my magnanakaw moment

before anything else, i can't believe that i haven't posted anything here in weeks! gawd! i'm really tied up right now with thesis duties since the deadline is on march 7 already, plus the fact that the campaign week in la salle is next week already so the preparations are in full blast. so, hopefully by around mid-march i can go back to my old posting habits.

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i just want to share with you guys a little magnanakaw moment i had a few weeks ago.

one night, i was typing some stuff for thesis on my computer. i was on the second floor of my house while my parents and our househelps were downstaris. nobody else was at home because my siblings were all out playing badminton. so there i was, alone on the second floor.

then i hear my dog, gandalf, barking. my dog, too, was on the second floor. since i never really care much for that horny dog (see previous posts), i just said "gandalf! stop it! i'm doing my thesis!". oh diba. aso na ang kausap ko ngayon. gandalf stops barking naman.

after a few minutes as i was still typing, i realized that i needed some info from a book inside my room. so i walked to my room, opened my door, turned on the lights... and... voila! i see something outside the glass window/door of my room. i couldn't see clearly because i wasn't wearing my glasses and because the lights made the glass look like a mirror so it wasn't very easy to see the things outside the window because the first thing you'll see is your reflection. so there i stood, just by the door trying hard to make my eyes focus on what i think is just outside my window, also staring back at me.

true enough, the image moves. the movements makes my eyes focus on what seems to be a dark man in a white shirt and jeans desperately trying to get out of my room balcony and on to the perimeter wall of our house. this is it. i remember thinking: ariel, may magnanakaw sa labas.... SHOUT!. and shout i did. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! SIINNOOO KAAA??!!!??

as if naman sasagot talaga siya kung sino siya diba?

*side kwento: i was supposed to shout "magnanakaw! magnanakaw!", but my surprisingly focused mind at that time told me not to because i was concerned about how my parents would react if they hear someone shouting that all of a sudden. them with the high blood and the hindi-pwedeng-magulat medical state.

anyway, i rush down the stairs, and shout to our househelp: "ate! sarado mo yung pintuan! may tao sa labas!". true enough, sinara nga ng isang katulong namin yung pintuan, pero yung isa naming katulong, nasa labas pa ng bahay, naghuhugas ng pinggan. haha! i swear, our house can create humor on the most inappropriate of moments.

well that's it. we weren't able to catch the would be thief because by the time i got down and looked out the front window where he was headed, i saw him running away from our house already. oh well. that's it.

what freaks me out the most is how, for just a few seconds after i opened my door and saw an image of what seemed to be a white shirt outside my window, i was just staring at it. and while i was staring at it, the thief was probably also just staring at me too. freaky shit. he had a clear view on what i look like and i didn't. dangit!