Siguro crush lang talaga nila si Coco Martin.

Ayan. Lumalayo na tayo. Last Monday, I was a tiny probinsiyana lost in the rather moderately big city of Makati. Jill was supposed to accompany me, but I guess she was too busy minding her own business of not minding mine.

From Gateway, I tailed this lady kasi I thought she was going to watch some Cinemalaya too kasi pang-lookbook.nu siya manamit. Feeling ko kasi ganun yung mga elitista sa UP eh. Yes I am one hell of a stereotyping shitty being now. Ayala yung ticket na binili niya sa MRT eh. Kaso nga lang I lost her pagbaba ko ng Ayala.

I was left on my own. Feel na feel ko pa naman pagiging spy ko. Ewan. Masyado ata akong naapektuhan ng panonood ko ng Mission Impossible.

I then had no choice but to swallow my spy pride and ask for directions. Long story short, I was able to get my ass in Greenbelt 3. Thanks to my spies-only GPS thingie pre-installed on my Android (k feeler). Tapos I got myself two Cinemalaya tickets.

I then got myself a tumbler of popcorn and a bottle of water then ta-da I went inside the cinema na. I was trying to strain my cough the whole time pero tongue-in-a ang hirap. I just had to bark. Na-conscious tuloy ako sa mga katabi ko.

The first movie I saw was The Animals. I didn't find it super interesting-- or maybe I was just, er, analysing it in a super shallow manner kaya 'di ko masyado nahimay yung gustong iparating niya? That or literal lang talaga lahat. Here's what kinda got my attention-- in *dundundun* bullets.

• Those manong tsupers sharing to each other crazy (and really shitty embarassing) tales about their bosses
• Somehow, John Wane Sace was able to find his way to the fountain of youth. Tae ang bata pa rin niya tignan
• Anorexic kids exist pala here in the Philippines. Akala ko such species only inhabit the lands of America and Europe
• Yung pagkalasing nung character na Cara... ganun din ba 'ko malasing? Woo hoo insecurities
• Instant MOMOL, instant blow job, instant sex!

Then it was allll over. On my way out I was even able to see Ramon Bautista and he was with this girl who was unfamiliar to me so I'd assume she's not some sort of a celebrity or maybe she is but I was just too ignorant to remember or something. I smiled at him and he nodded at me. Siya na sikat at nginingiti-ngitian nalang ng mga chics. That's right folks. Chics ako. Muhahahahahahaha

I had nothing to do then but turn into the freeloader that I am ulit so I sucked up to Greenbelt's free wi-fi and logged in to Facebook and Twitter. My inner social climber uploaded the photo of my butas-bulsang movie tickets. Sorry. I just had to brag about the fact that I was going to watch some indie shit on my own in a place I'm super unfamiliar with. Moving on.

That time, I was sitting in front of Red Mango's store and was thinking about trying out their famous waffles with yoghurt, kaso I thought na I shouldn't inflict any more injury to my already-nagdurugong wallet.

Also, I almost bought a Cinemalaya shirt. Ewan. There's this little man in me na nagsasabing dapat kada event na puntahan ko may souvenir. I'm almost broke, so baby that can wait. Sana.

Tapos with just five minutes left to spare (before my second serving of Cinemalaya) I bought a bag of Snacku. Now how did I end up buying something so cheap? Eh mahal kasi lahat eh. Greenbelt is a pang-laking aircon establishment and I've got no right to be there unless I'm with my mum.

So I went inside theater na ulit.

This time, I was able to control my coughing so yeah less coughing kaso I had trouble trying to open my bag of Snacku because I don't want to tell the people na oh my golly I'm opening a freakin bag of junk listen to me do it so I tried my best to synchronize my "tear here"-ing activity with those instances na maingay yung trailers.

Tapos biglang nagtext si Char na she was in the same cinema I was in that time so I tried looking for her and I found her so I went to sit next to her and her dormmate Fe and hoped na nobody paid for the seat I was sitting on and fortunately nobody really did.

We saw a series of Cinemalaya short film entries, and here's what I thought.

• Bulong's one hell of a comedy. I love it. Kaso I feel bad dun sa matanda because everybody's just waiting for her to die so that they can whisper to her their aspirations. I saw how the level of income is positively correlated with the quality of wishes an individual has.
• Manenaya moved me to tears. It was such an excellent film so I wouldn't want to spoil it-- should my blog have readers. Or not.
• The drunk man's line "Yung mga bagay bang nawala sa buhay mo, pwede mo rin bang mapanalunan 'yon?" stuck to me. Ewan.

Baka yung iba kailangan ng super critical thinking para maintindihan talaga. Kasi ang nagustuhan ko lang yung first two eh.

After our walgasan activity, we went ot Pizza Hut to walgas some more! We ordered a 9-inch pizza na ay Diyos ko super liit lang pala kaya buti nalang that tiny piece of pa-expensive dough was accompanied by pasta. I then realized the importance of pesto and how it could make one's life so fucking nice.

I'm starting to miss Mama's easy-cook pesto.

Also, I had a blast.

Time for a dash of vanity woo hoo

You: I love you.

Me: Bakit

You: Ewan

Tssss. Pero deep inside you just want to take advantage of my genius so that you can finally take over the world.

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in a tux!

Woo hoo

Well she didn't tell me not to post here. I've got no readers anyway aside from Sofifi sa what the hell, right?

Also, she introduced me to her new turntable. She lives in a condo. She needs something to brag about. HAHAHAHA.

I love you, brother.

So today we went on a date.

I told my mum (yihee feeling British) na I would be home by 12 noon. I guess I was obligated to since it's a Sunday. We have pizza on Sundays-- Jillian and Jared and Mama and I.

So anyway I went off and I was kind of starting to worry because it's already x minutes past 10 when I got to Puregold and maybe Monica and I (and maybe her sisters too) might not be able to finish even just one of the movies I downloaded (especially for them) since they will still have to attend the Lighthouse by 1pm (and anyway they never did). I got even more worried when I realized that all cashier queus were so very fucking long. I held my patience for one fucking liter of chocolate fucking ice cream.

But it was worth it.

Or not. Pagdating ko kasi sa bahay nila I went directly upstairs (as fast as I can kasi I was afraid na some creepy woman in black would show herself to me) only to find Mocs asleep. She was a mess. Helen and Daniella and I kept telling her to wake up, but to no avail. She just keeps giving us a moan of "yes okay I heard you I'll get up". 'Di niya talaga ko pinapansin.

Pero some time after that nagising din. Buti nalang. Kaya pala she wasn't responding to my text messages. What a potato.

We then saw Wanderlust. It was a weird movie. I didn't quite understand how Jennifer Aniston and whoever her leading man was ended up rich and how that nudist dude's novel became a best seller. I don't even know what we're watching. I guess it was a movie about hippies and the moral of the story is that being a hippie turns frowns upside down. Yihee rhyming.

Anyway.

Daniella and Monica and I had lunch sa living room. Monica then started telling me the story behind all those weird text messages I was receiving from her the day before but of course I can't spill it here.

Whatever it is she's going through, I hope everything turns out okay. That's right folks: she's thinking about ending their dog's life. It's a shame. That dog and I-- though I never really knew his/her/its name-- that dog and I grew really close. It was the one who kept me company when Monica was too busy with either doing chores or bossing her sisters around. I'm going to miss that dog.

So obviously that story about the dog was made-up.

When it was time for me to go, Monica decided to go with me probably because she thought she was going back na to her Avída Tower(s) quarters (because yes that's where's she's staying during weekdays now) pero actually she forgot na tomorrow pa talaga siya pupunta dun.

We had our date sa Soya Bar (bagong bukas ata yun since I don't believe I've seen it before) and talked about the past week's chronicles. I had a serving of soy pudding and some grilled chicken sandwich. She had soy bubble milk tea (which was kind of weird to consume since 'di bagay ang sago sa soya) and an order of chicken something quesadillas (which I thought had too much mayo). Her treat! (Woo hoo lagi niya nalang akong nililibre ang galing ko talagang mamili ng best friend joke.)

(I placed lots of details sa previous paragraph kasi I want it to sound like some food critic review thingy kaso I wasn't able to actually give my review because giving reviews is one of the many things I suck at.)

I think we (mutually) agreed to do this (the date thingy with the I'll-tell-you-my-week's-highlights thingy) more frequently! Hihi.

Also, we talked about Hannah whose flat we'll be visiting on Saturday. So Hannah, go shopping na for food. We'll need those.

Five months ago, the plot of Lordei Hina's almost date with death-- in huge bold black font and all-- took up quite some space on the news stands. You have probably heard of her. This certain nationalist student leader (oha, tunog blind item) was, well, hit with an ice pick just above the left temple, fracturing her skull and knockin her unconscious.