Valentines Day festivities

* this post has been censored by someone limiting my freedom of speech... damn you infringing my rights zac

All I can say is that this valentines day was superior to the last three, but before you assume that I went on a date and was given a diamond tennis bracelet and roses lets recap the last three:

3 years ago - a pipe in my ceiling broke while my roommate was out to dinner with her boyfriend, spewing water all over my couch, guitar and computer. I called Campus Security to have them come save me, and got... a busy signal for thirty minutes...WTF? seriously, what if I was being killed????

2 years ago - broke up with the guy I had been dating a week before valentines day, and then started talking again a few days after valentines day, I think it was strategy on his part, but he claimed that no one in Norway celebrates it anyway..load of tosh.

1 year ago - Was given chocolates in an awkward and furtive manner by a 'friend' who was at the time dating one of my other 'best' friends, I don't think she got anything, this occurrence still puzzles me greatly and was really weird.

This valentines day I - went to a reggae concert, then out to a club, then went on a food binge/extravaganza with zac at 5am, going first to Jollibee, where we had a 2 hour deep and meaningful about life etc over our burgers and fries which seems to be our thing now, and then after, headed to the drugstore to get a giant bag of Cheetos to supplement my burger and happily munching them on the walk home while zac went off for a valentines day tea party. After going to sleep at 530ish Jess woke me up by calling at 6am, but I was still so incoherent and asleep that I don't remember anything of the convo.



I think my perfect valentines day would either be:
a. Pizza, good movie, beer
or
b. Dinner at the top of the clock tower in Prague with candles, champagne, and Al Green and then a night at mecca with the old crew.... unclassy vs classy

So yeah, I think that would qualify as a decent valentines day. Anyway, I hope everyone had a good party, and the people with boyfriends got a good day, and to the boyfriends congrats its over, you don't have to do anything romantic for another 11 months and 30 days now.

Manila = Madness

Manila was one big shit-show of us having absolutely no idea where we were going, or what part of the city we were in, or if we were gonna get killed immanently, etc. I had been to cheap to buy a guidebook, so we literally had no idea where we were, I didn't even know that manila is several cities and not one city with a main downtown, which made things a little interesting for trying to figure out where to go.

We finally found somewhere to stay for the night after wandering aimlessly for 45 minutes, and went to the nearby ladybar to watch the inauguration / get a beer.. I was exhausted so I wanted to go to sleep stat, but Liam really really wanted a beer and didn't want to go to a ladybar by himself, as he had already been propositioned a few times, so he dragged me down for protection, I watched the inauguration, which I've never seen before, I'm a bad American, so I gues it was a good educational experience.

The next day we bought tickets to Cebu on the ferry, and then went on an oddessy through what I think must have been all of manila's malls to find Liam a surfboard. After what seemed like eons of wandering around in circles totally lost among the ice rinks and Jollibees, (I hate malls) we finally found a place with surfboards and ended the agony.


Taco!!

I found cheetos at 7-11 for the first time in 6 months!!! this picture is my idea of pure happiness

Ferry to Cebu
Pretty sunset
Typical of the philippines. They were also testing guns off the side of the boat for about three hours on the way down. Pretty ridic.

Fighting cocks are alowed on the boat. No other livestock. Or wellwishers.


Prettttttyyyy