Keystroke Journal

“Do you still draw ballerinas?” was the first question asked by a former grade schoolmate who recently reconnected with me. I recall dancing ballet but drawing ballerinas? I completely forgot about my hidden talent until he mentioned about it. How can he still remember it when it’s been ages since we last saw each other in the Philippines and now that we’re even more than a thousand miles apart – he’s in Australia and I’m in the US? I don’t even remember how we started as friends. But he remembered. It was through that hidden talent that we became friends. According to him, after class, he would always ask me to draw ballerinas for him. But after graduation, our communication stopped and we never had a chance to reunite until recently when he found me in a networking site. As expected, he asked me to draw ballerinas again for old times’ sake. I don’t know if I can still draw one now but such request led me to rediscover something about my childhood favorite hobby -- drawing ballerinas...

I tried to organize my things today only to find out what I value most in the past year. My stuff comprised of papers … papers … and more papers … arrgh! I opened a drawer - paper. I opened a box – paper. I opened a bag – paper. Everywhere there’s paper in varied forms. Magazines, flight bookings, tour guides, museum info, concert tickets, lessons, quizzes, bills, letters, notes, cards, envelopes, photos and books. All paper products. You name it I have it except for paper roses. I can’t believe I’ve accumulated a lot of them in such a short time! Err, okay months and months and months. Now is the time to get rid of them. Well, some. There are some papers I still want to keep for future reference while some are for review in the next few days. Others are for recycling. The rest are now in the trash. I’ve already used two overflowing regular-sized trash bins. I wonder if I do the same thing with my email accounts and My Documents in the computers – for both desktop and laptop. I am sure...