Smoking on the Big Chair

I come from a very religious family of Catholics but the week that was wasn’t anywhere near to being holy.  It was full of new connections/reconnections, discoveries, some drinking, redemption, and more drinking…

I’m gonna start-off with today, Easter Sunday, and I just came from work. And boy, I tell you—its so d*mn  freakin’ hot outside!  The hottest, thus far.  Therefore, this is a “bit” or my homage to Conan and to MTV’s “yo’ momma,” so you would have a clearer idea of how hot today really is…it’s after lunch.

It’s so hot outside, all the eggs hidden for the Easter egghunt became hardboiled! –duh…

…It’s so hot outside, I saw our neighbor’s chicken lay a fried egg (corny)

…It’s so hot outside, I saw two trees fighting over a dog.

…It’s so hot outside, I hear trees whistling for dogs.

…It’s so hot outside, the guy on the cool Sprite commercial who jumped over the building, fell and died…his supposedly “water wings” that will take him soaring up in the air, evaporated.  Now, that’s really hot!

Ok…true story…

…It’s so hot outside, on my way home via J.P. Laurel Avenue, I saw a very long procession of devotees took a detour to McDonald’s drive-thru with the statue of jesus for Mcflurrys and iced tea.

…It’s so hot outside, all the female traffic management marshals of the procession were wearing their pantsuits without the pants!

…It’s so hot outside, that I have discovered that asphalt has a liquid state; just like I recently discovered–early last year–that, apparently, there were other astronauts who were able to land on the moon after Apollo 11!!!

(**drum roll…I hope my lola forgives me)

…It was so hot outside, that jesus, after rising from the dead,  decided to stay-inside the cave until 5pm.

BEAT THAT!!!!

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Speaking of new connections, I just got a new number and a new phone last Monday.

Some may say that I may be a dummy for spending money for this type of phone.

The brand-new phone I got has a 3-inch LCD with loud surround speakers, powerful as the Altec Lansing without the sub-woofer, along with a cool touchscreen feature.  Its not an iPhone nor the N97 but its the “ground-breaking” N86 (during its first release) from Nokia.

Pretty cool, huh?  Well….not quite.  It’s from China.  A clone.  A far cry from the original.  It has WAP but no WIFI capability.  The camera has only 2 megs from the original’s whopping 8 megs.  It’s pretty much the same as the cameras you have to rewind.

It plays and stores music, photos, and videos but the built-in demos are in Chinese–imagine that.

Oh…apparently, it also has a memory—wow…128 MB, built-in.  Far from scratching the surface of the original’s built-in 16-gig memory and another 16-gig for external. You may, however,  buy a tiny SD card to have an additional memory of 1 gig. Geez!  Why bother?  My dog Milo has more memory than that because of its huge head.

But “pit-bullying” my new phone aside (pun intended :P), the exterior is pretty cool.  It could have fooled me, really.  It’s nice and the price is just around 120 USD apart from the original, which was released at 600++ USD.

I’m not into tech gadgets with ridiculous features that I may never ever use or even discover.  The phone I got has what I need. It could store numbers, has an alarm clock, receives and sends text messages, and more significantly, makes calls, anywhere!  Photos? To me, that’s the digicams job. Wifi? Its the PC’s job.

I bought this thing coz maybe I just needed something new (OA)–or for some…a phone! hahahaha (TRUE).

I’ve heard that these type of phones (from china) may never last long and it will encounter problems at the very early stage of usage, compared to the original.  But, on the contrary, it’s how you use and take care of it, which applies to any(thing) device.  But knowing me, with the ever where-is-it-I-just-left-it-there-3-days-ago attitude, this one’s a keeper–I hope!

Chances are, I may lose it before it even crashes…just like the others. Hahahaha.  It’s simple economics.

So…who’s the dummy now?

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Balot and I did plan to go on a trip during the Holy Week for a break but then at the last minute, we (or I–she claims) have decided and AGREED to skip it and do it some other time to avoid the holy week crowd in the beaches or some other getaway paradise.

But for some reason, I think Balot got what we both hoped for–a break from work.  Last Monday afternoon, I had to rush her to the hospital from her office due to a developing fever and lower back pains.

So I checked her-in admitted her to the same medical facility where I had my vacation was confined last January.  It was on the same wing and floor but in a different room.  There, we got reconnected with the nurses who had taken care of me for 5 days.  Reconnected, meaning…uhm…they saw us again.  Nothing has changed much.  One nurse was still pregnant and I think,  one more stay, we would get the next one for free.  Yeah.

As usual, nothing much to do there but take photos, eat, sleep and go to the bathroom.

Doctors and the usual battery of tests claimed that it was nothing.  Of course, that’s what they tell you.  Buwuhahahaha…joke!  Balot’s fine now.  She only stayed there for 3 days and 2 nights.

It wasn’t the break that we were hoping for, though, because it sucked for her—I had to go to work every morning and she was alone during these times until I get off from work and hurry back to the hospital.

Hopefully, everything goes well in May (year:  unknown…hahahaha….just kidding).  Still a long summer, though.

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Well, to sum things up, last Friday was the most interesting.  I and my work buddies went to Waterworld after work.  Yes, that’s correct. On good Friday, we all went to work.  It’s no big deal.  It’s how we roll.  Well, why not render half-a-day’s work on your rest day while rounding up everyone so we could go all together?  And besides, it was a triple “pay-day”.  Again, its simple economics.

“Not just a hat rack, my friend” (tapping right temple with right index finger).

But anyway, we had fun.  Waterworld is still the same. The pool still appeared to be lucid and clean.  Filled with people and lots of kids.  Sure.  And the nearest bathroom was like on the next resort.

The water was so clear that I almost lost a black-beaded bracelet after riding one of the slides and hitting the water on impact, doing the superman.

I actually panicked because you can’t see a thing, even on the surface.

All you see is white! Totally, white! You cant even see your own feet, when you’re in the water, lookin’ down.  Eeew?  Hahaha. Who cares?  We all had something to drink.

Anyway, the life guards there didn’t have goggles.  So…I offered a reward to the group or to whoever finds it.  After 30 minutes of searching, I stepped on something and, thank god, I found it though it was getting dark.

That bracelet may just be a simple ornament that could be replicated by anyone at anytime.  But, not to me.  It was made by a special someone.

Well, my skills in simply standing around saved me some money and perhaps, a relationship!  I don’t mean to exaggerate but it may have saved me from repeating the holy week all over again , when I get back.

Starting with me experiencing the “Agony In The Garden”.