What Happened To The 17-year-old Prune Juice?

October 12, 2007

My roomies [Chrissie and Grace] and I went to the Powerplant Mall and shopped. Well, I haven't bought anything from PM except for a chocolate crepe. It's sooo yummy! It was only Chrisse who shopped for clothes and shoes. After PM shopping, we went to Greenhills and guess what we did? Well, uhm----shopped again! Hahaha. This time I bought two blouses, a dress, a necklace with a japanese pendant, silver shoes, and food. Hahaha. Yeah! I love food. Good thing I was able to control myself not to buy a box of Krispy Kremes. We went home after shopping and eating dinner.

October 14, 2007

I went to the college chapel for the send-off mass for the retreatants. After the mass, we [ACLCers retreatants] waited for the bus to bring us to Baguio City. We had our retreat in Mirador Jesuit Villa.

October 15-19, 2007

Silent retreat. Magnum Silencium? No cellphones, no laptops, no iPods/mp3s, no talking, modesty of the eyes and monk walk. Waaaaaaah! I can't believe I survived the five-day retreat! I really wanted to give up because I don't think I can survive without communicating with other people but since God loves me so much......He made ways for me to stay. He gave us the chance to talk when the RD of the common points for wednesday lifted the silence during that time. God also made way to reach out to me when Greg and Kuya Jason gave me letters. At least, I was able to communicate with other people even in just a few minutes. That made me continue with my retreat. I realized that God really answers my prayers. All I have to do was to wait. On the last night of the retreat when the QMs broke the silence, no one slept. Hahaha. Everyone was talking and laughing the whole night. Hmm, we were just enjoying the freedom to talk again. Hahaha. Remember: we didn't talk for five days except for the few minutes of lifting the silence last wednesday.

October 20, 2007

I've been waiting for this day. During my five days in Baguio City, I was feeling sad because everytime I look at everything around me, it reminds me of the times I spent with Kaloi in Baguio City. Yeahp yeahp! The very first time we spent time together was in Baguio. I enjoyed every moment of that. Thanks to Anna Moreno and her family, thanks to Grace and thanks to Kaloi. Anyway, after breakfast I said goodbye to the ACLCers. They were really really kind and kept on asking me if I'll be okay on my own. Hmm, after saying goodbye to them, I went to the new Victory station and since I was too early, I just sat there while waiting for Kaloi and his family. I was really scared and nervous. I didn't know what to do and say when they arrived. I just smiled and said "Good morning po!". They smiled back and asked me how long have I been waiting for them and said maybe an hour but it's okay with me. His mom, dad and sister went to his dorm while Kaloi and I went to SLU to get his grades but SLU will release their grades pa pala on October 23. So, we went to SM na lang and ate lunch with his family. I wasn't talking much except when his family asked me questions. Eeeh! I was so shy and nervous eh. I really don't know what to say. After lunch, his family shopped while Kaloi and I just strolled sa SM. After magshop ng family niya, Kaloi and I went back to the new victory station to get my big bags and brought it to the old victory station. Tapos ayun, we went home na. Basta, I had fun! Thank you to his family and thank you na rin kay Kaloi. =D Thank you sa lunch, sa pamasahe, sa fruits and sa pagbuhat ng bags ko. Thank you might not be enough but really----I'm super super grateful for everything. I love my KFC. On our way home pala, Kaloi called me the 17-year-old prune juice kasi I smelled like prune juice daw! Hahaha! Ang loko talaga nun! Tapos I was wearing a violet-like jacket pa nun kaya sabi niya "Bagay talaga prune juice sayo! Nakaviolet jacket ka pa!" hahaha. Ang loko mo talaga! [kaloi]