we try arsty fartsy. (02062010)

repost from nini.


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friday is just ever so full of pressure. like you know you've geared up the entire week for that day you finally get to go do something for yourself. but sometimes, you just fill yourself with so much expectations that you don't even know how to meet them all. you know what, when all else fails, just go back to basics. it never fails!

basics: aka mansy, dinner in some artsy-fartsy hidden place near katipunan, spontaneous drive, quick brush with alcohol, marien. perfect!

left the office early. again. i know. i'm prolly gonna get fired soon. but well. i compensate in the morning. i'd like to think i do. anyway, went to mcdo katipunan to go pick mansy up. initial plan was to go meet up with everyone. but everyone nowadays mean having to go through the grueling ordeal of pulling them all out under their rocks also known as law school. it's hard getting three no's in a row you know. daniel. leo. marien. all no's in one night. rejection is a bitch to reckon with. so mansy and i decided to go ahead and dinner. we needed some alone time with each other. hahaha!

children nowadays.

mansy now hangs out with the little kids from UP. they're nineteen. or twenty. well they're somewhere along the lines of where i used to be happy. hahaha! so mansy, being the responsible woman that she is brought them all to drew's for a few drinks. one of the girls practically killed herself from all the alcohol. she ended up spewing all her guts out in mcdo's cr. i was lucky enough to witness the whole ordeal. i looked like the unapologetic bitch-boy snickering at all the puking kids. i bought fries and gave them some. they had to eat something. so yeah, i did my part of social responsibility.

van gogh is bipolar.

mansy said she'll bring me to this artsy fartsy dinner place somewhere in maginhawa, near UP. i'll never know how she gets to know about these things. it's part of her charm. knowing her, i figured this might be some overrated place that she just found amusing. to my surprise, the place was actually interesting! it's a duplex turned resto. it was pretty small and secluded so they only serve 12 people at a time.

jethro. he owns the place. he was very gv. i loved it!

you write your order down on a piece of paper, ring the bell, give the paper to the guy, then sit. i never paid for so much self-service. i don't know if that's exactly a good thing.

turkey surprise on a bed of black mountain rice. their food had happy "stuff". i was happy. very happy. so was mansy.

"dapat meron tayong mga ganitong moments eh. where we bond. just the two of us."

oh and we saw eugene domingo. that kimmy dora girl. she's not so nice after all. i don't normally turn fan-boy. but just for kicks, i wanted to try it out. so i went and excused myself for interrupting their dinner to say i'm a fan. she looked at me. scratch that, stared at me. sized me up. and said uhuh. talk about bitchy stardom written all over. i wanted to slap her with all my non-existent money. but the place was too gv to make my embarrassment too obvious. so i stowed cy away cos she might think i still want to take her picture. only dip for the night.

the night seemed to have ended a little too early than usual. so a few minutes later, we found ourselves on the way to rockwell to go pick marien up!

law school has different effects on people. this is hers.

we got ourselves a few things from the ministop nearby and went back to marien's. she had their dorm all to herself. so we practically had license to tear it down. but for some weird reason, we seemed dead tired. the happy "stuff" probably wore off and we felt tired as hell. regardless, we went ahead and tried drowning ourselves anyway.

the night called for some kanto-boy-ing.

i miss you paris. :(

yes. i look fatter now. i'll get skinny again. soon.

mansy. marien. they had the same problem. i was willing to be the solution. go figure. hahaha!

we all felt old after an hour. like the entire conversation always ended up referencing to how things used to be and how things could be. so many if's actually. and of course, new york. our biggest if! i love both of these bitches. two parts of me in two people. 2009 was a bad year. and i'm afraid for 2010 to turn out the same. we'll make something out of this one. we'll make sure of that. it's a slow start, we know. but something will turn up. i just feel it.

kurt. marien. mansy. i love you all.