And it goes on. Some of my classmates just have to be really annoying in class. Pasikat nang pasikat to our cute and petite music teacher. Tang ina ang yayabang. Hirit nang hirit. Pasikat talaga, kala mo kung sinong mga music genius. Kung ‘di lang ako nakapagpigil tinauban ko yung kayabangan nila sa teacher namin by saying I’m one of the few people in the high school who can play the violin! O kaya n’yo yon!? Hinde! Hangang salita lang kayo kaya tumahimik na nga! But no. I’m kind so I just held my temper and kept quiet for the whole period. I’m just steaming off here just to let it out of my system.

Okay, I feel better now.

Oh, and see I received a letter from our CAT commandants. It reads “We would like to acknowledge you for showing the Ateneo….your great character and leadership potentials. In consultation with your former class moderator and subject teachers…we would like to invite you to be part of the cadet officers corps as a non-commissioned officer…”

Ahhahahaha!! They’re kidding me! ME?! A CAT officer? I don’t even know what they’re inviting me to do! What does a non-commissioned officer do anyway? Bark orders boot-camp style? Ahahahaha!! ME?!

After writing my last entry yesterday afternoon, I decided that I was too lazy and that the heat was too torturous for me to go biking around the island for an hour. So I went back to our resort room. Late that afternoon after eating merienda, I just had to end my stay in Boracay with a whole-body massage right at the beach. Ahh, it was great.

So we left Boracay this morning and arrived back here in Manila by about noontime. During the flight, the clouds were few so we could see the wide blue sea below and some islands. So the geography freak that I am, I kept tapping my mom on her shoulder and telling her what the name of the islands we’re passing by are or the province it belongs to. Haha, like… hey that’s Romblon or, that island’s Marinduque. Haha.

Ah, as usual, after spending a long time at some other place other than home, I feel some sort of depressing readjustment over a discontinuation of environment. I miss Boracay already…

Okay this will be my last day here in Boracay. We’re leaving tomorrow morning.

Right after I wrote my entry last Sunday night, I went for a stroll at the beachfront walk to watch people and to see how Boracay is at night. Actually, aside from old Caucasian men with arms wrapped around not-so-pretty… prostitutes? Well, there were some other people strolling along the beach like me. There were barely any people in most of the bars. There was even one restaurant which was totally empty. I felt so bad just looking at it. The chef was actually sitting outside smoking a cigarette. And there was one singer in a bar, who was singing to empty seats. Maybe I didn’t walk most of the beach, but from how much I saw, it seemed like there’s a tourist drought. Or maybe night owls haven’t come out yet by the time I was walking. I don’t know.

So the next day, Monday, the weather was very fine! The sun was shining the whole day. My mom and her officemates hired a motorized banca and we went around Boracay Island. We started from Tambisaan at the island’s south-east coast and worked our way up the east shores. The waves were much, much calmer at that side of the island.

I went snorkeling just off the shore of Tambisaan. There were lots of small fishes. From yellow to blue, from black to purple, from striped to multi-colored ones. Ah, it was fantastic. I wish I had removed my life vest though. Because I really wanted to dive into the shallow depths of the water and swim with the fishes. We also stopped at some isolated beach to the north-east.

After that, the boat worked its way to the north part of the island where Puka Beach is. We were the only ones there! That beach was so beautiful, it was a pity we were the only ones there. I walked along that beach and found some locals digging on the sand. I approached them and realized that they were searching for rare puka shells.

Anyway, we returned to Tambisaan and rode a tricycle back to our resort. In the evening, we had dinner at one of the outdoor grills along White Beach.

Today, after spending time here at the internet cafe, I plan to hire a bike and go around for the last time before we leave tomorrow morning.

Okay. Thankfully, it didn’t rain that much today.

I was planning to hire a bicycle to go around the island’s circumferencial road. But when we went to church this morning, I realized that most of the road has not yet been paved, and because of the rain, there were murky mud puddles everywhere and there were parts of the road that were submerged in flood. Ah well.

As of now, I’m getting kind of bored and lonely already. This afternoon, it wasn’t raining so I took the opportunity to get out of our resort room. My mom was at work and my brother was busy playing PS2. So I again headed off by myself walking along the beach. I picked some isolated spot and settled on the sand. I was so bored, I burried my legs in the sand to pass time. Then I tried to build a castle on top of it. Which was pathetic because I didn’t have any tools.

Anyway, after I got tired of playing by myself in the sand, I headed off to the sea and played with the waves. So the waves were still huge and it was fun trying to crash or ride them. Tip though. Do not turn your back against the sea anytime when you do this. Because there were numerous times that I was completely unaware that there were big, big waves approaching from behind. And they hit me at the back like some… like some strong thing. I felt my neck hurt and my body came crashing into the shallow sand-bottom like some… limp trash in a washing machine (what the?). Argh. And when I try to get up, some other wave crashes into me. My ear is aching right now probably because one of the waves hit me in the face and some water went in or something like that.

Ah, I’m getting lonely. I saw a couple of locals playing volleyball, and I wanted to join them because I had nothing else to do and I was really tired from hours and hours of walking but I was too shy.

I wish I was here with some friends. I still have two days. And with all the rain, I don’t know what else I can do. And besides, my dad only gave me 500 pesos till Wednesday (he was left in Manila). Grr.