Happy, Single, Free!

21 years of being Happy, Single and Free!!! I realized today: I've no boy nor prospect (not even a crush) and I'm perfectly happy and content. This is a good day, I love it.

I had a chat with my girlfriends last night: Toni, Ida, Kathy and Marga (for some strange reason, Abby wasn't online). It was the first time, I think Toni ever had a YM conference. Haha!!! We didn't bother talking about boys. Toni and Abby just got into UST Med school (WOOHOO!!!). It'll be their graduation on Friday (congrats!!!) and Toni will graduate as cumlaude (kabooom!). Ida will graduate on April 3 and she by the way, got best thesis (another kaboom!). I have brilliant girlfriends. I'm like a proud momma. I miss those girls and I can't wait for us to get together and just...I dunno drink our way the good old days. College days are almost over. We've shared this wonderful friendship for more than 8 years already and it keeps getting better. Sure, we have our own lives already. We've had different friends and we've done our own "experimentations" (yes, as Ida and I would call it) but the amazing thing is we never grew apart. Or at least that's what I think. We may not see each other all the time (criminy, I didn't see them on Christmas!) but when we converge, it's as if we were together the day before. I love them so much I'm gonna have 5 kids so I can get them the ninangs of each. And I want our kids to be friends too. Hehehe. Yeah, it's gonna be years before that happens, maybe even a decade (in my case..maybe 2 more decades..haha!), but that's gonna be a dream come true.

We've had our share of tears, too and it's all part of our bond. We can all be superficial but I really enjoy it when we can just sit down and talk about important things. That's what I miss actually. I miss having debates with Toni about anything. I mean anything: from politics, religion and even Backstreet Boys and N Sync. Haha! I miss talking to Abby about music and artsy fartsy stuff, and going to concerts and plays too! I miss laughing hard with Kathy especially when we talk about our bullying days in grade school. I miss talking about my frustrations and business plans with Marga. Ida and her stories always amuse me. Since Ida and I get to talk a lot (whether it be online or via landline or text), I don't really miss her. Haha. It's a good thing though. I mean, she's my easy access to the goddesses (and yes, that's how highly we think of ourselves).

It's just sad though that I don't get to hang out with Teng and Karla anymore. I dunno why. I wanna call Karla some time. I went to Therine's birthday dinner in Ipanema. I really made sure I went, even if I was there for a short time. I wanted to see her and know how she's doing.
So maybe as for Teng and Karla, we grew apart. But that wasn't my choice. I'm not saying it was theirs, but maybe it was? I have no idea and I don't want to jump into conclusions. I still love them though. And I wish the best of luck to both of them and in their endeavors. It's really sad that that's all I can say to them considering we have a great past. If I'm not mistaken, I was close to Teng first, even before Abby. We were seatmates in sophomore year and then we became really good friends. We talked on the phone a lot. Shared about our crushes at the time. My dad and her dad were business partners as well. Their family introduced us to Bukas Loob Sa Diyos. Which I'm grateful for (and Ate Erin is too, for sure..haha!). Karla on the other hand, I became close because we became "busmates." Oh in that terrible bus. If you can call it that. Then I'd surprise her with my phone calls once in a while. Hayy... Well..some friendships are like that. What can we do..

As for my college girlfriends, I'm really happy to have Ther and Sugar. Ther and I are always together. Sugar and I get together sometimes. The three of us have yet to party together though. Hehe. I'll be graduating soon and we really should do it before I leave La Salle. What's amazing about these girls is that we chose each other. Blockmates are like family. You don't choose them, they just are. Sure, I enjoy my blockmates a lot because they're really fun to be with, but you choose the people you love. For these 2, I chose them. There was Tats and Czar. We were the Spice Girls, as the boys would call us. But because of circumstances, Tats and I grew apart. And for Czar? I guess it was by choice. Oh well.

Then there's Madel and Lottie. My marketing girls. Madel's my blockmate but we only get to spend time with each other because we have the same course. Lottie, I met because we were classmates. Then one term, we became groupmates and eversince, we made a choice to be on the same classes. We've handled stress together, studied and cheated our way to our Marketing classes. It's just too bad I get to graduate first cos if not, we'll be thesismates and we'll have the best thesis award. Haha! We laugh together and support each other.

Having amazing girlfriends really is the reason why I am happy and free eventhough I'm single.