My Simple World

After several years of service as a public school teacher, my previous class adviser way back in the year 2000 was finally reached her retirement period. She is a very good math teacher during those years when I was on the late stage of my elementary education. By the way, you might be wondering how I was able to know the news about her. I met her today at the bookstore wherein I was looking and searching for some pocket books to read. I was amazed of the encounter because she was able to still recognize my face though I am not her favorite student. Well we talked for a while and mention about little things that has passed over the years. She also asked me of what I am doing right now and same as with her. Well it was really great to see her again and I was thankful that she was still very healthy though her age reflects on her face.

Nowadays helping is a matter of money and time. Let’s take a look at what a kid did when my mother was on the market to buy some stuff for the house. The scenario was that my mama was crying many grocery bags which seem to be heavy and full. A kid run at her and said “Do you want my help? I can carry that!” Oh well she was amazed with the child’s helpfulness. She gave the bags and followed him to street side where she’ll be waiting for a taxi. When they got there, the kid started to ask my mother for the fee. She wasn’t surprised of that because mother always gives a bonus to someone who can help her. But then an argument aroused when the kid saw that the money was not enough for the service he rendered. Mother doesn’t want to argue small failures and so she gave the boy additional cash to satisfy him. Can you see how money and time works? Hmm that proves that even a small kid is no longer innocent about money matters and the things that going on within the society.

Have you ever played any PC games? Or have you tried playing those games with someone or with a group of people connecting through a certain local area network (LAN)? Well I say PC games are the most addictive games ever in my life. Either it is an action, adventure, role playing, or whatsoever is the type of the game that you play I can say that there is that feeling that keeps you always in touch with you computer because you want to play games again and again. Anyways being addicted to those things might put us into danger because I myself admit that I’ve been through with that. The time I learned to play counterstrike which was the first game that I was able to play, I tend to become more attached to it. Because of that I skip meals, spend sleepless nights, spend money to be with my friends who are likely an addict too, and everything else. I did all of that during those years of addiction to PC games. It lasted for 3 years and it was very heavily threatening not only my health but also my pocket. That’s why I was able to realized that everything was about to be messed up and then I tried to cope with it and put a limit on my gaming sessions. After those sacrifice and self discipline, I was able to manage myself.

“Hey! Good Day. How’s your day?” A friend of mine used to greet me like this today. I’m sure he was having a very good day because it seems like he was smiling and he says this jokily. By the way I met him when I was on the way to the restroom. After that, I went to the vending machine and drop the coins on the slot and grab a cup of coffee. I saw him again at a bench near the vending machine. He was having a great time with his coffee and a laptop. I seat beside him and I tried to sneak a look at what he was doing. Oh well, he was chatting with his foreign friend. He tried to introduce me to that blonde girl who on-cam with him. She was pretty nice girl. My friend told me that the blonde girl that I saw was her girlfriend and she coming to the country by next month. He was trying to ask me some advice about how would he prepare for the coming of his “GIRLFRIEND”. Well, I told him to look for good places in our place and take her for a tour. He was excited as I could see it in his eyes. Now I know why he was behaving that way today.

My cousin asked me to teach him some guitar stuffs and so he could learn to play his desired musical instrument. He’s been looking enthusiastically every time I took my guitar and play some songs as a part of my daily practice. Well, currently I’ve been giving him some points to remember and I hope he learn something from it.

Last Sunday we went to our old house. As always I still long to live in that house because of the type of environment that makes me very comfy. You know! The forest that makes up everything; the food, the water, fresh air, cool breeze of the wind, and the peace that I always long to have. Well, sad to say that I can no longer have those things everyday because we have a new house local somewhere downtown in the neighboring city. In this place everything seems to be opposite to the old birth place that we lived in for so many years. In our new house everything is really different. From the air that we breath everyday which seems like a mixture of clean and dirty particles in the environment to the water that we take in which has been processed by a manmade machinery. Well, we don’t have any other choice but to live because of the controversies that we’re trying to cope up from our old place. But for me, it’s been the best place ever.

Couple of time have I heard people say this statement “A person who ask questions is the person who learns”. This might be a sarcastic statement for me because most of the time I don’t ask questions. I even experienced being confronted by someone who supposedly an instructor. He was asking me why I don’t ask for some questions and so he will know that I am listening. I also got him an answer which seems like feeding back the question to him “Why don’t you ask me something that would make you convinced that I was really listening to you?” Pretty nice question to reflect, isn’t it? He was stuck for several second and felt very embarrassed for what I have said. Then he added “Okay! We’ll see on the exams. I hope you gotta be good during that day or else prepare for I have something for you”. I took the exams and I am pretty sure that I got it. I was the third one to get the top scores and my instructor just congratulated me. I hope he was now convinced that I don’t need to ask question because I do listen a lot of his lecture and I always do my part to understand everything.

What is the most relaxing moment in the earliest of the morning? For me, based on my daily life and living, I prefer to have a cup of my favorite cheap coffee in hand while trying to be awake from my dreams during my sleep. This will contribute a lot for me to gather some energy and strength from the nature. The daily scenario of my early morning session is so simple. I will just sit on any of our chairs (I usually do it outside the house) then took the cup and sip some coffee on it. I look at the point where the sun rises up dramatically. And you know what? There are so many stuffs that you can feel upon witnessing the sunrise. I feel like being reborn for so many times and it gives me more energy to start the day. You can also try it and I am pretty sure of the best results.

I met a girl yesterday while I was boarding a jeepney on my way home. I never thought that she was actually catching my attention because my eyes are straight to my direction. Luckily, I she got me and I took off the earphone then talked to her. She asked “How’s the band going? Where have been doing your gigs?” I was pretty confused and shocked about what she was talking about and so I asked her in return “What? Band? Gigs? Have we ever met before?” Then she told me that, yes we have met a year ago at the studio where we do our jam. There I recognized her face and remember her name. She was Lea. She’s also into a band, playing lead guitar, same as I. Then, I told her that our band was no longer active. Well, same as with her, after their graduation their group went into pieces. I liked to talk with her more but sad to say that I was about to reach my destination. So, we just exchange phone numbers and with that we can ping each other whenever we had some questions.

Hobby is addicting! Isn’t it true? I had a quite quality time spending talk with my cousin. Well, talking about hobby I tried to ask him some questions like what hobby is he into right now, how much does he love it, and how much time he spend for it. Actually, we’re walking in the same street since were too close and with that, of course, we must share the hobby. So here, as the talk goes longer the topic goes more direct. Too much direct to the point that he said “Hobby must be addicting!” That must be a vague idea. Well, why not? He got me a good proof. He said “DOTA is our hobby right? It isn’t that addicting? Now answer me!” he was too confident that it was really that addicting based on how we are addicted to the game. It was a whole lot of laughing and fun while we talk about the different matches that we’ve been through.