Her Thumb's so Hot right now...

A blog about a birthday for one Joey G, written in the 3rd person.

The story begins in the night of the birth day of Joey in a Silver Ball. He is brought to it as an escort to a Miss Gabbe Olivares who has chosen to wear a black and pink dress on that very night. She knows it's his birthday and sees this as a gift of sorts for him. He sees the ball as a big party for celebrating his legality, proving to be much better a celebration than the alternative, had he not gone to prom. Clad in black and a purple/silver/black tie he wears his buttoniere with pride and walks side by side with his date.

They look first for familiar faces yet see none, realizing that everyone had decided to be cool and come fashionably late. Then a group of girls emerge from the Ladies' Room and greet the two with elegance. They greet Joey a happy birthday and immediately brighten his night, not that it had been bad or anything. Being pulled aside by a friend, Joey is suddenly interrogated by his date and the newcomer on his intentions with a certain friend of theirs. He clears his name and intentions, though they do not believe him but decide to rejoin their friends. Prom pictures are taken and the evening's events unfold.

More and more people pile in and Joey and Gabbe greet others, and others greet them. Familiar faces show themselves and things are going okay. Random people greet Joey a happy birthday. Very random people. People he never heard of before. Strange people and normal people. But none the less, very kind people whose randomness of greeting Joey make him happy.

Prom starts and the two sit down in the very far table, right next to the kitchen yet far from the stage. He meets his table mates, one a face who he has known for sometime but never really talked to, the other three are new faces that he had never seen before. He eyes one of the girl's camera, laughing to himself, by himself, at how funny it is to bring a DSLR to prom. He himself wonders why he had not brought his.

Food comes and the whole table stares at their appetizer, a vomit-green colored cream of brocolli soup with sausages. Then comes the main course of lapu-lapu with spinach, potatoes and a brown mushy sauce. For dessert they have mango crembulee. In his eyes, he had a madly power-mix soup with pieces of meat that nobody would eat from the hotel's breakfast buffet, a 1 month decaying piece of fish ontop of spinach mush and swamp goo, and a cheap dessert that they had decided to label as having mango because they had excess from the fish's sauce.

While waiting for the barkada pictures, Joey once again embarasses himself in a very awkward situation that goes as such.

Enzo and Claudia : JOEY!! Haaapy biiiirrthdddaaay!!!
Joey: Aww thanks!! Hey, (looks at girl) happy birthday to you too!
Claudia: Whaat? It's not my birthday!!
Joey thinks : *shit, she's not Yona pala..* says: wooppss... (looks away)

Prom unfolds and we must fast forward to the after prom in Cold Rock in greenbelt.

Coming late, Joey and Gabbe are last to order their ice cream, Cookies and Cream with cookie dough for sir and Irish cream with cookie dough for the lady. While the team of Cold Rock were preparing the ice cream amidst their strange stare at the overly dressed customers, a well known friend of Joey,Betina, requests for his audience outside. They speak of urgent matters that may not be disclosed under penalty of death. Soon their presence is greatly missed and a messenger calls them back in.

Upon entering, the most unexpected and surprising thing happened to him, placed in his ice cream were sticks of wax and wick that sparkled like fireworks. The joyous woodrosian voices were singing a happy birthday song to him. It was all.. very sweet and he himself did not believe it at first, glancing at Betina with the look of "what? seriously?" who replied with her own glance of "yeah, go look!"

Such a sweet notion touches him so dearly as he blows out his candles. They then ask him what he had wished for before the candles. He had blown out two cakes before that and wishes two different wishes for each cake. The first wish came true that night and so he found it unnecesary, selfish even, to ask for a third wish. He eventually finds out that Gabbe brought the sparklers and had even burnt her thumb while lighten them. Joey makes a comment on that and says her thumb's so hot right now. Yes, he is quite the flatterer.

While the rest of the night does hold valuable events, some things need not be said in public except that the night was an amazing celebration for Joey's birth day. With all the people greeting him and meeting new people, he had not hoped for even a portion of what happened. He goes home to say goodbye to his illegality and embraces the new and dawning age.

Thanks people who made this birthday great for me. To those who texted, FBed, guestbook-ed, went to his party, and greeted him in prom.

Where our memories are made

Today showed the peak of the senioritis epidemic in our class as we transformed the IV-A Andros' Classroom into a network of LAN where sides were picked and the teams played in Counter Strike. Such a game brings out the unity in us as though teams fought against each other, we were all united in forming this network. From the bringing of extension wires so each laptop can recharge, to Luis' Surge Protecting, Dirty Electricity filtering transformer box.

What had started out as doing Term Paper in School evolved to watching of movies during lunch and finally this. This beats the DOTA games we had with the LAN Cable. This is a whole new tech that I didn't know, playing CS with each other via ad hoc (tama ba?).

There was also that time when we played Monopoly on EJ's laptop. Back then we still had a projector in our room so we'd hook it up during lunch and play monopoly. Yeah we never finished the games but it was still fun! The race to own boardwalk and get the most hotels was fun, but shortlives. Even before our projector was brutally stripped away from the IV-A classroom this got old fast.

No day goes by without at least one useless subject and what better to spend our time than with this? I busy myself with sleeping or on the rare occasion, texting, but I have to admit that this is a great idea. For one, it's legal unlike our Class Casino.

Our Class Casino consisted of several pockets of dealers strategically spread out in our classroom for optimum TUS-ing. haha conyo much. Be it black jack, poker, pusoy dos or even speed (anyone.??) we played it. Around 10 + decks of cards were confiscated from our class alone, but it was worth it. Even the n00bs got to learn and the others got better. Besides, poker is all about bluffing and keeping the face. You can learn a lot from being good in poker, it helps in life.

Then there's the time last year everyone got into Rubick's Cube. 3x3x3x3 squares of insanity, we would have several cubes out at one time being solved. It got popular easily and soon everyone was able to solve it. What made it challenging though was how fast you can solve it. Actually i think EVERYONE was into those cubes at this time, the Philippine national cube club of whatever even came to our school one time and competitions were held. Some of those guys were really fast. Some were not.

Yeah our class would get into really weird things. I believe that boredom drove us to find ways of entertaining ourselves and this is where all of our creative juices went to. This is where our true unity lies, not in intrams but in the classroom. Not in English Recitals but in Rubick's Cubes. Definitely not in being clean but in organizing lan games. I'm gonna miss this, college just won't be the same.