It seems to me that whenever the lethal mix of stress, boredom and routine strikes, there’s the need to completely vanish from the picture, go out of the radar.
Yes, it has been a while that I have not mingled with my usual partners-in-crime, to pursue the usual rounds in a drinking hole, chat the usual fantasies, and walk back to the usual dwelling only to wake up the following day to a dreary Sunday, or worse, a usual Monday.
My mind is completely cluttered lately that I can’t even determine what the fun in watching a movie is.
It is a momentary choice I’ve made, this detachment. I have been missing a lot of things since the start of the year, and the opportunity to get out of the metro—the city tangled in many electrical wires, drowning in dusty PUV’s—is like the most beautifully-cut diamond in all the trash I have been seeing.
After living in a concrete jungle for almost eight months, I’ve thought that the waves, the sand, the cheap sumptuous food, the sunrise, and all about calmness, will be an elusive dream of an intoxicated employee. I’ve made that notion wrong.
One day, with everything all set to go, I venture onto a six-hour travel to find peace, along with three of my Hipon fellows Sara Sebastian, Sam Echavez, and Yas Ocampo. Slap me in the face, but what a peace we found! The escape is worth it.
The stunning details are too vast to word in a paragraph that is why I will just post some shots here, and insert some bits of our conversation that will never be heard in our offices:
Yes, it has been a while that I have not mingled with my usual partners-in-crime, to pursue the usual rounds in a drinking hole, chat the usual fantasies, and walk back to the usual dwelling only to wake up the following day to a dreary Sunday, or worse, a usual Monday.
My mind is completely cluttered lately that I can’t even determine what the fun in watching a movie is.
It is a momentary choice I’ve made, this detachment. I have been missing a lot of things since the start of the year, and the opportunity to get out of the metro—the city tangled in many electrical wires, drowning in dusty PUV’s—is like the most beautifully-cut diamond in all the trash I have been seeing.
After living in a concrete jungle for almost eight months, I’ve thought that the waves, the sand, the cheap sumptuous food, the sunrise, and all about calmness, will be an elusive dream of an intoxicated employee. I’ve made that notion wrong.
One day, with everything all set to go, I venture onto a six-hour travel to find peace, along with three of my Hipon fellows Sara Sebastian, Sam Echavez, and Yas Ocampo. Slap me in the face, but what a peace we found! The escape is worth it.
The stunning details are too vast to word in a paragraph that is why I will just post some shots here, and insert some bits of our conversation that will never be heard in our offices:
I need a break.
[at hindi pumasok ang tao on a workday]
‘Prolific’ is the word of the day.
[feelerette pa rin]
Nauubos na yung Ding Dong. Talaga namang nothing is forever.
[lasing ka na yata]
You are my trophy and trophies don’t talk.
[about handsome no-brain boyfriends]
At the end of the rainbow, there is a pot of bro’s.
[the beach is a sight to behold nga!]
Avant-garde pose tayo!
[at kailangan magmukhang matamlay na talangka tayo?]
Ayoko ng ma-repeat yung ‘Don’t say that’ line ko.
[winking at Mars, Pilipeh and Budjkins]
Risks are needed to complete the adventure.
[muntik ka ng malunod, leche!]
[at hindi pumasok ang tao on a workday]
‘Prolific’ is the word of the day.
[feelerette pa rin]
Nauubos na yung Ding Dong. Talaga namang nothing is forever.
[lasing ka na yata]
You are my trophy and trophies don’t talk.
[about handsome no-brain boyfriends]
At the end of the rainbow, there is a pot of bro’s.
[the beach is a sight to behold nga!]
Avant-garde pose tayo!
[at kailangan magmukhang matamlay na talangka tayo?]
Ayoko ng ma-repeat yung ‘Don’t say that’ line ko.
[winking at Mars, Pilipeh and Budjkins]
Risks are needed to complete the adventure.
[muntik ka ng malunod, leche!]
mandatory may nakatulog sa biyahe shot.
mandatory pre-Friendster heads up shot.
mandatory dalampasigan jump shot.
mandatory emo shot. 
mandatory sunrise shot.
mandatory nakahiga circle of 'friends' shot.
mandatory nakatayo sa mga matutulis na bato shot.
1 comment:
good job taking a vacation (good job?!) nyahaha. me like them mandatory shots
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