something glows when the power goes out

so our little town had its scheduled power cut again and it lasted for 15hrs. yep, now you're thiking i mustve sulked myself into the pit of boredom. you're wrong. you see, this particular day had been oh so nice to me that i felt way more productive than my usual lazy summer afternoons. not that i did something great. well, summing everything up, i did. i spent time with my family.

i woke up exactly 30 minutes before lunch and by then the electricity was already out so what i did was execute my daily hygiene before digging some food. after the meal, grandma, grandpa, and my lil cousin brent decided to relax in our little backyard with the shady trees and swaying hammock, trying to hide from the blazin hot sun.

minutes later we were joined by mom's bff and well, mom ofcourse. they did some chitchat while pop decided to sleep in the hammock and mama sang a lullaby to my cousin. i listened to the talk, and the snoring but what caught my intention was the humming. i missed it. i know mama used to sing it to me before when i was still a little baby with a sleepy look on her face. she was the one who took care of me when mom and dad continued their college education. i knew that somehow the familiarity of the song did its work on a reversed mode now; it woke the sleeping child within me.

are you familiar of that feeling, nostalgia as what they call it, when a memory was close enough to make the situation a complete replica of de ja vu but somehow you knew what happened was real, and is kept in the very bottom of your head, because well, its a memory; it was planted there, and suddenly, it felt like you were suck back in time, remembering each and every detail of how it had happened before, and that your current surroundings was overlapped by the flashback?

delightful isnt it? its like one of the strange yet wonderful feeling we people get to experience and keep as our little secrets. its just the same with sharing an inside joke with yourself, you make your brain, your emotions laugh without showing everybody else. but that time, it made my heart smile.

shrugging off the thought and continuing my lil easy-go-lucky fascad, i got my nail polish and did some manicure. minutes later people were scrambling off their seats; with papa wide-awake ready to go to his office, brent crying out loud as what natural babies do, and mom and her bff on their stroll. so i decided to went back home and read some e-book.

just the moment i passed the sign "Chapter 2", mama called me to join her, brent, brent's mom (tita), and brent's dad, for some fried bananas and sweet potatoes in front of our lawn. but i didnt feel like eating such stuffs so i went inside their cozy kitchen and cooked french fries instead.

after munching the snack, i was left alone watching the sky with my back on our lawn's bench wishing for even a tini tiny appearance of angel wings reflecting the golden yellow of the sunset, but much to my wishful thinking, i saw nothing flying up on the blue sky which i must admit, didnt disappoint me at all. i know the angels are shy angelic creatures, and we must admit that maybe it isnt usual for them to show themselves on us humans without a purpose. the fluffy clouds did fascinate me though. and lets not forget those cute little birds.

the orange sky was now in the middle of turning itself into navy blue when i found tita, her husband, and lil brent going for a small walk around the city. i didnt bother, i was quite enjoying my position. i continued reading my e-book while laying on the bench blasting some good'ole music until my head was again whirled by some thought.

i ought to move on. from him or anything away with him. i realized that fact while the twinkling stars are starting to bloom on the dark sky. the stars. oh gosh it even made the whole scrapbook-like memory vivid. the little convo while heading towards the boulevard, the songs we used to listen on his ipod, urgh.

now good thing grandma came into the scene, bringing me a gas lamp. we talked for hours, specifically about astronomy, i made clarifications to her queries about stars, the sun, planets etc while wandering on the lawn with my head faced up on the infinite number of diamonds hanging on the vast black, forgeting the previous idea on my mind.

the electricity was still nowhere to be located when brent and his parents returned. later on we were joined by papa and had our dinner. well you can guess what happened the moment we finished munching down our food. LIGHTS ON!

P.S. and just currently, i've realized that this will be the last weekend that i'd be spending in our little town, and that im off to college later this week. though im coming back in October, i couldnt help but feel troubled by the fact that i wont be home for five months. whatever. lets not discuss this now. my insides are turning into crap.


-geianne