stone free

It's been nice to see old friends, especially your college buddies. These past two days, we happened to reconnect (pun intended) again. Fred G (monsignor to us) is on vacation from Italy, while Joey M, who's now based in Hongkong, is on a six (not sex) day rest. Another good friend, Lito Santana (guitarist par excellence), who is everywhere, is also in town. Our only girlfriend, Heidi (Tondo lass-kaya be careful), is the host of this reunion. During our college days, we usually hied off to Heidi's place after class to cook, or shall I say, prepare lumpiang sariwa. This is our fave food back then, along with some pica pica as pulutan. No, she doesn't drink or smoke; it so happens that her place was the most convenient to us to while away the time.


Funny how time flies, now two of our friends are now grandpas at a very young age. Yes, their daughters got married early, and their usual alibi is it's in the family tradition. Now our conversation is mostly on how to stay young and strong. The early stages of common causes of deaths and how to open a new business. Ha ha ha!!! Where are those rock and roll topics then, my fave haruta shoes, Heidi's Ly Na kit, Joey on his air guitar imitating Keith Richard, Fred who thinks he is Heber's twin brother, and of course, Lito doing some honest to goodness guitar riffs inside the unfinished chapel in their place with a half bottle of ice cold beer as his slide.


Lots of fun. And before we bade goodbye to each other, we promised ourselves that we will have another reunion, wheel chair or no wheel chair.