i think it’s sweet to receive a handwritten letter. the latest i received was a snail mailed letter from ayz. Nowadays, the effort you give on writing even a small note can easily be taken for granted especially now that communication is easier. Oo nga, why choose snail mail when you’ve got skype? i miss the days when people weren’t too lazy to pen somebody a letter or a postcard.
i used to write to my friends even if we see each other everyday at school. sweet nothings on scented stationery, practicing our lettering styles, showing off our perfect penmanship. but that’s just us paulinians 
i remember, my sister used to have a long distance relationship with this guy and they’d secretly send love letters to each other. i never read any of those even if i see them laying around our bed. i know they are private things and i respect that.
she and that guy broke up and she met another guy who is now my brother-in-law. sometime before their wedding, she gave me a bag, a bit smaller than a laptop case, too big to be a clutch, with brown leather trimmings, designed with monogram prints of a brand i dont know because it is now faded and overlaid with mold. i already saw this bag before, she used to get that from the bottom drawer of her study table in some nights. I’m sure she was hiding that from our parents. good thing they don’t really much pry on our things.
the contents of that bag are letters from her past boyfriends. all of which are snail mailed with written and encased on handmade stationery and envelope which gave it that added rustic feel.
can you just imagine how tempting it was for me to open and read them? it was understood that she gave them to me for safe keeping. i was turning eighteen when she gave that too me, and had a boyfriend of my own at that time. it came to me that maybe, she gave those for me to read and for me to learn about how relationships go; how men should address you dearly and with all out devotion. she left me with something that will give me answers to my love related questions since she wont be around much to answer them for me. (though, i haven’t tried to read them at all) She’s the best sister one can have.
She picked me up from our house in Manila last night. She hurriedly handed me a book just after i’ve finished settling my things down my usual corner in their house. Griffin and Sabine; what a lovely novel. 
Atchi bought them somewhere from an online bidding. The third installment is not included so i have to wait for her to have it. It’s quite expensive but it’s a good buy because it is beautifully written and intricately illustrated. You get to open real envelopes with letters inside containing Griffin and Sabine’s extraordinary correspondence. It will give you that forbidden thrill of reading somebody else’s mail.
*gumbleeeeeeeeeeed*
on October 11th, 2008 at 9:42 am
i think i’m the ONLY paulinian who never got to learn the “paulinian handwriting”
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October 12th, 2008 at 7:33 am
araw araw nag iiba ang penmanship ko depende sa mood.
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on October 11th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I also have two boxes full of letters from my gradeschool highschool (STC) and college friends. Those were the days when I efforted much in writing letters and making them all colorful and artsy.
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October 12th, 2008 at 7:34 am
nung senior year nagsawa na ako magsulat para sa kanila. ginagamit lang nilang pamantayan ng kagandahan ng lettering yung mga gawa ko. hahahah
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on October 12th, 2008 at 7:32 am
walang nagcocomment?! mag tagalog kayo. aahahaahhaha
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on October 12th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
i have one, (a loveletter) which remains unsent. why? i don’t even know her address. poor me.
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on October 12th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
hindi ko naperfect yang paulinian handwriting na yan.. hahaha.. apat na taon ako sa coed na paulinian school pero hindi nito nakuhang mapaganda ang penmanship…
paxerox ako nung book.. hahaha
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on October 13th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
nice post.. vera..
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on October 13th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
oo nga no? wala na tuloy trabaho ang mga kartero?tsk tsk..
sana ibalik ang ganyan. snail mail via air mail.lols
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on October 14th, 2008 at 8:28 am
ang sweet ni ate.san ba nakakakuha ng ganun na ate?? hmmm… ang panget ng handwriting ko,kaya bihira ako gumawa at makatanggap letter.wehehe.
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on October 14th, 2008 at 11:57 am
ganun din ako
nung hayskul
may mga letters
sweet nothings
pero sa mga kaklase lang
nakakamiss
papakasalan ko
ang magbibigay sa akin
ng love letter
thru snail mail
hahahaha
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on October 15th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Handwritten?
Nung Grade school lang kasi uso ata yun. Ewan. Hahahaha.
Ang mmmkei. My handwriting sucks sabi ng ate ko. Pero sabi ng iba, it’s the Pauinian Handwriting so, keme? XD
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on November 12th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
handwritten notes from Friends are the bestest. humanda tayo lahat for the day the Internet ends. haha. OMEN.
paoper´s last blog post..When you’re down. And tired: Indulge.
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