I am _ _ + 1.

I just turned _ _ + 1. Happy Birthday to me. :)

Last night, after a gruelling exam in ObliCon (Obligations and Contracts), I went straight to the new apartment we've moved into. I told myself I gotta make up for the lack of sleep I had been having since we started moving to this new place last Saturday. Had just taken dinner and ready to hit the sack when I noticed my mobile phone, set on a silent mode, getting an incoming call. It was Mards. She, along with Moore and April, were on their way to pick me up. Moore, they said is throwing out a treat (for winning several times in cockfight derbies)(aside from his sabong skills and fortunes, Moore owns the largest 24-hour supermarket in the city) . I really don't feel like going with them. It's just that they were insistent. Salubungin daw namin ang birthday ko. It's going to be my birthday and yet, got no moolah, I told em. Si Moore daw bahala.

We ended up in Kinabuch. It was pulutan galore - french fries, sinuglaw, fried beef lumpia and tamilok. Hardly do I drink without pulutans, and so I hated it that with beer and those munchies I was about to break my self-imposed diet. And break my diet, I did. I wolfed down bottles and bottles of San Mig Light and took in a good many bites and spoonfuls of pulutan! It was going to be my birthday anyway (and they were taking care of the bill ehehe). I was resigned into thinking I can always halve my food intake after this to make up for the calories I would be gaining that night.

Midnight came and we raised our bottles and drank for a happy birthday for me. Only when we were raising our bottles did I realize time is soooooooo fast that i haven't even made major accomplishments in life. At _ _ +1, I cannot feel success. As I gulped my beer down, though, I was being hopeful I'll lick success, too. Not very soon, but I will. Got to. I'll work on it. I gotta work for it. No choice but to work for it.

We stayed in Kinabuch up till a little past 1. Or was it half an hour past 1, I cannot recall. The last thing I remember was that Mards and I were in a heated argument over the issue of mining. A blue-blooded "anak ng minahan" I am, there's no way anyone can talk me out into trashing the mining industry. Moore had to mediate by telling it was time to go home.

The lack of sleep and intoxication laid me to sleep as soon as I reached the apartment.

I woke up at around 7 to see lots of greetings that piled up in my mobile phone's Inbox. Replied to each of them and dozed back to sleep. Every now and then, I'd wake up just to answer SMSes and then would go back to sleeping the day away. I planned not to go to class tonight.

Woke up again around 5:30 pm to see messages saying Judge Pe is not holding class. Perfect. I don;t have to worry about missing any discussion of my favorite professor. Besides I haven't missed a class since the first semester, so that would make me not missing any class still.

Turning the TV and surfing the net for news, I found out today is Constitution Day. (It was 8 February 1935 when the Philippine Constitutional Commission adopted our First Constitution according to Filipiniana.net) Wow. I never knew nor can recall this until today, when Senator Roxas told Mr Lozada his coming to the Senate is sort of significant as "today is Constitution Day" and that he doesn't have to be afraid... So it is not just on this day that I was born and that sexy American starlet got killed. This is also when the 1st ever recognized fundamental law of this country was born. Gotta keep this in mind.

Found out in the news, both from TV and on the web, that the day has been marked with bombs and bombs of revelations about the scrapped multimillion dollar ZTE Broadband deal. Inquirer.net has a good account of today's NBN Deal Senate Investigation. Got a strong feeling, Mike Arroyo, Abalos and their cohorts are in for a deep, deep trouble. Jun Lozada sounded so credible I can already hear the gavel banging against Arroyo, et al.

I never went out except to pick up my laundry at around 8pm. I totally turned down friends asking me out. Kahit mangantyaw pa ang iba. he he. Basta araw ko to and I am spending it just like any ordinary day. What do I have for my birthday? Pancit canton, Skyflakes crackers and Pringles, that's all!

I have aged again!!! Physically, yup......Basta, I'll never get tired of being young. Kahit sa isip lang!!!!!