I ALMOST DIED

For the nth time, I almost died last night. Carlo, right after the incident, asked me whether it's true that you are almost always gonna see the light when you're experiencing a near death experience and i answered, quite knowingly, "I was too busy thinking of how funny your last words were." To which he wittingly replied, "Not everyone's given the chance to die laughing." Point well-taken.

How did it happen?

Well, we were having our regular friday night dinner [which in fact is not that regular because those who know me in law school probably know that i rarely eat dinner in Rockwell. Why? Kapuresahan. Not dieting, just poor] Anyway, we started to tease Ces by giving her a "ka-love team" for the night. The guy was sitting right across our table, that poor guy who easily became our favorite topic after he caught our attention. I need not say why or how because it's too mean even for a "mean trying to be nice girl" like me. So there, we were religiously constructing a flirting scenario that was most probably going on in that poor guy's mind... Carlo said, "Well, hello there." [with the stalker-ish, creepy-full and awkward husky tone] I laughed my heart out every single time. The poor guy left, or so we thought, and we continued to have our not-so-regular dinner... then the best thing happened. HE CAME BACK. Memories of how funny the situation was a few minutes ago came back too with Carlo coming up with yet another funny remark...

"Well, well, well... I know you've been waiting for me."

He said those words at the same time while i was trying to swallow a spoonful of rice and the little piece of chicken that i ordered for the night. That was when the karma or uhmm, the nightmare began. I felt everything, the way the "butils of rice" came rushing into my trachea [windpipe] and made me choke.

Yeah, I tried to cough my way out of the situation, feeling how helpless I was while gasping for air that seemed to just boycott my now longing lungs... I lasted for a few minutes, with Ces trying desperately to make me feel better by literally pounding on my back. This was happening while I was still laughing. I was really horrified but the thought of those words coming out of that poor guy's mouth was just too funny to not remember... even while i was dying.

After what seemed like forever, I number of sips and well, buckets of tears after, I was ok.

I almost died there. But it was one helluva near death experience.