Mushroom

Oh yea! Our trio is back!

Last, last, last at isa pang last Sunday… during one of those artificial rains on the Metro… we finally found a chance to meet Kharee in Pasay. It has been 2-3 years I guess?! I was just so ecstatic to see this woman who completed our coven back in college.

The three of us, Me, Nikkei and Kharee, would hide among the shadows. I mean, tumatambay kami sa madilim na mushroom shed sa tapat ng Dorm tuwing gabi. And we feast ourselves with the greatest pleasure that the three of us could do together …… laughing at just about anything….. namiss ko yan!

Pinaguusapan namin lahat ng mga dumadaan, may chismis man sa kanila o wala. Then, we'll open up any liquidated moronic substance in hand lalo na yung paborito naming "Tanduay Dark" (cheap noh?). We have this MAgic Bag that I always keep. LAman ng bag yung mga props and parafernalias. Tubig, pitcher, shotglass, tupperware, kutchara, tinidor etc…

We'll drink em up sa mushroom til we make a noisy crowd na! Of course bawal siya, pero kaibigan naman namin ang guard. We are one the chosen few na siga-sigaan sa mushroom. Meron pa kaming trip minsan na tawagin ang mga taong dumadaan at sabay tago… pagusapan yung mga nakikita naming estudyante sa bintana ng dorm at laitin ang mga kaaway …. pero hinde kami bully ha! We have this pleasant faces when we're out of the mushroom!

We now moved to this bigger world… para kaming mga isda sa aquarium na pinakawalan sa dagat, we dont know where we're going. Sobrang na-miss namin ang hobby sa mushroom. Last time, Nikkei and I found ourselves na nakaupo sa stairs ng isang bangko na nakatapat sa EDSA, and we were just talking about all of those people passing. We tried to do the same thing sa coffee shop, sa restaurant, sa bar…. but hinde sila ganun ka-satisfying compared to what we had when we did it sa EDSA! People in all walks of life, pati yung mga tao sa MRT, pinagusapan namin. Kung bakit ganun buhay nila, kung bakit sya pangit, guwapo, mayaman, mahirap …. Lumaki na yung mushroom namin! We have this unpublished thoughts and fictionalized stories about these people na naka-file sa maduming hangin ng EDSA.

Kharee's been here with TOTs for a couple of months already. Ghaaaad! Ang stressful! I mean, when I saw Kharee… naalala ko ang beach sa Miag-ao, where we used to sleep and spend the afternoons. Naalala ko yung mga inuman namin sa baba ng Narra Tree. Yung pagtakas namin sa Dorm ng alas-dose ng gabi para lng kumain sa Burger Machine. Ang mga dosed nights namin roaming the City of Iloilo, yung inuman kasama mga tambay sa kanto, yung mga peaceful nights sa Tijuana, and those pesky days that we rat the malls. In short….. I miss peace, I miss cheap and extremely enjoyable means of having fun …. I miss youth! Potah! Nagmi-mid-life crisis ako at the age of 21!!!

Jeffrey (o, sino na naman si Jeffrey?) was right… we shouldn't have done everything we want  when we were young … dahil talagang sobrang bored kami ngayon! haaaaay!!!  We've done those and we've done that! We had fun and we grew up fast. There are lots of things that we havent done … but those are stuff that we are not interested of doing …Nakakaumay. haaaaay ……