Yet another update

as bliss is elusive when comfort has weighed out the frantic QC streets, I've gone home.

Net Nomad

To Everyone:

Getting out from the addictive bum life seemed hard. I ask forgiveness from those who have been directly (hmm...) or indirectly "affected" by my less than usual net presence, therefore failing to update/validate my existence. In the process of uplifting my life from being a bum to a fully functional human being, I have applied for a dead-end job. Contract signing / doomsday is this afternoon. For those who still remember dear old me, or those who want to rescue me from employment, you are welcome to text me now @ 09159693896 (yes, now i'm shameless to admit to social retardation). Or for those with landlines, pls text me first. I'll call you myself.


For future self-reference (do not read as next paragraph is only for me to read someday)

Do you want someone to tell you the truth and be willing to cover for them with a lie?
Or do you want that someone to keep pretending with you then soon discover that it was a lie?

Getting a girl pregnant is something. People who you don't know if they are pretending to have had it who bug you if they got someone pregnant for about 109 times is yet another story. I have inquired every conceivable resource I could.

Life Update

Balik manila...

certainly uncertain

Nothing particularly interesting happened the week after I got home from Vigan. I am once again stuck in this rather peculiar state devoid of anything that excites me. Well, maybe except the fact that my friends and I played black jack althroughout Saturday and drank two nights before that.

Benilde's deadline for the enrolment is on May 10. The time to make the wise choice is harrowing and yet I am uncertain. Too much time has been wasted yet I feel doubtful of my patience and abilities. I know I'm not stupid.

I have a brain. I am just too arrogant to use it.

vacation vigan

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Friday: April 14, 2006

Anne, Kuya Kris, Kuya Karlou, Kiqs and I were eating our holy week fishballs when all of a sudden she tells me "Kuya Di, let's go to Ate April's house in Vigan!", to which I reacted negatively as Vigan was about 8 hours away from Pampanga. The next thing I know was that we were bound for Vigan.

We arrive at Cholo and April (our cousin) Baquiran's quaint vigan home at about 4:30 am, which is already short since we left at about 10:30.

A Tour of the House


Ate April's home was filled with exotic and original items giving it an refreshing eclectic appeal, decorated by no less than herself, the interior designer du jour.


Before, the house just served as a bodega but when they married, she decided that they move there and overhauled it into it's present state: A country themed exterior with all the comforts of a modern home on its interior.


calesa loveseat

the bar

candle fixtures

They also have actual horses in their backyard.



Saturday, April 15, 2006

We woke up with these critters licking our faces:


Then we headed to Chavit Singson's resthouse at Baluarte, Ilocos Sur.

Here's Anne with a python.

Warning: this is not a wire.


A trip to Vigan is never complete without visiting my Ate's resto. Make sure you make a stop at:

The Hambre Restaurant
Crisologo St., Vigan

Ate April's bread and butter.


That afternoon, Anne and I went for a walk at the brick-laden streets of old world Vigan.


At about 5:00 pm we went to Cabugao to chill at the beach.


We headed back to Hambre then Kuya Adrian, Anne, Ate Apes and I went to grab a vigan classic: the empanada.



Then we went to the town plaza to shop at the tiangge.


After that, we headed straight at the street party directly in front of the infamous and historic Cafe Leona where we drank with the owner of Max's Vigan while drinking beer and gobbling nachos and maki.


Sunday, April 16, 2006

Little did I know that I was assigned to be one of the judges for the Battle of the Bands whose winner will also be the front act for the upcoming Bamboo concert. It was held affront the Hambre restaurant who is also one of the sponsors of the said event.

The event started at about 9pm. Turns out the judges had unlimited food and booze. Lucky me. During performances I would compare my top 3 with the Tribe of Levi's own Rex Vargas, another judge in the event. By 2:00 I was already hammered by the beer that I wasn't paying attention to the performance levels of the band, it's like I was just in some bar listening to hard rock music while guzzling the free beer and munching on unending servings of baked stuffed chicken, buttered corn, and mozzarella sticks.

Pictures to come.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Before heading home we ate lunch (more like breakfast because we woke up at about 1pm, thanks to the battle of the bands) at Hambre. The food was stunning for only 5 of us will be eating. There was bagnet, vigan longganisa, garlic mushroom, buttered corn, adobo, and tokwa't baboy, among others. We finally said goodbye to Vigan at 4:30pm then arrived home at 1pm.

@mimosa

Since Kiqs only had 1 week of vacation, we decided to get wet @ mimosa.



After guzzling a beer, I realize that he had taken my trunks. What's left?

A fuckin' spandex.



I decided and wore the shorts I came in with.

banterweight was at tiesto

Manila is Tiesto virgin no more.

After hanging out at Mocha Blends, Harbor Square, we went straight to party with tiesto' s opening act: manolet dario.


the one significant event.


the patient crowd.


awaiting the god of trance.


the smirnoff challenge.


poster-worthy cutouts.


sleeping with my cigarettes in hand.

a photoblog of the most hectic day

Last friday night, my uncle celebrated... his breakup. First Emond and Shalom arrived, then the celebrant with Kuya Mark and Marvin. We drank till midnight until his gf got back with him, by phone. Then 6:00 am the following day, I drove with my cousin for what would be my most hectic day ever.

First Stop: Anne's Condo, Ortigas


After two hours of prepare-time, we finally got started.


Second Stop: Lienzo de los Gazules, Makati


After we got sponsorship from Tito Ed, we went ahead.


Third Stop: Designer Blooms Showroom, Paranaque


Tang inang layo ng paranaque.


Fourth Stop: Avel Bacudio's Office, Kamias


Plush office.


Fifth Stop: UP Diliman


Kwelang Computer Shop - ticket printouts


Syempre Kikiam at Balls. Nex was here.


UP Coop


Sixth Stop: Anne's Condo


Wafu.

Metrowalk.

Seventh Stop: Home

Sa wakas.