Thursday, September 4, 2008

Blue

There's this thing about me when it comes to tardiness and absence. The first time I don't appear after being told to do something/go somewhere it doesn't affect me as much. Just blow it off ill go next time. Then that next time if i don't show up i start to get affected. Then when it happens again and again and next thing you know I haven't shown up for 6 months and that i have a huge amount of debt to them. Debt as in I owe someone a beer for every month I'm gone. Yeah that's pretty much what happened which is why my blog hasn't had any posts about Decaying Labia for the longest time. What was supposed to be an overnight stay in Olongapo with my dad turned into me mooching off my friends in manila for 5 days in which I didn't bring anything. It was still an awesome stay of course. I guess i just really wanted to get out of bataan that bad. Ever since Shane left unwillingly to Australia I just felt that I have nothing left to do at the hometown. No, Maybe not like that. I guess it really just woke me up that we have such limited time to do the things we want to do. I also owe everyone who reads this a beer as an apology for not updating for so long.

His birthday was meant to be one of drinking and eating happily and just hanging out. Not having to be reminded that he has to go abroad for the next 5 years or something and leave everything he had growing up. But as the night went on with people singing songs for him and him singing songs for us, it really just started to hurt to see him go. You can tell he didn't want to leave and who was going to be against that? Hes a good student and a son and brother and a friend. Hes spent his life in a place he doesn't want to leave and after being all nice to everyone at school he has to put up with this. A one way trip to austrailia where he'll be a nurse at. Well its for his future. He has a girlfriend who he really loves and thats just the way things are over here. A few nights later he had another drinking session with some people and I was invited. I gave him the shirt I had that he wanted and a Japanese shot glass since he'll be doing a lot of drinking. I don't know, it hurts for me since he told me that even though me and him arent that close he still considers me a brother. Wish I got to hung out with him more. I probably didn't since he hangs out with the big guys here at bataan but those last few times I hung with him I was proven wrong. It just felt really wrong how you put up with so much shit for a better future that you may not spend with the people who matter. The guys made an impact at the scene at bataan for openly hating stuff , encouraging people to be original and to avoid crap music and actually knowing his shit. Some people just cant see things like this in a more broad sense. I was with 2 other dudes at his going away party but it was just like theyre seeing someone go off to a vacation or whatever i dont know. Like they didnt understand that the guy didnt want to leave. I still dont want to leave this country because ive had to deal with not having a friend from when i was a young boy that i could see today. Also it takes me a really long time to actually gain a best friend. I doubt I have any now anyway.

Soon after that I felt that I should go and leave the province. seriously. like i planned months ago. So a few days ago here I told chino that i need a break. The band already has a following so me bieng the frontman is no longer necessary. I gave them a headstart so lets see where they take the band without me.

And so we fast forward to that saturday where i'm on the bus and its 10 pm and I didn't bring any clothes or cash and im going to a party and i don't know who's going. All i know is Khat is there and i owe them something for not showing up. I arrive at Nightwish located at Malate and to my surprise the people who i usually hang out with at the city isnt even present. Just half of August Mayhem and half of Decaying Labia already kind of drunk but still fun to hang with anyways. Turns out that they're visiting a different scene or something so while everybody who knows each other hangs at the front of the bar were just drinking at the front of ministop which is always fine by me. Besides, the scene at the bar looks like a bunch of metalfags waiting for a fight and that doesn't take long to happen. Good thing we didn't get involved much since Khat knows them. But i found out that the reason for the fight was just because some drunk guy said Ixion sucks. Which i think is just bullshit. If your in a band or even if your doing anything creative to the public then you should be able to accept the criticism that will come to you. You cant avoid it and if you get offended by some drunk heckler that didn't even see you play then you shouldn't be doing what your doing. So there, Fight started by that band ganging up on one guy then for some reason the dudes I were with joined in which was funny because just a few moments before the fight started Me and vince and some other dude just started siniging Backstreet Boys songs at the street opposite of the fight. Khat tried to stop the fight but to no avail so me and her and Ero ran from the place. Welcome to Malate. We met up at the Jollibee shortly but then Frances noticed that his cellphone was gone. So me him and khat hurry back to where the fight happend and Ero and the rest of the guys head back to Eros place but first had to stop at the barangay station for i dont know someone to make sure we dont get killed or something. Frances tells his story to the guys over there while khat heads over to where the fight is and tries to talk to some guys about frances phone which lasts for 15 minutes. This is where Tina and her boys come in and try to play private eye. You see, nobody at the fight noticed a phone so we started searching around the 7-11 close by where witnesses, a cigarette vendor, a pedicab driver,local tambays and a hooker told us diffrent stories. Most of them didnt see the phone but the pedicab driver said that he saw one of the guys who jumped us take it. Tina then calls the phone and notices that its still ringing which is strange because any victim of having their phone lost or stolen would know that the person who has the phone wouldve turned it off by now or threw away the sim card. So that means its in the hands of someone who doesnt know how to operate a phone or its just lying around somewhere. After awhile the lady whos working her shift at the bakery next to the scene tells us that she saw the pedicab driver take the phone. She just couldnt say anything right away because he was right there. We told this to the barangay and they took action by searching the area and his pedicab and taking him away to the main station for further investigations. Theres already a witness and he still refuses to give up the phone so the barangay dudes, well they start beating up the dante. Not really gang up on him though. Just slapping him with his slippers, using their sticks on his kneeecaps. Yet after all that he still doesnt want to give it up. After awhile we go back to the 7-11 and they start playing good cop with him while the others start searching the area again. The barangay captain shows up kinda drunk and really scares the shit out of the pedicab driver by pulling out a gun on him but he still denies that he has the phone. Then the barangay finds Frances phone under a pile of garbage in a garbage can then the cigarette vendor next to the garbage can tells us that the pedicab driver put it there, probably in fear of what may happen to them since theyre a part of the crime now. The barangay tells the driver and the vendor to get the fuck out of his place and that nobody commits any crime and gets away with it at his place. We thank everybody who helped us all out and frances felt guilty that he couldnt give anything to them for their help but we were assured that its ok and they are just glad that they could help. Do i feel guilty that the driver got beat up pretty bad? No. We head off towards Eros house to get the guys and i try to make Frances uncomfortable as much as possible by softly purring in his ear since we sat next to each other. We get the guys who are still drunk and head back home.

Home , or where im staying at for the next few days, is at Tondo at Jepps house. I really have no problem with the whole tondo is murder thing because so far, nothings happened to me and i find the people friendly anyway and theres a buncha places that a drunk guy can eat at too. By the time we get back to tondo the suns already coming up. Khat goes home because she can and Me, Gerard, Tina and Vincent head off to find some good goto or something all the while annoying tina with our renditions of Enrique Iglesias and we are singing his songs all the way to Jepps place just because we like seeing Tina whine and nearly vomit when we sing. It brings us great joy. Jepp comes from work in awhile and apparently is in a call center now. And apparently alot of people i know are also working there. He tells me thats where the scene is working now. But i shouldnt be pimping companies here. Yeah i guess thats where im going to work but id rather work at a place where i know nobody. Just to have the chance to meet new people. Hopefully someone will know what Warhammer is and will teach me coz id really like to get into that game.

I was supposed to go home the next day. I mean, I had to. I had no clothes and no cash and I told my mom that id just be in the out for a day. But then i was told that Matyus birthday was coming up and that September would be coming to Matyus house with their newborn kid. So of course i had to stay until tuesday. Just to see their kid and those two since yeah, its been months since ive seen them. I didnt even see September with her stomach big with the kid. When i got that text that she had given birth I honestly felt guilty for being absent that long.


Garnet got home later that morning when i put down my bag at Jepps place. To her surprise instead of geeking out with their PS2 I was found trying to catch up on sleep. Of course with garnet my sleep was rudely interrupted, Not that Im complaining, I kind of missed it. I think they wanted me to go with them to the market to buy their lunch later on but I guess they just let me sleep til midday. When i woke up they were off sleeping. Oh by the way, they both worked at the same company. I wasnt hungry when i woke up and didnt turn on the PS2 since i didnt want to wake them. Also i had no one to text since there wasnt a charger around and i needed my wake up smoke. So i just wanted to go outside but i couldnt since i dont want to seem rude. Well when garnet woke up she told me to eat and that it was ok to go willy nilly inside the house since Jepps grandma and grandmas helper knew me anyway. My manners shot down i guess? So when Garnet woke up she went with me downstairs so that i can eat. I wasnt hungry but thanks for the concern. Well i should have just gone down to help myself because that Sopas they cooked was really good. Khat dropped by and we got to hang out a bit and smoke and whatever. i mean, just me. She doesnt smoke. in fact i noticed during my stay that Im smoking either way too much or nobody just asks me for cigarettes. Jepp had worked that day but Garnet didnt have so i went on over to Mats place with Khat and Garnet to see their baby girl. Her name is Bleu and looks just like September and Matyu. Its really cool to see that he has a kid now and that hes totally happy with the newborn. Its funny because back then Mat would always tell me that He thinks hes impotent. Also add to the fact that he smokes Menthols. When we got there though his grandma said that i look bloated. Which scared me into thinking that ive got some disease or something. We didnt stay long so we went to look for that BBQ place that has Bulaklak. I love that stuff and over here at bataan there isnt anything like it so of course im going to help myself to it. After jepp got done eating he went to work, Leaving me garnet and khat hanging around. Soon afterwards I got the munchies and on the way to the 7-11 got thirsty for alcohol. I bought 3 cans of Colt. Hey, I like colt. i prefer colt to red horse coz even though it gets warm its drinkable. I bought 3 because i thought the girls would drink too but soon found out that i was the only one that was gonna drink. Oh well more for me? We hung out for a long while then i slept till afternoon.

Later that monday, Monique visited me to drop off some food. Chinese fried noodles with siomai. It was street food and I liked the noodles and siomai but it was just too greasy for me and didnt have a buncha veggies the way i like any noodle that gets served with me. Well you get what 25 pesos is. In exchange I was supposed to buy her a Flying Saucer at Khats place but she kept telling us that they dont have that. Me and Monique hung out for awhile since she lied to her mommy about her class schedule. Oh and it turns out she hangs with this girl who knows me. Jajia is her name. I kind of remembered her and was surprised when Monique told me that one of her friends knows me and asked her to say hi to me. Later that day Garnet told me that I would be all alone that night since they have work. Yipee? I guess. Except that the memory card was full so I couldnt save most of anything I played that time. I did get to watch some episodes of Evangelion Genesis though. I had the place for myself I couldve asked a girl to drop by so we could bang but meh, decieded not to. I got thirsty again though for beer so i asked khat to watch me get drunk outside their place. Was supposed to be 2 bottles of Colt but for some reason if you buy the large bottle of Colt you get a small one for free. Which is of course, good for 40 bucks in my book. So me and khat just hung out and talked about what i missed and how everyone is doing and about the descendants and how much that band has influenced her in her music ways. I didnt go out that day since i just wanted to chill and have people bear gifts to me. Which didnt happen. It is now tuesday and 5 am. Time to sleep.

I am rudely awakened by garnet (natch) around early afternoon so that i can go with her and jepp to Karate Kid at SM San Lazawhatever. Its really cool since I like the food over there. I really prefer Karate Kid over Tokyo Tokyo. I think I mentioned it in an earlier blog that if you spend 150 at tokyo tokyo and at karate kid youll find out that karate kid has better food and more food with the 150 bucks you bring along and i think Tokyo tokyo doesnt even have Gyuden or whatever which is pretty much a sin since it is a japanese fast food resturant. We were supposed to watch a movie but the one good movie that day was something with rob schnieder in a prison. Im not really a fan of his films so we skipped out on it. You know, The other day when I was watching TV at home there was this local program with movies and some people talk about the upcoming movie for awhile and they mentioned that Rob is half filipino and I imagined that alot of the local people said at that moment " Holy god he is? I knew it thats why hes so funny!" and went to watch every other film hes made. I wanted to buy some ps2 games but when we checked the place that has it , it turns out that they dont even sell those games anymore. They just have a folder for DS and PSP games that you can download. Before we get out of the mall i saw a movie poster of Max Payne. I thought it would be really really cool but then I saw a post over at 1up about the rating for that movie and The Dark Knight. Later that day I would be drinking along with other guys and a drunk gal since it was Mats Bday. At first the party almost didnt happen and i was asking around if there was going to be any drinking happening. Mat told me to go there before its all gone. Whatever he was talking about i knew that i should have some of that action. He was talking about Pancit that someone bought for him which was running out fast. I think the only friends of mat that got the pancit was me and khat. Well like i said, there almost was supposed to be no drinking since September bieng the responsible mother told mat not to drink and Mat just didnt have the funds for the usual party. Wait a second.


Apparently I have been blogging for an unsteady year now since I have a previous post about matyus Bday. Yey?

Well, we still got to drink due to some people putting down cash on the table for mat to drink. It was funny because all he had in his pocket was 3o pesos but by the end of the night he got 5 bottles of Grandma , a case of Red Horse muchos, 3 plates of squidballs and kikiam, an order of Mechado, an order of Sisig, 10 bags of various chips and some bicol express and by the next morning he had 170 pesos too. Dang that guy is loved around his place. It ended early since well September didnt even him to drink anyway. After all the drinking we head on over to Jacks place. Of course me and Vincent started singing Enrique Iglesias. On the way there I started to know why everybody fears tondo. To get to Jacks place we have to go through some really dark and sketchy places often with drunk people just around the corner. The last section we had to go through was literally like walking into a hole or something. Just pitch black. There could have been a body there for all we know or an ambush but hell its Jacks home. We got there just safe and we drank a little bit again while watching dvds. Head on back to jepps place to sleep it off. Was supposed to get on a bus that morning but meh. Ive learned long ago that you do not want to ride a bus half drunk.

Its wednesday so that means its Jepps day off. He played guitar when we woke up and I read the 2 magazines that I bought back at the mall. Then suddenly for some reason we started making up versions of scene songs from before converted to the style of scene songs of now. You know Juneau done Bring Me The Horizon style stuff like that. It was funny and I told him it would be awesome if he started a band that played like that. I still think that would be really rad if he did it. Garnet gets home and we eat and it was during this time that I almost didnt go home for that day since she told me that shell be getting paid on thursday. Id love to stay but my mom told me that I had to get home so that I can watch the pawnshop. Too bad since I really wanted another round of karate kid. So yeah, they sleep , I hang with Khat, I read a bit, jepp goes to work and Im in charge of waking up Garnet at around midnight so that she can get to work. So yeah nothing much happend during my last day at manila. I guess I didnt want anything to happen anyway. Which is ok with me anyway. I wasnt even sure there was a bus at the station at 2 am but luckily there was. Except that it leaves at 3.

So I got back to bataan. All safe and sound and flat out broke and it took me awhile to get this post up because of getting interrupted with other things around here. You know, the usual drama that ill talk about once I put my head to actually posting it. My 2 previous posts have just been about what im supposed to write about and im sorry for not talking about it now but ill be able to do it now that my writers block has been taken off.

Well thats it for now. Closing thoughts. Hmm. I still have to talk about a lot of things so yeah.

God im deep in the red here.

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