To sweet beginnings and bitter endings..
Yes, summer starts with sweet beginnings but sometimes ends on a bitter note if you do not want it to end at all. But the best thing about summer my friends is KISS - from my scriptwriting class - Keeping it Short and Sweet.
Like how a 12 year old girl received her 1st kilig on a summer. It was one of those April afternoons when you're mom usually tells you "Oh bawal lumabas masyadong mainit!" but being a pasaway, you will do whatever it takes to go out and be free as a bird. She was new in the neighborhood thus her hunt for new friends. But girls her age where nowhere to be found. As she lost a slipper during her long walks of friend finding, she met the boy with the cutest eyes.
Ok fine nahirapan na ko magkwento. Hindi matangkad, moreno, straight ang buhok. Halos magkasing edad lang sila sa tancha nya. Hindi sya nakapagpakilala. Bigla kasi nahiya ang batang babae. Nagkatinginan lang sila. Napansin ng batang lalaki na kulang ang isang tsinelas ng kaharap nya at sa isang banda napansin ng batang babae ang sandamukal na tsinelas na bitbit ng batang lalaki. Sa haba ng dead air, umalis na ang batang may dalang maraming tsinelas. Hinabol na lamang ito ng tingin ng dalaga, doon nya nalaman na nagtitinda pala ng tsinelas ang batang lalaki at may tindahan ang pamilya nito sa kanilang lugar.
Walang umaga, tanghalian, hapon at gabi na hindi dumudungaw mula sa malayo ang batang babae sa tindahan ng batang lalaki. Hindi nya magawang makalapit, ang sa kanya'y makita lamang ang mga matang nakangiti. Napansin ng kapitbahay ang nakakalokang kilos ng batang babae kaya't nilapitan ito at sinabing: Michael, Michael ang pangalan nya. Namula ang batang babae. Tumakbo pauwi ng kanilang bahay.
Sa araw araw ng halos isa't kalahating buwan, inaantay ng batang babae na dumaan si Michael sa kanilang lugar. Minsan napapansin sya nito, minsan hindi. Sa tuwing makakalagpas si Michael sa kanyang harapan, sasabihin nya ang pangalan nito. Hanggang sa minsa'y nagulat ito ng lumingon si Michael at sinabing, ikaw si Yani diba?
At noon nagsimula ang unang kilig.
Sweet beginning. Tama na siguro yun. Kung gusto nyo malaman kung ano ang kasunod tsaka ko na lang sasabihin. J Nothing grand about the ending. Just a sweet summer, and that my friend is my good example of KISSING Summer.
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This is my summer song. If you noticed, the only summer-y in the song is that it has the word summer and you can feel the warmth of the sun in the mv. Definitely my kind of summer.
My summers do not involve beach, water or vacations. Summer for me is the easy laidback days when I can sleep til 11am, have breakfast food all day, books, movies and cool drinks on the side. That is a summer of a homebuddy. My summer.
But then there are summers that would remind me of Baguio. Not the tourist loaded city on April and May, but the lazy afternoons just staring outside our apartment's window with the pine trees surrounding the place while eating fresh strawberries, feeling not the chilly yet still cool breeze of the cordilleras.
Fine. I miss the city a lot.
For now, will enjoy my summer home style J
April 1 is the official start of my summer so Hello Summer!
merci merci..
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