BFF, Ensaymada and Ice Scramble

At 5 o’clock in the morning, my alarm went wild. Shoot! I don’t wanna attend the ROTC class. I turned the alarm off and went back to sleep.

I heard a familiar voice from outside my room and I knew that it was already lunch time. Footsteps approached my room and before my brother woke me up, I stood and stretched my arms as high as I could reach. My whole body was limp so I hadn’t expected this Saturday to be like some days when I feel that certain excitement in anticipating some cozy activity. Anyway, I strode to the dining table and ate lunch with my grandma, mom, and brother. After having a delicious lunch specially cooked and prepared by my grandma (specially because she seldom cooks our food during weekdays and Saturdays, only if Sunday), I went back to my room to finish the book I bought yesterday, “Kissing Kate” by Lauren Myracle. Actually, I didn’t plan on buying a book for it was out of budget but still I visited the bookstore in AS. It’s my pastime when I’m alone and not in the mood to hang out with somebody - to go to bookstores and to flip the pages of every book I see as interesting. By 4 pm, I finished the book. It is about Lissa and Kate who are best friends when one night, they did something which changed their relationship as friends. Lissa tried to convince Kate to talk out whatever they felt during that night and the confusion that lingered and bothered her but Kate resisted the idea and pretended nothing happened. In the end, Lissa met a new friend who made her realize to come back to her own self. On the other hand, I was not pleased with the ending because it didn’t tell me how Lissa and Kate settled their situation.

Having read a book about best friends, I called my best friend, Leah, to go to our house. I was alone anyway. But before that, I did some stretching, push ups and sit ups first. Then suddenly a voice called me from outside and apparently, I knew she had come.

“Why do you want me to stay in?”, she asked me smiling.

“I’m alone and I’m bored. Why did you come without texting me? I was waiting for your response. I’m supposed to take a bath first. Anyway, come in.”

Inside the house,

“Do you want to clean?”, she looked around.

“What?”, I was suprised and puzzled at the same time.

“I mean, look at that dead cockroach at the corner. Is that your new decoration?”, she replied abruptly.

“Fine. I don’t have time to clean and my grandma either. You know, we don’t care about it. We’re used to them.” I got my towel and prepared to take a bath.

“Would you mind if I sweep the dust off?”, she asked without any hint of sarcasm.

I was in disbelief but still I smiled. “Sure, no problem. It’s your choice.” Then I took a bath.

As I expected, father came home early. I stopped Leah from sweeping our floor because dad definitely will get mad at me. We went inside my room and had chitchats as usual. It always feels good to have somebody to talk with when you’re alone and I’m so grateful to have her beside me. Then as usual, we ran out of gossips so we planned to go to the playground where we could buy green mangoes with bagoong which I was craving for and off we went.

We strolled along every bazaar. Colorful Christmas lights were blinding. People were scattered everywhere. Noise was buzzing violently on my head then someone bumped me and I felt bad.

“Where could I buy green mangoes?” By that time, my stomach was growling from hunger. I didn’t want to eat anything but green mangoes.

Finally, she dragged me to the nearest seller of green mangoes and I ate with delight.

“That was good. Hmm, is there any booth who hands henna tattoo?” I asked her again. With just 100 pesos in hand, a tattoo would be the best I could get in here.

It took us 20 minutes to finish the tattoo and the result was amazing. I’ve always wanted to get a permanent one but God forbids. And so I believe that I’m still a good girl to obey Him even if I want it badly. *grins*

Here it is:

My first henna tattoo. XD

I spent 60 pesos for this.

It was 8 o’clock in the evening and we need to go home but we were hungry so we decided to get something to eat. We walked across the street for that ‘buy one take one’ hamburger but unluckily, there were many people in line and we can’t afford to wait any longer. We ended up in front of Julie’s Bakeshop. I had special ensaymada and was dismayed because beside the store is Chooks-To-Go. Suddenly, I craved for lechon manok but what could I do, I didn’t have enough money. Lesson: Avoid the scrumptious smell of lechon manok and focus on my ensaymada.

As we walked to catch a jeepney, I was enticed by a pink ice scramble store so I stopped her to buy me one. Good Lord I have a kind best friend who would buy me anything I asked from her. HAHA!

With my best friend, ensaymada and ice scramble in hand, my Saturday had been special. Oh yeah! :)