This is the story behind the first time I flew a kite.

Someone messaged me through YM: what? hindi ka pa nakapagpalipad ng saranggola? I know for many people my age, at one point in their young lives, they flew kites. But I consider my childhood as one that was sheltered. So I grew up never attempting to fly one. 19 Sept I blogged about the things I want to do before I die. I had been having a hell week then. I had not been feeling well. It was so easy to be drama queen (who still made sense). One of my happy thoguhts was to fly a kite. On the night of the same day, Dan sent me a text message. Reserve your Sept 29. surpreesa. Like what I said, bad day. bad week. And we had not had a decent talk for

two weeks (I think). He was busy with shoots and lectures. I was busy with work. I simply replied, Anong meron? Dan: Sept 29 is decreed Jaja's kite flying day. Jaja: (big grin) NO. I was in a bad mood.

But a few hours after, it sank in me. Dan was preparing something for me -- something he knew that would make me happy. So really, I had no reason for a bad mood.

The following week, I just bugged and bugged Dan about the kite. The color, the size, where to fly it. And all that kite flying jazz. We wanted to make our own kite. BIG. and ORANGE. Let me say this. He prepared.

It was raining hard on Sept 29. From morning 'til night. Non-stop. SAD. It felt like it was not meant. Dan said, we still have the next Saturday.

Oct 6
His brother Ezra asked if we could pick him and his friends up at the airport. They came from Boracay. And we did. On our way back, it was raning hard again. SAD part 2. I wanted to cry. But Dan kept on telling, hindi uulan sa UP.

And it never did. To my surprise, it was a rainless, and very windy afternoon in UP. It was the afternoon we prayed for. It was the afternoon I so badly wanted. It was the afternoon I ran on the grassy fields of CMC for the first time and flew a kite. That very moment, HAPPINESS was spelled K-I-T-E. The Lord orchestrated the circumstances of the previous two weeks for Dan to spell it for me.