I was on my way home from Eastwood at around 1AM last night -- after dinner, drinks and a fantastic movie -- when I met Crazy Person #1. I was driving down Libis towards the U-Turn under the flyover when this motorcycle with no tail light almost screeched to a halt right in front of my car and JUST DECIDED to veer left and go up the flyover. I got royally pissed at what he did that I slowed down and honked my horn on him for a full 6 seconds. The a$&hole, far from being apologetic, arrogantly turn his head towards me and activated his weng-weng. Pwede ba?!
I proceeded towards my usual route via Edsa. Miraculously, traffic was pretty light (traffic conditions lately, due to constructions all around, were horrendous even at the oddest hours). Until I hit the Magallanes flyover. Vehicles were slowing down and changing lanes. Apparently, there was a Pajero up ahead with its blinkers on. Poor guy, I thought, to have your car break down at this time of the night. What wasn't apparent until I was a few cars from it was that it wasn't stalled after all. It was, in fact, moving IN REVERSE DOWN THE FLYOVER. Trucks, jeepneys, cars and buses -- all of us-- were swerving to avoid this incredibly stupid driver and his vehicle. What?! Was he planning to back up 400 meters down a highway so he can go up the SLEX flyover instead?? Ang tanga, I swear. And damn inconsiderate!
Of course, people like these just get away with it, right?! Grrrr... ----------
The Other Boleyn Girl was a cool movie. Scarlett Johansson was refreshing and Eric Bana was gorgeous, but Natalie Portman ROCKED the movie! Enough said. Catch it in theaters this weekend!
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37 degrees and it's going to get even hotter. I soo wish I'm down by the beach right now!
Wow, I can't believe it's been more than a year since I last blogged. A friend told me it's testament to how I'm actually living life rather than just writing about it. I admit I have been so busy that I hardly had the time to update myself online. I had suddenly become one of those people who just accepts invitations in Facebook and Multiply without actually having the luxury of going thru my friends' pages. The irony of being connected but still not quite in touch with the rest of the world.
Then this morning, while sipping my Caramel Macchiato and wolfing down a blissfully sinful Cinnamon Swirl bun... I went thru my old posts and realized that I DID miss--big time--documenting my 2007. I could've written about so many things, talked about so many new experiences... but I simply just... didn't. Time surely flies, things have changed, and nothing was constant. Reliving them in print (or online!) seemed to make the experiences last a little bit longer.
So now, I dedicate this short, albeit much-awaited post, to people, esp my friends, who are shockingly interested in what I have to say (so much so that they would actually DEMAND to have me write something on this again). Coolness! I vow to do better in updating my blog-- even go back and write about stuff that happened 3, 5, 10 months ago, when I dropped out of sight. I vow to remember how 2007 was such a difficult year and yet such great one.
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Last night, while I was doing some Excel files for work (BOOOORRRIIINGG), I was simultaneously (mabuhay ang multi-tasker) chatting with Liz, a friend of mine who is now stationed somewhere in Bonifacio Global City. She told me, green in the face (or at least I can imagine her green), how one of our friends, Anot, is currently in Cape Town for work. Yes, THE Cape Town in South Africa! How effing cool is that?! I pinged Anot, seeing her online, and told her how I too was turning green with envy!
Scrolling down my YM list, I also saw Penot, another college friend, who married a Scandinavian and is now living in Finland. So there I was chatting away with 3 different people in 3 different countries, different continents. So much has changed since our UP days (splurging meant going to Katipunan for lunch!) and yet, things haven't. Chatting with them, it was as if we were back in the tambayan waiting for our next class to start. We would banter around, laugh, and update each other in between hirits, gossip and bading talk.
It then dawned on me how much technology can really change lives (you can bring out the Kleenex now, please, haha). I know, I know, it's corny thinking that way, ESPECIALLY since I work in IT. Then again-- really, somehow-- we ARE all connected, aren't we?
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