Ten months after........

I moved out of my cousin's house, after almost 4 years of living with them, it's time to move againg. I truly enjoyed living in this townhouse with my housemates but the owner decided to sell the house after they've decided to settle permanently in Alberta. We didn't really take it seriously when they told us like 2 months ago that they are selling it, we never thought someone would really be interested in buying it. Well, a lot has expressed interest in buying the house but no one really has given an offer up until now. But it was my housemates' and I's decision to move out. We wanted to rent a house together, but we never found a place that could accomodate the 3 of us. It was always just for 2 so I decided to live and rent my cousin's (another cousin, not the one I used to live with) basement. That way, di sila mahihirapan (my housemates) humanap ng place. When I've finally made up my mind, they found a house with 3 bedrooms! Wow! It was an ideal place, just a few minutes walk from the subway station, just behind No Frills -- our favorite grocery store, and just one block away from Soon Lee, our favorite Chinese store. Sad to say, I already confirmed with my cousin that I am moving on the 28th to their house, and I wanted to keep my word. So, we'll be saying our goodbyes, at least as housemates/roommates on Saturday. We will be friends forever though.

I will miss:
1) Our Sundays together, where each of us will cook a dish or a dessert, and we eat dinner together with James and Hernan
2) Our Saturday night and Sunday afternoon tagalog-movie-watching
3) Our chats about anything and everything until 1 or 2 am, just talking about everything we could think of, hanggang mapunta na kay Papa Piolo
4) Virian's macaroni soup and arroz caldo (Congee)
5) The quietness of the night and even during the day, where you could just relax.. until Virian starts chatting in YM, hehe
6) The peace lilies (plants), watering them every Sunday so they won't die of dehydration
7) The squirrels who kept eating the garbage bags whenever I took it out on Monday nights
8) Our neighbor who kept parking their car(s) in our driveway, without our permission and who dumped their garbage in our front yard once and took it back when I knocked on their door and gave them a "beating" about courtesy
9) Five minutes walk to the bus stop
10) And of course, the 50 inches TV

Good byes, in any form and in any way, is hard..... and painful..... I enjoyed and appreciate living here for the last 10 months, but taking all things into consideration, the future is bright :)