An Unpredictable Sunday

How do you define a day? I can't define mine...

3:00 am - Found myself awake with an ant bite in my stomach... slept again...
4:30 am - Found myself awake again with an ant bite on the other side of my stomach... checked if there were live NBA/NCAA games! None... so I went back to bed..
5:50 am - Got up from bed as 4 ants were biting me non-stop in the stomach, left elbow, right elbow, and... there... yes, down there!
6:00 am - checked Facebook & ESPN - North Carolina lost to Florida State! Duke was winning against Maryland! D-Wade with another superhuman performance, 50-10-9-4-2!
7:30 am - After the holy mass, checked ESPN again and Duke won!
***by the way, I've checked the scores thru my laptop without plugging the power cord!***
9:40 am - Left home for Definition in Makati Cinema Square to buy an SLR camera. Surprised that there were no traffic in Bicutan SLEX!
10:00 am - Arrived in MCS, and was out of myself when I learned that the outside parking was Fifty freakin' Pesos! Yeah, at Makati Cinema Square! I am not kidding!
10:45 am - After searching the old-school mall, I found Definition... and it was closed on a Sunday!
11:15 am - Took a right turn from Pasay Road to Paseo de Roxas... gosh there were MAPPSA (tama ba?) waiting. Apparently, the left turn arrow was not green... Well, it's not red either! But I was still apprehended!
11:30 am - The MAPPSA officers still haven't given me a ticket, and they were standing like beggars by my window until something came up... P200 wrapped in tissue!
12:00 noon - My pedicure session, Lyn, my pedicurista was not there. Nail Spa suggested Leah to be my pedicurista for the day... I was very nervous because I'm feeling a little ingrown nail already on my right toe... But I had to accept her!
12:30 pm - Pedicure session was done! I was so nervous at 1st because of her different approach on my toenails, but in the end, she pulled it thru!

Fast Forward
4:00 pm - since I was going to QC in the evening, i decided to go to McDonalds El Pueblo for free parking and wi-fi (for wasting time)... Apparently, McDo does not allow laptop battery charging! ^$&^%#$@, why did I logged-in at the house without using the power cord!
5:00 - Battery exhausted! Bad thing there was a hot chick on a green dress sitting next to my table. I ran out of pa-cute actions! So I decided to get-off to QC and meet a friend for dinner instead.
6:00 - @ Gateway! Starbucks = full, Gloria Jeans = full, KK = full, Coffee Bean = full. We settled at Taco Bell... I wouldn't go to Gateway/Araneta unless I eat at Taco Bell anyway...
7:00 - My other friend that I was supposed to meet did not came! Given our circumstances, &^$^%$%^$^&%$!
7:15 - Decided to go to Timog ahead of time to meet a new-found friend =), Coffee Bean (with free wi-fi) didn't have any parking within the vicinity... So I had to relocate at Burger King for the free wi-fi!
8:30 - My new found friend arrived at BK, we then took off to relocate somewhere else.
9:00 - Starbucks - no parking, another Starbucks - no parking, Coffee Bean - still no parking, so we had to settle for a coffee shop near ABS-CBN. It's coffee tasted mediocre that's why I forgot it's name...
10:00 - While in the middle of a nice conversation, the coffee shop closed! Yes, the coffee shop closed @ 10:00 pm!!!
10:30 - In the middle of a fast EDSA, there was a build-up from Ayala to Magallanes fly-over. At 10:30 in the evening on a Sunday! Wow!

And then I decided to write this down... for rubbing-it-in sake!

The Enigmatic Thursday

Well, on Wednesday night, I've been putting in my Facebook status that I was preparing for what could be an enigmatic Thursday... It actually didn't turn out that way as I just had an ok Thursday.

I had to go to DFA to renew my license personally, since renewing it thru an agency will take much longer than it should be as I need my passport to be renew in 2 1/2 weeks time. I was surprised that it was not the other way around. Anyway, I was there at 6am...

...To my surprise, at the Roxas-Libertad corner, there was a DFA personnel approached me and looked at my requirements, in which I was overwhelmed that they were checking it that far, then every 10 meters there were guides until I reached the gate, then the basketball court, where step 1 will be executed. At 6:08 am, I was the 1,387th person to apply/renew a passport... Wow!

At 6:30, the line starts to move, I was like in Singapore, meaning there were instructions along the way... which is very good by the way, there were seats all the time as well. As the steps gone farther, the windows were getting more & more, so the steps were getting faster! At 8:30, I was done with the whole thing! Had to go back after 7 working days for my new passport! =)

For the 1st time in ages, I was satisfied with a government office.

Not much happened the rest of the day, except that my next role in the company was announced, which is quite something for me. Though it happened at the tail-end of a long meeting (rather than it's usual spot at the 1/3 mark of a meeting).

It was more of anti-climactic than enigmatic, but I was ecstatic!

Pluggin' Along

For the past 30 hours, I've only had 4 hours of sleep, had to play in a sportsfest under weltering heat, scraped (and burned) my bare on a very hot obstacle slide, had the team with the fewest competitors, had to drive at SLEX through heavy traffic without those 4 hours of sleep, and had to endure all these news regarding Francis M's death. All of those coming off a half-day SL and believe me, if i took on even a half-day SL, it means something really is not right.

I keep on pluggin along...

as if I feel perfectly ok, which has been routinary for me for the past three years or so. All these failed relationships, friendships, dates, & endeavors have put me in the depressing mode at any given time. I'm trying to fight it as much as I can though I'm as confident that these "misery" will end anytime soon as I'm confident that these will continue for a long, long time. I'm still doing the same things, being a serial dater and a hopeless romantic, but with each passing day, more often than not, I go back home being a serial hopeless.

I keep on pluggin' along...

Work has been my only bright spot for the past two years, and I'm holding on to that psyche that I'm not doing anything to screw that up... it's not as if I did not have work issues previously, I had changed multinational companies in the three-year span and I had to deliver as well as I had previously, but this time, hoping to get what i really deserved this time. I guess I'm on the right track because...

I kept on pluggin' along...

April will mark a big change, with high hopes that it will be a big positive change... I hope a lot of aspects in my life will follow suit as well. After all, I have paid my dues, and I hope I paid well enough...

Jinxed!

I woke up about 30 minutes ago seeing the Miami Heat leading the Cavaliers from Cleveland 91-80 with 7 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter... meaning my favorite Dwyane Wade was leading the hated LeBron James... i was thinking good things already! Immediately thereafter, the Cavs went on a blinding 22-4 run to suddenly lead 102-95 with less than a minute remaining.... Game Over.... Miami blew it...

Just some notables...

Coach Spolestra had called 4 timeouts in between the Cavs run... ohhh that Filipino instincts of him...

Why didn't I see the successful 5 (against the Knicks at least) of Jermaine O'Neal, Haslem, Moon, James Jones and Wade on the floor at the same time.

D-Wade still had a fantastic game, approx. 41 points, 9 assists, 6 rebounds and 7 steals. ( LeBron I think had 44) Though I think D-Wade should have at least 50 points and 12 assists at the rate he was going BEFORE I watched.

You'll learn, rookie! Yes, that's you Mario Chalmers!

People are saying how good the Mo Williams acquisition for Cleveland... for me, it's still the health of big Z Ilgauskas the key for the Cavs this season. Unfortunately, he was healthy tonight against Miami.