The Birthday Celebrant

1/7 of one's life. I am blessed of having the opportunity to be part of 1/7 of one's life. Its been 3 years and counting now since we got together, and today, March 1, she's on the 21st year of her journey called life. Most of you might ask, "Who the hell are you mumbling about?" Allow me ma'am/sir to introduce her to you.

I won't start by saying how nice and kind this person is for it might sound and look like I am delivering a eulogy speech. (I am really wondering why all good things one has to say about a person comes out so easily when the person is already lying still in a coffin?)

Anyway, just one look at this person, you could already grasp the message that she is not the one that you'd want to mess with. Unintentionally and unconsciously, she'd raise you a brow as if she's saying, "I hold more powers than you. Show some respect dude!" She even goes far as in looking at you cephalocaudal and vice versa. This mannerisms of hers often misleads others to branding her as primadonna, but they're wrong. This is how she looks at you and a brow raised means her involuntary facial muscles are at work. She doesn't even know that her brow is raised nor she notices that she looks at you from head to toe. (So to others who think they've been raised and examined, think again! =D)

Enough with the stares and brows and the looks. Once you get passed the barriers mentioned, you'd have the chance of a lifetime to get to know her better. You won't actually have a difficulty in initiating a conversation with her for she usually starts the conversation. She'd start by smiling and saying, "Gwapa ko noh?" (I am pretty, right?). If others were to reply "No", she'd just laugh and just burst another topic, and so the conversation begins. But if I were to reply "No", I'd just either look to the left or right and then "Paaaak!", she'd slap me once, twice. But there's a sorry in between slaps so its okey I guess. =D. Just between me and you (reader), her slaps doesn't really hurt. Shhhh! Please don't tell her. (Evil laugh!)

Once you've started conversing with her, that's when you'd realize that she's not so bad after all. In fact, she could be the best friend you'll ever have. By best friend I really mean best. She'd be there for you when you need someone, she'd even be there when you don't need someone. In short, she'd really make a way to be part of your life, not in an annoying way though, but in her own and cute little ways. Yet they say that your best friend could be your worst enemy. She'd become your worst nightmare if you let your traitor blood flow from within. Once the trust is broken, prepare. She won't let anyone step on her. She doesn't care who you are, what position you are in to, and who you were in her life. If she knows she's right, there's no stopping her. She's even bolder and stronger than me when I come to think of it.

Those are just some of the serious stuffs about her and believe it or not, she has more funny stuffs circumscribing her. =D.

I've been practicing her way of appreciating music for years but I still fail. You'd know that she digs the music when she starts to move his head like those puppy decors you often see in cars, in short, she has a bobbly head. Bobbling of her head is always accompanied by out of rhythm lip movements. (I am hoping I could show you a video of her bobbly head move but I doubt it.) These movements come natural with her and I find it cute. I find it cute even more when she notices that you are observing her movement and expresses a reaction that you yourself couldn't mimic. I find it hard to explain it words and I advice you to catch her reaction in person, really, you should see it. =D.

Besides music, she also loves books. In fact, she has a collection of almost 500 books. (Don't get to impressed, these are e-books. Illegally downloaded e-books. Bwahahaha!) And you wouldn't even guess how many of these books she had finished reading already. What's your guess? 20? 50? 100? Ennngggggk! She has not finished a single book. Haha. She's on her way though in ending the chapter of the first book. Not bad! And oh, she loves books that much that she could not respond to the call of nature effectively without a book in her hands. Amazing, right?

What I really want you to know about her is that she likes to wake up early. She won't fail in reminding you to wake her up 2 hours before the 1st class starts. So this is me calling her and waking her up at 5am for a 7am class. And she wakes up without difficulty. The problem is, she has a hard time getting out of bed. Her eyes are wide open, but her mind still feels like sleeping. Waking up at 5am ends up getting out of bed at 630am, getting dressed and rushing to school at 710am. You cannot blame her since she literally woke up early. =D.

I still have lots of things to expose but I believe I should leave some stuffs for you to discover yourself. All I really wanted to express in this essay is that no matter how serious and stiff a person might look physically, you'd still find interesting and varied facts about her when you just spend time in getting to know her. Its just like reading a book with a plain old cover yet when you turn the pages one by one, you'd start to see colors blending.

No matter how hard her stares are, how high her brows are, how intimidating her ways of looking are, how fierce her personality is, she's still the same person who initiates a conversation with "Gwapa ko noh?", who bobbles her head in ways only she could do, who collects books without reading them, who likes to wake up early but gets tardy most of the time, who cherishes friendship no matter how far or close the distance is, who is your friend, who is my bestfriend, Timmy.

Happy Birthday! I Love You. =D.