Happy Birthday jay!
And what a birthday it was. Man did i have a great time!
Slash Sarcasm.
Didnt have anyone to hang with and no one greeted me.
Except for the people who ive just met and met again over there at manila. That was rad. Ive been planning to hang at the city for awhile now since i need a break from all the shit olongapos been putting me thru. If you dont know whats happend, i lost terribly even though i know i shoulda won. Ganging up on the new kid since he doesnt know anybody. freaking awesome aint it?
Gah, and right after my birthday I get this fever with a killer sore in my mouth. At the very back of my mouth making eating , drinking , breathing and living much more difficult.
So yeah, these past few weeks, have been taking a toll on me. people have said i lost a lot of weight, and i got really light since i dont go out anymore. last time i went out i almost got into a stupid fist fight with some drunk scene kid. kuya bhoy told him to stop though. sheesh, people there just want you to say yes to everything they have to say. they wont take no or maybe for an answer. i dont know if i should tell kuya bhoy about his actions though. ive been thinking but where would that lead. I really dont want to go back to that town. Mariahs also been pushing me not to go back there, along with some other people from the city. Yeah, but thats where my band is. Yeah stupid reason why i should stay but rapi and russel just got their spark reignited and i dont want to let that go to waste. So yeah, after a few months, if nothing still happens, then i hope the city would welcome me.
Its weird after like, almost a year or more, there are people who still remember me in the city. when i was there i met new people, familiar faces and generally just hung out and still had a blast. Ok so i couldnt talk to camille, mouth was like shut completely but thats because i seriously wasnt ready for that. Thanks alot Jepp.
I remember back when i was at manila, how that one building in FEU was still under construction. When we got there to hang out across the street, i couldnt help but stare at it and think, has it been this long since ive been here? Yeah also giving myself away that im a lil country boy.Oh look what tall buildings you have.
So after that we headed over to jeps crib since thats where i would crash. i got used to the amount of people in olongapo, not too many but put enough in one place and you get a crowd. But over here, where ever you go theres a crowd. I thought i would get lost getting to the jeeps just following garnet and the others.Oh and Calamares! everywhere! for cheap! CALA-FUCKING-MARES VENDORS! I must buy but i was shy to just stop and since gimme. It all smelled damn tasty though. So yeah, Tondo, where jepps place was and apparently, Garnets too. Lazy bum that girl is. Havent seen a place like it since i got to olongapo.Also, this place seems awfully familiar, i had a feeling ive been there already, When Nino took me to his place when i got drunk at malate, i felt that Nino lived pretty close by to that place. Pretty much in the slums, but nice and homey. Im not choosey over where i sleep anyway. Ive slept on the floors of strangers homes and bus stations, this compared to that is a lot more safe and comfy.So what happend, when we first got there and laid my bag down, oh yeah, Flying saucers. If ever your in the tondo area, pick up one or 2 of these. I couldnt finish mine since i was still full from corporate junkfood but it tasted good. Kinda like an empanada if your a fan of that. Only Flying Saucers are made with love (TM) . Gawd Garnet would not shut up about my native tongue, which makes me use my native tongue more, which makes her punch me and me laugh and punch her back.so yeah, thats how me and Garnet would talk.All the time.
I think i brought up the thing about drinking empy that night. Yeah, what for? Celebration? or just to waste time. Matyu came in after awhile and recognized me right away. Thats a bud for you.Whatever, It was not my idea to have a double shot ALL the time. Double shot, 3 drinkers, no sleep, equals , well beverly hitting the canvas first. yeah threw she threw up right there. A First at jeps place! just like 5 people drinking at his place! Win! Then we all go outside, have a few shots and i start feeling the effects. Im a guy that wont hide the fact that yes i did throw up drinking. Just dont rub it in my face man. Pass out.
Wake up in 2 hours and not sleepy anymore. 2 hours of sleep? God. Anyway, beverly was next to me. in bed. jepp and garnet on floor, dogging me to grab her or whatever. Sick fucktards, though tempting i dont fall for their evil ways seeing that i dont know anything about the girl and for all i know she could be taken. Still it was funny that they wouldnt give up on telling me to put my leg around her when i already said NO. And eventually she awakens anyway. Then we start talking for a long time. a long long time it seems since now, jepps gotta go to class.
just me and garnet. Alone.
Fuck no!
Worst pick up line ever involves romanians and spartans. I love you *** for making that. Yeah thats what she told me and it is the most hillarious turn of events for the young spartan.Though yeah it sucks to be on the recieving end of a lead pipe uppercut, still i am going to wear my god of war tshirt next gig your playing at.
Over the course of a few hours, ive thought of a whole lot of ways to rub that pick up line in his face. but thatll have to hold since breakfast arrived courtesy of jepp. Calamares and fried wanton! Win! There isnt anything like this over at olongapo.Best tried on the street while still hot and freshly cooked. but dang these things rule. Now if memory serves me correctly i think all we did was just hang at the house then september (some pink haired ratty jeaned chick) came and stuff. We then went to 7-11 and bought , which i thought was well worth the 56 pesos, cheese ramen. ramen with cheese. Cheese flavored ramen. Ahh but wait! it comes with a foldable spork! How awesome is that!!! Damn worth it!
Well later in the night, when jepp got back from school , we decieded to go to the fort. Since i hear of many cool things in that place and Garnet works at a call center near there. The whole trip going there made me feel like a little country boy.Riding in a train, taking a taxi when the bus line couldnt make it, and seeing the lights of the forst before arriving, seemed all ripped out from some cheesy movie. and man , the Fort is a beautiful date spot. I never thought that places like that existed in the dirty metro of this country. I'd choose The Forst/Market Market over the Mall Of Asia anyday since at night, it looks so great. And a 4 story building of just Fully Booked. 4 freaking stories of books. But we would have to check that later since i can easily blow hours in there. we had to eat and take garny to work.
We had a bite to eat at Tokyo Tokyo, for the free unlimited rice and thats what popped up in my head when we really had to make a choice.We couldnt spot a taco bell in the immediate vicinity but Tokyo again was still good. it was fun telling garnet to try this and that and saying " oh wait, that has shrimp in it", freaking her out. Allergies. I am so proud im not allergie to any food. After taking garnet to work,we decieded to get home. Where on the way, some shop ripped off jep of 30 pesos just for load.Thanks a lot! And the bus home was great. Much more better than the 3 hour ride ones you get from the province to the city. with some war flick starring nicholas cage too.
then Jepp asks if i want to see bochic. We just passes her street. Damn you jepp and your 3 second decisions. I say yes. Since the whole day ive been trying to contact her to no avail. So there we are, off the bus, walking , and me a nervous wreck. I mean, Bochic, havent seen that gal in well over a year. Havent really talked to her in person since i couldnt really speak the language back then. So yeah. It seemed like a really long walk. And i remember how we would talk and everything would seem so innocent, until i found out what really happend in bochics head. i really felt bad after what jap told me, and everything pretty much fell into place. And before i knew it, we were at bochics place. I decieded to duck under the gate so she wont see me, but damn that girl got tall over the year so she saw me of course.
First things first, appologize for what you've unknowingly done to the poor girl. Then discuss everything thats been happening.she seemed like a big sister to me at the moment. Man, i really do miss her company. You dont find a lot of people like her in this country. and this place needs more bochics around.
So after around 2 hours, we part ways. And walking towards manila i realized, back then when me and holly used to bum around the city, and holly had a girlfriend who lives near la salle, her place was super super close to bochics place. this was around, a year and a half ago? Almost every night we would go to her place, and i couldve walked to bochics place. but i never knew where she lived. Dammit. It really broke my heart when we got out of her street and ended up in the convience store where i bought sun load to text bochic so long ago, only instead, headed in the opposite direction to go back to hollys place.The whole place was familiar to me.
we got back to jepps place and were greeted with Jepps relatives drinking outside. A nice and crazy fun buncha people. I tell you. you dont see alot of older guys like that around here.Apparently, sept and matyu have been looking for us to drink with them. but since ive been around, ive interuppted jepps sleeping habit , so we go to matyus place, and jepp goes to sleep. Septs already wasted anyway. damn skinny girl cant hold it. Me and Matyu talk about whats been happening in the scene lately on both sides, city and suburb. Its the first time me and mat are actually doing anything like this. When we first met years ago i saw him as the pretty crazy dude in the group. Ok so yeah he is , just didnt know he'd be more like the older brother of our group back then. And apprently we had THE group back then. People from far places would gather up and hang with us, people from laguna, pampanga, bataan , and we'd hang out at shows and get drunk. I was part of that until i had to move out of the city. but even when i was stuck in the lil country, i got to hang out from time to time. but since i got to olongapo, i pretty much abandoned my city life, and as matyu remembers, my online life, losing communication with almost everyone who showed that they will stick to you forever.
A lots happend since i dropped out of the city scene, new people showing up , old people breaking up , people having similar problems to me, people realizing how big of a dick theyve become, people wanting to give up on life and fixing themselves up. Ive really missed out on a lot of drama there. When you compare it to the people at olongapo, they havent changed a bit.not one bit. well Time to pack up, jepp looks pretty damn tired.
The next day , I think all we mostly did was just bum around at jeps place, me and bilog talked and garnet was sleeping the whole time and later in the night, we were supposed to be drinking with everyone else since i wanted to give everyone a drink before i got so that my bday could be celebrated early with them. But meh, nobody came. So it was just me and jep and matyu talking and drinking and munching on stuff. wish everyone else couldve made it. oh and bilog brought me some awesome pancit. Rawr love free stuff. and in the middle of the night. Sweet. We drank all the way till the sun came up. and i miss drinking like that. Its really fun to just sip and drinks while talking about stuff and shit.
well, like one girl once told me, all good things come to an end. A little later, we wake and see mat, and were on our way to jeps practice. Really small world we have because the place that they practice at, my old band used to practice at. really good memories. Oh and i got to meet the romanian and the steve clone. After practice i could feel that the end is coming of my stay in manila. Short lunch with mat and jep at KFC (Damn they ripped off McDos floats and put mashed potato in it!) and got the numbers of sept and, finally, after all this time, lace.Just as i was on the bus going out of the city, we got her number. its sad coz i didnt get to meet all the people i wanted to meet, but still, i got to meet a lot of new people who are awesome and met old friends again. I really liked this trip to the city. I really gotta do this again.
but i have to ride that bus back to reality
Love you all guys
1 comment:
Hi jay... your blog looks interesting...
-Eidrian
Post a Comment