After a Month or so

It's been a month or so since I've last posted here. I was inspired to put in a new entry when a from-davao-but-now-in-singapore friend shared her new blog. This is aside from the fact that I'm doing nothing today. And I'm bored. And I only write when I'm super bored. I'm actually only psuedo-bored but I feel writing anyway. Since I'm only psuedo-bored, I'm just gonna psuedo-write. A psuedo-blog entry.

This being a psuedo-entry, I'm just let you know what I've been doing for the past month or so.

1. 5 on 5 Futsal Tournament at Club650 with the Korsaaven.

• Korsaaven was my main football club (fc) back during my UP student days. I was pretty glad to know that the team is still playing and is slowly rebuilding. (Lots of players stopped playing after graduation and were never heard from ever again). We lost the tournament (This being my first futsal tournament here in Manila, which is totally not the reason we lost but I still feel like mentioning).

2. 7 on 7 Tournament with Sikad FC

• I played with Sikad FC way back when the team was still named ArchLegion. Never knew the reason for the change but still, playing with these guys still is fun. Again, we lost the tournament but I have an uber-cool moment during one match. I did this super-bicycle kick which awed the audiences even if the ball didn't went in. Thanks to my kick's landing, I have a mild sprain on my left wrist and right foreknuckle til now.
  

3. Bisita Iglesia with Sikad FC

• Since I was doing nothing during the holy week, I tagged along with Sikad FC's bisita iglesia. I was told that this activity was some kind of tradition with club. It was an experience (for lack of a better word). Ironically, we ended the day playing texas hold'em poker. I guess we just wanted to play the roles of the soldiers who gambled for Jesus' clothes. Hmmm.. could those soldiers have been playing poker? Aside from that, we took extreme care of not wounding ourselves. We all know the consequences of wounding oneself on the days Jesus was dead, it would never heal, forever.

4. Trip to Tagaytay

• I've never been to Tagaytay. So even if I only had 3 hours of sleep due to last night's poker game after bisita iglesia, I went and even volunteered to drive. After piercing my eyes with toothpicks to keep me awake for the drive, we got there safe and sound. Visited some popular tourist spots, took some pictures like tourists and even ate like tourists. 'Twas suppose to be a day trip, but for some reason we decided to return the next day. We found a cozy hotel/resort to sleep over for the night. The price was quite steep but the place was real nice. So nice that I forgot its name. After buying the obligatory I love *insert place where you are now which is currently->* Tagaytay shirt, we went home back to smogful Manila.

5. Mt Manalmon

• A fun climb with Sikad FC friends. What I like best about the people in Sikad is that they share the same interests I have from prOn to football to mountain climbing. A really easy climb. You'll reach the peak in 1.5 hours.
  
• Related to this climb is my purchase of a pioneer 2 coleman good-for-two tent which costs around 3K (Ouch). Prior to the climb, I had my eyes set on a good for four tent at Isetann for 850. But on the day of purchase, images from my raining first night on Mt Apo reminded me that cheap tents meant no sleep, wet clothes and group hugs the entire night.

6. Campana Farm

• Another Sikad FC activity, gawd I like this club. Fished for tilapia in the pond, videoked the entire night. Wow.

7. Tennis and Polats

• My friend Pol has new hobby, tennis. For some reason, I am in possession of a tennis racket. Pol with new hobby + Me with tennis racket = Me and Pol playing tennis. It was suppose to be a one on one tennisfest with Pol but due to our ...uhm... lack of training, we had to avail the services of Manong to help us with our strokes. I'm getting to like tennis and I might be making this are regular tuesday activity at the UP courts.

8. Mizuno 5 on 5 Futsal Tournament with Korsaaven

• Lost the tournament again. For the 6 months I've been playing football here in Manila, I've never played for a winning team. I may have to check my puwet for a balat to make sure I'm not the reason for this occurence.
• Bought a wicked new pair of Mizuno shoes. Not budgeted but since: 30% discount on Mizuno Shoes + Ronald with no Futsal shoes = Ronald with Futsal shoes - 2K. (Ouch)

Shit. This is a long one even for a psuedo post.

If I find time, or rather if time finds me, I'll blog in the details to the bulleted list here on this psuedo posts.

I'm quite contented with what is happening right now with the activities lined up for me:

• Capones, Zambales Trip - yahoo! surfing here i come
  
• Globe Football Super Cup - must have that balat dermatologically removed by this time

I just hope I didn't just imagine all these things.