Yesterday

I cried.

Ane and I were at this government office fixing some papers for my FIL. Since Ane and I are both idealistic, we won't give in to red-tape and bureaucracy (sad to say, some civil service offices here are only "efficient" when one resort to such activities). So we were both ready for whatever hurdles we had to go through.

But we weren't so ready to wait for FIVE long hours. Outside the office (while we see all employees thru the glass in the airconditioned rooms, laughing and chitchatting, noh). In the heat of the weather (must have been more than 30 degrees out there). Really thirsty. We were both tired and sleepy. And me on the first day of my period with no clean washrooms around (it was nasty and yucky).

So when we were told everything was done, after five hours, I couldn't help it anymore. I cried out of relief, frustration and all the other feelings in the world...and found out that they had an encoding error! Encoding could have been the first step in our transaction and yet they still misspelled FIL's name (we would have cared less if the address was wrong) and nobody bothered to correct it while the papers were inside! They simply smiled on their booboo, didn't reprint our documents, and promised to just fix the records in their computer. Talk about efficiency. Sheesh. We decided to push not it anymore because 1) we had another errand to do, and 2) FIL said we will just do something about it later (naawa na siguro sa amin, huhu).

We rushed to the grocery to buy a few things for the garden and raced immediately after that to our event that night. It was a very tiring day but while driving, Ane playing his IPod and this song came up:

ORDINARY SONG

By Janno Gibbs

Just an ordinary song

To a special girl like you

From a simple guy

Who's so in love with you

I may not have much to show

No diamonds a glow

No limousines

To take you where you go

But if you ever find yourself

Tired of all the games you play

When all the world seems so unfair

You can count on me to stay

Just take sometime to lend an ear

To this ordinary song

Just an ordinary song

To a special girl like you

From a simple guy

Who's so in love with you

I don't even have the looks

To make you glance my way

The clothes I wear

May just seem so absurd

But deep inside of me is you

You give life to what I do

All those years may see you thru

Still I'll be waiting here for you

If you have time

Please lend an ear to this ordinary song

Just an ordinary song

To a special girl like you

From a simple guy

Who's so in love with you...

Ane reminded me that this is his song for me. Ain't that really sweet? The day must have started so bad and yet my dear husband ended it perfectly :)