Climate’s natural pattern seems busted… Oil and rice prices shoot up.. Everything else follows.. Summer’s ending… Apparently, we’re off to sum up school life in ten hopeful months.

 From this day on, I have a target verb: FOCUS.

We shall rock and roll with the remaining days we have, my dear colleagues. There is nothing I wish but to end college suave, doing nothing to destroy the wonderful relationships we’ve found to build through the years.

For the summer 2008 that was, I am grateful for the happiness it caused me and my family. I am content because I was able to spend my last academic summer wisely and meaningfully. I was able catch up with my highschool roots. I saw that he was happy. Met up with Shari Marie like thrice this summer. Fontana escapades, mall and movie and unwinding galore. Things I cannot do when school starts. My liver had her own share of escapades. I was able to bond with my cousins. I was able to fill the lost time because of school works. I was able to do my extracurricular obligations. I was able to meet new friends. Oh, we went clubbin.. I was able to be with my family and my my grandparents. Serve them at the same time. Bonded with my room, my bed, and our cupboard. I had quality bonding time with God because of the youth camp/retreat I joined.. I learned and experienced many things. I was technically sent away and I naturally came back home. I drove and drove for our balikbayan visitors. Went to Lucban. Saw the rural and simple life. Learned a lot. Toured them around the Manila they left 4 years ago, thereafter. Roxas Boulevard and Greenhills, always bein the spots. Eating has always been a pleasure, I’ve gained.  I have also bumped the NLEX tollgate’s TCZ or that thing that moves up and down to separate cars when you get tickets. Toll way patrol had to get my license for 5 minutes. We were on convoy with dad, he had to drive reverse for a couple of meters too. I had to sign a written statement. God has not forsaken me, we got through it. Got my license back. Lesson learned: focus is an understatement. focus focus focus is more like it.

What made me really happy through the summer was when Tita Eva came back home with her very kind husband tito mon and their little angel, Rae. I was happy to see mom and my grandmother happy because of all our escapades:). Now that they’re back in the States, I miss them already. I wish I had a house so big I could possibly keep all my loved ones there forever and see them every single day. Now that’s called heaven…

Nothing beats family.

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Buddha said:

“In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved,
how gently you lived,
and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”