First Hours of 2009...

Glad that the bumpy 2008 is over. After 2 RnR sportsfest controversies, 3 short-lived relationships, 4 different kinds of audits, stinking Miami Heat and Seattle Mariners seasons, several road rages...well rages, and countless cancelled dates, I'm just so happy to see the image of 2009 in our calendar, my cellphone and laptop, on the TiVo, in the Google Logo, etc.

So i tried t get it right the 1st time.... er the first day... Let's see what happened...

I slept at 2 am & woke up at 7 am, realized that sleep deprivation is very 2008-ish, i slept for 2 more hours... Ate apples and few media-noche left-overs for breakfast which is a big improvement to the normal eat-all-you-can stuff... Looks promising until I realized that it's too late to catch the 11am mass 'coz it's already 10:45 and I haven't taken a bath yet... I then expanded my options, Greenbelt Chapel, St. James Parish, Sanctuario de San Antonio to name a few, but to no avail because I didn't know their schedules and I'm not fan of a Jan-1--in-the-afternoon-New-Year's-Mass... Net, as of 9 pm, I officially didn't go to a New Year mass, which I believe is a very, very bad omen because, while thinking, I decided to watch Kindergarten Cop (for the 1st time), on C/S 9... At 3 pm, I decided to drop by office to get my USB which contains some important (non-work) files but ended up responding to some e-mails and, well, browsing my big 4 (ESPN, Friendster, Multiply and Facebook) for around 30 minutes... In a typical Christian fashion, I ended up at-war with my mom (before I left office), a friend (while I'm at the office) and a textmate (after I left office).

I then went on to meet a friend at Starbucks West Ave. at around 6 pm. Just as a background, she almost made it as my 4th GF (lolz) for 2008. Since I drove from Makati to West Ave in less that 10 minutes (that's why i insisted of going out on Jan. 1 - bihira lang walang traffic sa EDSA!!!), I figured out that there will be something wrong when I get there...

...And there were twice the wrongsth! When I got to Starbucks, First, I asked if there is a red planner available (since it was out-of-stock since Dec 23), the baristas gladly say all colors are available. Then I went back to the car and got my promo cards. naturally, when i claimed the planner, it suddenly became out-of-stock! Secondly, my friend texted me that she'll bring a friend with her... I promptly responded with, "ok, di ko kayo ililibre ha"... in fairness to me, it's because of traumatic experiences. I feel like a DOM aka sugar daddy if my girlfriend or a girl friend will bring her friend and implies that I treat them... In fairness to them, I don't think they are like that... though I sent that text anyway to make it sure. Naturally, when they got there, there's a minor tension (thru actions, not words) because of my text. Besides, they are pre-occupied with writing an invitation to a party. Everything else was ok though.

After Starbucks, I decided to went back to Makati to Wi-Fi and pay my credit card bill and wi-fi my way 'til midnight. And since it's also free wheeling in EDSA, i was so excited to go to Shell Magallanes to wi-fi my way... So passing by GMA, Crame, Ortigas, Shang, Pioneer, Rockwell, Buendia, Pasay Road... oops, I forgot to pay my credit card which only has Ortigas, Makati and Alabang as locations of its bills payment machines and my due date is Jan 1.... Next banking day is Jan 5 and I don't wanna risk that if-the-due-date-fell-on-a-non-working-day-pay-on-the-next-banking-day because the credit card companies will find another reason to charge their customers. I'm guessing the reason will be "long holiday" hehe. Net. I still settled down here on Magallanes but I have to go back to the CBD later to pay...

Even that's just a minor thing, I will make it happen... just like my hope for this year, which is to make things happen. I will lose my big tummy (the root of all of my depression, haha) & make myself healthy, have a presentable & loving girlfriend, excel more in everything I do, make more friends than enemies, be a good friend, lessen my tantrums, travel to places I've never been, fall in love with a camera, have my own home (the structure, not necessarily the family), be "white" on my blogs, and basically start the rest of my life which is slowly moving past the quarter-life crisis into the "one-third"-life crisis.

I'm ending this blog in real-time, which means I'll summarize the radio commercial i just heard moments ago, that is to treat each setback as a challenge waiting to be conquered. We'll see if I will make it happen or I will officially suck.