whatta day it was

my january 26 was like 3 hours longer than the ordinary days. for the second time, we were invited to participate as a guest performer in UP Manila Indayog Dance Varsity's annual concert. i looked forward to it for weeks and i was really excited about it because it felt like years have passed since i last danced. of course, i was just exaggerating.. it was just months. anyway, i was also really excited for the new members of the compet team because that would be their first time to perform outside uplb as a guest. so as the days passed us by, i've been secretly having these daydream sequences where the team's having the time of our lives mingling with the other dance crews there. imagine, i was that excited. then few days before the actual day, mam jlu unintentionally ruined everything by announcing that besides sayaw manila, we will also be guesting in another event. she clearly told us that we will not be able to finish the event and that right after we dance, we would leave and go straight to the other one. frankly, i was a bit pissed off and really, really upset.

i was so upset because things didn't exactly turn out as i hoped it would, not even close... this will probably be my last time to perform in a big event with the competing team so i really wanted to make the most out of it. it may not be that big a deal for the others but for me it is. i initially succumbed to the callings of my true emotion but then i thought that if i'd continue to be upset and pissed off, i'd be wasting the small fraction of enoyment that's left for us to celebrate. so i took a deep breath and started to have fun. then i also realized that it wasn't the event that mattered, really... we won't be able to finish the event, so what? at least, we'd still able to dance and show them what we got. what's important is that wherever or in whatever event we maybe, we're all together because as cheezy as it is, i realized that being with the team is all that i need in order to have the time of my life. it's all that i needed and wanted to enjoy and celebrate for the last time.

...and God was so good that another invitation came to us, another outside campus gig. so maybe, that's my prize for being able to keep my cool inspite of everything.

God is good, all the time.
cheers.