back to having what could possibly be a life
holla! its been a while since i’ve posted an entry here. blame it on civpro i guess. but here i am, so we all know what that means…i dropped that shit like an ant-infested burrito. heheheh i’ve sort of made peace with my cowardice with the thought that i’d hate myself exponentially more had i stayed on, failed, and got kicked out of school. all you psych majors out there can call it sourgraping, but just to keep me sane and my ego in tact, i’m going to call it: "the right move."
with newfound freedom, i…
i saw my friend ej’s play last week at the camp aguinaldo theater. he was playing romeo in romeo in juliet. the play was ok, but what made it extra interesting and what kept me glued was seeing my friend on stage acting out shakespear. dam! what a trip. when it was all over and the actors were taking their bows, i couldn’t help but give up a jologs "yeeeuh!!" when it was his turn. screw crowd etiquette, mah boy’z playin lead!!! hahahaha eege, if ur reading this, much props! and cool love scene dood…i could tell you were wearing black boxers underneath the tights though hahah
i’m writing this right after UP Law beat PUP in conflicts of law kanina. it was our first game as defending champions, and it was a thriller. we won by 5 points i think. it started out pretty slow for us, our offense was stinkin up Arellano gym the first couple of minutes. i guess we weren’t used to the tempo. we were up against friggin energizer bunnies, running all over the place, slapping at the ball every opportunity they could, KICKING us even when THEY were taking jump shots (this ain’t yo lunch-break and we ain’t in the docks u friggin fuck)…. we were forced to run despite having two 6-plus-footers on our side (giving us an advantage in the post). in the end though, we were just too big for them down low, as aman put it, the paint was a no-fly-zone today. but, again semi-quoting aman, i think the bottom line was just that our players had too much heart and pride to lose in their first game as champs. dam that was sweet.
on that note, i’d like to quote gene hackman’s character in "the replacements": "greatness, no matter how brief stays with a man." shiat, doesn’t that push a button? i can still remember playing in my first game as part of the high school varsity team in westbridge. it was against the saint vincent ferrer seminary, we won, i had 4 points. i can still remember how i scored them, and the subsequent high fives and pats on the ass i got from teammates like ram yoro, basketball GOD during those days. right after the game i felt like michael friggin jordan, i was the baddest 12 year old in the world. the team ofcourse won by atleast 12 points, and the points i scored were hardly spectacular or crucial to the win, but still, they were the game winners as far as i was concerned.
man, if only everybody had an outlet that presented opportunities for those small voctories that do so much to the self-esteem. there would be a whole lot less insecure, overcompensating mofos in the world. after all, why would you feel the need to act like a tough guy or mr. know-it-all or like a an ass in general, when you friggin: SCORED 4 POINTS IN YOUR LAST GAME , BESTING YOUR PREVIOUS RECORD OF 0! (holla!) , or, QUALIFIED FOR ‘TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPOIONS’ IN VIDEO JEOPARDY! (i’m yo daddy!) hehehe seriously though, i mean it. sometimes i feel the need to have these things to hold on to in those instances when i feel like a total directionless bum (especially in law school). bad recit? bakit mam, ikaw kaya tanungin ko about stuff i’ve spent my whole miserable life studying: how do you get 30 lives in contra? (up up down down left right left right b a b a start on the opening screen BIAAAATCH! sit down, your an embarassment to this college) …failed a course? fuck it, basket nalang sir, pustahan ng grade. …without them i’d probably either be crying myself into a fetal position in the shower every night or a gun-toting wannabe gangsta.
dam, i bet all you educated folk think i’m a total mental case. i’m just telling it as it is. so there, now everybody knows the secret to my swagger, I SCORED 4 POINTS AGAINST SAINT VINCENT FERRER SEMINARY WHEN I WAS A HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN.
