May 1 Walk

I came home from office a bit later than usual and I’ve noticed that Ortigas Avenue was full of people taking the yearly walk from all places to Antipolo. The stores suddenly stayed opened for 24 hours because the walkers bought food and water in stores that they passed through, great income for food stores. It has been a practice ever since to take an offered walk on the eve of May1, I even did it many times when I was younger with my friends and cousins, not minding the tiredness just happy walking with them and enjoying the moment. I’ve always liked and enjoyed walking so it’s not so much of an effort to lengthen the miles. In truth it’s really a long mile walk, if you’re going to do it you must equip yourself with a comfortable cotton clothes, good walking rubber shoes, light food for snack, plenty of water and stamina. It’s been years since I last did that walk and will not do it anymore because that walk is heading to Antipolo church.

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A Walk With A Friend

Mixed emotions as they say, happy but sad. Always heard this to some conversation and felt this when my close friend for nearly 15 years decided to file resignation and ended her 18 years of tenure in DSI (sister company of BT&T), I was in DSI for 10 years and during that years we became close friends. I remember the days when we walk all the way from White Plains to Greenmeadows and through Libis area. We always walk in the afternoon as this way is a shortcut road to our terminal area, we laughed, eat barbeque or anything, blurted out sad and tearful moments, shared funny and happy times and talked about everything under the sun (if it’s not raining lol!). We also used to go to market after this walking, the vendors used to call us sisters as we always go there together. This stopped when my boss transferred me to his other company-BT&T. But when she managed the construction of the twin building of our office we see each other everyday again and that made us happy. Today she emailed her resignation letter and informed our boss that she’s leaving country to be with her husband who’s currently working in Eastimor. I’m a little sad that I’ll not be seeing her everyday now but extremely glad that she has finally got the courage to decide to be with Jhun which I think would make her more happy. I would surely miss her!

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