1 post tagged “barkada”

Coming back home to the Phils. brought back a lot of good memories, especially while I was rummaging thru my old things and found my treasure box.

It's a box full of trinkets from the past, mostly letters from my barkada way back in high school. Some are also crochets of my name made especially for me by Joan. I had a lot of girl friends back then (no malice huh!), friends who made high school a lot of fun despite the difficult school work (that's another story).

Now, I am torn between keeping these letters and throwing them away. It's been more than a decade since those letters were written but they always make me smile everytime I read them. I was thinking to scan them one by one but seems a lot of hard work.

Well, to preserve some, these are some funny quotes from those letters:

Dear Melanie,
    ....
    anyway, i will not wish you good luck because you are oozing with it. haay...i wish myself erase that. someday your prince will come and you will soon be part of his world. you can paint with all the colors of the wind and then you can kiss the guy. o di ba? but if you never knew him, your life would be steady as the beating drum. so listen with your heart and you'll soon have a romance that will end happily ever after. whether you may be beauty or the beast you will have a whole new world.

                                                                                                                               goodbye snow white,
                                                                                                                                   always cinderella

-- Above letter is from my friend Bau (Hi Kristin! How are you?:)). And come to think of it, most of my letters are from her, this gal is really something :)

We usually make nonsense poems (while listening to our teacher). Here's another cute one from Bau but it is in Tagalog, our native language. I may be able to translate in the future for my foreign readers...

                                   medz, excuse me din ako lamang ay nagloloko
                                   sorry kung ang puso mo'y nasaktan ko
                                   kaya makisig ang salitang sinulat ko
                                   dahil 'wa na akong maisip at yan ang totoo!
                                   hindi ako kinikilig
                                   sa lalaking makisig
                                   ibang klase talaga kung sya'y makatitig
                                   ang intense-intense, ibang klase
                                   nakakaconscious -- nakakaasar
                                   tulad ngayon na naman - asar!
                                   ano bang problema nya, malaki yata
                                   kung may dumi sa mukha ko, sabihin lng nya
                                   ayoko na sanang pagusapan
                                   nagugulo lamang ang isipan
                                   teka, sino ba ang iyong tinitingnan
                                   c JR* ba...hindi naman c Nathan*
                                   tatapusin ko na teka napapansin mo ba
                                   ako'y palipat-lipat ng upuan o di ba
                                   ang kapal talaga ng research group ko
                                   kanina pa nila ako niloloko
                                   c Divo* lumabas ng room
                                   ang bilis nya.....zoom!
                                   bumalik na hindi nahalata
                                   ni Mitong* salita ng salita..
                      
*Names were changed to protect the persons mentioned

Hehe, most of what we talk about are boys (of course!), subjects, Prom, family..anything under the sun. I love my girlfriends and I love it that I was able to experience this letter exchange..I don't know how the young ones do it now with the advent of technology. I can imagine them just passing SMS to one another but I hope that's not always the case. I wish they will discover (if they haven't yet) the joy of writing letters because it's more heartfelt and personal.