Things To Do Before I Leave the Philippines
It was the first day of 2007 when my dad and I finally had “the Talk”—the long overdue one, the one I managed to dodge since I graduated from college…the “what-the-hell-are you-planning-to-do-with-your-life-you-can’t-be-my-palamunin-forever” talk. One look in my dad’s eyes and I knew he meant business. And so with much dejection, I took the plunge and scheduled my NCLEX on February 26, 2007, 1pm at Koll Lyon Plaza, San Jose, California…detail, details…details that are lost on me as I focused on the one thing that really matters, the date. February 26. Meaning I have to leave by the second week of the same month…meaning I have to leave in six weeks…meaning I have to leave, period.
So what does a girl do when she finds out she will be leaving everything that matters to her in six weeks? The regular girl freaks out. This girl is obsessive-compulsive. She makes a checklist.
Things To Do Before I Leave My Dear Philippines:
o Learn how to cook, clean my own mess, wash my own clothes and take care of myself in general…in freakin six weeks…
o Have one last lechon dinner with my family, because it’s them that I’ll miss the most…
o Get asphyxiated from one last bearhug espesyal from my brothers
o One last all-night dance party with my college friends (forget goddamn Embassy, give me my old Basement anytime)
o One last chikahan session with my bestfriend trina…
o eat odoks
o eat odoks
o eat odoks
o Buy a real Philippine flag (I mean the flag ceremony kind)
o And a barrel man (as a remembrance of the great assets of Filipino men, harhar)
o And lotsa boy chili cheese and bagoong and freakin butong-pakwan!
o Stock up on bob ong classics…so that I will remain deliciously pinoy stupid…and a Filipino dictionary because I swear that I will never ever be one of those supreme asses who forget how to speak Tagalog…
o Clean up my room…lest my mom starts snooping on my high school love letters once I’m gone…eecchh! mom! nightmare!
o One last ultimate inuman session with Tropang UniSeven, because nobody keeps their alcohol down better than these bitches!
o Take a video of my girls, Jez, Uan, Con, Kriza, Maria and Maw laughing their brains out. Because I know that nobody in the world laughs the way we do…lalo na pag lasing na…nobody…
o One last blowjob with Waxky…I mean the cocktail!
o One last motorcycle ride with Marco…and one last endless conversation about virtually anything…and formulate a masterplan to smuggle him in my suitcase…
o One great big hug for Agent Orange…for keeping me company while his asshole of a dad temporarily abandoned me, haha, kidding! mahal kita!
o Buy pasalubong for eyin (oist, comment na kung anong gusto mo, pagkain yan I’m sure)
o Say thank you to the staff nurses of HJH…for making me realize that this is what I love doing…
o One last sorry hug…hug? ok handshake…with the one boy whose heart I broke….
o Treat my favorite cousins Patrick and Adrian to a pizza dinner…for their wonderful pangkokonsenti (if there is such a word) while I’m in Baguio. Nobody understands how it feels to fall in love more than these two! I love you guys…
o Go to Baguio one more time…and try to bottle up all the memories…
o Take pictures of everything and I mean everything…
o Hug my baby one last time…I mean one more time and never ever let go…I wish!
o Take Colin for a spin to Pantabangan…and let the great big dam remind me never to abandon my great big dream…
o Get pregnant and get stuck here forever…kidding, wahahaha. On second thought…
January 3rd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
naiyak ako.. no joke..
January 4th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
goodluck camille! wag mo kakalimutan na may kcia sa mundo ha? dream big and never let go. take care of yourself and shock cali..hehehe
January 4th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
so, kailangan ba ako magcomment? duh!! syempre… basta masaya ako para sa iyo. nakakalungkot nga lang wala na ako driver, pero ganun talaga. hintay mo kami nila jezelle “gala” tayo sa cali!!!! hahaha.. pero mejo matagal pa un pero possible!!!!
January 5th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
“on second thought?” hehe…
yakisoba lang masaya na ako.
i so wanna see you right now. but it would be so much better if i could see you plus marco plus warren. tsk.
marco, contortionist na ito. or you could always marry camille. same shit.
wax, ikaw din. you could always marry camille. same shit.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
goodluck camille!
we are confident on you and we are definite that we prepared you perfectly in your next career step. we know that you will pass NCLEX!
we hope that we can see you again. drop by the center anytime …
godbless
January 21st, 2007 at 4:39 am
ako ba yun trina? kung ako yun, nalungkot ako ha!
pero kung hindi ako yun trina, sino? haha!
January 21st, 2007 at 8:45 am
hindi ikaw yun!yung trina na bestfriend ko, payat yun. at mabait, hindi nagyoyosi!wahaha!of course it’s you gaga girl!o kelan tau magchichikahan?just you and me…text me when you’re free, ok?miss ya!
January 21st, 2007 at 9:01 am
thanks KAPLAN! you have no idea how grateful I am for being part of KAPLAN Baguio…my experience was way beyond NCLEX review…the friendship, the camaraderie, the love i’ll never forget…oh yeah, and the concepts too!haha!hi to ma’am torres and ms amy and the rest of the KAPLAN people!