Penciled plans to hang out at Bona Coffee were thrown off and therefore automatically erased when it was made known that the family is going to Moonwalk village to have late lunch and spend time with a cousin who only gets to spend the day out for the holiday.
Erika, we raided your dvd and watched "Tales from Earthsea," which I didn't find too impressive. "Millenium Actress" was a winner though. Sayang nga lang ang ending. Pero panalo talaga!Then in anticipation of double sticker day, we hung out at Starbucks. It was here that I realize:
Man, I really can only get work done at a
Starbucks. Thinking sucks at home.
Then I find out about Bona pushing through, as Mikey's birthday is a few hours from happening. Micko, as it turns out, is still at home. What better way to commute into BF than with with company? I get dropped off at his house and was let in.
But I digress.
I didn't know there was company, but Micko let me sit with at the dinner table with his parents and his aunt and uncle. I was only introduced as "Peejay," and his uncle immediately caught on to me "an artist, this one?" he asked. I politely said yes.
The table was covered in left over noche buena and two bottles of wine sit at their quaint little corner near the uncle. His uncle seemed to know a lot about the zodiac. "Are you Cancerian?"
No, sir, I'm a Gemini.
He threw his head back a little and let out a gasp. His brother, Micko's dad, said that he was a Cancerian, and so did the aunt remark about herself. She also pointed out that her brother in law is a moonchild, to which he replied "whatever that is."
In this, the most interesting 5 minutes that have happened to me, Micko's mom offered me something to eat, the aunt tells me about how she's always come here to visit for the holidays (she's American), and the mom tells me that she always feels better if her son goes out commuting rather than driving.
Micko comes from upstairs, says good bye and I bid farewell to the house guests. The aunt gives me a tight hug and a light peck on the cheek. Her husband just smiles a good bye at me.
Then, the uncle, as if saying the final word about this brief introduction, says to me as I walk out to the door: "You're so fine."
My eyebrows raise a little bit and I slowly ease into an awkward smile. Surely, it's the wine.
