too much of a good thing ... well, maybe not just yet :o)

red wine is good for your health, they say. but too much of it is bad news, especially if you have to be at your desk at 8am the following morning…

things are going quite well this week, as compared to the last time i posted. and it does help when your friends are feeling good about themselves too (i guess my melancholic mood was partly influenced by the fact that my friends were feeling a bit “lonely” last week too).

we were hanging out at the wineshop last night after a hearty dinner of cebu’s famous “sinugba” foods. it’s our latest watering hole nowadays –-- the wineshop i mean. we figured the coffee shop act was getting kinda old for us and we wanted to try something new.

it’s a nice, comfortable place --- musky, log-cabin interiors with the relaxing strings of a gypsy kings CD piped in (although later in the night, they started playing pseudo-pop dance tunes and i was like, “what the …?!”). they had a tapa bar and chips you could munch on, but the star of the place was of course, the wine. the shelves stock a varied selection of red and white wines which could fit well into a humble budget.

which brings me back to my original premise. i guess 4 or 5 glasses is just beyond my comfort zone. i can’t say i was stoned, not even tipsy. but let’s just say that although i slept soundly when i got home, i didn’t exactly feel great in the morning. i had to drag myself out of bed and i’m feeling bloated all day.

but i’m not complaining. the place was good, the wine was great, but the company was even better. although we had a common affinity with the same office at one point or another in our lives, it was definitely a smorgasbord of varied and interesting personalities. the conversation ranged from the integrity of the bar exams, to calling card delivery complaints, and to the inevitable ghost stories.

by the end of the night, we had downed 4 bottles and set a sushi party at jv’s house this friday. that’ll be a fun read for my next blog --- cold fish in the raw! hahaha … till then!

under the weather

now this is a nice note to start my blog with ...

once again i find myself in semi-melancholic mode to jive with the weather outside (or at least the weather when i left the house. now i'm stuck in a god-forsaken black turtleneck and it's not even half that cold anymore ...).

i dunno. maybe it's the weather. maybe it's just my new medication. or maybe it's because my so-called life basically sucks nowadays. at any rate, i'm stuck in a rut --- both at work and at school --- for almost two weeks now and i can't seem to nudge myself out of it. and so i'm sending out an SOS to the infinite cosmic void out there ... if you know anything that'll work, please be kind and do tell (the chocolate decadence i had for dessert definitely didn't work).