Ling’s Law

12 February 2013

My head is having a bad time. It’s still aching. But it will not stop me from recounting the fun night I had yesterday. Ling is back! Finally, I got to see her after so many years.

Before I even attempted to load my phone account, Ling called me up. I had a capital time with Ling’s AUP friends. Em, Donna and Eira are easy to get along with. I shared two boxes of donuts with them. One of the original glazed variant and the other box, an assortment of heart-shaped Valentine’s Day edition donuts that were of three flavors. We ranked the original donut as top one. Among the heart donuts, we loved the one with choco shavings best. It’s really more fun and cheaper to eat out with a group. Just as Pooh says, the more, the merrier! Em showed us how to make a complicated 3d rose origami. The demonstration only taught me one thing – Em’s good at it. She was folding paper as we were walking but it went out fantastically. Eira loves anime, particularly Loki. Donna is currently a government employee taking up her masters in philosophy.  They’re all dorks when it comes to school supplies. And those people are all artsy people.  Eira is a CPA but she’s a violin tutor just as the RN Em is. I love them already! When people are receptive and open to other people, it’s so easy to get along. I never thought it was this easy to connect with others; especially now that my relationship with my team mates at work is still strained. It’s reassuring to be around people who let you be yourself while having fun together. I would no longer be offended that they do not know at all who Malificent is. Thanks Ling not only for coming back here but for letting me meet your friends!

More so, I am having second thoughts about speaking of my time with Ling. I wonder why Cze’s always out of the country when Ling’s here. She missed our Enchanted Kingdom adventure. Now she’s missing all this. I’m sure the three of us would be able to get out together some other time.

Ling is just as sweet as ever. She gave me a post Chinese new year, pre-valentine package.

I posted in my fb account that I would want to have more than five million pesos to my name before February 10. Ling read that and decided to give me five gold bars instead. Yum! She even thought of giving me the bear treatment, giving me a bear purse and a bear print mini-towel. I laughed hard at the mini towel, “Ling, did you really consider me as this puny?” But it’s cute nonetheless and my humor should not offend Ling at all, I appreciate everything. I even received my first-ever crocheted-for-me gift. Ling made a green scarf for me. I plan to use it but I was wondering how, given that I live in the tropics more than the fact that I’m not adept in wearing it. But I promise, I will use it. Just as I will use the blank date organizer she got for me. I’ve received so much in a day! All I’ve been able to give Ling was an origami instruction book, complete with sheets to fold with.

And the letters! Oh how I love to hear Ling play over and over again as if she’s recorded her thoughts in a cassette tape. After I’ve arrived from MOA, I was stopping myself from reading all of those in one sitting. I will savor it, reading one letter at a time. At this moment I’ve already read two.

She must’ve left already for Malaysia by this time. I’m so glad what’s between us remains. Ling is still my friend and though she’s having difficulty speaking Tagalog, being multi-lingual already (English, Tagalog, Malaysian, Chinese), we still have that unbroken thread that connects us as friends though we’ve spent lots of hours away from each other. I’m sure we’ve changed somehow but we did not change so much we no longer can sustain our friendship. I’ve never thought I could keep up a friend like this. I’ve always been letting the friendship wane away through time and distance. I must be doing something right this time.