Monday, May 9, 2011

Palaro 2009 Memories: That Feels Good with Ate Tricia

When I'm still on the media scene during the Leyte Palarong Pambansa 2009 in Tacloban, I'm just a simple but informative student journalist who wrote any news from both inside & outside of the Leyte Sports Development Center. But one day, one girl that I caught my attention was:  Patricia Mae Santos, an athlete from Davao City.

And on May 1, 2009, when I'm on my 'interview' mode with her, I'll keep my feelings for her a secret. For short, I'm on 'love at first sight' mode during the interview. On the same day at the media center, I'll write up this simple introduction about her because of only one thing: I've fallen in love with her.

This is the whole story of my writings about her:

Can I share with you my Inspirational Quote of the month?
"Who says Ate Tricia is beautiful? They should get their heads examined! Their eyes checked! They should go back to grade school & learn what beautiful means. For the last time, I'm going to say it that Ate Tricia isn't beautiful, ok? 
She's cute.." 
Gosh! I can't believe it...

I started writing this crazy introduction about my crush when I was a young, green, idealistic & immature 13-year-old Freshmen student without a care in the world.

Wow.

Listen: It's so hard to make these things. So, before any other ideas come to your minds, I'm going to straighten things out for you.. only!

As you already know, I'm a hopeless romantic. My one recurring fantasy is to make my very own sentimental & crazy introduction & read it to the lady of my dreams (corny, hah?)

As I remembered, I kept asking myself why I made my life so tender & sweet by giving Ate Tricia. Why her? Why not Aimee or Krystel? One lonely night in my bedroom after my work at the grandstand, I had to make a very important decision about my life. And I was deeply disturbed. I realized sometimes that I had to seriously face my own inner desires & be brutally honest with myself.

Nothing, that is except one: a desire for her.

Yeow! Questions like that that make my stomach do triple somersaults inside... but instead of screaming till my lungs, "I feel in love with Ate Tricia!" I answer thier question with great solemnity.

You know?

Whatever I find myself lovable or not, I love Ate Tricia.

Period.

I'll just have to accept that as a fact of life...

And does that feels good with her!