Late-bloomer

Funny, I've never appreciated Friends when everyone else I know would hurriedly go home to eagerly watch it.

One time, I was just too bored and running out of VCDs/DVDs in ACA to rent out I grabbed one disk of the show. Before I know it, I was so addicted - hoarding all the disks per season!

Everytime I would watch an episode, I'd be laughing my ass off! The episodes where Rachel and Joey got together as a couple and when they were trying to have sex were hilarious. I was laughing so hard I almost fell of my bed.

Since I have a major event coming this last week of November and I can't leave Metro Manila (I know! Sad! Sad!), I think I'm gonna spend my time mostly in front of my laptop working and my TV watching season 10.

Speaking of Friends...

What a way to spend my Saturday afternoon! I drove to Belair just to get my current favorite cigarette pack - Peel. It's a new cigarette with an orange and menthol taste. I couldn't find it elsewhere, not even at AIM or in UP campus where all kinds of cigarettes (yep, even Indonesian and Singaporean brands) are being sold. I had a lunch sched with friends at Podium and I know there's going to be a one hell of a cigarette and coffee session I just had to drive to Makati and back to Ortigas to get my Peel pack!

I arrived at the Podium around past 1. I met Nino and Panet to have lunch at Cafe' Breton. It's one of those long lunches on a hot Saturday afternoon that I really love having.

Over plates of crepes and while forking over our blueberry dessert, we were talking about our other cono pals and the times in college when we had nothing better to do but hang out at the AS lobby, smoke, play pusoy dos and tong-its, cut classes, eat lunch at Katips or El Pueblo.

A lot of things changed in the past six years. Some of us are still friends, some drifted apart. Some reached their dreams, some are happily married, some stayed in the abyss of not wanting to grow up and wanting forever to stay just as they were when we were all AS kids.

Despite the changes, there were things that stayed the same. Nino is still the old-rich, ever-grounded pal who would always want to listen to what's happening in your life. Nagpapalibre pa rin, kahit na mayaman.

And Panet - being a wife and a mom - is still the funny yet brutally frank and in-your-face girlfriend who will give you the lowdown and her take on your issues.

I rarely hang out with them. As much as I would like to spend more long lunches or Tagaytay coffees with them, we all have things in our lives that pretty much takes up all of our time. But I'm glad that every now and then, when I need to catch my breath, I can come home to the comfort of their friendship.

If there's anything I'm grateful for being an AS tambay, I'm glad to have met them.