CPA Bum

I’m going to talk about what happened tonight. No, not work, I believe I’ve whined enough about it on my twitter (@miadagal). Hehe. It’s not every night that I accidentally send a wrong message to everyone, that I run out of cash, and that someone approaches me and asks for money. All those happened to me on my way home. I was basag like that, daig pa ang nakainom. Haha!

I came from Crossing (Shaw Boulevard) and was planning to drop by the office to prepare some slips for tomorrow. But then it was already late. I took off the bus at Paseo around 8:30PM. While walking across Ayala Ave. to Rufino Street, I thought of why not walk back to Ayala EDSA and head home, since it’s also my sister’s birthday. (Please greet her, @rizzadagal on twitter! Hehe.) I wanted to celebrate it with her and my family. But then, my feet turned right to Rada St., off to Serenitea. Couldn’t help, I was so tired and drained, and my lips got chopped pa :( Apparently, I have a friend who sometimes stays and sleeps in that condo where Serenitea is located. So I messaged her right away to ask if she was there. What I did on my phone, instead of composing a new message, I keyed-in her name and clicked “search.” All kinds of communications I made with her would show up. I chose the one where I sent her an SMS. “Mar! U at Rada?” I texted. Immediately after a second, I received two messages. Message 1 from colleague: “Walking near Standard Chartered.” Message 2 from Mar: “Wala. Bakit?” Then after a minute, I received from another colleague: “Mar! U at Rada? –huh?” Then from another friend, “Wrong sent ka, Mia. Haha!” So I started to open my eyes wide enough to check what I sent minutes ago…. “DANG! WRONG SENT!!!!!” was my instant thinking. Haha! How did it happen?!?! Later, I recognized that I sent my personal message to the same people I greeted during Christmas. That particular message appeared on my search ‘cos Mar’s name was in there. She was one of the few people I greeted. If you didn’t receive, I apologize, I don’t have your mobile number. :) When I learnt about it, I paused and thought for a few seconds, “Should I inform them it was a wrong message or should I just ignore?” Blah, I chose the former. I texted them an apology message. Hahaha! Then, I entered Serenitea silently laughing at my own mistake.

I ordered Okinawa (brown sugar based tea) with 50% less sugar. I was carrying a backpack so when I was asked for my payment, I needed to bring it down on a chair and looked for my wallet. After three minutes of searching for money, I realized… I RAN OUT OF CASH!!! I was already at the counter and people were waiting and I already placed my order and so I should pay! But I had only one bill left in my coin purse and it was a FIFTY PESO BILL! My wallet had no bill! Only cards and receipts!!!! Hahaha! So I had to say it while being looked at, “I ran out of cash. Mag withdraw lang ako muna ha? Balik ako.” WAAAAAAHHH!!!! Thank God, there was an ATM in front of the building! I went back and paid and got my tea. I was walking back to Dela Rosa while still exchanging messages and sharing what I just experienced to some friends. Then some random man talked to me.

“Pasensya na po sa abala. Nahuli po kasi yung paninda kong mga buko pie sa Ayala. Bawal po pala magtinda dun. Sa Calamba po ako nauwi. Baka po pwedeng makahingi kahit pamasahe lang po.” Wala na akong nasabi kundi, “Magkano po pamasahe niyo?” He said, “80 po. Pasensya na po sa abala. Kung lagi po kayo dito, dadalhan ko po kayo ng buko pie.” Without even hearing his last words, I was already getting my wallet in my bag. Buti na lang nakapag withdraw ako! I gave him a hundred bucks and said, “Wag na po kayo magtinda dun next time ha… Merry Christmas! :)” He then thanked me and replied, “God bless.”

It was so random, I was so touched on that split second. So glad I was given a chance to help that man. I remembered when I was once like that… not that I got caught selling on prohibited areas, but it was when I joined Run for Pasig last year. I don’t know if I’ve shared this before but I’ll say it anyway. I left everything, i.e. mobile and money, in the car. I kept nothing with me when I ran with my sister. I totally forgot that my sister runs almost twice as fast as I do. So she finished right away while I was in the middle of thousands of people… MISSING! Hahaha! Man, I walked the whole Mall of Asia for FOUR FREAKIN’ HOURS!!! Until I reached the police station and asked if I could make use of their mobile to text my mom because, I said, “I WAS MISSING!” Wahahaha! Hilarious! After living two decades, nun pa ako nawala! Hahaha! So that’s why I felt really bad for him. It takes a lot of guts to ask a stranger for money or favor you know you can’t return right away or in the future. Sa sitwasyon ko nun, it was so difficult na makitext sa stranger. SOBRA! Admit it, if you were on the other side, you’d think twice and be skeptic about it. What if it was just a scam or an act, di ba? Pero wala eh, hindi ko na naisip yun kasi I’d been there. I know how hard it was. Now, I feel thankful that I bumped into him, or he bumped into me. I’m very happy to be of help to somebody. If he was lying, it’d still be okay with me.

What a very memorable night it was. Good night y’all! <3

I have created a bunch of drafts just now. By drafts, I mean entries I could not finish. Worse, couldn’t even begin with. Therefore, should remain as drafts.

So just to be able to strikeout one of my to-dos, I’m going to enumerate random things I really wanted to say from the start:

• iPod Touch is awesome. It makes me doubt that boredom exists. I’ve never been this occupied, not with regards to just anything. I mean, of course there were times I tend to go busy but those were mostly work-related stuff.
• I can’t get enough of iPod Touch! Obviously! Well, perhaps because I can do just whatever I want there, especially if I intend to be productive. And to be organized! To name a few, I have tons of readings pending on my iBook app. With tons, I mean to say 50+ books. Yeahhh! Haha! Because if you’re following me on twitter, I presume you know that I actually researched about it today. Haha! Aside from that, I also have an income and expense app for budgeting, saving, and tracking purposes. Winner!
• “OMG I couldn’t believe why I didn’t watch Harry Potter series before!” This got to be one of my most used words, idea, or thought for the past days. My siblings and I finally decided to start seeing the series because during the first screening of HP7 Part 2, everyone we know couldn’t stop making HP as the topic. We couldn’t really relate simply because we hadn’t watched any of it! Hence, our sudden addiction to Harry Potter. (Yes, those were the first ebooks I downloaded for my Touch! Haha!) Right now, I haven’t seen the last 3 movies. Firstly, because I don’t have a copy of the last 2. And lastly, because I’m still saving HP6. Once I finish it, there’s nothing else to see! Hehe. Weirdness. :-/
• Current food indulgence: Cafe con Leche and coffee bun. The former is a mix of coffee from Pan de Manila while the latter is a bun from Cafe France. I hope I have described ‘em well enough. (Insert sarcasm here, if you didn’t get it.) Too much caffeine, I’m aware. Those are the two things I need to have each day. Otherwise, I’d feel incomplete. Haha. True! I feel down when I don’t have my morning leche coffee! And I become very hungry when I don’t take advantage of the 30% discount that Cafe France offers starting at exactly 5PM. So yeah, reasons of my sleepless nights.
• There’s something to look forward about my job. But I don’t know why I can’t say more about it up to now. I can’t understand what’s keeping me from spilling it to everyone. Even when most of the people I’ve talked about it with were genuinely happy for me. Again, as my everyday mantra, I want to believe that I made the right decision. That if it’s not meant to be, the universe would not conspire to make it happen. Hopefully by next week, I’ll be able to get over this feeling. (I can’t even name the feeling I’m feeling. Tsss. Whatever.)

There.

I wish to not bore you with my stuff. I know sometimes I don’t make sense. But I know you still love me anyway. :)

My apology for not being able to update my blog more frequently than I used to. There’s just nothing much going on with my life right now. But I’m not complaining. Maybe this is just what I need. Here are some random updates about me (or about what I’m thinking):

• For the past two weekends, I’ve been chilling at home with my family, watching TV series most of the time. I’ve mentioned about how my siblings and I became very hooked to TVD a.k.a. The Vampire Diaries, right? This time, I was able to recruit another member… my mom!!!! Haha! Yes, that was why we started to watch it again right from the beginning last Saturday! And unsurprisingly, she also got hooked! Hihi!
• My high school best friends are on BBM now! Yes, it means endless silent laughters all the time. Haha. Like we would send pictures of ourselves ATM (At The Moment, yes Donna, not Ang Taray Mo! Hahaha!) then we would discuss senseless stuff until we got tired of it. Then we’d laugh again. Mostly, it’s because of the humor of my co-Gemini and our beckiest friend, Paulo. Lol.
• I finished reading (finally, after some months) the second book of Emily Giffin, Something Blue. It’s a continuation of the recently filmed Something Borrowed starred by Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson. It took me some time to finish reading because I got bored in the middle and didn’t really like Darcy’s point of view much. Maybe the reviews I’d read before influenced me to be as such. Its ending is not that bad naman. It had still made me kilig at some point. Even though I didn’t like how Rachel and Darcy didn’t become best friends again, maybe that is the reality. Once the friendship has been destructed, even after some time, the wound will still there. Maybe it has healed but there’s already a scar. And it (the friendship) will never be the same again. It’s just so sad…
• Atom Araullo and Patty Laurel are not together anymore. They’ve broken up a long time ago but I just learned about it two nights ago. And I am affected. Lol. See, it’s just so sad to know that even if you’ve been in a relationship for a couple of years, there is still no assurance that you willl end up together for a lifetime. They seemed very compatible with each other. They had traveled the world together. But they still ended up apart from each other. Well, maybe that’s one of the realities again. You go and invest emotionally, mentally and financially to a relationship that cannot give you any assurance of not getting hurt or not being dumped in the future. I think, it needs to happen because there are some things that we can learn only from those particular situations. And such learnings I can’t explain more about at the moment due to lack of experience on the field. Lol. So anyway, that’s life, we learn (most of the time) the hard way. We just need to learn (yet again) how to deal with it.

So there’s my update. I could only think of the above at the moment. I suddenly remember one thing I’m tasked to accomplish ASAP (work-related). So yeah. Have to go! :D

Btw, it’s my birthday tomorrow! Your greetings will be very much appreciated! <3