LONELIEST CHRISTMAS
Sunday, December 25th, 2005Haaay…this year’s christmas would be my loneliest yet…
…i decided to go to the edsa shrine to sing at the 10p.m. mass with the choir…i left my grandmother’s place at 8:00 hoping i’d be able to make it earlier than the 9:45 call-time…wasn’t that sure i’d make it when i found out i wouldn’t be able to ride both the lrt and the mrt, since they’d already closed for the night…;p got to the church with still some time to catch my breath before the mass started…sang my lungs out from the start of the mass till the final hymn(hey, it is christmas)…got a few gifts from dear tita myrna…and charissa…yay!…after the mass we went to the small room where we usually get served food after mass…sat and had some pictures taken with the choir…then the group finds out we weren’t going to be fed anymore…;p so i had to go home earlier than what i had initially expected(ako kasi talaga designated taong bahay, pero wish ko sana mag stay kahit a few more minutes longer para at least di naman ganun ka lonely…)…on a normal day i’d have to wait a good fifteen to thirty minutes for a bus ride home from the shrine…but since it was christmas eve, i had to wait a whole hour…alone at the bus stop…the ride was crazy as usual…the bus driver didn’t even slow down when we hit another bus’ side mirror while speeding to magallanes…went through my usual christmas routine of giving some loose change to the poor while walking along bicutan…got the funniest reaction after i gave money to some kids who turned out to be "hanging out" at the bicutan interchange : "UY o, pinamaskuhan tayo nung mama, akala ata naglilimos tayo rito"…;p i got home at 12:50…decided to at least have a small feast to celebrate christmas eve…only to remember that we took everything with us when we left for my grandmother’s…;p
…so i was left alone, with no food, no wine, and no family during christmas eve….SAYA!!! good thing three friends decided to answer my christmas greeting…thanks to chins, aan and teenee….kahit papaano, sumaya-saya rin ang gabi ko nung makuha ko yung mga pabalik na bati ninyo….;p