Vaginal Realm

This episode is dedicated to the oldest and, supposedly, the wisest of our batch: Archie. Archiebald. My Camiguin partner, the vacation could never be as fun as it was without him. My constant music partner, Mr. Disco, and James Ingram wanna-be. Archie is one of the wisest man I've ever met when it comes to matters in life. He never fails to astound me with his opinions on things and his seemingly uncomplicated way of looking at life. I guess Archie rubbed to me in a way that I look at things in black and white. To the panganay of our batch...raise the tequila!

My dearest friends,

It’s been roughly 2 years, 9 months and 12 days since I first met most of you in this office and now, following the lead of those who have made their own exits, I am saying my formal goodbyes. The past few weeks (and those coming, I expect) have been very bittersweet, obvious in moments of nostalgia and reminiscing (which seems to be the theme of most conversations lately. That, and moving-out plans. J). Nalulunkot ako dahil nalulungkot ako…the feeling I felt when I told Miki na “’Eto na, nararamdaman ko nang malapit na tayong maghiwahiwalay…”

Let me start by saying my sincerest thank you to all of you. The experience was truly a blast. I am very lucky to be in the company of such beautiful and wonderfully smart and weird people. I hope that even if I miss thanking you sometimes, you still feel the gratitude that wells in my heart. Alam ko cheesy yung last line, pero that doesn’t make it any less true.

I have one simple request before this ends. Like how we felt after high school and college and that our barkadas will remain that way and but eventually separates, I hope that this friendship will stay true. To borrow a line from the book The Rule of Four: “Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation.” Let us prove that wrong. Let us not be strangers 3, 5, 10 years from now. A call or a simple message to let everyone know of the milestones in our lives (new job, promotion, new love, marriage, whatever) will bring me comfort that all is not forgotten.

That’s it I guess. I truly wish everyone a wonderful life.

‘Bye!

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Here's to one of the most promiscuous virgin gays I've ever met. One of the first to ever leave the firm, only to start a trend amongst those he/she/it left behind. Mabuhay ka bakla. Wag mong gagalitin ang dagat. :-)


To meet and befriend each and every person wandering the earth has always been my one great dream. Well, tough luck! Talk about impossibilities and out-and-out irrationality. But you know peeps, from the very first moment I walked the corridors of KPMG and during the crazy one year and nine months that came after, I thought I was already living this dream. It felt like I have gotten to know every person (and character) who I should know, and that all else have become unimportant. You guys have become my world, I guess, and parting with you all will be absolutely devastating.

But then again, we just have to go when it’s already our turn to go. That’s how it is naman sa audit, right? Make the most na lang of every minute ng stay natin here. And my God, with you guys, I think I was able to achieve this. Sobra-sobra pa nga yata. And for that, cheers to all of us! I’ll miss every moment…every stupid joke…every pointless OT…every gimmick…Antipolo (Cloud 9, Chuva’s and Las Brisas)…Bulacan (Pulilan, Baliwag and Meycauayan)…Baguio…Naga…Tagaytay…Laguna (EK and Pansol)...Villa Escudero…Batangas (kila Vanni)…Angeles…Pagudpud…Mar-gine concert…Night of the Champions…Mang Jimmy’s (sabi ni Archie J)…every scandalous drunken episode…and most importantly, every friend, whom I shared priceless moments with sa mga kabaliwang ito.

Well, I guess this is my cue. The show is about to end, and a new chapter shall be started…
I just hope that you have been entertained by yours truly…
Thank you so much for being such a great audience…
I can’t be more grateful…

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This is supposed to be my thoughts about this post. Obviously (but not at all surprisingly) I'm still depressed about this topic. So I'd like to borrow a few lines from Chester's farewell letter to our barkada given the day before he left for New York. Chuva, I miss you...

(Certain portions of this letter were omitted for relevance)

This is it, our parting of ways. Sabi ko na dati pa, it was just a matter of time, and a matter of who would be doing it first. Of course, marami nang nauna, and I thought it shouldn’t be too hard to follow their lead pag turn ko nang umalis. So imagine my surprise upon realizing finally how difficult it was saying goodbye. Iba pala pag andun ka na sa sitwasyon na wala nang atrasan. Slowly but surely, dreadful anticipation seeps in, at bigla ka na lang magugulat na napapadalas ang pag reminisce mo ng mga bagay na ilang beses mo nang nabalikan. Wala ka nang magawang trabaho kasi alam mong in a matter of days, work will never be the same again. Of course we say that the friendship will never be lost, that we’ll always be here no matter what, and that everyone will just be an e-mail away…etc, etc. I’m not too worried sa ganyan kasi I’m sure most of them will be true. But I guess iba pa rin kung andiyan kayo, if everyone’s just on the floor above me, doing their own stuff, naglalandian, nagmamaganda, nagkukunwaring magtrabaho. Kasi naman, pano at kanino ko ikukwento ang araw ko, pag nang aaway na ko ng cliente, pag napagalitan ako ng manager ko, at kung pano ko siya sinagot, pag meron na kong bagong “breakfast”, at may nadagdag na ring “lunch” at “dinner”, sino kasama ko kumain…?! Grabe, so many things going on in my mind right now. But before I allow them to wash over me, I just wanted to give everyone one final shout-out before I finally say goodbye to the best group of people this firm has ever seen…

I guess that’s it. Not much to scroll down to. The end of this e-mail message…and I guess, in so many ways, the end of this chapter in my life. A new one is about to start. Where it’ll take me…I have no idea. But honestly, nothing gives me more courage than the thought that I will always have those memories, our memories, to keep me going. Hindi niyo alam kung gaano kayo naging kalaking bahagi ng buhay ko.

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“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you." -Charlie Brown to Snoopy

When I get emotionally stable about this, I'll write about it. Fuck, again I'm feeling like my heart is being towed away. How come I never got used to this feeling? Almost all of them had gone.


*sob*

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