Saturday, January 08, 2005
calgary, new year, and back to reality
sometimes it's hard to adjust back to the real world after series of stressful, tense, yet fun and unforgettable events slamming your life for a week or so. it felt weird when last wednesday i had to go back to my old routine, going to new classes , writing down upcoming schedule in a new agenda, finding a new job, taking the bus to and from the campus, so on and so forth. every time I have the chance to gather with my friends, we always try to forget the reality and talk about our holidays, the time when we share our love and finding out about each other's personality as if it's the first time we met. so many things had happened during the past weeks. i find it hard to believe how close we are to each other, yet we are very distant. after hours we would go places, all excited and perky, and end the day all exhausted, downhearted, with our hearts full of hope. wishful thinking.
i remember calgary as the goddamn flat, freaking dry and cold city in the middle of the prairie with downtown full of tall buildings rising out of nowhere. when i took a peak from the plane's window, the view was simply breathtaking. blocks after blocks after blocks of nothing but white. snow white. the land is plain flat, you could see as far as the horizon almost 360°. before calgary, the coldest place i've been was only around -5° C. calgary, it reached as cold as -28° C. welcome to canada indeed.
my nose was bleeding almost all the time. the air was dead dry and unbelievably cold i couldn't breathe properly with my nose when i was outside; i had to use my mouth instead, and found the blood freezed inside my nose. my face went numb in 30 seconds, my ears turned red and hurt as if i just had a bee sting.
it couldn't get any worse than that.
but i had the time of my life there. the perfect escape. even made a fool of myself during new year's eve. enjoying life. i hadn't had the loudest laugh before that week. the biggest foolish smile. the widest grin. the lousiest grim. the fattest guilt. a mix of chocolate fondue and sushi.
it has been snowing in victoria since yesterday. funny how i really enjoy it. if it's not because of the wind, it would have been perfect, although it's still nothing compared to calgary. 2005 has started in a strange way. strange, for i've learned how to appreciate the 'real' me.
and everyone else.
sometimes it's hard to adjust back to the real world after series of stressful, tense, yet fun and unforgettable events slamming your life for a week or so. it felt weird when last wednesday i had to go back to my old routine, going to new classes , writing down upcoming schedule in a new agenda, finding a new job, taking the bus to and from the campus, so on and so forth. every time I have the chance to gather with my friends, we always try to forget the reality and talk about our holidays, the time when we share our love and finding out about each other's personality as if it's the first time we met. so many things had happened during the past weeks. i find it hard to believe how close we are to each other, yet we are very distant. after hours we would go places, all excited and perky, and end the day all exhausted, downhearted, with our hearts full of hope. wishful thinking.
i remember calgary as the goddamn flat, freaking dry and cold city in the middle of the prairie with downtown full of tall buildings rising out of nowhere. when i took a peak from the plane's window, the view was simply breathtaking. blocks after blocks after blocks of nothing but white. snow white. the land is plain flat, you could see as far as the horizon almost 360°. before calgary, the coldest place i've been was only around -5° C. calgary, it reached as cold as -28° C. welcome to canada indeed.
my nose was bleeding almost all the time. the air was dead dry and unbelievably cold i couldn't breathe properly with my nose when i was outside; i had to use my mouth instead, and found the blood freezed inside my nose. my face went numb in 30 seconds, my ears turned red and hurt as if i just had a bee sting.
it couldn't get any worse than that.
but i had the time of my life there. the perfect escape. even made a fool of myself during new year's eve. enjoying life. i hadn't had the loudest laugh before that week. the biggest foolish smile. the widest grin. the lousiest grim. the fattest guilt. a mix of chocolate fondue and sushi.
it has been snowing in victoria since yesterday. funny how i really enjoy it. if it's not because of the wind, it would have been perfect, although it's still nothing compared to calgary. 2005 has started in a strange way. strange, for i've learned how to appreciate the 'real' me.
and everyone else.
