WORDS OF THE DAY (JANUARY 22. 2014)

rem·i·nisce [rèmmə níss] intransitive verb

tell about past: to talk or write about events remembered from the past

    

I'm not so sure about it, about how I felt that time. No words can describe that; agony, hatred, sadness, frightening, wretchedness; those may perhaps but aren't enough or suited to explain it. All I know is that I hate how I felt that time; I hate it so much that I don't want to feel the same way again.

gone [gawn, gon]

adjective

absent: absent after leaving somewhere

He left us that day; for a faraway land. I remember those times when he leaves for work; that feeling of emptiness and silence? It feels like it; but this time, the stirring emptiness and loneliness was doubled, no tripled; because this time his absence is not just for few weeks or months or years but forever.

laugh·ter [láftər]

noun

act of laughing: the sound or an act of laughing

I remember him joking around. I remember him laughing and kissing me, and calling me "Nonoy"; I miss the way he calls me that. And then their petty quarrel; mama would always go serious over his jokes that is why she always get angry about it; and then he will just laugh at her. And then he'll dance; that dance I wish I'd learned. I remember all of those little chances vividly; I wasn't spared with much time, that's why those things were always in my mind, stored and valued.

jeal·ous·y [jélləssee]

noun

being jealous: jealous feelings or behavior

But he's gone; and ever since I was wondering what it feels like when he’s around. How would it feel having someone like him as you grow? I wish I had the chance to ask advices because they say that he's great at it. I wish I have him near me so that I may not feel lost in these unfamiliar places. I wish he too can read all my articles; or maybe comment on my every posts or perhaps like my photos in facebook. I wish I could compare heights with him; or maybe ask him to watch me act on my first play. How I wish he's there; but, he's gone.

mem·o·ry [mémməree]

(plural mem·o·ries)

noun

ability to retain knowledge: the ability of the mind or of a person or organism to retain learned information and knowledge of past events and experiences and to retrieve that information and knowledge

Papa, I miss you so much. Don't worry about us; Ate's doing great. Your “baby” has a job and got a lot of suitors now. Kuya will grauduate this March, he will take the board exams after so please help him do that math things just like before. Leiriz is joining those contests just like me. She goes to national competitions and such; and she'll be in high school next year. Mama is better now, don't worry about her, she's doing fine. I'm doing great too, I met good people and new friends here. I'm on my route of becoming a journalist, and just as I always say, I'm doing great too, we are all doing great so don’t worry about us.

love [luv]

noun

undefined: can’t express how much I love him.

You may be gone now, but still you are in our mind and in our heart. I love you Papa! :) 

In loving memory of my mentor, my bestfriend, my father,

AMANO COLLADA IBARRETA

September 11, 1954- January 22, 2008