Gah! I'm so backed up on these thoughts, but here goes.
17 December 2008This was a tiring tiring day. I had to spearhead a Christmas party's program almost single-handedly... and I'm pretty sure it was a flop. Even I'd have been disappointed with what turned out. However, despite being exhausted with whatever and what-not, I still went to the UP Centennial Lantern Parade. I went to Melchor Hall and caught a glimpse of a few of the revolutionaries. Then came Babaylan, the org of LGBT (well not so much the L but the GBTs). I was slightly disturbed that I was — erm — excited by one of the parade "girls". (S)He really looked pretty and I would never have thought him/her to be male had it not been for him/her being in the Babaylan contingent. Thank goodness for the fugly (I will not sugar coat the words) folk who followed. They brought me back to the world. I realized you don't have to be pretty to be pretty gay.
My plan was to just drop by and check out some lanterns, but I saw the UP Pep and then tried to follow them to take a video of a routine. (Vinnie effectively ignored me.) I saw them do two, but I wasn't at a good vantage point. Finally at Palma Hall, I got a semi-decent view, but it was that part of the twilight when it gets dark very quickly and the difference between acceptable video illumination vanishes fast. The video I got was only visible thanks to a gazillion flash bulbs going off.
After, I messaged a friend if she's still going to the parade, I joined the Education contingent to be with her. Now, I don't know how to go about this: she said she was cold, so I offered my jacket saying I had two that time anyway. How does one offer a jacket effectively without giving it away? :D I guess I'm down one jacket. I was happy to join her though IN the parade all the way to Simbang Gabi at the Church of the Gesu. There she met with her friends and I went home.
18 December 2008I somehow now have a license to write about my memories of Joey Carlos when I read his mom's email asking for snippets of Joey's life and passing to help reconstruct the good life he lived. (This opposite the request from a friend of another student who passed away NOT to recall memories of a bitter passing.)
19 December 2008First off, I was supposed to work on a problem set at Starbs, but I forgot to bring my notebook's power cord so I ended up just finding my way to Blueskies and going on the Internet there — which led to some students inviting me to play DotA (but I didn't get to play with them since they got computers late). I played my best Lord of Avernus game ever since they reworked Abaddon.
Some things just don't change, do they? ...and some even get worse. Anyway, I never went in the classroom of my former moderating class during their Christmas salu-salo, but not by choice. They're a wonderful group and it was even refreshing that some people who were otherwise hostile were warm. It's funny that other groups would even pull me in to their rooms — even classes I did not teach. Again, they're a wonderful bunch and I'd still be for them each time.
Ended the night with playing again upon the invitation of some friends/former students. They weren't able to make it though, it being late. Played with some folk using Silencer, shared my hero so can they use Global Silence, and then they dropped my items. Oh well, screw.
20 December 2008I'll be off to a party with the kada later, but here's something I found on a friend's Facebook profile just this morning. I don't know how someone can claim to be the very first Pinoy Bisexual, but I guess it's a matter of saying it first despite previous occurences. It's like Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovering the Pacific Ocean despite indigents on both ends of the body of water surely being able to notice it before. Anyway, here it is:
