the grove: after a year
i tried to escape from the real world into a memory i've kept inside a bubble for the last year.
kept on remembering how it felt like to wake up at 3am and shower with water that you could brew coffee in. i played out all the scenes where we ate out; downing vodka at pannicles, nibbling twister fries at vega mcdo,sipping iced lattes at coffeeblends. how could i forget the first time we ate at phuongs' or tapsilog from petrinos under the starlit sky of the oval? when i close my eyes, i still see how pili drive looks like at 2am, still hear his sigh of surrender everytime i told him we had to stop by mr.midnight or mang murillo's to buy ice.
after i year, i still wonder...
we went back but,the grove has changed. so many new buildings, new paint and new signs. pannicles is now lonski, galleria ethnika has abondoned its nipa hut for solid walls and air conditioning and the undecided is moving to makati.
i know i have moved on. just as the grove has changed, so have i. there are too many things to do and so many things to think of and prioritize.
eventually, i know the bubble will burst.
kept on remembering how it felt like to wake up at 3am and shower with water that you could brew coffee in. i played out all the scenes where we ate out; downing vodka at pannicles, nibbling twister fries at vega mcdo,sipping iced lattes at coffeeblends. how could i forget the first time we ate at phuongs' or tapsilog from petrinos under the starlit sky of the oval? when i close my eyes, i still see how pili drive looks like at 2am, still hear his sigh of surrender everytime i told him we had to stop by mr.midnight or mang murillo's to buy ice.
after i year, i still wonder...
we went back but,the grove has changed. so many new buildings, new paint and new signs. pannicles is now lonski, galleria ethnika has abondoned its nipa hut for solid walls and air conditioning and the undecided is moving to makati.
i know i have moved on. just as the grove has changed, so have i. there are too many things to do and so many things to think of and prioritize.
eventually, i know the bubble will burst.
"galleria ethnika has abondoned its nipa hut for solid walls and air conditioning"
It moved, but not for the solid walls and the air conditioning. The owner of the land where that hut stood kicked the owner (who happens to be my cousin) for reasons unknown. My cousin was devastated--he designed that hut himself after the traditional architecture of Indonesia, where he lived for quite some time. The whole shop and all its curio and contents (sourced from years of travel) were his dream come true after slaving as an oil rig geologist for decades. I'm sure he's happy that there are UPLB alumni who still remember how his original tindahan was like.
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Mimi |
8:58 PM