Mark is assigned to San Jose, CA to immerse and train with our company's design team there for six months. He was informed about it last June 14, and since then everything has changed. We'll be away from each other, 11500kms or 7100mi to be exact, after 9 years of being together.
After sending him off at the airport and while taking the shuttle bus to work, I can't help but cry and recall how our relationship developed through these 9 years...
We've known each other since June 10, 2004 during our first day in the university. We were blocmates and attended the same set of classes except for Math (I had to take Math 14, while he is scheduled for Math 17). I can still remember our first class--ES 1 or Engineering Drawing--in our then old Melchor Hall (Engineering building). We were both Computer Engineering students that time, by the way.
He is the soft spoken one among the group, barely talking and just laughing at Ian's jokes. It never occurred to me that time that he will be my soul mate later in my life. I had an interest on another person that time, so I wasn't really paying attention to him. But he was nice, and we instantly became friends.
He didn't have the opportunity to have a girl non-family member friend (emphasis: a woman friend), with him being raised up in an all-male Catholic school (full of naughty boys). So it came to me as a surprise when he told me that I was his first girl friend (note the space bar). I can still remember him giving me birthday presents--a male parakeet and a stuffed toy--last July 2004. We met on June, and he immediately gave me something on July. This made me smile and freaked out because I really don't know if he has something more-than-a-friend feeling for me or whatever. But, being a pessimist that I am, I thought that I am only a friend. :)
Early in the sem, we spent time together during our breaks all the time. We walk around the campus or eat somewhere together with our other blocmates. This blog entry will be very lengthy if I share everything that happened. I can tell you one thing though--it has been a roller coaster ride just like everyone else's relationship story.
After sending him off at the airport and while taking the shuttle bus to work, I can't help but cry and recall how our relationship developed through these 9 years...
We've known each other since June 10, 2004 during our first day in the university. We were blocmates and attended the same set of classes except for Math (I had to take Math 14, while he is scheduled for Math 17). I can still remember our first class--ES 1 or Engineering Drawing--in our then old Melchor Hall (Engineering building). We were both Computer Engineering students that time, by the way.
He is the soft spoken one among the group, barely talking and just laughing at Ian's jokes. It never occurred to me that time that he will be my soul mate later in my life. I had an interest on another person that time, so I wasn't really paying attention to him. But he was nice, and we instantly became friends.
He didn't have the opportunity to have a girl non-family member friend (emphasis: a woman friend), with him being raised up in an all-male Catholic school (full of naughty boys). So it came to me as a surprise when he told me that I was his first girl friend (note the space bar). I can still remember him giving me birthday presents--a male parakeet and a stuffed toy--last July 2004. We met on June, and he immediately gave me something on July. This made me smile and freaked out because I really don't know if he has something more-than-a-friend feeling for me or whatever. But, being a pessimist that I am, I thought that I am only a friend. :)
Early in the sem, we spent time together during our breaks all the time. We walk around the campus or eat somewhere together with our other blocmates. This blog entry will be very lengthy if I share everything that happened. I can tell you one thing though--it has been a roller coaster ride just like everyone else's relationship story.
[picture: Boso-boso trip or any pre-relationship pic]
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I can still remember how I severely hit a tree while driving his car...how we got estranged after that incident...how he confessed his feelings for me in my duck pin bowling class...how I accepted his love three months after at a coffee house while sipping my cold drink...how I became so happy after that...how happy we became despite all the ups and downs that come into our relationship.
So now, I must face this longing with a brave heart. I know that 6 months will just be a breeze, that he'll be back so soon I won't remember he was gone. But I guess I am just lonely because I won't be able to hug him whenever I feel like hugging him (I'm a total "hugger", I'm telling you). I won't be able to tell him stupid things immediately after thinking about it, and him answering with his weird humor right after I tell him something. I won't have him by my side, stroking my hair as we go up to eat and trying to trip me using his foot and tell me that it was just a rock that somebody forgot to remove.
But I will be okay. We'll be okay. He'll have his experience there as much as he can, and I'll be right here waiting for him to come back and hug me once again. :)
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Last June 22 we went out on our last Saturdate and ate at Cafe Mary Grace. So yummy!! :) A bit pricey, but it was delicious and worth it. We ordered grilled cheese roll for appetizer, beef tapa with kesong puti for sandwich, cream with mushroom for pasta, hot tsoknut and peachy lemon iced tea, and lemoni santi for dessert. Yummy! I looove the cheese roll. :)
We had a goodbye coffee hangout with our dear friend Mark in SM Dasma. These two are really close, having been roomates for almost a year, and will surely miss the company of each other.
So now, I must face this longing with a brave heart. I know that 6 months will just be a breeze, that he'll be back so soon I won't remember he was gone. But I guess I am just lonely because I won't be able to hug him whenever I feel like hugging him (I'm a total "hugger", I'm telling you). I won't be able to tell him stupid things immediately after thinking about it, and him answering with his weird humor right after I tell him something. I won't have him by my side, stroking my hair as we go up to eat and trying to trip me using his foot and tell me that it was just a rock that somebody forgot to remove.
But I will be okay. We'll be okay. He'll have his experience there as much as he can, and I'll be right here waiting for him to come back and hug me once again. :)
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Last June 22 we went out on our last Saturdate and ate at Cafe Mary Grace. So yummy!! :) A bit pricey, but it was delicious and worth it. We ordered grilled cheese roll for appetizer, beef tapa with kesong puti for sandwich, cream with mushroom for pasta, hot tsoknut and peachy lemon iced tea, and lemoni santi for dessert. Yummy! I looove the cheese roll. :)
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| Last Saturdate before he left. I'm looking forward to another Saturdate with you. :) |
We had a goodbye coffee hangout with our dear friend Mark in SM Dasma. These two are really close, having been roomates for almost a year, and will surely miss the company of each other.
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| Me, Mark, and Mark. |
Here's him getting a haircut the afternoon before his flight. I feel like a paparazzi. :D
Then, the night before he leaves, we went out for his last dinner here with his family. It was a happy occasion, and I'm really happy for him to have this tremendous opportunity. Here are some pictures with his family.
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| Top: His sister Kay, Mark Bottom: His father Tito Medy, his mother Tita Kit, and his brother Michael |
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| We ate at Yakimix SM Masinag. |
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| With me in the picture! :) |
Then after having our stomachs bloated, we went home to his house to pack up all his things. This is when it really dawned on me that he's leaving. I personally took care of packing his things up, feeling like his wife and all that. (so cheesy!)
Then I'm again here in the bus, feeling a bit empty, ready to face the new phase of my life.
Oh, he texted that he's about to board the plane and I must call now. Another round of tears! T__T
