rowlandanthonyimperial
Monday, November 19, 2007
07:59
Something's Up
Something's up.It's midnight. The 20th of November, Two thousand and seven. I'm writing my last entry in Catholic Junior College Hostel. I'm going back today. Yippee.Did that sound too unenthusiastic?I'M GOING BACK TODAY!!! WOOHOO!!!The clock (okay, watch) has struck twelve, or for you army people, zero zero hours. Our dearly beloved hostel not-for-long-assistant-director likes to perform what she calls a 'final room inspection', so I and a few others are fleeing this incarceration in this stifling building at 4:30 am. Yup. That early. No one awake except security and us. It's not like some of us have a choice in the matter. Calvin and Jix have four precious hours to do the room-cleaning (more like purifying) that they left until too late. Matthew is hypercharged with the thought of playing his little brother's PS2 and can't sleep, choosing rather to stay awake to laugh at Calvin and Jix while playing his Nintendo DS. Game addiction at its best. We're all leaving at the afore-mentioned pre-dawn hour. Others, on the other hand, like Djohan, are staying awake to relive the nostalgia for these last four hours together.In a way, there's a downside to going back. My returning to the Philippines in a few hours marks the end of a highly memorable period in my life. Returning would give the sense that it's all over.That I'll never see the rest as much as I would like to.That Truc and I would never sing "Umbrella" together again.That the Viets would never scream at us to "$*%#ing shut up!!!"That the Indos would never again enthusiastically greet "HI ROWLAND!!"That the Malaysians would never again ignore me as per usual...That I would never again have the trouble of writing in this blog taken up by Matthew...Realised yet?My name is Matthew, but my name, thoughts, feelings and words, for this few minutes of typing, are Rowland's.Did I fool you? Hahaha...
