toxic

and i thought i was in for a ride.

my schedule the past few days have been extremely erratic and my irregular sleep hours + jet lag have made me kinda cranky (kinda lang). the past two days have been the craziest and i have been having 16-hour days. no fun.

anyway, enough of the bad. in with the good.

my friends and i watched 'footloose' at the meralco theater last week. it was okay. jay-r and iya villania were surprisingly good. i need to watch the original so i can compare. i've got quite a number of questions in my mind. the music was swell. i swear, nothing can beat 80s music. hahaha. oh oh almost parahhhdise. damn. saw a lot of celebs and non-celebs. hehehe. then we headed to metrowalk for dinner (dencio's!). i was a tad disappointed with their sisig. what happened?

another highlight: went to ateneo last tuesday for the 'misa ng katotohanan' led by the jesuit brothers. i came face to face with former president cory aquino and i had the chance to ask a couple of questions. her responses boiled down to one thing: pray. [pray!] we've got to pray.

anyway, i saw this friend from 16 years ago. yeah, college years. damn, i feel old. anyways, it was safe to say that i haven't seen him in ages [10 plus years]. i was looking for a seat at the church of the gesu [a really nice, uniquely-shaped church]. so i took a seat where i could take a good look at the goings-on near the altar. you know the feeling when someone's staring/looking at you from behind? i got that feeling, so i looked around and saw him. it was so strange and unexpected. i never would have thought that i would see him there.

felt guilty because we started catching up before the start of the mass. he's married and working on his masters (economics!) at the ateneo. i never thought of him as a super religious guy but he told me he frequents the gesu before his classes. he took off in the middle of the mass. and i got that feeling once more. look, look, look. and i saw another familiar face. he belonged to a younger batch but i went to some classes with him and our common friends. another strange and unexpected thing. he's now a priest! goodness. we exchanged waves and went on with the mass.