Buhay Nakakalurky, Complete with OST

     Naniniwala na ako na ang buhay minsan ay parang isang soap opera, complete with musical scoring pa nga... literally. Call it weird, partly hilarious, or even improbable. How I wish I was just making these up but I'm not. Nangyari po talaga ito sa totoong buhay.

     Some of you here already know (or somehow have an idea) of my not-so-perfect romantic story with an officemate. For those who don't have a clue yet, nothing new really. Just your typical storyline sa movies na friends sa umpisa and then yun medyo naiba na, but unlike sa movies na happy ending, mine didn't pan out well. In short, olats. *dito bagay na background music yung song na Migraine by Moonstar 88.*

      Anyways, here's where the funny part begins. Since we really are not in good terms actually, I made it a point na umiwas na lang sa kanya as much as I can. Whenever magkakasabay kami sa shift sa work, I try to be as professional as I can (after all, naniniwala ako na hindi dapat maghalo ang problema mo sa personal na buhay at sa trabaho). Nowadays, we do keep a different set of friends kaya naman staying away wasn't really that hard. Or so I thought.

      For the past few weeks e magkaiba kami lagi ng shift sa duty. Usually pauwi na ako by the time na papasok pa lang siya. But for some reasons I really don't know, lagi na lang kami nag-aabot in the weirdest situations I can imagine. Eto ang examples ng sinasabi ko.

      This one happened just a couple of weeks ago. I was alone in the elevator papuntang basement para mag-out na sana at umuwi (andun kasi ang isa sa mga bundy clock namin sa office). Pagbukas ng elevator, guess who I found there standing alone and waiting? *drum rolls please...* Alam niyo na ang sagot. Ang malupit pa nyan, ewan ko ba kung bakit, pero sakto namang the song I was listening to in my headset right at that moment was “The Art of Letting Go” by Mikaila. I downplayed the incident and said to myself that it was just a coincidence.

      Then yesterday morning, pauwi na din uli ako when suddenly, as I was about to cross EDSA, guess who was there on the other side about to cross the road at the same time? *again the drum rolls please...* Siya pa din, wala nang iba. At para bang may sinusunod sa script mula sa kung saan, sakto namang kakatapos lang ng mp3 na pinakikinggan ko that time at ang sumunod naman na tumugtog ay ang napakalupit na kanta ni Bugoy na “Paano na Kaya.”

      O di ba ang saya? Parang mga scenes lang sa pelikula, complete with musical scoring pa na para bang nananadya. Hay naku, ang galing ng mga scripwriters mula sa itaas... ang galing mang-asar. Sana naman pag-uwi ko maya-maya e hindi na madugtungan ang kalokohang ito. Nakakalurky na.