To Nafa

Post Edited at Aug 12:

95% ako sa Geom!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Retribution is near!
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"Tama na ang sophistication-sophistication"

-Valediction sa Hillcrest


After-test naps are a rich source of weird things.

May panaginip nanaman ako. [Hehe, I know this should be in the other blog, but it's too inconvenient to type there. I'm putting it on an unofficial hiatus muna, while I decide on what to do with it.]

Okay, from this point on, everything described is in my dream, and DID NOT OCCUR anywhere else but there.

Tests nun, kaya half-day. Maaga kami uuwi. E nauhaw si Bianca, so we went to the drinking fountain, literally a FOUNTAIN. It's the sort of things you'd imagine Snow White (or any of those Disney princesses) singing on, complete with trilly birds swooping down and up. But many of the students go there because it's safe, cold and free. Natural spring daw yung source. Hehe, saya. Ms Ettie guards--*ehem*--watches over the fountain to ensure students wouldn't contaminate it. Direct drinking or cupping hands to draw water is not allowed-- jugs only. We waited for Bianca to get her turn, while I examined the place.

I suppose it was new, since I was a little unfamiliar with it. If you're facing the multi, the fountain area is on the left-- just imagine that the fence was taken off and part of it became that fairy tale fountain thing. There was a huge HUGE tree somewhat next to it-- the Venus Tree (which is the weirdest name you could give to a tree. No, wait, it could be worse). It's similar to the huge Cupcake Tree. A large spread of paper was posted on it: story of how the Venus Tree and the Fountain began. Surprise, surprise, it seemed to be a project of my class, because I found these names there:

Ghe Antiporda
Sher Liquido
Tina Hipolito
Ja Ignacio
Nafa Sadi

all in bright bold orange letters. (There were other names too-- I remember other bright orange blocks, but that's just what I remember.)

If you're asking who Nafa is, I don't know. According to the dream story, it turns out she was part of our little lunch group in 2nd year, before she moved away. I sort of get the assumption that Ja knows her as well.

After Bianca finished, we went home. I logged on to Yahoo Messenger and lo and behold-- Nafa's name was there (I can't even remember adding her). She was online! Out of curiosity I messaged her. I think she got so excited by the thought of an old friend (though I really can't remember her, I swear) that she started typing and entering so fast that the pc sort of immobilised itself. Indonesian (I assumed they were, my hunch says so) characters were popping up rapidly on the message screen; I couldn't even understand half of it it. I had to close the window and open another one. This time her messages came out in English. She was still typing pretty fast though. I just understood one thing: she thought I was Jenina! So I told her I wasn't. Even so it was like we WERE friends. And then just like that, "memories" started coming back to me. Woaaaah, parang nagka-amnesia ako or something. She was part of the scriptwriting team for the Asian Fest play. Other random memory bits kept cropping up but they were too fast to take note of.

And that was it. End of dream.

That's the first time I've had my brain insert a fictitious character (and a friend at that!) into my dreams, complete with a name, a background, a nationality (I do believe she's half Indonesian, half Middle Eastern), a history and a face (nag webcam kami-- mas mukha siyang arabo kesa Indonesian though). The name I'm not a hundred percent sure of, but I'm rock solid on the fact that her initials are N.S., both firstname and surname have two syllables, and that it has the vowels A and I in it.

I'm still like... wow.


To the real Nafa Sadi out there, I'd like you to know I've seen you in my dreams. It's nice to know I've got a friend, even there. Much love, wherever you are.