#REVENGEISTHENEWBLACK

Sandals by Sandugo

Top (worn underside) by Quicksilver

Pants by Zara

Sunnies by Sunnies Studios

On the upcoming week, we’re already obliged to wear our uniforms to school and that means it is official that the second semester has started. Ugh! I miss those days were I just casually lie down on the sand without a care in mind. Getting lost in the intricate maze sands create on its depths. I miss Bantayan Island; I miss the smell of its breeze and its peace. “Take me back,” I say.

Usually on a Sunday, I wake up earlier than 6am because we would go to church with mum but today is different; I woke up early for an event. Unfortunately, today is the opening of our MEBA league 2016—it is an association curated for basketball-enthusiast mechanical engineering students. I was one of the working committee so I was expected to arrive hours before the program commences and one of my additional tasks was to transform one of the muses into what a muse would look like. The program started and I was hanging for dear life because I did not only cheer, but I also was the: stage manager, choreographer, makeup artist, commentator, score tabulator and occasional basketball player—I literally did play a little on the exhibition game against our instructors so I am the type of bitch you can’t even. At the end of the day, my body felt like it would just marry with the ground. I was tired, hungry and hideous because of the hectic role I easily submit to; but all energy-consuming activities set aside, we were all having fun. Organizing-wise though, our program was a bit haywire but, hey, the audience didn’t even seem to mind—considering the fact that most of them are men—because they came for the game. “Ball is life,” they’d say.