kindred

This blog was dead in my mind for the past 2 weeks. Dead because I was convinced it had been ransacked by a malicious code (and it was) and that with the insignificant amount of technical knowledge I have on troubleshooting with blogs, I didn’t believe I would be able to resurrect it (and I did, after easily deleting 1 out of 5 lines in my index.php. It was that easy.).

I should really start appreciating the WP Docs.

Anyway, it’s my birth month! Last year’s celebration was thrifty in that I took it to myself not to spend more than a month’s earnings just for a one-night celebration.

This year’s celebration will be as thrifty in that I will take it to myself not to spend more than a month’s earnings just for a 30-day celebration! This year, I will be 30 times more drunk at almost the same cost! See how far I’ve gone with this 30-day project.

The plan: Drink at least one glass/shot/bottle of any type of liquor per day. I hope to exceed the minimum, but to TRULY keep the costs down I’m sticking to one a day (and to be quite honest, I haven’t been true to this). I will try to drink with a different buddy per day, and the drinking buddy profile would be people I haven’t been in touch with for the past year, like school and batch mates, or generally people who were and are close to me (this, again, I haven’t done really, cos the available and reachable drinking buddies for the past week have been the same people LOL). I feel I have to reconnect to every special soul in my life to a level that only alcohol can bring. This is so much better than gathering everyone in a night of drunkenness where I could hardly have a dialogue with anyone*.

Then, on the 30th day, I would drink with a total stranger. Or with God. HOWZATSOUND?

* True, true, but there’s just this triumphant smile on my face at thought of seeing a houseful of drunkards, so apart from the day-to-day appointments, I’m still throwing this:

Click for details. THIS INVITATION BEING THE ACTUAL AND ONLY REASON BEHIND THIS POST, be it known that at least 3 mins of your day have just been wasted. Nothing grand. Just a teardrop gathering. Just food and drinks. My brother’s been learning card tricks, he’ll be pleased to have you all watch him. My sister’s been in a cast and bed ridden for a month after an operation, she wouldn’t mind your signing her cemented leg. Most of all it’s my birthday, I don’t mind getting you drunk, NOT EVER.

You know what, looking at this month’s plan and per-day expenses, I’ve an odd feeling this will all be Marked as Fail ie It’s More Expensive Than The Last One, but most of all Marked as Happy. What matters more, really?

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Was reading up on WCG in hackenslash, and was reminded of a life-long goal to be in this list.

As with any goal, steps must be taken to attain it. I’ve accomplished:

(null)

So far so good.

The reason is I stopped gaming a long time ago when I still had the passion for it. Because I was being too mature and thought I knew better than my clanmates, I dug myself a pit and hid from the addiction.

I dunno what I was so afraid of. I was growing up, so I thought I needed to stop and focus on other things. Like drinking. 

As a testimony to this major career plane jump, now, I drink more and more often than my gamer friends.

This is me talking about what little I know about choosing career paths. It ends here. 

Title cut for brevity. The whole thing goes”I sniped with an Arctic Rifle, a Sigma 70-300mm, and well, more often than not with a ZOOM Photoshop tool”

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2nd floor, Atchie’s

Taken By Cars
Full Atchie’s Bar album in my media folder

3rd floor, Calye Brown

Hilera
Full Calye Brown album in my media folder

Didn’t I tell you all to come?

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I was passively listening to this song in my head until I realized I didn’t know the words to it. I was screwing my eyes shut trying to make sense of the whispering, the teasing, the moaning, the shuffling, the stopping and the continuing, the silence following a deep breath, words ricocheting as with two parrots talking.

The times I was quiet I wasn’t really listening. I was waiting for the result of this consistent pounding from a few inches here below my lips, where I dug a hole not so deep it could only entomb one. From here there was also trembling, dislocating and shifting of bones and fault lines. From here there was you facing the open sky, lying on top of my previous lover, a corpse covering another.

I don’t know what I’m saying.

I was trying to write about you, but I’ve backspaced too much to believe if every word still had its bearing.

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I must have missed out some words, but this is how I remember this character saying these lines:

“I was engaged until yesterday.
I found menthol butts with red lipstick stains.
Not in an ashtray, though.
In the car.
On the floor between the passenger seat and the door.”

- Maki Kuwata (Reika Krishima) in “A Stranger of Mine” (Kenji Uchida, 2005; Japanese title: Umei Janai Hito)

Have you ever walked in clueless in a cinema and walked out thinking you might have just seen one of the unexpectedly funniest movies ever? No, I didn’t find the above lines funny at all. That made it to my list of memorable quotes because I loved how she paid attention to details that any other girl faced with infidelity would tend to overlook. This is actually a pretty creative way of telling someone you’ve been dumped while you’re in that chaotic period when you still can’t admit the reality of what’s just been done to you and when you can’t remember the last time you’ve been this drunk.

My own version of those lines, again in my less-than-a-minute short, would be like this:

I was engaged until tonight.
Coming home from work, I found used condoms in the bedside bin.
One on top of strands of longer hair and crumpled receipts.
Another on top of a box of my chocolates.
I didn’t eat those yet, and I took out the trash this morning.
- moi

… Fail. It’s more wordy than the one in the film, lacking in brilliance to make it to the silver screen. It definitely sounded better while I was thinking it.

My point is some girls (like me) look at details more often than guys would imagine. I can forget your name, but I’ll remember you as the person with the pre-drinking ceremony of making popping sounds with your thumb sliding against the brim of the bottle (but almost everybody does that, you’d say, and I’d even agree, but what about the other half that doesn’t? That would still be a number), and as the one who held your bottle by the upper neck using only the first three fingers of your right hand.

Save for that scene, the rest of the film was actually a mix of twisting storyline(s) (but then there was only one story flowing into several branches, eventually intertwining before the end) and great not in-your-face (I’m out of adjectives, am sleepy) kind of comedy. Subtitled comedies are hard to appreciate, but this one needed no trying.

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