happy jeanxie day!

the goofy smile that won, ehem, ehem, IT.

everyone at the dorm thought we'd been best friends since pre-school when we actually just met at the enrollment line. we were both wearing denim jackets then, if i remember correctly. you were ahead of me on the queue and you got to pick your class sched first. what the heck, i did not even read the schedule, i just checked off the block you took. and so we were blockmates.

your mom and my mom seemed like long lost friends, insisting that we belong on the same floor, so the dorm managers really had no choice but to put us on the same room together. we even had our beds beside each other [of course you remember we chose the lower bunks]. and then we were room mates.

being the college freshmen that we were, it seemed a good idea then to stick together. from getting up in the morning to heat bath water to singing in the shower because it was freaking cold. i think that was the start of our singing career. bath songs. remember when they used to request a duet [that was weird] during bath time? hay these brehans are so funny.

did i ever get to thank you for having my back when i seriously ticked off 'lord' ef? you never left me then even when the whole dorm hated me. and so, by manner of association, they disliked you too. i don't think i could imagine living it down without you there [and ate em and ate dee]. made living through 'hell' a lot, lot bearable.

you are really the original sunshine. good morning sunshine! dahil bukas, sisicat din ang araw. you shone, dear, you reallly did.

thanks, too for walking with me in the rain... with blue paint and murdered umbrellas from upper session to the dormitory. i couldn't have had a happier first baguio birthday minus being paint and rain soaked, walking like crazy with my best college buddy.

happy rain memories rooted from that time and i couldn't care less if it rains when i sing, as long as i sing with you. what did you call us then? psychic song partners? didn't we belt out the same songs with the same lines exactly as if it were planned? blueberry cheesecake will never mean the same again.

you do know how much i love you even when we fell apart, right? thanks for that, too. growth spurted from there. and look where we are now, we're as okay as the first day we met. like best friends since pre-school.



jean kathleen abigail! cheers to you! to 22 years of God's faithfulness in your life. and to more birthdays we're going to celebrate! whoot! :D i hearts you like whoa. mwaaaaaah!