hi there, bye!

it's always nice to reconnect with friends, especially if you haven't seen each other for quite a while.

my BFF Candy spent a few days here in the Bay Area coming from her 3-week vacation in the Philippines to drive around and see some sights. Night before her flight back to Washington, she dropped by our house to personally see her inaanak. Surprisingly, Racrac wasn't cranky at all even if he was a bit tired from the party we went to that afternoon and sleepy 'coz it was already his bedtime. It's so great to see Candy again after 17 months!

then last Saturday, we covered 7o+ miles from Fremont to Modesto to see Fil's college friends. Hyacinth is on a California road trip from Texas with her family and we met them for brunch at Miller's house. Fil haven't seen both of them for 27 years and they communicated only recently, can you imagine that?! Of course you can. One word: Facebook.

It was amusing to see the three of them reminisce the good old days in Silliman University (Fil spent his freshman year there) and they were giggling and laughing and teasing each other as if they were only talking about what happened yesterday and not a quarter of a century gone by! Geez, for me that would be like having a second life and talking about your first life.

And speaking of being away from friends for a lonnngg time, did i tell you that i was reunited with my Grade I bestfriend through Friendster after 23 years of zero communication? We were only 7 when we unceremoniously said goodbye and met again when we were 30. Even though i have a couple of pictures of us together, for many years i thought she wasn't real, that she was just a product of my childhood imagination...but not until i got a Friendster message from her on the very day of my 30th birthday:

10/03/2004 11:14 am
hi I was looking for my grade school friend and her name is Carmel baylon. Did u by any chance went to Laguna Northwestern Institute in San Pedro Laguna? Grade 1 classmate ko sya eh. Ikaw ba yun? My name is Hazel Cruz-Rivera.
Isn't that miraculously awesomely amazing?! Long story short, we met for lunch, did some shopping and had our picture taken at a studio after getting free makeup from the beauty section of the department store LOL! We didn't see each other again after that 'coz life took her to Singapore and well...you know where i am right now.

Like all things, even good times with friends don't last. we said hello...then goodbye and promised to upload pictures and keep in touch. thank God for Facebook or Friendster...or whichever of these online social networks our generation is soooo lucky to have.

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