Friday, February 25, 2011

Finkaloo



Since we are on the subject of that pink diary,  I rummaged it under piles of memento in my mahiwagang baul-sa-tuktok ng closetta  this morning.  It's time to sashay down the catwalk and look back at once was, my futile attempt to write non-fiction. Contrary to my previous claims that it was pink, the front cover is actually lemon chiffon. It's the pages that make up the diary that are printed pink.

Reasons for having that journal has already escaped me. One could even dispute whether it was a gift from my mom or was given to me by another person. (who had foreseen the future)  But now that its contents are for my eyes to see, let me share with everyone some passage written when I used to play with my sister's Barbie Dolls and Sailormoon was my true idol.


yesterday is just a tambling away

Sunday
September 11, 1994
10:40 PM

Dear Diary,

Birthday ni Jonas ngayon  Masaya pero kanina napakalungkot dahil hindi kumpleto ang linggo ko hindi ko napanood ang Ultraman A. (Ace) Sa palagay ko ay matatagalan pa ako bago mapanood iyon gabi na ng umuwi kami kaya pagod na pagod ako...

Goodnight

I got bored with writing after several entries. However, a few years later, the diary re-emerged with a new purpose. (Notice the lack of periods? My apologies, the passages were written verbatim.)


the crescent moon and the sword must have reminded you of a superhero


Big 7 Dreams
Date Unknown


We are riding in a car w/ Ninang, (Favorite Aunt) Wiki, (cousin) and Banjo (Favorite Aunt's son)  Suddenly I saw a Mushroom cloud of Smoke like a Nuclear Explosion probably an Explosion, and then it came near to us and our car rolled I became unconscious Suddenly a brilliant light appeared it was foreign rescuers I think one of them is a Japanese Lady when I saw the Scenery it is very eerie like a swampy place. I remembered a dialogue "Bakit naging ganito ang Hitsura dito?"...


So there. Before that diary was prehistory and it would take my archeologist self ages before I could decipher the sentences in my writing composition. (if by some stroke of luck I could find that book)




15 comments:

claudiopoi said...

wow. this is so cute! hehe :)

sana maretrieve mo lahat ng memories mo about all the posts. napakasarap mag reminisce, lalo na pag effed up much na ang ngayon.

more, more diary posts pa! parang yung kay gary lang sa mara clara! hehe :)

Mugen said...

Claudiopoi:

When you're old, you tend to romanticize the past. Hahaha! Now that I'm at peace, a lot of my entries will be about my childhood (sana). Lol.

Spiral Prince said...

whoever gave you the notebook was psychic, at talagang sailormoon na sailormoon ang insignia mo noon. hahaha.




(dalawa na tayo)

Eternal Wanderer... said...

dear Mugen,

wala na akong masabi.

i rest my case.

hahahahha


Miss Minchin

Kapitan Potpot said...

Waaaahh! Bakit ba hindi ko naitago ung ganyan ko? I had a red one then. Sa takot na madiscover mga kalokohan ko, sinunog ko. Hehe!

Viewfinder said...

i used to have a diary with snoopy on the covers.. i had a good 5 months worth of daily entries til my sister got to it and read it.. and used the information there to tease me...

good thing i havent written about boys then hehehe..

but that made me realise that my thoughts are not that private.. kaya i stopped

c - e - i - b - o - h said...

naku, naalala ko yung diary ko nung elementary days,, binasa ng kapatid ko and somehow used it againts my parents.. hihihi..

Ronnie said...

Awww, Mugen. Ang cute naman na natago mo pa diary mo. Siguro ang daming extra notes sa likod ng diary na yan hehe.

Can you share pa ba your other 'diary' entries? haha

Sean said...

nabasa ko yung "sana bukas maganda na ang araw ko..." - naku bata pa lang meron nang drama hehe. hindi ko na maalala pero felix bakat ba si ultraman ace?

~Carrie~ said...

I wish I had a diary to chronicle my day-to-day experience. Cute nman ng entry na ito.

Mugen said...

Carrie:

Senti ako masyado nung bata eh. Lahat ng mga liham at notes kung anu anung binigay sa akin tinatago ko. Lolz.

Sean:

Si Ultraman yun. Hahah! Nako, hindi ko pa pinopost yung mga diary entries ko nung second year college. Yun ang da bomb sa ka-emohan.

Ronnie:

Buti pinaalala mo sa akin, hindi pa ako nagchecheck ng notes sa likod ng diary ko. Hindi naman siguro doodles yun gaya nung nasa notebooks ko sa school. Hahaha!

Mugen said...

Ceiboh:

Mabuti na lang at wala akong panget na entries sa diary ko. Haha!

Clarence:

Badtrip nga yun. Gaya mo, threat rin sa diary ko yung utol ko. Ngayon kinakarma siya. Yung diary niya eh nasa room ko, binabasa daw nung asawa niya. Lol.

Louie:

Juicy... Haha! Kaya ko dinelete yung una kong blog kasi, well, maraming sikretong nakatago dun. :)

Mugen said...

Ternie:

Ngayon I dare you, Ilabas ang iyong lavender diary na puno ng glitters na ginawa mo nung grade six ka!

Lolz.

SpiralPrince:

Of course! Marami akong memories with Sailormoon ha!

Carlo said...

minsan mapapangiti ka habang binabasa mo yung mga sinulat mo noon :)

dario the jagged little egg said...

Sis'. Maliit ka palang pala, writer kana hehe. Good thing u kept ur diary. That's priceless : )