weird. i thought the NU jockey said itchyworms would be at southmall at 4p yesterday. but heck. since when did a rock band perform with a garfield mascot doing front act..? weird.

i thought jo-kate (happy birthday!)would meet us at doMcs times but then camile showed up, which is kinda great since i've been hoping to harass her for the latest of her manuscripts. haha. i love her work. she's a talented writer, standout even for non-pros. ive just added her not-very-updated-nevertheless-has-materials blog in my links. you may want to check it out.

i also met melody, and gem. good thing i saw them. they both looked fresh, compared to me, who looked a bit off color, i think. wah. i miss 'em! i haven't seen them, talked to them for a very long time. yeah, i've been callin gem but still it's not the same when you can talk to her in person and actually observe her. she is one of my closest friends after all.

after waiting for almost an hour for tiff and michiko and being starved for ice cream, we went to kate's. waha! food never tasted so good! there was caldereta, pancit palabok, bangus, tilapia, pancit bihon, hipon, porkchops, lumpia, another beef meal i dunno the name, and lots more i can't remember. but the best thing bout it all is that her mother prepared everything! haha.. she must've started cookin since friday night.

i did my best, given i couldn't chew a lot because of the metal in my mouth. it's not that i'm an ingrate for not being thankful to have these installed free of professional charge because i'm way more appreciative than i seem; thing is, i really do miss eating a lot. it's different when you can chew meat and not feel worried it may have stuck to the wires in your molars, it's different when you can chew food for a change and not just mash them with your tongue and swallow 'em way they are because your front teeth feel queer. i maybe an occasional glutton but still.. good food is one of the few good things in life. i'm saying nonsense again.

i hope kate enjoyed her birthday. she was always up at somethin: opening beer bottles, choppin ice into cubes, dispatching the song book from one group to the other, etc. oh well. she was doin great playin host-ess (hehe, i really don't like that word).

aside from the food, what i totally enjoyed was the videoke. i know i'm a sucker for these machines. so what? i just wanna sing. what's wrong with that? haha. probably what's wrong is that i sing too much. i believe i can sing. i hope i can sing. dammit! i really just wanna sing! haha! i've been wanting to since tuesday, or rather, ever since i heard there's this canteen in katips that had such mech. finally. the desire ebbed when i grabbed hold of the mic last night. good thing kate paid all the neighbors already, nobody gave a damn if we were disturbing their serene existence. haha.

owing to the 4a arrival from salve's, my parents had me leave kate's 'round 8 (consider: curfew passed after a bargaining series i dragged them into). i still wanted to stay but i can't push my luck. they may not have let me in that time.

i got off at times and met kilo and gnod. nothing too eventful after that, just fits of schizophrenic guffaws. we got off at mercury, moonwalk to grab a ponstan capsule for papa, and i'm in debt of php25, payable to kilo. then we crossed the road, to the side of the terminal. haha. funny. there were two big trailer trucks on that side of the road. i told kilo, "gagu malaki yan! di natin kaya yan!" and we started laughin. crazy as they were though, the people inside the trucks started laughin, too. i wonder... did we make a hilarious sight? freaks. haha.