the long weekend
The long weekend turned out to be a good rest. I got to take my nephew to see a film featured in the ongoing French Filmfest… finished the book I’ve borrowed… saw The Empire Strikes Back… and best of all, got together with friends from college.
On Saturday, my nephew was all excited to see a movie. He loves to see movies and also traveling. So, the movie outing also gave him a chance to travel by bus and MRT. And saw the cityscapes… although he got quite restless during our bus ride going to Shangri-la. Anyway, Roselyn agreed to meet us up and watch the movie too. I was excited to see Roselyn (Bb Ro) as I havent seen her for almost three years now. We only keep in touch through text and friendster. I also got excited after knowing that the movie is free. We watched Arthur and the Invisibles, which my nephew liked. He was attentive throughout the movie. The movie, which was in English and not in French as I expected it to be, was really for kids, anyway. Though, I kind of enjoyed it too… and I got another surprise as the movie was directed by French director Luc Besson and Madonna, David Bowie, and Robert de Niro were the voices for the characters in the semi-animated movie we saw. Besson directed one of my favorite movies - Leon, the Professional. After the movie, Roselyn and I, with my nephew, ate downstairs… and mentioned that Cedric agreed to meet up tomorrow.
On our way home, I don’t know what made a middle-aged man seated beside us give Joaqui a bag of biscuits. He just did it out of the blue… Maybe, he found Joaqui too cute as my nephew kept on pointing at the buses and motorcycles on the road and he identified them correctly. Anyway, Joaqui got scared because he suddenly kept quiet and hugged me. I guess he knew that he cant just talk and take something from a stranger.
The next day, it was my brother’s birthday… and Rosary and her future husband dropped by. As they were about to leave our house to catch a mass at Greenbelt, I got messages from Roselyn and Cedric, asking what are the plans for tonight. So I decided to go with Rosary and meet with two of good friends who have been our colleagues in the college paper. Cedric arrived at the meeting place on time… Tapos kawawa pa kasi we had to wait for Rosary and John to finish hearing a mass at the chapel. So most of the time, we just sat at Fresh Bar and traded stories of yesteryears and the present days. Then we had to walk back to Glorietta again to meet with Rosary kay nagsala sila. We would have been complete if only Jen was there but… of course, we know family comes first. So over dinner at Giligans, more stories (most of it were funny ones) were traded. Hope we could have another get together before Cedric will go home.
