The Beginning of 2008
The sun was rising outside the foggy car windows and I leaned my head on the grey side panel of Anton's car. Mandi, meanwhile, was making most of the hour-long wait in the Fort Strip parking lot by entertaining Anton and I with unecessary banters of "Poe poe poe poe" to the tune of Mr. Sandman.
That exact moment was at 6:30 am early this morning of January 01, 2008. I spent the first hours of the year 2008 drinking wine with my Remulla relatives at the Oposa's Alabang home; watching fireworks and covering my ears along with my baby cousins; taking a 30 minute-long trip to Makati in Ping's car and taking whiffs of wine we stole from the house; getting into Embassy thanks to Rina Andres and Angel Antonio and their wonderful connections (Mandi, Boo, Martin, Anton and I were V.I.P., mind you); and dancing and drinking to DJ Mark Doyle unto the wee hours with great company. It really is pretty different celebrating the first of the New Year with people you usually see in normal school days. It was more interesting and more fun being with them, knowing that we all didn't have a curfew and letting loose for the first time in what seemed to be a pretty long time.
Cheers to the New Year!
After stress-filled school days, we definitely deserve it.