Turns Out It's Shitty Every Other Day

Crashed on my bike after saying goodbye to Debbie (the Canadian hottie). Bruised my knee and lost my shades(!) Had a cookout for the Manols and the departing Bacolod girls (Bea, Angelie and Jackie), as well as Danielle. Lugged around a lot of kitchen utensils.

Yet somehow the 2 good things that happened today outweigh the 3 bad ones. Now if you'lll excuse me I'll have to grab some sleep and see Bea (and Dess) off tomorrow at 6:30 AM.

Start of Another Shitty Week?

First I overslept. Then while getting my bike tires fixed again I noticed the rear mud guard was missing, and by missing I mean torn off/ ripped from the socket. That and the four holes the guy found in my tires (2 for each wheel) confirmed that this was an act of vandalism. Ended up missing 3/4 of my classes.

Now, after coming home from Chiristian's birthday dinner, Camy knocks on my door and tells me that she came home to find our apartment door "wide open." Luckily nothing was taken but the enormous carelessness on my part is still getting to me.

TAKU Me Out

A moment of indecision of whether or not to go to Club Taku was settled when Jackie called and said she needed guys to hand out roses to Bea, who turns 21 today (it's 4AM right now). Manol, Fernds, Carlos and I came late, nonetheless. 'Least the place had good music, but I'm still partially deaf at the moment.

Speaking of moments, several stand out. One, a "almost came to blows" kind between Belo and Tin (Ngo)'s friend. Two (and three, sorta) being Elaine dancing a wee bit to intimately with two guys I've never seen before. I couldn't tell whether she knew 'em or she was tipsy. I actually felt jealous, but more angry, particularly at myself, for just standing there and "letting" it happen. (Yeah, she's an adult and I don't her well enough to judge, but I could spend volumes talking about mixed feelings for this girl...but not today.) Nerelie got worried about the second guy and pulled 'Lainey away while I moved in to block to guy. A bit subtle, but I was definitely afraid of any confrontation that might have occurred.

Then there was Debbie (the Canadian one), all wasted and like a lame sitcom plot prevented by most of us from getting one drink too many. My guess is we failed miserably.

On thing I didn't stand for was when Ching and Kym tried to take off my shirt, followed by everybody else trying to get into the game. Like being asked to sing acapella (no, not tonight) was embarassing enough, but to strip? This, was...ugh. What did they take me for, drunk? Sure, I chugalugged Kym's beer (couldn't believe it myself), but that's it. Peer pressure can be such a pain, sometimes.

"Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful..."

So thank God the party was delightful.
And to the students who'll be gone:
Party On, party ON PARTY ON!

The Xmas/Farewell party for the 3-month period students went off much better than the Halloween party(not that it wasn't easy to top, though), with games actually played and programs actually performed. Again some people didn't, couldn't and sadly wouldn't show, but no matter. A majority had a good time, and we had better music this time around, as well.

Came home around 11:30, so I called up Diedre we had a nightcap consisting of the last Simpsons episodes I had and some hot chocolate.

Signs of Shitty Week Ending...?

Body's still sore from my daily one-body-part-day workouts with Lyndon, though I skipped today since he "had" to catch an acrobatic show. Meanwhile I walked around all afternoon with my idiot landlord looking for a seemingly nonexistent office to deal with my (previously) disconnectd ADSL. Turns out all I had to do was go to the bank, fill out the form, then the bank calculates the amount owed. SHEESH.

On the brighter side of today, rehearsals for our dance number tomorrow night went well. Hope Manol and keep up his end of the deal, though.

And the Results are In...credibly Stupid

Boy, my midterm grades suck. Suck so bad, suck like a black hole and sucks so many donkey balls it's ridiculous. Even the ones I expected to do well in were sub-par. On the bright side, there's nowhere else to go but up, unless I like wallowing in the bottom heap, w/c I don't.

Rock of Nature

This past week or so I'd been getting sometimes painful, somtimes itchy sensations when peeing, not to metion a dull pain in my lower right side of my abdomen. Googgled UTI, but its symptoms were different. This evening I may have found the cause. While peeing I felt something... pop out. It looked (and upon further inspection, felt) like shiny petrified ear wax. Or a small fragment from a crystal cave.

Then I realized: Geez, it's a kidney stone. I actually passed a kidney stone. So it can fit thru the urethra... kinda cool. Ouch, still some pain.

Invited Diedre over tonight for a Simpsons mini-marathon, but then her sister called so she wasn't even able to stay past midnight. Slightly disappointing.

And I Thought Mandarin was Hard...coi

Missed tonight's satay (spiced goat meat on a skewer) eating contest at TAKU, but I'm guessing neither Arsenio, JP nor Dess won. Will confirm later. I was waiting for Maricel to call to tell me that they were going to the bar but no call came. Managed to steal some nap time, in the meanwhile.

Busy day, this last day of midterm exams, a cycle of hard-easy-hard-easy tests for me these past 4 days. After lunch I went with a buncha guys to shop for Xmas party prizes (some I agreed with, some not so but 'Nols was more in the spirit of things so whatever) and the bike lock I kept delaying to purchase. We came back late, but not too late that I missed my recording session with Nokia.

My turn at the mike. The Chinese rep just sat me in front of a laptap where I read 463 words and sentences, ranging from names of places and celebrities so lines from the Constitution. Being tired and a bit groggy I managed to flub a couple of lines, but me and all the other Pinoys who got into this knew that we could let this pass since the Chinese rep didn't understand a word we were saying. A bit unprofessional on my part, but 300RMB is still 300 RMB.

No homework, but still so much to do. Photos to edit, comics to read, TV shows to watch and immediately delete afterwards...

Oh, and in the world of coinkidinks: Manol's friend Carl? Turns out his employer is Engelbert.

Aladdin (the Disney one) Would've Approved

Geneva's birthday/ farewell party (she goes home on Friday) was at the 1001 Nights Restaurant, kinda like our school's Muslim resto to the 10th power. Good thing it didn't smell like it. Food was better, too, specifically the tuna paste appetizer and skewered beef main course. Indian music wasn't to my taste, but the 2 hotties who started dancing to the Indian/ Arab singer's tune weren't hard on the eyes. Hell, they were hotter then the real dancers the restaurant hired that evening.

Speaking of entertaining, a more colorful group of customers came in as we ate dinner: bunch of women wearing outlandish wigs (even the ones with seeming natural hair colors looked fake) and black t-shirts with a fake URL printed on the back (www.rachshensnightbeijing.com.cn). One of them even had a tiara, w/c led me three guesses, namely that one of them a) got married/ had a birthday; b) had undergone chemotherapy and lost her hair, hence the wigs or c) leaving Beijing the next day so she an her lesbian friends are in wigs for shits and giggles.

Hey, I never said they were good guesses.

On the Other Hand...

The PC's (or more specifically, the unlimited ADSL connection) is proving to be a distraction from my studies. And to think I once thought of having the thing stashed in some friend's apartment in Hua Qing, taking advantage of their Internet connection while at the same time distancing me away from this temptation.

Now I'm in apartment not questioning how I'm able to log on Blogger so quickly this time, as Saint Takeyourtime, the patrion saint of procrastination, looks down upon me..., a big, lazy smile upon his face.

On the upside, I might be able to get some more novel Xmas gifts to friends in the form of audio books, CDs, or maybe even porn.