The Arrival | Big Bird

If not for the papers that I have to finish before the semester ends, I would have trooped to NAIA just to see with my own eyes this fleeting beauty.

Sayang.

I hope that the next time an Airbus lands in the country, I would be counted as one of its passengers.

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MANILA, Philippines -- Airbus' extra-large A380 jetliner flew into the Philippines on a test flight Thursday to show it can be flown to existing runways in Asia, company officials said.

The A380 flew from Melbourne to the Manila international airport, landing smoothly with room to spare and taxiing to a parking area without a hitch despite its larger size.

- PDI

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In a Philippine Daily Inquirer advertisement last Sunday, PAL announced a turnaround in their profits.

According to the advertisement, they said that the company has been financially rehabilitated. The flag carrier is pose to have an ambitious expansion in the next few years . If this is true, I hope PAL would consider investing in an A380 in the future.

Companion

In silence, I tell myself "no matter how far this journey would take me, something should always remind me of home." Inside the freezing Partas bus, while it flies the entire length of North Expressway from Pulilan to the end of Candaba Viaduct in Pampanga, the soft blue nightlight above my head reminds me of the growing distance from the people that I love.

As I hold the saffron colored little creature in my hand, while both of us were partially bathed by light coming from lamp posts as the bus passes underneath, in my head all I could think of is the comfort of having a remembrance of my world close to me. He may be an inanimate object but at that moment when I was longing for someone to keep me warm and fuzzy.

His secret smile is the only thing that makes the strangeness of my shrouded surroundings a little more familiar.

The kid inside me calls for home as the growing distance continues to separate me from the hearth my heart belongs.

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An afterthought, October 4, 2007

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