ansaya-saya no?

after a tumultuous and riveting start to the day, the eight of us - scout, steel, mason, fiona, draco, apollo and viyola (since hunter was nowhere to be found; eiva had to go to the hospital for a check-up) - took a bus going to lipa to commit ourselves to a morning of wall climbing.

along the way, mason was obviously trying to get rid of his tension: he laughed it all out. apollo was busy finger-pointing the houses of people he knew along the way; scout's house was pink.

arriving at rocker park, the kids were welcomed by six-year-old noynoy, my climbing partner of several sessions. without a blink, vioyola stared at the kids - with ages ranging from six to around 11 - climbing the 20-foot wall without harnesses.

changed clothes. geared up. steel scaling an inclined wall without harnesses. i was startled by a big crash on the foam-covered flooring: steel jumped from the top of the incline. darn it. may sa-butiki pala ang batch na ito LOL

i took my gear, sat down with the kids and explained the task: traverse back and forth the whole four walls once, and go up and down the tallest wall thrice.

without breaking a sweat, viola was already at the top, shouting "TAY! TAY! What do I do?!" i was definitely impressed. draco was taking the excercise seriously, and even went though it with proper pose and techniques. mind you: none of them have wall-climbed before.

a few minutes after i started climbing up, hunter arrived, also mesmerized by the scale of the wall. mason, during the lunch after, was telling me that the wall did scare him at first. but when he saw the kids doing it, he went with it anyway.

scout was traversing quite manly - true to his "ginoong san jose" nature - while apollo was goofing around, traversing skillfully along the middle parts of the wall. steel, who wore a white sando and shorts, was starting to break a sweat but still trying to be gay despite the love-mishap he had earlier this day with his bestfriend-turned-girlfriend-turned-mishap.

i climbed up a few times, only to see fiona falling every now and then to the foam mats as she traversed the walls. she then tried climbing vertically with a harness. she was shaking. i laughed a bit, but was proud to see all these kids so enthusiastic about the task of the week.

after that, we had lunch. went our separate ways. found that the kids wanted to download their pictures at the new website (www.lyceumradio.net) and have them printed out. LOL mga haling! hahah

laksang luha ang naibuhos
ko ngayong araw na ito
pero bawat patak, may dahilan
may pinatunguhan

today was the reuniting activity for the radio station's senior personnel under the helm of senior dj diet. one word: exhausting.

we started the day by grouping the senior djs into three groups, each with around ten members (sadly, not everyone came - memo ito): d' quickies; paul rangers (my group) and megaoke.

after that, we had a cheerleading competition; MEGAOKE won. grr. LOL. this was immediately followed by a calamansi race, and a straw-towqer building contest (which btw was achieved by buying straw from diet with our clothes. so much sharing kanina. yun nga lang nilamig ako heheh. my group won the straw-tower competition. LOL devilishly.

i was up to my neck with hyperactivity when diet announced the FOOD HUNT. we had to go around the campus in search of clues, tapos get food items along the way. the first stop, we had to make 30 hoola-hoop sways of the hips; second, stitch a torn piece of cloth; third, drink a bottle of milk in a baby bottle, complete with nipple; fourth, compute a math equation; fifth, eat bagkat; sixth, drink three glasses of tomato juice; seventh, slice up tomatoes and onions; and eighth, complete a puzzle. haay. grabe.

after that, we had a hearty lunch. as in. omelette, canned tuna, conrned beef, lotsa rice, candies.

a flower activity was also conducted after - a sharing of heartaches with and among ourselves. i cried a lot. - cry baby.

after a simple awarding ceremony, we ate the bounty of our labor - the special awards that turned out to be snacks. then, a pictorial. clean-up.

then we went home LOL

paalam, sintang langit -
kanlungan ng ligaya't pag-ibig.
habambuhay na tayong
hindi muling iindayog
sa saliw ng iisang awitin;
limuting walang habas
lahat ng pagsinta.

anong siphayo itong daratal
sa kinawawang pusong
tanging ikaw lamang ang hangad?

sintang langit, paalam.
paalam sa ngiti
na siyang tagapagdala ng liwanag
sa hapong kulimlim;

anong harot nitong tadhana
kung maglaro!
pagka't paglisan mo'y di na mapigilan.

Paalam, sintang langit.
sa iyong paglisan,
baon mo'y aking puso at kaluluwa;
lulan ng iyong bakol
yaong pita't luhang itinangis
sa iyong paanan;
maging ilang rosas na pilit nagpapaalala
na ako'y naghihintay
sa patyo ng simbahan
sa muli mong pagbabalik

dito sa aking pusong
minsa'y itinuring mong tanggulan.