This Is How I Spent My Sembreak

Go out and whoop it up.
Taste the saltwater and feel the sand prickles my feet.
Run, work my body out, and let sweat rush.
Spot on bargains and rummage sales.

Huh! I just wish!

My sembreak, although not over yet, did not go exactly the way I thought and planned.

I spent my rather long break from school slumped in bed, staring at the rays entering through the window instead. It created a diagonal beam on the floor, with the shadow of swaying leaves on it. Beautiful, I thought, but all I could do was to stare. I missed out on the sun outside for how many days. I wasn’t able to enjoy it and feel it touching my skin. I was sick and pathetic. Maybe I was paying for the damages I had caused my body during the previous semester.

I had no other means to pursue my Plan A Combo, so I routed to Plan B Combo.

Bury myself to bed and doze all I want.
Grind my mind by reading a few books available.
Get hold of my favorite tv series on pirated dvds.
Check on movies that everybody had seen except me.

The dark circles under my eyes lightened a bit. I scored three novels from my book shelves. At long last, I chased the Gilmores although I am still a few steps behind, I started the new season of Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes, and I had my first favorite Koreanovela. Also, I poked around too many 12-in-one dvds. Not to mention the pleasure I took from eating left-overs and delivered orders.

I did not do exactly the way I thought and planned for the sembreak. But there always comes a second preference. Say it isn’t the best, yet you just have to make the best out of it.

To parcel it up, this year’s sembreak isn’t as bad as I deemed it is. It isn’t bad at all.