Tag Archives: All Saints’ Day

Catch-up chats and coffee cups

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Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~ Dorothy Parker

The only plan for me and my sister on All Saints’ Day was to see Real Steel at Shang. But thanks to old friends who fodder for unlimited cake serving while considering large doses of caffeine and even a larger bandwidth on WiFi, sister and I found a more saccharine way to spend Day 1 of November.

In between the catch-up chats and the coffee cup-twirling and cake crumbs-picking were lots of online time (except in Tita’s case, which was mostly being glued to the monitor with her game of beheading zombies with green peas), plotting story lines based on our photos (the BOD meeting, Ate Len’s side trip to the farm, etc.), and surprises surprises (surprise P500 Autoload, surprise powering down of the new laptop, and surprise gifts from Ate Bong and Tita).

Except for the specifics, there is nothing new in what transpired here — eating, trading stories, analyzing computer breakdowns, embedding memories in photographs. Old friends do these things, and are comfortable at repeating that which they have come to love doing together. So just what do we do in the world in the absence of old friends?

Happiness is an Orange

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All Saints’ Day is spent with college friends in a caffeine-, endorphin-, and WiFi-laden place called The Orange Place Hotel. When I still lived along Kamias Ave, I used to pass by the Orange Place on my way to work, and yet I’ve only been here for the first time for four hours now, and counting. This orange is the falling apple to my accidental discovery of, or instant inspiration for, a refuge where I can run to whenever I’m feeling stuck in a rut or simply yearning for faster downloads.

Okay then, later.