my second post ever

(originally posted 06.05.05 1.49am in http://dr0ps0fjupiter.blogs.friendster.com/a_drop_of_jupiter/)

hehe.

still just can't get over the fact na may blog na ako. but here's an attempt to make sense out of my blog.

if yesterday has to have a title, it would be Andre's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

woke up at around 10am to the sounds of our roof being hammered... repair men going in and out of the house... well, yeah, i slept in the living room by the way. so while i was sleeping, people i don't know have seen me curling up and twisted on the living room floor. whee...
so i stood up, fixed my comfy mattress and put my pillow en blanket back to my room. did some cleaning... prepared snacks for the workers... washed the dishes... and waited till my pops leave for some business.

i was supposed to go to a general assembly of my org, UP Photography Society, (also known as OPTICS, for some reason i really dunno. hehe) at 1pm at mcdonald's katipunan. it was already 12 and i was dressed up but not ready to go. Si Kris kasi... got hooked to Pilipinas, Game KNB? with AiAi, Toni, John Pratts, and Randy playing the pyramid round. Na-amaze lang ako kay AiAi 'coz she was smart. i knew i would be late because commuting from parañaque to quezon city usually takes about an hour to an hour en a half (if there's no heavy traffic). with the sun blazing, i had no choice but to brave the bolstering heat. left the house 12.30... got to bicutan interchange ten minutes later... waited for an air-conditioned bus... arrived at mrt magallanes station exactly 1pm. i told myself that by that time, the meeting has already begun. hay, late na naman ako. the mrt ride took 30 minutes. en when i got to the up jeep station at quezon ave, i didn't expect that the jeepney had to wait for effing 20 minutes before it was filled with passengers. i did not transfer to a philcoa jeep and from there ride a up jeep 'coz i was already late. WHY HURRY WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY LATE?

arrived at vinzons hall around 2pm and from there i had to ride a katipunan jeep. but there's no katipunan jeep in sight. so i went to balara-katipunan station and seated so0o00o comfortably inside the jeepney that i forgot to get off at mcdonald's... so from under the katipunan flyover, i walked back to mcdonald's and arrived 2.15pm. i was so late but marami din iba pang mas late sa akin. hehe.

my series of unfortunate events didn't end there. and the next ones are so, so, so unfortunate pero natawa na lang ako sa sarili ko kasi parang they are more of stupid than unfortunate. hehehe.

g.a. ended around 5pm but i wasn't able to leave immediately though i really needed to go home 'coz i didn't ask permission to leave the house. it was raining cats and dogs and i brought no umbrella/jacket/or anything but my fone en money with me. so i stayed till the rain subsided. but when the rain weakened the optics people were having some fun and i was held up until 6pm when we finally called it a day.

when buddy Loren, Nestee, and i got out of mcdonald's, we just got awed by how jet black the sky was. akala namin props lang yun at matagal pa babagsak ang ulan. so lakad kami, as if hindi babagsak ang ulan, towards under the katipunan flyover where they would get a ride to cainta and where i would proceed to the nearby lrt2 katipunan station. but we got no far from mcdonald's when we felt drops of rain already coming from the jet black sky. we seek shelter under the flyover and the station is just a few yards from where i was. but with the rain pouring so hard, i needed to figure out a way on how to get there. i could no longer wait for the rain to stop because i knew it would take a long time. the answer stood in front of me. it was a jeepney that would pass by the station entrance. so i rode and told the driver to stop at the lrt station. unfortunately, unfortunately, the jeepney did not enter the unloading bay instead it stopped in the middle of the highway. so i just braced myself to run as fast as i could. i leapt out of the jeep and...

...descending on an escalator, i was drying my hair, face, neck, and arms with my hanky. my light yellow shirt turned dark, you know obviously why.
fast forward to the next unfortunate event which i truly did not expect: WALKING INSIDE GATEWAY MALL SOAKING WET. unless i wanted to get wet even more, using gateway as a link to mrt cubao station is the only option. or at least that's what i thought of the "driest" way to cubao station.

but then again, i was proved wrong.

not only it was raining hard, the wind was also blowing the rain to go horizontally. it was as if the last challenge in fear factor. in my case, the 25-thousand dollar challenge was to cross the bridgeway with a useless roof connecting gateway mall and farmer's plaza. whether to do it or not is REALLY out of the question. if this is the last time i'm gonna be wet well then, bring it on!
some of the people walking along with me through the bridgeway were either skipping, hopping, hugging tight to their jackets, or angling their umbrellas right. and how about me? well, i just walked normally. hehe... just smiling at what events have happened that day. and then, there. i got to farmer's plaza, a few more strides and i'm on an mrt train to ayala station. i really did not mind walking inside farmer's plaza just as i was embarrassed in gateway. it's just farmer's plaza anyway. hehehe.

reached the ticket booth... entered the mrt... rode a train... got off at ayala... rode a 35-peso shuttle... got of at the tricycle terminal behind sm bicutan and a few minutes later, i was hanging my not-so-wet-now shirt and pants at the laundry area to dry... ate dinner... talked to some friends... and finally called it one-hell-of-a-day.

just how unfortunate can you get in one day?

hohwell, i'm just excited to go to church tonight. yes, you heard me right. i'm hearing mass. =)