Monday, January 31, 2005

This weekend was BLISS – I was in a world detached from the stress, from the responsibilities – all part of that sub-world called school. It is good to let those escapist tendencies dominate over reality once in a while.

Lolo hector came from the States and my father wanted to see him (or who knows, he probably also wants escape from his work in the hospital) so they came here in manila last Friday. They picked me up Friday night, instead of Saturday morning – (huhu, bad side – I had to cancel my original plan of going ‘gig-hopping’ with friends – from Chuck’s to Cersa to Gelo’s (bahala mga blockmates ko sana). But of course, I don’t really feel bad about it – hello, I miss being with the family and now is my chance so I won’t let this pass. I just wish I still would have those “next time” to spend with my blockmates. God, God knows how much I wanted to have UBE with them as often as I could. School stuff just always comes in the way. Too bad. And too stupid for me to live like a loser and a loner (see, they go together) since I got into college. Thanks Ateneo for putting this curse.

Going back, hehe – So on Friday night, we ate at Kenny Roger’s Katipunan. Ha! I knew it – we are all bound to gluttony this weekend. Tsk tsk, I knew – I should have not eaten the whole week. Hehe, just kidding! I just cannot imagine starving myself these days (so warning for those who have seen me in my ‘thinnest’ days BEFORE, you’ll be very surprised how much I gained weight now). Two evils – A-P-P-E-T-I-T-E and C-R-A-V-I-N-G-S. ow, make that 4 –add sweets (sub – chocolate and polvoron and donuts) and banana shake to that. The next morning, we had a hearty breakfast of longsilog and juice, (thanks to my lola luvis). Then, we had lunch at market market! Lolo raul ordered lots of seafood; papa still got me a chicken meal. God, it was literally a feast. Im not a seafood person but the voracious appetites of the people around me are infectious – that I even tried squid. Yum, squid tastes good. And not all squids are black, that when you eat them, your teeth get all black – hehe, that was my ex-belief.

And speaking of ex-es. I bumped into jon2 – an ex…. friend, high school friend. Sus. .It’s really a small world, right? I think he was trying to avoid me, us – I was with mama. Mama said he couldn’t even look at us, hehe. but anyway, while he was seated on a bench there, with his father, I came up to him and greeted him. (naku, jm palines would be so proud of me, hehe. Joke lang. Kulit kulit kase nun eh) well, it’s a blessing we didn’t talk really – ha, I wouldn’t give him a chance to notice and tell me how much I gained. Hehe. J

Back to food talk - After market market, we went to duty free to do some quick grab for chocolates. Dinner time, Saturday – lola served us steak and of course, even if I promised myself I won’t eat dinner and just have my Bavarian brew, I couldn’t resist the temptation, hay. Sunday: I promised myself I won’t eat breakfast because I know we’re having a heavy lunch with the family – again, the Mcdo pancakes with honey (not syrup) and the butter are just so tempting. We went to SM southmall after that to have my refraction at Vision Express. I needed to change my contact lenses, by the way J then we came back home lunch time and ‘dig in’ again. Wah.. my waist could have measured 30 + inches, no exaggeration. And just when I thought that that would be it for the day, lola told papa we would still have dinner at a newly opened Chinese resto in ATC. Whattt??! And at around 6 in the evening, we were at China Star – ready to commit our guilty acts again.

I ordered beef brisket and wanton noodle soup -thinking that it would be an ideal meal for those who try to be on diet. But when it came – ok, the soup is on a gigantic bowl we even joked that we could swim and get drown in it. sigh – not just that, I tasted also the chicken, the suckling pig, the pansit, the roasted calf and ate lots of peanuts – not pistachios recommended for dieters ah. and when we were on the car, I ate several mini-bars of Cadbury. If you add that up, that’s equivalent to more than a big bar, huhu. But in fairness to me – I said no to mama when she offered giving me an extra pack of Hershey’s kisses and a pack of mongo tikoy (yum yum). Applaud.. applaud.. (by the way, it’s already 2:30 am as I write this and as of now, there were only 3 bars of Cadbury left, hehe)

Snap! Back to reality – I have lots of things to do for tomorrow – I remember. And there’s a long test this Tuesday. Wahh. .back to MY monotonous world.