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I procrastinate. I love to waste time or while my body is busy on doing something, my minds wander. I dream and I dream a dream.

Like when I caught with a heavy traffic, right inside the jeep together with sleepy commuters I saw myself riding in a motorbike. My hair was waving with the wind. No helmet, that is not cool.

I passed all the passenger jeep that were jammed in that busy fly over of Sta. Mesa and flew to the speed of the music that plays on my headset.

When I reached the campus, I don’t park my motorbike to the parking lot. I headed to the dome until I get to the 6th floor, where the College of Arts and Sciences do their class.

I know, I am going to be cool all over the 6th floor. I am the “the man.” Some will snort but most of the kids out there will glorify me.

I am “the man”, or “the woman”, or simply put…..what do you call that again?

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“Why are you there (Canada) then?” My cousin retorts when I told her that I don’t dream big.

I don’t really dream big. When my mother asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I was in grade school that time, and I told her I want to be a teacher.

But honestly, I don’t know what I really want to be. I have never thought about that, it’s just that I felt that my mother was waiting for my answer so I replied with no hesitation.

And wanting to be a teacher is not big either, at least in the Philippines.

When I was still in Tondo, I always see this house every time I buy vegetables for our meal. If you know the common ‘tao’, they buy common needs when they need it, so I get to see this small house two to three times a day. Their house is probably smaller than ours, or I just thought that it is smaller because it seems that they have these appliances tucked in their living room. Since it is small, the living room might also be their dining room, just like us.

What I like in that house was the organ in one corner and the phone (we have no phone yet at that time) and the organ seem to grant my wish to learn to play any musical instrument. Guitar would be fine but, it won’t give me the glory of having a small but appealing house.

Still, not a big dream. I could wish a big house and lot in one of the richest subdivision or condominium in Makati but I didn’t.

I never thought of leaving Tondo.

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