hometown..

home sweet home! FINALLY! After so many months..

Recently I've been coming back home more often. But the circumstances were not always very pleasant. During my past few visits here (Naga), I have truly experienced what it was like to take on that 9 hour bus ride, or 45-minute plane ride with a heavy heart.. as well as with a tinge of excitement! Naturally, I have always favored the later.

A few months ago I came home and took a 9 hour bus ride to home. It was, no questions about this, the longest ride of my life going back to Naga. Fiesta air was abuzz. But the excitement was not really into me. And everytime people would ask me afterwards if I went home for the merry occasion, I would always say "yeah.. but it was for a different reason." You see, I wasn't really one who would really go home just to celebrate the fiesta. This year was an exception.

A month after and I found myself once again going back home. It was November. All Soul's Day. Papa asked us to go home so that we can go to the cemetery. It feels so weird pala if you actually have a loved one to visit on this particular occasion. Before, we would often be in Carolina instead.. swimming, eating.. just having fun.. Dada used to love going there. This year though, we visited her.

My next trip was during the bagyo. Literally, a very long ride. The 9 hour bus ride became an almost 24-hour affair! Ah! The life! sa sobrang haba niya actually, nakilala ko na at naka chika ang katabi ko sa bus! traumatic. Just plain traumatic!

Now I'm back here in Naga.. somehow now with so much excitement for the holidays.. and the short-lived vacation I have before Shanghai.. Whatever happens, there is always that calling.. that particular feeling/emotion that makes one excited for home.. My life may be fast-paced in Manila compared to my life here.. but my life here just carries with it this particular charm that I always, always look forward to living once again every so often. And this is why I don't think I will ever, ever, be completely happy anywhere else in the world!!