after weeks of not seeing my friends and barkada, and just being stuck at home with my family (particularly with mama, as my kapatids loser and booger are in their own separate worlds apart from my own), i have come to one very simple thought: how the hell do my mom and i understand each other?

it's weird kasi eh, this relationship and communication style my mom and i have. parang, lagi na lang walang connection yung pag-uusap namin. moreover, walang sense...

there was this one hot afternoon when i was really bored, and i was watching Lost on TV, and then this commercial about the Lost promo (the trip to hawaii thingy), and then mom came into the room.

ME
mama, trip to hawaii daw oh.
i want to go to hawaii.
take me to hawaii.

MAMA
okay, sige.
pero tomorrow na, late na ngayon eh.
hapon na, kaya late na.


HUH? ano daw?! heehee.

then when we went to get my license, i stepped on my shoelaces, eh dirty yung ground, so my shoelaces got dirty. i showed them to my mom.

ME
aww, mom! my shoelaces are all dirty!

MAMA
so? eh di linisin mo na lang when we get home.

*three days later, i haven't cleaned my shoes yet. tapos we were on the bus stop waiting for a ride to the LRT station (which i didn't even get to ride, darn it!). while we were walking, mama stepped on my shoes.*

ME
mom! you stepped on my shoes!
you got my shoelaces even dirtier!

MAMA
huh? eh di ipalinis mo na lang kay nanay ida.



HA? sabi lang niya linisin KO. then now sabi niya ipalinis ko na lang. hanglabu, dude. tagoink!

and then today, we went to UST--again. grabe, di pa nga ako enrolled there, punta na ako ng punta dun, like it's my school na. haha. as in! i eat there, inside the campus, where most of the students eat. i sit where they sit, hang out where they hang out. haha. akala mo kung sino. anyhow...so yun nga, we commuted there with tita toots and gracie. we rode the bus, and then the conductor asked for our bayad.


MAMA
toots, hayaan mo na. ako na magbabayad.
des [me], pahiram muna nung Php100 mo.

ME
huh? akala ko ikaw magbabayad?

MAMA
oo nga, kaya akin na yung pera mo.


langhiya. akala ko naman siya magbabayad! eh pera ko yung gamit eh. ibig lang ata niya sabihin siya yung magbibigay nung pera sa conductor. hmp! hanggulo. inay ko talaga...tagoink!