March 3, 2006

has it been almost two weeks since i last blogged? seems so. uh-oh. sounds like an overworked corporate slave decided to be busy for more than a week and neglect to rant and rave online. so yeah, i was busy. and ummm yeah, im an overworked corporate slave.

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the past week has been crazy. last weekend was my most-awaited 2-day off. i was awake for 30 hours starting friday afternoon until saturday night. i know, it was insane, but i loved every moment of it. felt like i downed a whole bottle of uppers. i was hyperactive and jumping around (not literally). come sunday i was asleep the whole day. from 9am to 8pm straight. unbelievable.

so here was my itinerary:

02/24/06 friday

5:00pm: woke up after barely 6 hours of sleep.

6:00pm: met up with geebee for a quick dinner.

8:00pm: sat down for an hour on the VIP section (main reason why i agreed to go) of that pop concert we attended waiting for the band finish making everything sound right. it was annoying. #1, the ticket says show start at 7pm and by 8pm they’re still trying to fix the sound system. #2, the concert was held on the open athletic field and its no fun to sit frozen for 1 hour watching some band do a soundecheck. and #3, they’re not a good band. not that im an expert on bands but a good band should have you nodding or tapping your foot or singing with them even if it was just a soundcheck, right? right. so after what felt like a kadillion years, the concert finally commenced. it was okay. geebee was with me so i enjoyed it. we spent half the time tickling each other. it entertained us more than watching the concert itself.

11:30pm: concert ended and my coach was calling me on my phone. im supposed to log in for work at 11pm!

02/25/06 saturday:

12:00am: i was on my way to the office and yes, i was 1 hour late. good job.

9:00am: log out from work! time to celebrate panagbenga!

10:00am: was stuck in traffic for a good 30 minutes due to the ongoing fluvial parade and streetdancing to celebrate the panagbenga 2006.

1:00pm: me and geebee dedided to get out of the house for some late lunch. by the time we got to town, session road was still overflowing with people! so instead of heading to SM, we sneaked into a side street, chinese cafeteria that serves that best peking-duck style chicken and porkchops! i ate a whole plate of chicken i felt like bursting!

2:30pm: was supposed to head to SM already (because i wanted to watch Close To You because i wanted to sit on an air conditioned cinema for 2 hours and watch without thinking and because i like to stare at Sam Milby for at least 2 hours to finally take him out of my system), but changed minds again when we finally stepped back to session road only to find a thick throng of tourists wearing knitted BAGUIO bonnets and holding walis tambo and baskets of strawberries and taking pictures every 5 steps have invaded my beloved quite little city. i don’t hate tourists. i just like my saturday afternoons spent walking up and down an almost empty session road wearing my pambahay cargo shorts and flip flops while eating ice cream. so with a stroke of there-is-really-nowhere-else-to-go, we dropped by our favorite dvd shop and bought instead Jarhead, The New World and Zathura. sped to watson and bought that lavender and virgin coconut hair spa cream we’ve both been salivating on, rushed to the nearest grocery to buy pasta for dinner and hurried to the safety and quiet of our apartment.

6:00pm: the start of a 3-movie marathon. Jarhead was playing while i whipped tagliatelle and garlic bread for dinner. The New World came next which i slept through halfway. My senses were awakened by the time Zathura was playing. by past 12, i felt faint so we decided to call it a night.

30 hours. no kidding. it was insane. reason why this weekend, we promised each other we’ll stay home and order take outs. no going out. yes, no strolling out especially that session road is closed for the yearly Session in Bloom party. it will take us utmost self-discipline to stay stuck in our apartment when we know street parties are being celebrated at every corner of session road. i think il just sleep. yeah. 30 hours was too much. il just sleep this saturday. wish me luck.

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our schedule for this week was 2am-11am. i hate it. we hated it. i can’t sleep in the afternoon. i was losing too much sleep. i collapsed yesterday due to lack of sleep. it was scary. at first i felt dizzy, like the floor’s giving way and my knees felt like jelly. and before i knew it, i blacked out. scary. my brother found me slumped on out living room floor, he had to drag me to bed. oh yes, he did not panic. he knew i was working like crazy. good think i didn’t bump my head. OMG, what am i turning into?

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just to prove how ive forgotten to take care of myself, i forgot to wear earrings to work. i never ever forget wearing my earrings. never. ever. not even when im late 30 minutes to school when i was in college. never even when im cramming up for exams. never even when i was in full panic mode on my thesis defense day. never even on my first date with geebee. so when i finally forgot to wear earrings to work, i know something’s wrong. i must reward myself with a hair spa next payday. the works.