I’ve been sitting here for minutes here at the Glorietta Activity Center all by myself waiting for my friend to arrive for an afternoon bond. Since it’s still a bit early, I decided to take out this notebook and write…again. Yeah, I know write again…but I’ve found something that will keep me writing...the people passing by. I’ve been watching them one by one…people behind me, right beside me, right in front of me and even people from the 2nd and 3rd floor looking down doing the same thing…observing. I begin to think…are we thinking of the same things? are they bored like what I am right now? I don’t mean to but all of a sudden I laugh to myself with all I see and observe…teen couples having a fight…couples in their 20’s or mid 20’s getting sweet as if ants might readily crawl up to them…kids running to and fro…boring as it may seem I found them rather amusing. It’s as if oblivion is nowhere to be found and here they are enjoying every moment like it’s as if it is their last. But anyway, I’ve been thinking… My eyes travelled to one girl sitting across me. Looks like she was waiting for someone. Her face in a frown and her eyebrow rose to every passers-by looking her way. I carefully tried not to stare but I just can’t help it…she was clutching her cellphone and she was pressing the keys with great pressure…it was obvious to me that she was mad…obviously again mad at someone…I looked around surely I wasn’t the only one who noticed her frown and the way she’s acting. A message came and her eyes rolled and there goes her fingers again when she rose and left…maybe it was her boyfriend who couldn’t arrive at once because he was busy….with other things? whoop! Or maybe he was doing something for her…either of the two I just shrugged. My eyes continued to graze falling at once on a family…and I remembered my brother, his wife and his little boy…my nephy-poo…looks like I was lost for words to this family…I have nothing more to say…just by looking at them is enough…I wished I borrowed my brother’s cam...pictures tell a lot. 5 minutes to go and my friend will arrive… My eyes still continued to graze…unfortunately…my eyes fell this time once again across me…on 3 skimpy looking girls…pardon me for that…I don’t usually mind other people…but there are those that I can’t help but mind them…and these girls are one of them…let’s start with the clothes…uhm, if only they look a lot in the mirror, they’d better check themselves…coz if they love the clothes, well they’d better check if the clothes love them too…and the way they speak? Uhm…let me give you a sample… “like oh my god..did you see the girl?She made pahiya herself back there?” then one answers “oh my god…I wanted to laugh loud na kaya” …what do I think? Rude people…people who heard them may be cursing them under their breath like me…it’s not only their rudeness but it’s the way they spoke…if you’re gunna speak English..speak it straight…if you’re gunna speak Tagalog, speak it straight.period. tell you what…they…are…the…perfect…examples…of…what…cams and I…call…PHONIES. Another way to recognize a phony…they give you sarcastic smiles and fake hellos…so the song of Hale goes. Oh well… I can see my friend approaching…I better end this anyway…she seems to be eager to tell me something… As I close my notebook…pages have been used once again…written about the people who passed me by…I might not know… …maybe there were others writing about me and the boredom that brought me through.