Nineteen...

On the summer of '92 , i was 17 back then... I came across a boy two years ahead of me... He was skinny, pero maporma na, at that time.  We knew each other many years back through friends and families but we have never been formally introduced until that day.

What was summer like back then?  Well, it was election time and our family were busy with the campaign. The kids and teenagers were having a summer basketball league at the town plaza.  Us, teenagers at that era, watched and mingled until the basketball game ended.  He used to play for the maroon team until for no reason at all he gave me his jacket. Eyeballs bulging forward, eyebrows were as high as the hairline, mouth opened wide.  That was the scenario at that time.  I knew at that moment he liked me. After that we had small talks, went to different occasions and even to the river (talumbambang) at the back of the catholic church.  Eventually we were a couple on May 14, 1992.


Summer ended and we went back to pencil pushing.  I was 2nd year college at DLSU.  He studied at San Sebastian Recolletos-Manila. Our tambayan, the University Mall beside DLSU taft and Harisson Plaza. Relationships have ups and downs, we went through it.  But we hang on and enjoyed every minute of our relationship.  We are not just boyfriend-girlfriend but we are barkada.  My friends became his friends and his friends became my friends too.  

9 years passed since 1992, we are joined as one and after 2 years our angel came.   Married life has been not so smooth but rough edges challenged us to stick together.  Happiness, sadness, arguing, enjoying, we all experienced it as a couple.  We've been comfortable with ourselves and our relationship but small sweet somethings keep the magic on everyday.


Came 2011, 19 years after that big Yes.  We still are together.  We are the same as we were 19 years back. We still and will keep the magic alive.  We still love and cherish each other.  We still are One!