This should be the fifth day that I have no net access... And to tell the truth, I couldn't have a worse time to lose it than this week I guess. Plenty of interesting things happened this week, starting from Sunday.

To start things off, I couldn't sleep the entire Saturday night after eating pizza and pasta at Herc's. Maybe it was because my stomach was too full so my body reacted by waking me up and trying to get some water in, or dropping the food down the drain. Anyway, I feel like I spent the night drinking water and going to the toilet. It felt like my stomach just couldn't handle all of the food that night, and it just stopped digesting. I could still feel the pasta the next day trying to decide if it wants to stay in my stomach or just go out my mouth. All sorts of thoughts passed through my head that night, I could probably fill in several days worth of writings in this book about my past, but maybe some other time...

Got to meet Joana Abrera at the Podium last Sunday night -- one of the most beautiful girls I've met and known, in appearance and personality. I had the feeling that I was going to meet someone that day... I just didn't expect it to be her, of all people. She's put on a little weight in the 5 years that I didn't get to see her, but its just a little, and it suits her more. As I expected, she couldn't place a name on my face, hehehe. She could definitely remember that we've met before, and that there was something different on me, but couldn't remember where and what. I just smiled at her and called her name as I passed beside her... if only she didn't have her parents beside her, I might have chatted with her a bit, probably catch up to old times, see how she's doing now, etc. But then, we'll eventually meet again...

Finally managed to get a copy of Super Robot Wars Alpha II for the PS2, at least even though I've had no net access for the past few days, I have a new game to help me alleviate my boredom here at home. Even though its my favorite game, I feel like there's something missing in it and can't bring myself to fully love the game in this incarnation... maybe I need a bit more time to be certain of my feelings, hahaha.

Lost my internet access on Monday. Damn. Now I feel pretty cut off from the world... Its a good thing that I can still receive important email at home, unfortunately, my other account should be nearly bursting by now...

By next year, I should have my second nephew/niece courtesy of my other brother -- the one who's married (my doctor brother has a son who by now should be close to 3 years old, but he's in the States with his mom) that news doesn't really excite me since I'm not too fond of children, I just put it in here as a frame of reference -- to recall what happened on Tuesday, before my dad left for a few days vacation to Baguio.

Come Wednesday, I was relegated to house duty -- to stay at home and take care of whatever happens in it because everyone would be going out for something important, including the househelp. Not a problem really, seeing as how Charlene sent me a new number to contact her with -- a totally unexpected turn of events because I always thought that she's in Taiwan for the past few years and probably staying there for good. I found out quickly that she's been here for the past two years and just recently had a son. A church wedding is soon to follow in June.

We caught up on a lot of old stuff -- things that happened to her after she went to Taiwan, how there were bastards who fooled around with her, took money from her, and some other sappy stuff that in hindsight look more like annoying events instead of sorrowful events. That's her personality really, she recalls the past but looks at them as events that already happened and have no more hold on her. And looking at Lassie, I seem to understand why I like Lassie a lot -- because she reminds me a lot of Charlene, with a hefty dose of playfulness mixed in for good measure.

She's now working for the family firm, and staying at home taking care of the child, boring herself with an unending routine of work-work-work-work-work... I'm just glad that she loves her husband and that she doesn't think that she made a wrong choice in him. I'm glad for her as well, because coming from her stories about her husband, he seems to be a good catch.

Got my grades yesterday, and thankfully I managed to get into the QPI requirement -- with 0.01 points to spare! Actually, I only needed one grade to go higher than I expected it to be, and I would already pass. One of my professors decided to round up the grades of those people just on the borderline -- resulting in my raised grade. All that remains now is to retake that stupid subject that I flunked last semester -- the most useless subject that I have to take in college -- Theology.

I planned to go out with friends yesterday, to go to the mall and probably watch a movie or something. I've been asking them all week for any ideas and they kept saying to decide when Friday comes in. Unfortunately, they all wanted to go home after getting their grades, plus there were no decent movies to watch, levaing me to watch with Pai, Hubert, and probably Adnan and Lassie. I lost interest the moment that those people who I asked all throughout the week said that they wanted to go home, so instead of going to watch a movie, I decided to go home early and pass by Charlene's place earlier.

But not before Pai disappeared for a while after seeing Adnan come in. I can't understand why she refuses to see Adnan yet insists on buying things for him and not giving them herself to him. Its so annoying really, and that put me on my nerves which added to my disinterest in watching a movie. Anyway, I thought that I shouldn't really interfere in their affairs anymore and decided to leave.

Charlene's place reminds me so much of our place in Alonzo before we moved to Sta. Mesa. The set-up was nearly the same, and the rooms were almost like those we had in our condo unit. The only bad thing about their place was the lack of windows -- the place wasn't really too bright (not that its important) and it didn't have the wind whipping inside. Charlene was only using about one or two rooms and it seems that she didn't have any time to tidy up the place yesterday. Hehe, she's one busy woman alright...

She was staying in their room taking care of her baby and work while watching TV. Somehow, it seemed that she liked the idea of people coming in to see her every now and then so she won't get bored being all alone in the house. We caught up with more old things throughout my stay, and managed to get one of her pictures for myself. Somehow, when I saw her smoking a cigarette, I just couldn't bear to make myself argue with her over it -- despite the fact that I know she's a mother and that smoking is dangerous to her child... I can't even remember trying to stop her from it, probably because it seemed like she needed it. I knew she was a heavy smoker, she told me that much the last time I met her, thankfully, she's managed to cut down on her smoking.

At night, my cousin and I went night swimming. Actually, I went there for three things -- swimming, drinking, and Candy. I shouldn't have listened to Candy looking to know what it feels like to get drunk, because in the end, I ended up taking care of a "tipsy" person instead of swimming. It appears that those people just couldn't hold alcohol much, and just a bit of drinking could mess up their brain functions. It was still an enjoyable night, as I spent quite a bit of time with Candy... I just didn't get to swim a lot.

"You taste like sausages" -- Candy