The last few days

Over the last few days, I've met the people who have defined the last ten years of my life. Its almost amazing how different those stages of my life had been. Maybe I really am a doppelganger like I always claimed.

For starters, my first trip of the day was to visit my old haunts in Katipunan. A couple of old friends were invited to my sister's birthday party. Well that was interesting, Facebook makes connecting to people easier than ever. Since they haven't been to my place in years I was dragooned into shepherding them to La Loma. Regrettably prior appointments got in the way and I wound up being a delivery guy instead of a shepherd. Still seeing them is always good a remind of my Loyola School days.

As a result I was running around Greenhills with a pink balloon and more bags than I had arms. April, who I met for the first time, must have gotten a very weird impression of me. In my defense I was totally stressed out in um, hostile territory, plus I was having an insane time since that was the first time that my old High School barkada had been infiltrated by a foreign element. Well... as of press time my friends are in their respective happy places. Lance is showing his true grit and Chinese smarts being all bussinessdude-like back in his home province. Paolo is doing well too. Heck I'm not doing so bad either. Even Mia has a nice cushy job. Is it just me or did we all actually improve with age?

We definitely have gone a long way from our geeky HS pursuits. We still have fond memories of those days and frankly we'd love to dive back into our old lives but reality dictates that we had to move on. Still we managed to set a boys night out. Daym, do I have to wear my glasses to complete my look?

On Monday I'm meeting someone to discuss a matter of transcendental national importance, a matter that for better or worse will begin to resolve itself on May 20. I hope she had a lot of rest where she came from because she's in for a firestorm. That's right people, Hayz is back and she's on the ANC team :) . Plus we have a couple of 'lesser' competitions coming up in the next couple of months.

SCeeing - (v.) hanging out in the SC office pretty much the whole day. I've been doing that a lot lately. Well things are moving at the SC about as well as can be expected. We are becoming regular fixtures in that little room but then that's to be expected because ahem, you already know why. Our little Starbucks club has really gone a long way... in more ways that one. However, political success apparently comes at the exclusion of other forms of fulfillment. Although I'm just speaking for myself.

At the end of this day I go to bed and wonder how I should feel. Co'z, the last ten years of my life just flashed in front of me and I can't believe those years were lived by the same person. Plus I’ve got something on my plate that is altogether overwhelming…