Hello, world. Let me give you an update of how Manila’s doing right now.

So I saw the kitten off to the airport this morning as she leaves for Caticlan; 4 days in Boracay she’ll have due to her sister’s wedding. We were skipping a few puddles and she was extra careful as we were walking on the street, and I ask if it rained last night. I don’t remember noise playing on the roofs a few hours ago. They formed a rather inconsistent pattern, and so I assumed that the puddles were simply excesses of high tide from the street conduits.

I strolled around Makati on my way home. It’s a different mood albeit people are still rushing around and I’m letting all of the haze pass around me. Skies are overcast and it was around 7:30am, and hardly any rays of sunshine in sight. It was such a glorious dark day.

Let me explain to you how this goes. As the Philippines is located near the equator, we have the most inconsistent weather there is—if it’s hot, it’s usually a Houston equivalent, and it can also be a headache having to battle with the incoherence of the rainy seasons, comparable to Baltimore’s 10-month raining streak. You pull off a New Yorker fashion one day and you’d find your outfit useless with the heat despite the heavy rains in the morning. But rainy season doesn’t start till late May to early June, and the skies have displayed barely the signs of waters yet, so Manila, in particular, is being incubated in heat. Any sign of cloud drowse is good news.

And it’s just such a lovely feeling. Looking around, everything is just dark due to the skies, and contrasts are subdued. Your skin would burn of the wet cold, a thankful change from the sweltering heat it endured. People are scurrying but there’s a distinguishable slowness, like the air’s density is stopping them from moving. And you look around and imagine a great soundtrack coming through; possibly slower Kings of Convenience songs, or when you reach your bed and there’s a cuddle in the making waiting, Thank You, by Dido. Manila thrives in that conflict. And so do I, when I feel all fuzzy when I look around and it’s a perfect bed weather yet the perfect snuggle partner’s spending 4 days in Bora.

Yeah, well. You can have a little bit of everything sometimes, but not all of them in one chunk, anyway. Or sometimes you do, just not today.

Afternoon was beautifully chaotic today. The heavy rains I imagined didn’t push through, and it was rather sticky by 2pm; and I went to the office with a freaking headache in tow. And alas, I had to do a teachback presentation which I nearly forgot about. Such a good thing I had so much experience doing facilitations with my agents before that it wasn’t really that bad anymore. Sometimes I wonder if such over confidence will backfire one day. Lol

Sister’s wedding went great, she reported. No, in fact, the wedding rocked, her words. I am green with envy right now. I still haven’t pulled off the perfect summer tan even if I have a little bit of something against it, but heck, a beach is still a beach. The times I went to a beach the past months are for team building activities which I usually stand in as a security guard anyway.

Bad news, though, is that I’m feeling feverish. Oh Christ, not now. I just want to be virus free for the next days. Proof of why:

May 28
[FRIDAY] “SaGuijo 6th year anniv” Part One. feat: Up Dharma Down, The Charmes, Blast Ople, Greyhoundz, Drip, Angulo, Spy, Mr. Bones and the Boneyard Circus, Out Of Body Special, Sleepwalk Circus, Dorques, SoapDish, Boy Elroy, and more

May 29
[SATURDAY] “SaGuijo 6th year anniv” Part Two. feat: Us-2-Evil-0, Taken By Cars, Musical O, Encounters with a Yeti, Chicosci, Paranoid City, Domino, Radioactive Sago Project, Typecast, Pedicab, Sandwich, Imago, Chicosci, Sugarfree, Nyco Maca+Playground, and more

Yish. Let all the available go together.

I miss you.




But I know you’re having fun. So…tekker. Ples?