Long Weekend

Friday: I conducted an interview in the Sandiganbayan, along with three of my group mates and one of my group mate’s girlfriend who tagged along to help us with our class project. We arrived in Sandiganbayan around 10:15 am (the appointment was supposed to be 10 am) and from there, we pestered the people working in Sandiganbayan with questions ranging from a bit serious to just plain absurd and irrelevant. We had lunch in the cafeteria, got a little peeved with the price of the Japanese food they were selling. Fortunately it wasn’t bad. We finished around 4 pm and then three of us went back to UP and hung out for a while. Come around 5-6pm, two of us went back to our humble abodes to waste some time while waiting for a friend who works in the Ortigas area. Got a text a message regarding the reunion for the following day while I was changing my clothes (since I was wearing a semi formal attire for the interview I conducted earlier). Still didn’t have a hint it was going to be a long, tiring weekend. An hour later, we met up with two more friends from Ateneo law, who are also planning to wander around since it was a Friday night. We went to Quatro, Timog. This is where I broke my promise not to drink. Well, not really promise not to drink but reserve my alcohol drinking to special occasions, and I don’t think that was an occasion that could be considered special. Anyway, an hour or two later, we decided to tag along with two of our friends to go to Oyster Boy, Ortigas. This is where I broke my promise to never smoke again. I don’t what happened, I just felt compelled to smoke. Had two sticks. Then, for the third and last time, we decided to go to Drew’s, Katipunan to join some other friends, who were already very tipsy. Ok, so I spent a lot of gas money that night, and all I had to drink was one bottle of san mig light and smoke maybe around 6 sticks of cigarette. We finished around 1 am, I think. Or was it 2 am? Can’t actually remember. Anyway, point is, I went home late.

Saturday: I think I woke up around 10 am to eat some breakfast, and then I slept again until lunch. After eating lunch, took a bath, then slept again. I really felt tired and drained and dehydrated. So aside from sleeping, I kept on drinking water the entire day. Anyway, I finally decided I’m going to this grade school reunion, which was set at 8pm, at Quatro, Timog. I left our house around quarter to 9, not that I want to be fashionably late but I had things to do before I go (like change the parking spot in the garage) and I knew people won’t arrive until maybe 8:30 pm. So, I got there at 9 pm, maybe I was just on time. I really didn’t expect I was going to enjoy the night, since I really had no memories to share with them, but well, I actually did have fun. I enjoyed their company and I was really happy that I decided to join them this time. And since they didn’t know about my blood problem, no one was going to stop me from drinking. So I ordered two macho mugs of san mig light and chugged down half macho mug of red horse. Didn’t care if I die that night, I just love alcohol, and I’m going to die happy. Anyway, we ended around 4 am, got home around 4:30 am. It was nice to catch up with people whom you haven’t seen for 10 years. Really makes you think of what could have been or how life can be, well, as it is. I was glad to have seen them again after all these years.

Sunday: For some strange reason, I woke up around 8:30 am, and I was wide awake. I didn’t feel sleepy after sleeping for only four hours. I had a headache though. So I drank lots of water again to hydrate myself. Around lunchtime, I drove my family to Shopwise, and then I loitered in Gateway for a while. Then I thought of a friend who works there, so I texted her if I could hang out with her for a while since I was just roaming around the mall she was working in. So there, we talked, told her about this girl I like, and then minutes later, my sister texted me we had to go home. My not so usual weekend ended there. Started around 9 am of Friday and ended Sunday, around 3 or 4 pm. Wait, also got a text message inviting me to join a Valentine’s Singles Dinner. Not sure if I’ll go. So there.