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Mobile [ 11/28/2000 6:29 pm ]

I’m walking down De la Rosa Street, having just left the office. Weird: I just saw a man grab a fistful of leaves from a sidewalk shrub and eat them. He looked pretty normal, and was holding a binder. (Okay, okay, he grabbed the leaves from the shrub just as I was overtaking him, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw him putting his hand to his mouth. Maybe he was just smelling the leaves. But it looked more like he was eating them.)

Ugh, woke up late this morning because of my apartment-mate. I’m really glad he’s in the other room and not in mine, because he’s one of those types who usually forgets there are other people in the same time zone.

Last night — or rather, early this morning at around 3 am — I was awakened by some rather loud scraping and creaking. He was moving furniture around his room. At 3 am in the morning, making the whole apartment vibrate with the noise. I can imagine how the poor girls downstairs must have felt, hearing beds being dragged around over their heads.

And yelling into the phone. He always yells into the phone. Whenever he talks to someone on the phone, he literally screams. Don’t ask me why. Neither he nor any of his friends and workmates are hearing-impaired or angry at him. He just raises his voice by multiples when talking to someone on the phone. Of course that means everyone in the apartment can hear his conversations, like it or not.

Watching movies. With the volume cranked up to full. Past midnight, when everyone’s sleeping. I had to knock on his door and tell him to turn it down. Sigh. He’s on the phone again right now. I’d better get to work.

We had choir practice for the Christmas cantata today, and yay, we finally finished the choreography for the whole piece! Now we just have to get down to memorizing it.

After getting home and performing my daily ablutions, I committed myself to some serious quiet time with the Lord, which I haven’t really done in earnest for a while. I admit, it’s one of those days when God doesn’t really feel particularly close — all the more reason, then, to get down on my knees and talk to him. So I got down on my knees and prayed, then settled into bed with my bible and read the whole gospel of Luke, just to refresh myself a bit on Jesus’ life. Feel close to him or not, I believe faithful prayer will truly work wonders.

And now, here I am, blogging while I moderate Realm of Thought in another window. I should get to sleep. G’night.

Mobile [ 11/25/2000 1.14 pm ] I am blogging from my cellphone while I wait in Jollibee. (Actually, I texted an abbreviated outline message to my email address, and now I’m copying, pasting and filling out the abbreviations in Blogger.) Today is not a fastfood day. For lunch in Alabang Town Center, I decided to try the newly reopened Carl’s Jr, then quickly left upon seeing the exorbitant prices: as much as P125 for a simple sandwich meal!

So I went to Subway, but an induhvidual in the line wanted to know if he could have roast beef and turkey breast in the same sandwich without having to pay extra. Then, when the attendant had put it on the bread already, he changed his mind and decided he wanted a different kind of bread. I left.

So here I am in Jollibee. And, stupid me, I order a Cheezy Bacon Mushroom burger, forgetting that you almost always have to wait for a Cheezy Bacon Mushroom in Jollibee. Now I’m waiting. That and the fries. Number 45. Murphy’s Law seems to be having some sort of field day.

FB4F didn’t win the Web Award. But that’s okay, I wasn’t expecting to win. I praise God that I even reached the Finalists, which is a miracle all in itself. Well, now the awards are over, I can go about transitioning it to the more serious urban legends site over the weekend. I’m rather glad I didn’t bother going to the awards anymore. Choir practice was a lot more fulfilling.

If I had won, my friend Mike would have been my proxy to accept the award. Just so my wit isn’t wasted, here’s the proxy acceptance speech I sent him:

I’m sorry I couldn’t make it to the web awards tonight. I’m currently in the hospital after waking up this morning in the bathtub, with a tube sticking out of my abdomen and a kidney missing. The last thing I remembered before that, I was in the mall, where I fell through a trapdoor and got attacked by a mutant snake monster. Even now, I’m still not feeling well. Must be the Zagu I was drinking at the time.

While I’m recovering, it seems I’ve won the award, which I find almost as amazing as any urban legend I’ve ever heard. Thanks go out first and foremost to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior, who constantly inspires me in my online quest for truth. I am also very grateful to Pinoyexchange.com, for providing an excellent venue for me to ask about — and share — all the stories I hear, and also allowing me to shamelessly spam the forum with FB4F plugs. Thanks also to the dozens of people who’ve sent me all sorts of email forwards, hoaxes, and legends, both true and false, confirmed and unconfirmed.

Be vigilant! And watch out for mutant fried chicken and earthworms in your burgers. God bless you.