octoberfest

last week was a bit of a turmoil. impertinence happening when you least expect it and from whom you least expect it from. bad callers just when you thought you weren't taking calls for the night (lo an' behold, must be your QA day). the tv failing you and you realize you can't watch anything or even hear anything because your only player will only work with a tv output. being declined for your credit card application just when you realize that you need one (sayang ang miles!). seeing your payslip slowly deteriorating to nothingness every other week. and capping it all off with 68 hours of no sleep. it's a good thing there's always beer.

we promised ourselves beer would be essential if come friday night and we won't have endshift VTO. we spent the whole day friday being glorified mall rats. me, lala, reign and ace. so beer has to happen if endshift didn't. so off we go come morning after breakfast at kfc to digi's. the midnight oil people's choice of recreation because they have practically everything on 24/7. the day proved to be entertaining. not only was lala able to give deric his gift (and old rose jimmy hendrix shirt i'd love to have myself). not only did we amuse ourselves by doing the mandatory videoke. not only did we all diss about love and it's after effects when messed with alcohol (all of us seemed to be singles, except for reign and grace). not only did we suddenly sober up when grace's boyfriend texted her saying he's outside her apartment for a surprise visit when she's out "doing grocery." not only did santi perk us up with her unending number of jokes. but the other table staged a lovapalooza. couples kissing and eating each other up right beneath the widescreen vidoeke, just for everyone to see. their love story unfolded right before our very eyes. the interesting part is that none of them seemed to be couples before they started drinking. ah...the illusions that alcohol create. i hope they don't regret it when they wake up.

it just dawned on me that we did open up the octoberfest. yesterday was october 1. start of the month-long celebration for the concoction that we all love and call beer. i guess i still have a social life after all. although i must admit, i don't really have much money these days.

oh well, you can't have it all now, can you?