If Mandy Moore had a "Walk To Remember", then I had a "Talk To Remember". Here goes my story...
I still remember during my first semester as a college freshman, there was this cute lad in my Algebra class. I do really, really like him but I was just too shy to talk to him. For that whole semester, nothing happened, we didn't talked to each other, we don't even had the guts to look straight at each other's eyes. Huh! the whole semester passed without anything happened, he never talked to me even just to say "excuse me" and neither did I grab any opportunity even just to borrow a pen from him.
Second semester passed like a drop of a hat and I never saw him for that past 6 months - (the whole second semester). I always wished to see him again that's why during my vacant period, I used to hang around at the Science Secretariat because he used to stay there before, but sad to say, he wasn't there anymore.So I convinced myself that he already went abroad and continued his studies there.
Then Summer Class enrollment came. It was the 25th of March 2002. I was standing at the hallway with my friends waiting for our "permit to enroll" when suddenly I saw a man with a navy blue backpack, walking slowly, and then joined our queue... and then... oh my gosh!... it's him! my blood all went up to my head, my heart beat so fast and all I wanted to do then was to scream on top of my lungs... but then I was in the middle of a faceless crowd, with the whole Medical Technology student body and the idea of screaming would be a total embarassment on me. After a few minutes of my emotional cardiac arrest, we went in to a room (FEU SB206 - to be exact!) to file our database, then suddenly we saw each other but I refused to look at him straight in the eye... I didn't know why I was so damn nervous at that time. But then, when I was already filing my database, we again looked at each other, finally this time he gave me a smile. I can't help it, I was trying so hard not to be too obviously excited about this momentuous time of my life, but then, ok! I smiled back.
That's the time I realized that he knows me. I was so happy to know that I was not invisible at his sight, that he could still remember this little girl in his Algebra class before. I was then mesmerized by that sort of fairy tale happening in my life when I felt there's someone scratching my back. I looked back to see who's trying to get my attention, and then on my surprise... it's him - oh my gosh again!!!
He was asking something and I just couldn't believe that he was there right in front of me, talking to me, and then... I was supposed to talk back, but my mind was a mess. I was talking but I don't have my voice, it was like my mouth was moving but air is the only thing that's coming out from my larynx - oh my gosh again and again!!!
That was such a very memorable day not just because he talked to me but because I started to believe on things I used not to and thought would never dare to.
It was really " A Talk To Remember"...