ala wenta..

i wasn't really supposed to blog today, in fact i thought of not posting until november 1. just that. anyway, i went out for a while just half an hour ago to buy benzoyl peroxide (for me. crap.) on a mercury drug store inside the nearby robinson's mall. then i saw this man ahead of me urinating on the galvanized sheet-made makeshift wall of a sari-sari store. then after the 'downloading' process, he struggled to button his pants, it almost fell twice. in fact his underwear is already slightly showing up from behind. great, the dude is drunk. then he made a few steps, albeit struggling to walk straight, towards the facade of the store where his drinking buddy (the store owner) is waiting for him. then i thought of the time, it's 20 before six, and it ain't dark outside yet. and they already had it this early.

i noticed this sort of generation gap in terms of drinking before. at first i thought it's limited only to the provinces. last december when we went to sto. domingo, ilocos sur, roni and i were forced to drink as early as 4 o'clock in the afternoon. i was drunk silly by 8 o'clock (roni was just silly).. then i saw this man. cavite is a province, but hell, the place near the public market here in imus is worse than baclaran, mind you. so anyway, i just wondered why we, the generation so-called 'X' likes to start it late, while the generation of our parents and young uncles prefers to jumpstart while the sun is still proud. i guess they have this twisted version of a famous mantra: "early to drink, early to rise, makes an alcoholic healthy and wise". hehe..

when the dude returned to the store front, i overheard him speaking-in-drunk-tounges, apparently bidding goodbye to his drinking mate and to the little girl standing near them. see, i understood it.. at least we have a common language.

p.s. i already got the pictures from last week's bash.. but i'm still too lazy to post them here. since i'm on dial-up, i have to be really hyper to fix things, specially uploading stuff. so there. probably on november 1. hekhekhekk..