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You Know You're Drinking Too Much Coffee When:
You answer the door before people knock. You get a speeding ticket even when you're parked. You speed walk in your sleep. You haven't blinked since the last lunar eclipse. You have a bumper sticker that says: "Coffee drinkers are good in the sack." You grind your coffee beans in your mouth. You sleep with your eyes open. You have to watch videos in fast forward. The only time you're standing still is during an earthquake. You lick your coffeepot clean. You spend every vacation visiting "Maxwell House". You've worn out your third pair of tennis shoes this week. Your eyes stay open when you sneeze. You chew on other people's fingernails. The nurse needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse. Your t-shirt says, "Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend." You're so jittery that people use your hands to blend their margaritas.I love coffee, but FYI, no, I haven't done any of these.Yet. hehe.I think maybe I'm beginning to enter the 'too much' range because it's 2am and I am blogging! :P
I just got home from the 'Tigtigan Terakan' event at the parking lot of SM City Clark . The festivity, whose title literally means tugtugan at sayawan, is held every year in Pampanga. San Miguel Beer is the main sponsor of the event so it was kinda like the Pampangeños' version of Oktoberfest.
Beer is available free of charge in every corner. Newfound friends Santy, Gershon and Karen enjoyed every glass. :) Instead of beer, my sisters, Dad and I ended up drinking coffee at the Coffee Overdose booth. And instead of singing and dancing with the bands and the rest of the crowd, we merely chatted the night away.
ANG KJ! hehe.
We're just not really exposed to that 'gimik' (as how Gershon called it). When asked what is my sort of 'night gimik', I admitted that I really don't have one, I never really go out late, and it was actually my first time to go on such event. (batang-bata pa! haha.)
Oh, but I had fun there. The setting's pretty romantic at the end: drinking coffee under the rain while watching a fireworks display. Who would have thought you could have that from 'rakrakan'? :P
Coffee, anyone? :)*done blabbing. 
Although the first sem's a big new 'thing' for me, adjusting to it was easy, and getting tired of it came faster than I anticipated. I get up early, go to school, go home, study, and then go to school again. It's so, uhm, routine-y. (pardon, ugh.) And to think i'll be doing that for the next couple of years.
Seven years, to be exact.
No, Im not giving up on med nor on studying. I don't know, I guess I'm just looking for a change. A big one. (And no, I don't want to dye my hair green.)
This sembreak ceased the pattern. :)Two days before I can finally say 'one-sem-down', I was paired off with my Ate at the Denenes All-Women Badminton Tournament. Aside from the fact that it would be a good way to start the break, we are also eyeing the nine thousand peso first prize money. But after being placed at the Junior's age group - an open level -, oh, we are nothing but a hopeless pair. (Bye, 9000!) :( There could be varsity players, players from the training pool, etc. We didn't really know who will we be up against. What the heck, we said. Laban na lang, hehe. :)
There were 24 pairs in the level, and we were divided into 6 groups. Fate was on our side, I guess. Kinaya ng powers ang mga kagroup, and we made it to the quarter finals. :) The strong pairs kasi were all grouped together, leaving us with just a pair of people smashing like crazy to compete with. (hi joy and bernice. :P )
Four pairs left. We faced Joy and Bernice in the semi finals round. Nagkadapadapa na ko e, relaxed na relaxed lang sila. hehe. :) They were amazing. :) Didn't make it to the finals. :P
For the 3rd place title, we still have a last fight against a pair with a very supportive barkada. -_- It wasn't just a racket fight, it was a 'cheering competition' against my team and theirs. It was really affecting my game because what their group was blurting out isn't exactly nice. Insults at errors belittled our efforts. We won the first set, lost at the second. We started a third deciding set, and after a smash in the middle of a rally, I felt something on my right leg.
No, not cramps, not now.
Hindi naman ako nagccramps e. Noon pa talaga, very lucky. :P Of course, my cameraman slash driver slash stage father came rushing in the court, trying to calm her crying daughter. :P And the barkada? Insults at errors aren't enough, there just had to be laughters at injuries. :) E andun ang tatay at ang ate kong matapang, napagalitan sila, haha! :) Other people came rushing in too, Kuya Michael, Tita Phen and Tita Kate with a Gato jug in hand. AJ of the match control even helped. :) Ate Lit gave me her leg support. :) They were asking me to surrender the game. After a dozen sets, an earful of insults and a bucket of sweat and tears? No way. The show must go on, haha. :P
We continued the final set. Good thing most of the time I was the server, so I just had to stay in front while my ate does all the work. :) Their momentum was lost in the delay, maybe. We won the final set, 14-21. :)
That was the sweetest of all sweet victories. :)
Just the thought of having your dad and good friends around to support you is more than enough to console my hurt leg. But then again, it was my first time to step up on the 3-1-2 stand (anong tawag don! hehe.) and we weren’t really expecting to come home with awards in hand, so I was very, very thankful we won. :) It was definitely worth the cramps! :D
The following night, Sunday, I tried to compress a semester of lessons in my head. Walang tulugan! hehe. :) Monday was my Math finals. Last day of the sem, first of the break. I remember Monday so well, I had exams, went to Rob, then to Diliman, and then to SM to pick out a corporate attire for my sister. It was a very tiring day. I was tired from the sleepless night before that day, from all the walking, from choosing clothes, from trying hard to think of something to say, and from trying hard not to say what I was really thinking. :)
Come Tuesday, I had a small reunion with my highschool barkada, Ira, Eunice and Les. :) Kwentuhan, kantahan, iyakan? hehe. :) (almost). Sobrang namiss ko pala sila. :) Ended the day with a nice meal of lugaw and crispy tokwa at Bernas, yeah. :)
More reunions with badminton barkada naman that week: in qeueings and dual meet and bingo's. :P Most memorable part of those was the dancing in the parking lot! haha. :) More to come I bet. :)
First week. So far, so good. :) Ayoko ng pumasok!! haha. :P*done blabbing.
