What The World Needs Now Is Lau Sweet Lau

sorry if im dwelling on the wishlist….

it’s just that i already bought "she’s come undone"  :D  yun lang.

better blog next time. thank you aggie for the tribute. ah oh cge, paste ko na lang dito. wala naman kasi akong ibang masulat sa ngayon due to time constraints…

by the way, in the light of recent rather distressing events (non-lovelife related, mamatay man ako ngayon na… happy na ako in that respect… acceptance has set me free)… i am moving my birthday to november 6, 2005 (sunday). siguro naman by that time ay happy na ako. i mean, if i can’t change circumstances around me, ede change my bday nalang. parang ash wednesday, paiba-iba every year…

now for my tribute courtesy of my bespren agnes…

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What the World Needs Now
Summing up a decade’s worth of friendship into a couple of paragraphs just fails to capture the exciting, extraordinary and special experiences I have had with my friend. (It is also why my best-est friends don’t have Friendster testimonials from me! I have tried, but somehow, they always fall short of the real thing.) There are just too many beautiful memories, too many crazy adventures, too much esoterica, that words fail to express (and as in Friendster’s case, limited by the 1000 character quota). Pero para naman hindi customary Milo Alejo greeting, as in "HBD Lau!" ang nilalaman ng blog entry na ito, here goes my attempt at a birthday tribute for my best friend.

Lauren and I are kindred spirits! We have a lot of things in common (we even have this childhood fantasy of watching the rain while eating apples from a glass bowl–some vision we came up independent of each other, though her apples are red, and mine are green.). We like the same things (I don’t even know where to start enumerating!). Fell for the same guys (Ah! I don’t wanna start enumerating! ). Belong to the same circle of friends with whom we also share similar quirks (and crushes? hmmm… ). We’re both "popular sanguine" (quiz result from the personality book Reylu brought to Bio 121 class), talkative, sentimental, indecisive (she’s a Libra!), emotional (I’m a Cancer!), bipolar… Her UE friends who are now PGIs in our hospital would often remark of our similarities. Indeed, we are so much alike, it’s pretty scary coz some introspection on her part would reveal to her what’s going on inside my head. And there were instances when she could read my mind and articulate for me what I couldn’t say.

But we’re not clones. She hates the color orange, while I do like it now (used to hate it though). And between the two of us, Lauren is the optimistic one, the glass-half-full, door-is-open girl. (Side story: One day, we were on our way to the IB from Pav 4, when we saw Jay Villanueva coming from the CASAA and also walking to the IB. Now there’s a small door at the CASAA side of IB, which is closed most of the time, but was sometimes open on lucky, random days. It is a more convenient entrance when you’re coming from that side of IB, rather than having to cross the parking lot and enter through the main entrance. So Jay V. got to the door ahead of us, when we called out to him and asked, almost in unison. Lau: Bukas? Me: Sarado?). We’re both selosa, but she’s more giving… And forgiving, whereas I tend to hold grudges. We cry a lot, though Lau cries more than I do, and I think it’s because she’s got a lot more empathy in her (while I’m a hard woman now ). But when she’s happy, she’s very happy sha-la-la! And her energy and enthusiasm is contagious! Indeed, the world is a brighter place because of her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAUIELAUSWEETLAU! ????

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." - Sir James Barrie

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for the other friends of aggie and lau, her blog’s at www.aggiepie.tk

tsaka *&^$ pala nitong friendster. i had no idea they were sending "lau has updated her friendster blog!" messages to people. thanks to chona na kasabay kong mag-internet kahapon ("hey lau, what’s this? you have a blog pala!") darnnnn. kaya pala…. (enlightenment dawning on lau)

i never told them to publicize kaya ano! will write a strongly worded letter to the people in charge.

if i find the time, that is… ob pay na ako tom e (ob pay *JI*. hahaha!)

lauielau