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Name: Kars
B-day: October 20, 1984
Zodiac: Libra
Age: 20
School: De La Salle University

female. libra. roman catholic. music lover. broadway junkie. eccentric artist wannabe. avid movie-goer. internet freak. periodic drinker. non-smoker. chronic drunkard. class cutter. weekend bum. shoe collector. alias fanatic. trying-hard singer. frustrated ballerina. pseudo piano player. infrequent commuter. nonstop texter. former friendster devotee. current blog enthusiast.
Saturday, January 29, 2005

commute affax!

first of all, congratulations to me! today, i woke up at 6:00 am to experience the adventure of my life. from ara's house, i took the tryke (whatever the spelling!) up to mini-stop. then i rode the LRT-3, better known as MEGATREN, til recto station. i didn't really get lost finding the megatren station, but i was really afraid of crossing the street, not because i didn't know how to (well, that SHOULD BE the topmost reason! haha and yes, i don't know how to cross the street, right cherry?), but because there was a pedestrian lane, and no stoplight! vehicles at 80 mph. that scared the shit out of me.

walk walk walk, then i was already in the d. jose LRT-1 station, where i would get off at vito cruz. at first i kinda got lost going to that station because melai told me that there was a connecting bridge. apparently, there wasn't. fortunately, there was this other girl taking the same route as i am, and traveling the roads of ignorance like some person i know (huh? that me?!). so we asked the guards, bought the tickets, and rode the train together. my imagination was actually acting up again, thinking that while we were walking she'd snatch my bag, or she'd lead me to a place where guys would circle around me and point a gun at me or something. you know how some people are, they look very decent on the outside, but in reality they're goons waiting for their fish of the day. lady, you're messing with the wrong person here! my fone can probably be sold at 1000 bucks, and i have 100 pesos in my wallet. i'm not worth all that trouble!

it was a good (good nga ba o bad?) one hour commute. it was so exasperating! the sweltering heat, the swarms of people, and the constant fear of getting lost or being held up. although i must hand it to you, the megatren station in katipunan is great! it's clean, spacious, and organized. it resembles the train stations in singapore. anyway, i was supposed to be in lasalle at 8, but i got there at around 8:30, and fortunately for me the seminar hadn't started yet.

so why am i going gaga over this? well, for one, it's my first time to commute from katipunan to taft, and the fact that i was ALONE made it more exciting. yes, again it was a big stress, and i still cannot imagine how people go through their daily routine of commuting to and fro their houses, but i duno...i guess it just brings an exhilirating feeling and a sense of fulfillment of doing something new and different for a change. for some reason, i felt like i was normal. for the longest time, i was a sheltered child. in high school, after events such as fr. rodriguez's and fr. mazana's birthday, or periodical exams, where we were dismissed at 12 (we called it "half-day"), everybody walked to glorietta for their after-school gimik. i couldn't! i always had my driver around, or i always had to hitch with somebody to get there. (pero siyempre tumatakas ako! ;) ) where's the fun in that? it was just in college that my parents gave us the liberty to do whatever we wanted to do. just take extra precaution. i do commute occasionally, but not this far. so there!

i can now say that i'm a commuter.

well, not really. hehe :)

NOTE: last night was juancho's birthday party. fun fun! shit shit! surprisingly, i didn't get drunk. yes people, i do have self-control. i know my limits! i was mulling over how i'd get home. i had 3 options.

1.) jb offered to bring me home, since he also had a party in katipunan. but he was leaving at around 11, and i didn't want to go home that early. soooo...next!
2.) i'd sleepover at juancho's house, since sjeanz is also sleeping over. then the next day, if louie was not bangag enough, he'd to take me straight to lasalle. (see, we have an affair now! lakas ko!)
3.) i'd sleepover at ara's place. then the next day, kuya lui would drop me off at the MRT station.

i took option 3. when ara and i arrived at her place at around 1:30 (?), we settled down. but i wasn't sleepy yet, so we helped mark paint his incredibles poster. that guy is some artist! we slept at 3, and woke up at 6. i remembered melai telling me the way to katipunan through lrt and megatren. i texted her to clarify and thank god she was awake at 6 in the morning! savior! turns out that her way is easier and more convenient.

the rest is...history? labo. well you just read the rest of the story. hehe


abadudi @ 8:29 PM

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