ARCHERY

i just happened to stumble upon FITA's (Federacion International Tir A'l Arc) site.

the memories just gushed in. archery has been my sport back in college. i played for two years in the BEAL (Baguio Educational Athletic League) for my school. my teammates and i used to joke about how we were in Baguio to play and not to study (hehe). we would all laugh because we all love the game.

for me, archery holds a very important spot in my heart. why so? because, i was competing for the last time (since i am about to graduate), and then whish (the sound of an arrow aflight) we met. i would call it an introduction aside because i was never really paying attention to him when we were introduced by my former teammate who happened to be an applicant in their school. so, i just nonchalantly went on with my day and focused on how i should play the game. see, i had a problem. i used to wear eyeglasses back in college. during that competition, it was raining hard. the games are not to be suspended since there's no lightning that could probably endanger all of us archers. so, the game must go on. and i had to pass up the opportunity to assess my opponents because i could hardly focus on my game.

the following day, even when it was not raining anymore, i still did not care that their team was there and that they would look our way and we would pretend that they're not looking and go on with our lives. the game was done without even an inkling of how fate works. i certainly assumed that we would never see them again. see, i have this aversion bordering on loathing of his school and all that it represents. i think that the students there are good for nothing and i berate them primarily because they enjoy priority in terms of budget from the government when i am so convinced that nothing good would ever come out of such an investment. (i still bring this up with him whenever we broach on the subject of our schools). so, i never dreamed of having a boyfriend who is a product of that institution. in all my four-year stay in baguio, i was only made to visit their school because my sister from davao was visiting and i had to lay an itinerary for her visit. she did not want to pass up the chance to go to that schoool.

so, imagine my astonishment at bumping into him at national bookstore. i had no excuse then but to talk to him. we chatted for a while but i was quite busy that day. i simply had to go and i did. but that day never passed without him asking for my number. i readily gave him my number because i thought, what could it hurt?

that was the beginning of my love affair with a then cadet.

well, we have come a long way now and he's an officer already.
but we still kid about the idea that during the time that we were in that competition, cupid was also there. and the naughty cupid trained its arrow first on him, then on me. oh well, that explains why archery is my game. and now, i am so missing it because i don't have a bow and even if i have one, i don't have a range where i could shoot some arrows. hay..

this is why i kind of think that cupid is not a cherub but a grown angel in the form of a human being.