Lazy & Spontaneous Sunday For Now Means...

...availing myself of the WiFi (but not the electricity, as there seems to be no easily accessible electrical outlets --unlike in Starbucks-- for my laptop) at Alexa's Deli in Makati, waiting for Dee and listening to the last chapter of David Sedaris' audiobook When You Are Engulfed in Flames. She seems to excel at riskier forms of multitasking, e.g. grooming while driving or using her cellphone while parking her Honda CRV. We ordered 2 iced lattes and one molten chocolate cake, the latter living up to its name when the waiter served a melted piece of pastry they overthawed in the microwave. I could practically taste and feel the sugar granules and wished I could move that to my apparently tasteless latte (another plus to S-Bucks), but I settled for their sugar packets instead.

The spontaneous part of the blog title comes from my having no plans on what to do other than drink lattes w/ Dee and hang out. Laptop battery was dying, so web-browsing was pointless. For her part she was busy preparing a PPP on Pan Pacific for some DLSU-CSB marketing honchos, while at the same time taking calls from male clients and playing armchair love therapist while they discuss their social lives (or lack of). While listening to Sedaris I find myself thinking that I preferred her grooming-while-driving.

When a davidbriantiu YMs her, I wondered if this was the same Brian Tiu who was my nursery and kindergarten classmate in back in SJCS (I have strange long-term memory). When he says he doesn't remember me I started to have my doubts, but when I found out his brother was Terence Tiu (i.e. brother Wilbert's classmate in SJCS, and coincidentally worked at the Marketing Dept. of DLSU-CSB), that clinched it. Well, that and the F'Book and F'ster search I did when I got back home. I barely recognized the longer hair, squarer jaw and darker complexion, but the eyes haven't changed. And he gets around online. (No, I'm not stalking the man. The links are to prove a point.)

After her work was sorta done (low batt) she was set to visit another male client on a non-travel-agency related matter, but didn't know how to get to 6th Street in New Manila. And guess who did...?

So off went our short Honda CRV convoy, crossing Mandaluyong bridge and driving thru Shaw and Aurora Blvd and finally to Broadway Avenue. After I left her at 6th street I saw 2 white mini-coopers of the same make and model meet up at the intersection of E. Rodriguez and whatever street that Jollibee E. Rod branch is on. Also noticed that one cooper driver was more reckless than the other. Country Cooper and City Cooper, I thought. I could've followed them had they not beat the red light at the E. Rod - Araneta Ave. intersection and made their right turn on the latter. The things I do to satisfy my curiosity...