Just Like Magic
Monday, November 27th, 2006.
"papasok ba ko?"
may bago pa ba sa tanong na yan?!
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i can’t really afford another day off since i would not be attending my duty on friday because of other commitments so i dragged my ass to the mountains of ritm. how i wish there would just come a day that i would willingly attend my hospital duties… (sighs)
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it was a rather unusual day. there were a lot of patients. kailan naman kasi kaya titigil ang dengue "fever"?! besides that, i got to extract blood from coded patients. this time, i thought of extracting blood from them myself rather than bother other people to do so. i had to be really careful… as in really really careful. i was even reprimanded that i had to practice wearing gloves when extracting blood from them but hell even if i’m wearing gloves, if i get pricked what difference would it make?
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"jc, hindi talaga ako makakasama…"
what?! hindi makakasama dahil may training?! hindi ba holiday naman ang friday?! my highschool friends planned a party this friday. i was hoping mich would be able to go since i haven’t seen her for four long years but no! she texted me saying that she is not going to make it this friday. i must admit, i was really really really upset about her not going. i felt like i didn’t want to go myself. pero bayad na ko! heller!
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"…bibilhin ba kita?…"
i wanted to buy a shirt but i can’t get myself to think right because of what mich said. big deal right? she can’t go… so? i don’t really know why i’m soooo affected! it’s like i hate her for not going but of course i can’t hate her that much. i wanted to talk to her and convince her to go but i know it will only hurt me more to still ask her (beg her even) and have her say no in the end so i didn’t even bother. after trying on a lot of shirts, i just gave up and went on my way home.
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"…tangina! e di etong suot ko na lang ang susuotin ko!…"
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"…i want to feel better please!…"
i don’t really know if my world has just turned fast-paced and toxic or it’s just me imagining things. lately, i have been feeling all tired and crappy. i want to skip duties even if it’s just the start of the week. i don’t want to get up from bed in the morning and at the end of the day i just want to lie on my bed and dream away. i always feel tired and my body keeps demanding for a day off. there’s something really wrong. i feel like my world is grumbling into tiny platelet-sized unglueable pieces!
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i walked out of robinson’s department store thinking of only one thing…
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"java chip frappuccino… tall…"
after ten excruciating minutes of waiting for my frappuccino, i almost felt like crap. ANG TAGAL! as in ANG TAGAL TAGAL! i even saw other people in line had their coffees served. so where’s mine?
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"…excuse me! java chip frap…"
sa’kin ka nagbayad db? ok naalala nya… yup. pero yung isang babae ang kumuha? yup. upo ka muna, nakakahiya naman. i-se-serve ko nalang yung coffee mo.
tell me, why do i feel even crappier than when i first entered the room? i sat down in despair and sheer disappointment. the thought of HIM talking to me can’t even melt the heavy feeling i have in my heart. this is one of my comfort foods we’re talking about here and they can’t even serve me right away! DAMN IT!
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i felt tired… so tired that i hoped starbucks would magically turn into a dream bedroom with a queen-size bed and lots of pillows wrapped in Egyptian silk cases. i looked out and stared at particularly nothing. my mind was ready to go to outer space then came Wilson… (hell yeah! i finally got his name!)
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"i made it grande. nakakahiya naman kase e…"
a lot of words want to come tumbling out of my mouth… too many in fact that i think they all got stranded somewhere along my throat. i can’t do anything but smile and say "thank you." it’s as if every other word that i want to say is simply converted to thank you. i mean really he didn’t have to do what he did. but the fact that he did it made it a whole lot sweeter.
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i walked out of starbucks with this grande java chip frappuccino on my hand and this goofy smile on my face. and just like that my world was whole again…

