I was browsing through my old online imprints when I saw this.
This was about the General Elections last school year, which I
covered dutifully.
And, to be honest, I didn't remember this. At all.
commoner asked:
wala bang nadia fans dito? now thats weird...
I answered:
Bakit naman weird?
I voted for Nadia. I worked with her when she was still LA Rep of FAST 2005. Surprisingly she also lost - much to my chagrin.
Suffice it to say I am a fan. Hehehe.
And then I remembered that I did tell Nadia about this, through (of course) an online conversation. After the elections, we finally got to talk for the first time after the effing stringent campaigns, and somehow I floated the fact that commoner asked the posters about her.
batallones_henrik_19: ang tanong... how are you? :)"
mailnadiahere: thanks for voting :)
batallones_henrik_19: haha. no problem :)
mailnadiahere: niko i cant find my name.. which part?
batallones_henrik_19: nasa second page
mailnadiahere: oh and me? hayy i dnt knw. bt thanks for asking :)
I already posted my reply by then.
batallones_henrik_19: kanina lang
batallones_henrik_19: ayan. there is your name :)"
batallones_henrik_19: (i guess)
Nerves.
mailnadiahere: <- thanks niko. haha :)
batallones_henrik_19: i am serious, serious. serious. :)
batallones_henrik_19: now that its over i can say what i feel. well sort of. :)
batallones_henrik_19: hope you, err, feel better :)
mailnadiahere: thanks thanks :)
mailnadiahere: its friends likes u that still make me feel like a winner :)
mailnadiahere: like u
batallones_henrik_19: of course. because this isnt the end of it all :)
mailnadiahere: i hope :)
When I first met her, I thought I'd not vote for her. She just, well, didn't make a sufficient impact. (I actually wondered about the mushroom that she and Sarah came from.) And then, a year and so after...
...what if she won?
It's a what-could-have-happened-to-TELEPRO question.
And I obviously couldn't answer that.
But, after all, she's still a friend who's as ready to have photos, and has a strong sense of when I'll be taking a candid. They're rare, by the way.
I don't know.
Did you guys know I hugged her during the first elections?
And I didn't during the second?
And I speculated with
monemo before that me hugging candidates makes them winners?
This year, she didn't. Sarah didn't. I was a missing factor because they didn't show up, but we were growing, uhh, mature, I guess. But I guess it has its upshots.
Whatever that is, I forgot.
But we're still friends. How I'd categorize it, I don't know. Until now.
(Eventually I realized I already made an entry about Nadia, just when I was about to contemplate doing so for no reason. Well... here's it, I guess.)