Monday, March 27, 2006
Ola Summer!!


Bring back the hammock and the ice cold drinks.. Summer's definitely here.. After months of struggling to draft my way to a Sky high grade (and getting it by the way) , the greatest season is here.. woohoo.. What better way to kick off the season than driving south to Laguna for an outing.. woohoo.. 500 pesos worth of gas was definitely worth it! I had a blast.. Knowing me, it didn't start out to be a great experience..
And so the misadventure begins..

11:30 am, March 24, 2006 .. i load my stuff in the car ready to go to school.. having read the message from Lev that we need our exam permits to be signed to not get an INC grade, i looked everywhere for it and ended in vain.. Finally, i decided to go to school with my worries of having loss my exam permit bothering me.. As i reached for the coins i needed to pay for the toll on the dashboard, i felt a semi-crumpled paper with my other drawings together.. Yeah!! I was really happy to see my exam permit.. hehe..( that was so geeky).. As i was driving along Roxas Boulevard, i started to feel nauseous.. the intense heat of the sun made me feel i was melting and burning up.. To add pain to my misery, as i reached Quiapo, I felt as if i was in a place where time stood still.. TRAFFIC BABY!!! Oh God.. I thought I was gonna pass out.. it was 10 minutes to one and i was still stuck in traffic along Lacson Avenue thanks to a super long truck that blocked the whole street. I drive up the pay parking hoping to get a good slot in the ground floor.. To my dismay, i had to drive up this super steep slope with an inclination of i think 60 degrees.. i heard my engine blasting its way to the 2nd level.. At last i spot a good parking slot and i had to zoom my way to it .. and beat the white pajero who was planning to parkthere.. I'm so sorry.. but my toa test was about to star in 5 minutes.. i dashed out of the parking lot then walked all the way to BEATO.. Having seen my friends going down as i was running up to the 6th floor trying to avoid the crowd waiting for an elevator, i felt secured that i wasn't late for the test.. i followed them to the faculty room instead to have my permit signed by the other profs.. My blockmates noticed that my skin was red and thought that i was just blushing.. i told them them to try walking from the pay parking to beato under the sun.. As i entered the room, i realized that i forgot my sci cal which was needed for the test in the car .. Crapola.. Thanks to Rc and his ready to retire calcu (just kidding man!) , i was allowed to take the test..

After the test which was so hard by the way, we (jj and the boys: Flow, Frankie, Gino, Lev) went to fetch my car and headed to Martin's dorm to get the supplies and my co-pilot James.. Traffic was really heavy.. After having loaded the groceries and received hirits from Rc and Al of being a Mommy driving her kids to soccer camp in a mini van, We had a long head start from the other cars. The sun was really driving us crazy so we just put down the windows.. As we were cruising in a fair 85-speed in the leftmost lane, an asshole dashes in a lightning speed on my left which was the left shoulder for emergency stops and hits my side mirror... My initial reaction was P****** I**!!! It wasn't broken.. it just had a big scratch that left him with a long black line throughout the right side of his van. I stepped on the gas pedal so hard and i chased the asshole.. He was really fast... i just gave him the finger instead. The boys told me to chill and I did.. We were the first ones to arrive in SLEX Petron which gave us the right to tease the others on how slow they were.. hehe.. We chilled in Mcdo for a while and I Had a Papara-Pacquiao meal… we waited for the others and I traded places with james my co-pilot..they didn’t even bother to wait for us.. so we got a wee bit lost.. hehe.. we were annoying the other cars nearby by blasting up some major tunage from LFO to Coheed and Cambria..hehe.. The others agreed to wait for us in some videoke bar.. we met them there and as we convoyed our way to the sight, we were counting the pictures of the kagawad.. there were like a million of them.. hehe.. I thought that the vehicle that was infront of us was an expert in town.. but I guess we were wrong.. hehe.. just kidding .. As we reached the Villa –slash- house-slash-resort which we had for ourselves, the sun had already set…

To be continued.. I am Freakin tired…

jj apostol was shot at 12:32 AM