of heaven and heavenly bodies

what i really wanna do is write about my Holy Week getaway but the writer within me ( yes, there is one and she`s just as pretty ;) must've been left sun- bathing on the powder- white shores of Kaputian Island because i've been staring silly at the picture before me for what seems like 3 years now. the photo is truly lovely, is it not? it never fails to make me smile. this was taken aboard the pumpboat that took us to the garden island of samal, where we spent the holy week drinking and admiring the crowd which is distinctively pinoy... brown and happy.

burn, baby. burn!

lelit is having a great day considering her bike crashed towards the open sewage just when she went out of her building's gate this morning, then yet another one of those blasted messengers reminded her of her so- called deadline to reconcile with her ex- boyfriend or forever hold her peace (an ultimatum of sorts from the man himself, duh! ), and lunch was not at all that satisfying... at any less auspicious day, any one of those situations would've been enough to summon the sheDevil within...but no, not today. it took a much stronger element from the deep bowels of the earth to get this baby burnin'... burnin' with so much desire to whip the living daylights out of the resident rat. fyi, this particular rat looks strangely human, speaks too, and she gets a bigger salary than most people in the office. oh well, looking over other peoples monitors from behind or lording it over the maintainance guys or dialing ones phone number to check on the maid every five minutes may not be as easy a job as it appears. presumably, that settled the pay check.and therefore, not the reason for her most recent brush with death. the sheRat, obviously bored, and eager for some action (of the yakking sort), decided to make me the subject of her exercise. and so, she proceeded, ranting and raving about me this and that... alas! enter the horned, whip- toting, SkimpyShinyBlackLeatherBikini- clad , burning hot mama in boots with legs wide open, poised for the kill... and she blurts out, god bless you lelit! in so urgent a fashion, one could tell she means the exact opposite thing (like god hit her with a lightning bolt or do whatever it would take to bring her back to hell)... i scared the rat, i light a cigarette, and smile...sheDevil safely tucked- back in :)

wet + sober at past 10pm = TANTRUM

here's the bad story behind the equation...

as the pic suggests, my usual "party glow" seems amiss. and why not?! we had to stand and wait (in pretty party outfits, no less) for an eternity to get a table. yes, only to get a table because the chairs came several decades after. and then, as if that wasnt bad enough, the rain came a fallin before the beer begun a pourin!

before the blasted rain completely drown us, we ditched the nook we struggled so hard to obtain to stand once more in jickong's overcrowded bar. and an aweful bar it was! not a single attractive male could be found there. oh well, its better than getting wet. so, a couple of varecose veins after, the waiter managed to get us another table. this time, we no longer have to worry about getting wet because it came with an umbrella. i feel an ounce of hope.... But just when we was about to have fun, the last call for beer was announced. In Davao City, that means we dont care if you want more, be off!

arghh... my distress was filling- up to the brim! i had to get home (and rush) before i start breaking them red horse bottles on drunk peoples heads. what can i say? i become terribly envious when other people get drunk and im not.

oh sweet, dear nina! and it was your birthday! we shall recoup...and party with a vengeance!

photographs from the past

an uneventful (meaning no beer) night turned my attention to some photographs i have yet to sort after a year it was taken. a very tricky business for me since the very pics in question are part of the golden (some might disagree but what the heck, this is my blog) memories of a not- so- distant- romantic- sort of past i so wish to relive...really, im being very honest here. dont tell anyone else...i`ll deny it ;)

oh macy gray! i do try but i choke and i stumble!

anyway, organize them pictures i did. lelit in this pose and that beaming, smiling sweetly, bright- eyed... god! was i happy! not even a truck full of red horse could make me smile like i did in those days.

oh well, im due for a vacation, as when this photo was taken, in two weeks time and i wonder... would there be pictures taken while i sunbathe, tanned and bikini- clad, in a glorious beach location somewhere? the answer is yes... lelit alone is lelit with the world in her hands and every god damn man, photographer or not, in it! whoever said i needed to smile like that to get by?!