a series of unfortunate events

it's been exactly two weeks since my last update. what actually happened was that i'd thought up this post's title a while back and kept delaying the actual entry, since i was constantly anticipating this or that new and exciting evil. the end result is that since i'd put it off for so long, i'm bound to forget to narrate one or two of my less interesting experiences. how... unfortunate.

i. tuesday, august 9

two days before my band and i were going to perform a set for malate's annual reinkarnasyo ng salita, we were informed that a) we were prohibited from carting in full-sized amplifiers and thus electric instruments were out of the question, and b) since the other band [severo, i believe] had backed out because of this revelation, we now had to prepare two sets. naturally, this meant we had to scrap our playlist and draw up two new ones, but in addition, it also meant that i had to somehow get my hands on an acoustic bass.

ii. thursday, august 11

i had arranged to borrow said acoustic bass, but things went awry and i had to content myself with playing rhythm guitar. except that my my sister had made off with our guitar in the name of an oral presentation, and i had to make even more arrangements to ensure that i would be playing anything at all.

since we hadn't really practiced and our playlist wasn't that apt to begin with, we weren't really expecting a warm reception, although the fact that there was hardly any reception, warm or cool, was a tad disappointing. the reinkarnasyon isn't exactly a popular event, but there is that expectation that used seats would outnumber unused seats, however slightly. on the bright side, less audience members meant larger complementary dinner portions.

not content with what they'd served us, i dropped by a friend's condo for some sushi and chit-chat. on my way out a few hours later, i ran into the reinkarnasyon after-party crew, who were on their way in, and needless to say it was at least three or four more hours before i was sober enough to extricate myself from their company. the devil's own good timing, some would call it.

iii. saturday, august 13

not really so unfortunate, merely tedious: a jaunt to school to attend a lecture for bonus points in my philosophy class. when i say "attend" i of course mean "buy a ticket, sign attendance, and exit as quickly as is respectable". on my way back to gox, i chanced upon pogz, who was in the mood for a few rounds of lalabu. our guest of honor was paxi, who was so delighted by new-found love affair with alcohol that he decided to recreate chudor's duxmobile incident, but without the moving vehicle.

after leaving a series of territorial markings in the student's nook and under the agno benches, he decided to pass out on the stairwell underneath wow telenet. here we took a number of photographs which i now realize aren't flattering at all, so i won't be uploading them anytime soon. after a good hour or so of babysitting, we finally managed to bundle him into a taxi and the rest of us took a hard-earned dinner at jollibee, courtesy of nads, who was coincidentally celebrating his own happy birthday.

later that night, paxi sent a message thanking me for my concern, and assuring me that he was almost over his "food poisoning", as his mother put it.

right.

iv. monday, august 15

for reasons that defy all logic, sir cortel got married. i don't know what to make of that; i'd always assumed he'd remain a bachelor by necessity. i wonder what he was teaching the day he decided to propose - carpe diem, in his philosophy class? signs of the impending apocalypse, perhaps, in christian living? chaos theory, in physics? my take is, he wasn't teaching at all; he simply hit upon a joke that would finally, finally make someone laugh.

v. tuesday, august 16

jp and i had been toying awhile with the idea of forming a band together, and we finally decided to concretize the idea. this is purely fyi, since we're a long way from playing live, or even recording songs. first things first: we need a male vocalist and a drummer. any takers?

vi. friday, august 19

i had ordered a batch of hash brownies from timmy since i'd always been curious about them. i did not realize how long it actually took them to hit so, long story short, i ended up eating two entire squares. some three hours later, after dinner at home, i suddenly found myself rather high. at that time i was writing a two-page essay on prayer and discernment to be submitted via email by midnight. i honestly don't know what i wrote, and haven't yet read through it; the fact that i named the file "prayer and dizernment" isn't particularly motivating. i think that chudor [who partook of the brownies as well] was better able to illustrate the feeling at that moment:

chudor: woah... lahat ng kinakain ko feel na feel ko

self: munchies

chudor: sarap ng oreo!
chudor: parang ice cream na hindi
chudor: or ice cream na tinabunan ng cookies
chudor: ang lasa
chudor: woah!
chudor: meron pa akong isa pare...
chudor: na oreo

self: wtf chuds... blog na 'to

how unfortunate.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 2:50 AM