Chill Afternoon: What I've Been Waiting For

- September 19, 2011, Monday.

- Still having a hangover from yesterday's book fair, I was too lazy to do school work today. Although I had no plans of going out today, and instead organized my notes and had successfully searched for online journals for my long paper, I ended up spending the afternoon with my friend Aurey, who was bored out of her wits at her house.

- We met each other at Starbucks, conveniently located below Audrey's house, so we could just chill and detoxify with the Starbucks ambiance. I'm not really a fan or Starbucks, but I had been craving for the Starbucks ambiance for the last two weeks or so.

- Audrey and I met around 3pm in Starbucks, and talked about everything artsy. I showed her some keychain-turned-necklaces just in case I can give Audrey some inspiration (since one of our friends is a big fan of Thai stuff.) I also showed her the Korean book I bought in the book fair yesterday.

- Later on I taught Audrey some basic French phrases, since Audrey wanted to learn some French. I think she did pretty well. I also fancy the nice journal she uses and brings all the time. Haha.

- We left Starbucks around 6pm, after our short French lesson, my sandwich, and my awful chai tea latte. (Another thing that irritates me is that the name "chai tea" is redundant. "Chai" is the Hindi/Nepali term for tea. Haha.)

- Zen afternoon win. :) :) :) :)

"Us Already!!": Starbuck's Afternoon With Long-Invisible Friends

- May 25, 2011, Wednesday.

- After ages and ages of seemingly being engulfed in our busy lives, formerly college seniors, Tal, Jane, Leanne and I (as well as Cristina) were not able to meet each other. After coming home from my trip elsewhere, and Jane coming home from her Taiwan study tour 2 days ago, I felt that I really had to meet up with these people soon.

- I was told that Tal, Jane, and Leanne would be meeting today for scout stuff, although Jane soon backed out. She needed to go elsewhere first, but will try to come with us as soon as she was done with her business elsewhere.

- I left my house today at around 2pm, and went around Ongpin to buy myself one Korean popsicle, and hop around travel agencies to ask for some itineraries (no, I won't be travelling anytime soon, aside from my Korean trip sponsored by Ateneo.) The rain started to pour soon, I wished I wore my boots on today, but I still started to walk towards Starbucks Binondo. I wished to find Tal and Leanne in Leanne's house (instead of "hot" McDonald's), where they were having their meeting with other two younger scouts, since I wanted to seek shelter from the rain. Tal and Leanne weren't replying to my messages or receiving my calls, since I found out later on that signal was scarce in Leanne's house.

- I waited in Starbucks for several minutes, and was happy to see Jane arrive. We talked for a while, and waited for the other two to come.

- Leanne and Tal soon arrived, and all of us were just a little bunch of happy and noisy little people, because the seemingly impossible meeting became possible. (Miracles happen.) We didn't stop talking to each other for a bit, and the usual topics were raised. One interesting bit during our lengthy conversation was introducing Tal to the phrase "(Pronoun/Noun) already," as the literal English translation of "(Pronoun/Noun) na!!" (ex. "IKAW NA!!" = "YOU ALREADY!!") Jane thought it was a bad decision for her to do that, since Crystal, being too amazed with the phrase, constantly used it, and found many instances where she really had to squeeze the phrase in. Hahahaha. It was amusing nonetheless.

- We ended the short afternoon with Leanne leaving first, since she needed to go to Robinson's to buy important stuff, and Jane's parents looking for her at home. I will never know when all of us will be able to meet each other, until that day comes. I think that will be difficult if ever I will be able to buy souvenirs from Korea, and take great miles in hunting them down, so I can give them their souvenirs. Haha. Until the next season, era, millennium, lifetime, eternity then. HAHA.