Best Friends

March 26, 2009

I have a friend.  A best friend.  We’ve been buddies for the past 15 years or so.  His name is Anthony.  Anton for short.  He’s my Co-Sunday School Teacher.  We’re in the same department.  The Children Worship Service Department.  He was the President and I was the Vice President then when we’re still in the same locale.  We led about sixty brethrens officers or so and about 350 children worshippers.  We became officemates for seven long years.  He’s in Technical Department while I’m in Registrar’s Office up to now.  He’s an electronic and computer  technician.  He knows his work well.  He taugh me some basic things and knowledge about computer.  Like how to set-up and assemble PC.  I thank him for that.  I sometimes accompanied him when he had sideline outside.  We usually do it after office hours or during weekends.   He had a motorcycle as our service.  We use it everywhere we go.  We are really buddies.  We have so many things in common.  We’re both born in June.  We are Gemini. We both love sports.  Basketball and boxing in particular.  But he plays well, I play lousy in basketball.  Maybe, we even have same preferences when it comes to women.  There was a time when we both fell in love with the same woman.  She was beautiful.  He courted her first.  And later I courted her when it was my turn, but as a respect, I asked his permission first.  Hahaha.  That girl became closer to me.  Sometimes, we dated in group.  We went out as far as Tagaytay.  Me, Anton and our two women companions.  I prefer not to mention their names.  We were happy together.  Those were the times when the four of us became the very best of friends.  But as the saying goes, people come and people go.  They were not meant for us.  But still, I miss those times.  There was a time also when Anton asked me to accompany him to a girl’s house he was courting somewhere in Pacita, San Pedro.  She was a chinita beauty.  It was the first time we were going to visit her at home.  Anton did not inform her that we will be coming because he wanted to surprise her.  He even borrowed some money from me because he got an idea to buy a gallon of ice cream as gift.  Unluckily, as in we’re the unluckiest people on earth, the girl was not around when we arrived.  We were the ones caught by surprised.  My best friend was so disappointed.  I ended up carrying the ice cream back home. Hahaha. My family at home wondered why I bought ice cream.  I just told them that I just wanted to treat them since it’s hot.  Hahaha.  We acted as groom’s men for our friends weddings thrice.  Not once.  Not twice.  But thrice.  Hahaha.  One of them was the girl we both courted before.  Hahaha.  That’s how sports we are.  The other one was held in far away Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija. That’s how close our friends to us.  Me and Anton are real buddies.  Anton is now married for five years.  Not to one of those women I mentioned.  And we’re not together anymore.  At least for the time being.  Because he’s in Dubai now.  He left the country sometime in September 2007 to look for a greener pasture.  His nature of work is still the same.  He is assigned at the Technical Department.  He is receiving a salary almost ten fold of what he’s receiving here.   Sherille, his wife followed him later.  We sometimes communicate through Yahoo Messenger (chat) and Email.  He told me that he is coming home this December.  And we will be together again for sometimes.   But our being BEST FRIENDS will last a lifetime.