Ang aastig ng mga kasabay ko dito. Mga bigatin sila sa mga bansa nila. Si Mary na kaibigan ko na ay prosecutor from Kenya. She said, if you go to Kenya, and you violate any law I will prosecute you.” That kinda scared me off. But we are very good friends. She is living now with as she said, a very kind Filipino couple.
Yung hot na hot ko pang isang friend ay nagtatrabaho sa World Bank sa Laos. Yung isa naman ay Planning Officer sa Papua New Guinea. Si Kuya Ben ay sa Senado. Yihee! Ako, wala lang, batang blogger na nakakuha ng scholarship. Hahaha!
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May kasabay ako sa IAP na from Afghanistan. After nung isang session namin, I approached him. I was very excited actually. I asked him if he knows the books “Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. The former is the first English novel from Afghanistan. He said he didn’t know. Ako naman parang baliw, i insisted by giving background of Khaled Hosseini. He said, the thing with books as those is that lots of emotions are put into writing them. Well, as for me, i knew that the two books were fiction so there should be not much debate about it. Anyway, nagbakasakali lang naman ako, di pala siya fan ni Khaled. Nakaready na sana yung tanong ko kung saan ba si Khaled sa Afghanistan? Mayaman ba siya? Malawak ba lupain nila? Malapit ba sila sa rice-growing area ng Afghanistan? Yihee! PhilRice!
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One afternoon, nasa book fest ako. Habang tumitingin ako ng mga books na ubod ng dami, actually sabi nila that was the biggest book fest in the universe!, nakakita ako ng magnanay.
Bata: Mom, I wanna go there on the other side (ang liit niya pa mga 1 year old lang ata)
Nanay: Go check that out. Enjoy yourself. (Cool na cool at busy lang sa pag search ng book)
Ako: Ano???!!! Sigurado ka? Papabayaan mo yung paslit na gumala? Pano pag nadaganan siya ng mga britanica encyclopaedia? Ng mga hardbound? Nashock talaga ako while at the same time natawa.
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