Purple Butterfly

Too much of a coincidence?

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

My Jars of Clay experience is worth blogging. I feel that there's just too many coincidences for that once in a lifetime experience. Having swapped my sched to Mr. Smiley ( one of my officemate whom with just one smile took words from my mouth), I abhored having to work that day. I wished to be in bed, taking my sleep, what made that day worse was my mouth sore that I got a couple of "I'm sorry and what did you say?" from my callers. I decided to head to the clinic, ask for a sick leave slip for reasons that I am no longer understandable due to a lot of slur in my speech. I dreaded the warm and h0t temperature of my room that I decided to take my nap at the sleeping room, again. I woke up refreshed and feeling better. I decided to take my lunch, read the book that I am currently engrossed in and headed my way home. I met up with my bestfriend rox who was also more than excited to meet the band who sang her and her cousin's fave song. That's when coincidences started to take shape. Here are some of them, if not all...

1) Started out as my bestfriend rox (a.k.a BF) having so much trouble figuring out the map of life that she almost went crazy. I banned her from thinking while forcing her to eat and enjoy sundae. It didn't help, it took more than a sundae and a sermon from me. I later found out that she left her tickets in the car that his uncle was now driving off somewhere the busy streets of mango. It blew me off, thinking that it would take time to retrieve the tickets and making it to the concert on time. With little time to think, being the online travel agent that I am, I went on saying "you have the option to purchase a new set of ticket." This option did not help my friend however it only caused a misunderstanding. We have silently acknowledged that if any one of us is completely mad at each other, we'd go silent so as to avoid saying hurtful words. My roommate Jorge who was also going to the concert was on her way, after learning about the ordeal, she called back and offered an extra ticket. It was just perfect. Moving on, we waited for a taxi that took 10 minutes and headed our way to ayala to meet Jorge and Chic. Rox was silent for a few minutes. She took the time to walk while I ate a few rings of Calamares. We were actually waiting for the bus shuttle that will take us to the venue. When the waiter announced that the bus was already outside waiting for us, I proceeded to find rox, she almost did not speak to me but decided to let the moment pass. After buying some stuff for my mom, we went back to Jorge and Chic and the 4 of us boarded the bus. We had the bus all to ourselves... COOL!

2) After the bus ride, Rox finally discovers that the tickets were with her all along. We decided to upgrade our tickets. It was tough but at the right time, a guy wanted to buy 2 P250 tickets. We then proceeded to exchang the tickets for P500 each. We then took the best seats possible and only a few minutes then, the band started playing. As usual, it was AWESOME! I sang my poor heart out to the songs that I was familiar of. I stood right across the vocalist, whose name, I'm sorry to admit never knew until now... From Greenville, Illinois and later, Nashville, Tennessee. Led by Dan Haseltine (vocals) with Steve Mason (guitar/bass), Matt Odmark (guitar) and Charlie Lowell (keyboards).

3) After the show, we waited for a few minutes for the band to emerge and possibly get an autograph. We figured that they're gone. We hailed a taxi, apparently was on a hurry since his sched is up to 10pm, with Jorge plea to check on her change at the restaurant we waited, we dropped off at the restaurant.

4) In our hunger we all decided to take dinner at KAONA grill. A few minutes later, a black van arrived, to our surprise it was JARS OF CLAY!!! Lucky lucky me, I tore a poster and asked for the whole and to sign.

Overwhelmed and enthralled at how wonderful God plans...

Butterfly Tales
5:57 PM

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