Birthday leave

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I took the day off last Thursday because it was my birthday and the company actually does have something that’s called Birthday Leave in their policy. So I took it and spent the day gallivanting around Manila with a couple of my closest friends. I bought a cheap ass guitar in Sta. Mesa where all those Lumanog guitar shops are. 2,000 pesos included new strings, picks and a capo with the guitar I bought. They haven’t changed prices in years! Anyway the heat was scorching so we took our leave quickly to have a nice yummy lunch at an Italian resto and then my friends and I decided to check out that girl-and-girl-fall-in-love movie starring the hot Mylene Dizon and some Viva Hot Babe whom I didn’t think deserved the title. I’ll write a pseudo film review about that later when I have time.

I went home at a reasonable time and had a quiet family dinner then I stayed up all night fiddling with my lovely guitar and relearning all the chords and songs I knew by heart a lifetime ago. Bliss.

It wasn’t a spectacular day, pretty much like any other, which it really is when I think about it. Then again I never really fuss over my birthday, I figure I party enough days of the year anyway, I don’t need another excuse to go out, see friends and have fun. There is something of note that happened on that day though, or perhaps more fitting, that didn’t: I was stone-cold sober all day. Honestly I can’t remember the last birthday I spent sober. You can really get a shitload of things done when you’re not pissing time away blind drunk. It’s a strange kind of interesting. The following morning, a weird sort of fear gripped me that I think perhaps belongs to the “I’m old” variety although I’ve never been too bothered by that like some people. In any case, I had a couple of beers later that night and stayed out late talking people’s ears off about dying to tell anyone younger than me “You’ll understand when you’re older” or “Alright now this is grown-up talk, run along and play now” just to wind them up because I remember that being the fastest way to tick me off when I was but a young ‘un. Hehe. Such is the cycle of life.

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