Food trip...

Since we graduated from our two-year course, not all of us could proceed to Cebu to continue the third and fourth year Nursing course. Most of us stopped our studies for some reasons. Some went to other places to work while others just stayed at their house doing nothing but the household chores. Well, one of us started even blogging as you can read here. 
 Even if we, my former classmates and myself, haven't seen each other regularly anymore, we never missed to text to each other by phone. Sometimes when texting we decided to meet again for a food trip. Food trip is the activity that we always did everytime we met. We just love to eat. Don't get me wrong, no one is fat or chubby among us. We are all perfectly slim. Five of us are always participating in that activity, namely Donna, Yhing, 'Mommy' Ritchiele, Rozel and Yours truly.

August 8, 2010 was the day when we agreed to have a food trip. But suddenly, it seemed that the chance played and tested us. A problem came to us! The problem was the loss of Rozel's cellphone. The time we planed to use for the food trip was used to look for her lost cellphone. We went to places where we strolled but we could never find it. Rozel was quite sad, she cried and us, as a friend, we comforted her telling her to stop crying as we will find that lost cellphone of her. The evening came and to our dismay, we never saw the cellphone. We were so worried that her family would be angry about the loss.

My foreign readers might think this is no big deal. But you have to understand that we are from the Philippines, and cellphones are among the dearest treasures that we have. Not only are cellphones very expensive for us (compared to other things we need to buy, such as food, clothes, and so on), but they are also the most important tool to keep contact with our friends and to socialize. Yes, we love to socialize more than anything else, therefore our cellphones are important.

But let's come back to my food trip story: With these worries about the lost phone inside us, we still continued our food trip. We cooked three packs of Lucky Me Pancit Canton and six dried fishes with drinks of Nestea Iced Tea. While Donna, Yhing and Mommy Ritch prepared the food, me and Rozel prepared the table and chairs. We had our dinner outside Yhing's house. As we pensively nourished ourselves on our dinner, we never missed to talk about the lost cellphone. We also talk about activities while we are at home or the love lives of our friends. We gulped down our food and it satisfied us after fancying it before. We were so full. After the dinner, we continue talking about sensible and nonsense things.

We still did enjoy even if the worries were still in us. It was just simple foods but it's not important. What matters most are our moments together. The loss of the phone should be bearable as eventually Rozel can buy a new one, but the memories of being together is something that money cannot buy. Circumstances or people can take away our material possessions, they can take away our money, they can take away our health. But no one can ever take away our precious memories. So let us not forget to make time and take opportunities to make memories everyday!