ten years. now, that's long. i just finished elementary and had just started freshman in high school in the philippines. i was 13 then. i must've spent 12 years of my life att school with them. and now, 23 years after, we are all matured and responsible professionals.
three weeks ago, my friend princess came to california from toronto, canada. we went to kindergarten until freshman year of high school together. we spent our summers together reading comics and magazines, talking and gossiping, gallabanting and whatever else. in short, we were pretty close. right after i left philippines, she left two years later to join her mother in canada. i had not seen her then.
in california, particularly here in los angeles, eloisa, one of my childhood friend ( i knew her since we were two years old) and a school mate, too joined princess ( who we picked up from bellflower) and i. we spent endless hours at starbucks at long beach town center just reminiscing about our past. we are so grown up now. it was already four in the morning and we still talked the night away.
the following morning was shopping day. first stop was at downtown los angeles inthe fashio district. then after we ate at max's restaurant in glendale. then headed to glendale galleria for some more. if that was not enough, we invaded burbank mall and the new burbank town center, north of los angeles, couple miles away fromt he warner brother studios. again, we found ourselves at a starbucks coffee.
three days after, chrislynn joined us, also from toronto. she was our school mate, too. she's married with a child now. together, at kojie's shabu-shabu/sushi bar in hollywood, we caught up on the past. who was married? who had kids? who 's this and that.... there were so many curious questions and piled up gossips. then we went to the citywalk at universal to do some bar hopping. funny, how eloi left her ID at home. and the bouncer asked for her age and not believe she was over 21. hahaha.
we ended up going to eloisa's place in southgate. once again, we had stockpiled stories to tell. the whole night was not enough. we drank liquor while we told stories. and more gossips, of course. who were our crushes? who was with who? who was the bad one? who was the quiet one? how were we like? we took a travel down to memory lane. and it was overwhelming.
the next day, a sunday, we decided, we not only need to feed on the gossips, we also need to have spiritual nourishments, so we went to crystal cathedral in orange county. then we went to long beach to eat at barrio fiesta. it was more on relaxing now. so we went to long beack by the coast to see the queen mary which also had the gay and lesbian parade ( pretty freaky!). there, while we walked on the sand on the sea shore, we caught with more stories.
we ended up cooking for dinner. we went to this filipino market at carson and we also stopped at jollibee for a quick zagu ( it's a boba drink). then headed to southgate. there, while we cooked dinner, more stories were told. we coudl not get enough of each other or of other things in life. it felt as if time was too short to catch up. i left early ....they ( cess and kruslynn) left to go to san francisco.
phew. some adventure.
oh yeah, we did flirt with soem guys, too. hahahha
how we were then and how we are all now. we all have gone a long journey. and the travel continues. but one things for sure, these friends of mines are precious and are to be kept. i made plans to visit canada sometime this year preferably the summer. i missed them already.
to eloisa, to cess and to kryslynn, thank you for my trip back to memory lane.
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