Joy in the unexpected

Thurrsday, 12pm, my boss calls me over and tells me I will be leaving for Singapore the next day. She was supposed to attend the meeting but could not do so due to a medical emergency, plus she had just returned from Paris a few days before. I was stumped. My ticket, allowance, and TOA were accomplished in a few hours. I was all set. I sent a text message to my friend Cecil who's been there for 3 months. She told me to bring her liver spread. So there I was at the airport, 6am in the morning, waiting for my 7.20am flight. I had only packed a few articles of clothing and an extra pair of shoes for my meeting.

As soon as I arrived in Changi airport, it was like my traveler instincts kicked in at the same instant. I wanted to get out of the airport as soon as possible and get things going. I hopped onto a cab and started observing. The streets were pristine, and lined with trees. I arrived at the hotel about 16 minutes later and immediately got in touch with Cecil. It would be the start of our whirlwind "date" as I called it. We met up at the Raffles City Mall because I wanted to check out our brands and I knew a Swarovski boutique was there, which is the reason I was in Singapore in the first place. From the time we met to our last minute together, Cecil and I could not stop talking. It seemed that being in a new environment forged a new bond between us. We were like two friends testing each other's boundaries. We teased each other that we should have been doing all that stuff with our boyfriends. Oh well, friends are even better.

We carried each other's heavy stuff (my laptop), waited for each other, shared a tiny pink umbrella, walked like there was no tomorrow, and frantically hailed a cab when we realized it was already 11pm and my flight back to Manila was at 12.15am. I even waited for like, 30 mins just so she could walk around Mango to end up buying nothing. Yep, classic boyfriend duties. We were both doing things we never thought we would do for each other, being that we are admitted "bratinellas." She tried damn hard to show me a good time given that we only had barely 48 hours. Going there to do my job was the easy part, but it was spending time with my friend that taught me a lot of things. I'll never forget that time we shared. And we told each other, hopefully next time, it will be a double date with our men. Haha. Till next time my friend.