Wacky Weekend

The recent three-day weekend was quite awesome coz I didn't spend the whole time slaving away with my tutorials. I actually got to do a lot of fun stuff, stuff that I actually enjoy doing.

We had two elimination games in basketball, one on Saturday and another on Sunday. After playing for Elektrons at the very bottom of the list for six years, our first game proved to be quite a challenge. I've always been used to facing the Skimmers team for the first elimination game and we always claim an easy victory before we succomb to our second and third games to teams who actually know how basketball is played. We finished fourth last year, though, a very impressive feat which we never would've accomplished without our then freshman star player, Duyduy. But advancing on the standings had some pretty tough consequences. Our first game was no walk in the park. We battled head-on the Tycoons, a team with really strong players. Fortunately, we also had quite a number of players who performed pretty well. So after a bleeding lip, two encounters with the dirty pavement we call a basketball court, and two points that came straight from heaven, I joined my teammates in our first victory.

The second game wasn't quite as pretty, because we faced a team who placed second last year. They had tall, stocky, experienced, fast, and skillful players (did I mention they placed second last year?) and we didn't even come close. Nothing very notable happened on that game, except that I scored four out of the nineteen points we had. That's 21% (yes, I'm a math freak)! Not bad from someone who came off the bench and was panting heavily after five minutes of game time. I'm pretty sure they were just a bit cautious about whacking their teacher so they gave me four easy points.

Yesterday, I woke up to a text message from MM, saying she was in the city (she works in Makati) and wanted to hang out. We got to do just that. We spent around four hours at Zuba where she downed four bottles of Red Horse while I sipped (yes, sipped) a short glass (yes, those short glasses that cost five pesos) of SanMig Light and gorged on two servings of french fries.
We talked about a whole lot of things which made me realize there was a lot of things that I didn't know about the person who's supposed to have been my best friend since freshman year in high school. I'm just glad that she's finally come to realize the things she's supposed to realize, and I'm really hopeful that the next time I agonize over a short glass of SML, we'll be sharing happy stories.

Now, I'm back in the place I call my office (our faculty computer lab). And it's time to face my work.