in high school nung ayaw mo ibalik yung yosi na binigay saken ni Toits. Hehe. Who would believe I'd still be alive after all the times I've pissed you off. Who would've known we'd still be soaking each other's shoulders with our tears (and our *whatever* after so much laughing) even after ten years. Who would've known it was futile to play Twenty Questions with you! Harhar...

So, if you and I hadn't met...

* I would not have had a bestfriend na pwedeng-pwede ko kunsintihin (hehe) pero hinding-hindi ko ma-convince na magyosi
* Wala akong kasama na mag-stay in the Chem Lab with Ma'am Elizabeth (*swoon*) to prepare reagents in third year
* The Mastermind won't have an Accomplice (hah! Aminin!)
* Those strolls around the school perimeter would be so boring and lonely
* Recognize this? "Don't wanna be your Ivan wrench..."
* I'd have had to find another mailman
* The Math Cheating Triad would be incomplete
* Same with the Physics Exam Circle
* USSr would be one rebel short
* The Chem Exam Table would have one less operative
* The Barkada Table would have no supply of Tortillos
* Wala akong kopya ng Ang Paboritong Libro Ni Hudas
* I would not have tried to quit smoking (unsuccessfully) so many times during high school and college dahil asthmatic ka at ang hirap mag-yosi habang ka-kwentuhan ka! Bwiset!
* Wala akong "historian", as in a living breathing encyclopedia volume on the subject of Kasseopeia (harhar)
* I wouldn't have found out it was safe (and actually fun) to hang out at the Baywalk from night till morning
*Twenty Questions would be just another easy game to play
* Hindi ko ma-memorize ang "Secret Garden" ni Bruce Springsteen. Show me the money!
* You will not be The Quarter Inch Man and I would not be The Full Moon
* Wala akong conscience, as in That Little Voice In My Head That's So Annoying That I Am Completely Convinced I'm Schizophrenic sort of thing... hehe...
* To put it simply, my life (lalo na nung high school) would have been so much more exciting if not for your voice at the back of my head telling me to "do the right thing" hmph! Just kidding!

For the decade that has passed us by (but not without its treasure trove of memories) and for the next decades (take note... decadeSSSSSSSSSSS) that are to come, thank you Pao! My brother (adopt niyo na kasi ako!), my conscience, my health-watcher, my drinking buddy (kaso ikaw na lang ang iinom, iced tea na lang ako), and most of all: my bestfriend.

Tama na ang drama! Agbartek tayon! Hwarharhar!

-o-o-o-o-o-

"She lets you in her heart
If the words that you say are right
But into the secret garden
Don't think twice"