Bubbles

Bubbles! Bubbles! I love bubbles!

In fact, I remember my childhood days. Roy, my younger brother, and I were so young then. During summer, we would be out of the house right after breakfast and we would be playing with our neighbors and friends in the street.

We never got tired of gathering gumamela leaves. Then we would get some Tide laundry powder from the house. Dinidikdik namin yung mga dahon tapos yung katas pati na rin yung durog na dahon, hinahalo namin sa Tide at tubig. Then we would get some twigs and fashion them into rings with handles, dip them into the gumamela-Tide solution…and presto! We can blow our bubbles away!  We had so much fun doing that.

But then of course, I grew older and forgot all about it. Then this year, I was assigned to take care of our Teachers’ recognition Day in Esteban International School for February 12, 2010. For that occasion, we were to have an Awarding Ceremony, but the awards are fun awards. Yun bang tipong Mr. Close-up Smile, Mr. Superman, Ms. Congeniality, etc. Anyway, I was also tasked to describe each award and to buy the prizes to be given to the awardees. For the title “Mr. Congeniality,” I bought some bubbles because they are symbolic of a pleasing and sunny disposition, a “bubbly” personality. Then when I was already at home trying to wrap the awards, I decided to “test” the bubbles. So I blew some…and then some more…and some more again…and again…and again…and again…Hala! Di na ako matapos-tapos sa bubble-blowing!

I was hooked again! And happily hooked I was So now that I have rediscovered the fun in bubbles, I actually have a stash of bubbles in my room. And when I feel like it, when I am sad, or when I am stressed, or tired, I would blow bubbles in the room or in the veranda, allowing the wind to bring the bubbles to wherever. At one time, I blew bubbles and they floated down the stairs. Hernan and the kids were downstairs in the sala. I heard Hernan exclaiming, “Mama is at it again!” At that, I just shrugged and smiled, and blew some more bubbles…again…and again…and again…

Bubbles, anyone? 