RB: An Inconvenient Adventure

Okay. That was, if anything, a proverbial slap in the face. :o. Haha. Yea weeeell, I was probably asking for it. Silence stings far worse than any sort of diss, coz it leaves you with a chock full of uncertainty, a lil bit of misplaced hope and a reasonable amount of OUCH. Forgive me for being too vague on this but it’s best to just sort of leave it to the imagination.

On a lighter note, I have kwento:

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Yesterday was pretty much not unlike any other weekday. ‘Cept for this hassle of a sequence I had while trying to meet up with mum in Alabang Town Center.

See, on the way there, I lost my phone battery so naturally, I didn’t know where to look for her and she for me. So as soon as I had the chance, I tried charging my N93 using one of the mall sockets (brought my charger).

Now as I was slowly pulling the charger out from my Jansport, I initially didn’t notice this scary looking security guard lurking from behind me. “Sir bawal”. Startled, I spun around in a tad awkward manner mumbling something like “ah.. hehe.. bawal po ba? umm.. emergency..”. “Sir bawal talaga. Meron charging station sa food court or sa Burger King”. “Ah. Mmkay.. err. sorry”.

How could I have friggin forgotten that there ARE legitimate ways of rejuicing your cell phone in ATC?

From there, I scurried off to Burger King which was the nearest of the two options. There were like, only 2 chargers for Nokia phones, both of which were occu-frickin-pied. :|.

Off to the food court then.

Running up the escalator, I was trying to remember where the charging station was located coz I sorta couldn’t remember one situated within or anywhere near the food court. After a couple minutes of asking around, I finally saw it. Full of people standing by. For their charging NOKIA phones. :|. Argh.

At this point, I knew a cliche` was due: Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Scampering off to the the nearest washroom, I waited around pretending to wash some sort of invisible dirt from my hands occasionally checking if the coast was clear for some justified mischief on my part hehe. When the opportunity came, I did a carpe deim and rebelliously pulled off the hand-dryer plug. Charger on socket, I got to read a message from mum. Am in mkti super. Come over. Partially relieved, I pulled off my minute-charged phone and raced towards the freshly-defined rendezvouz point.

When I got there though, she was nowhere in sight. Exasperated, I reach for my phone to try and text her up, but in a rather evil twist of fate, my phone rings. It was mum calling. Three seconds into the tune of “Soul Meets Body” by Death Cab, my phone once again decides to bite the electronic dust. Demmit. :|.

I figured there was no use trying to go look for another washroom to go charge in coz the nearest one from where I was at that point was like, lightyears away…

Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating abit but the fact is, I didn’t wanna risk a take-two. I tried walking around the area, praying for a glimpse of my dear mum, to no avail.

At this point, the idea of trying to go recharge my phone in some washroom again seemed like a far more practical alternative than to continue wasting away walking around like a madman.

I decide to try looking some place else just to push myself one more time. If I still didn’t bump into mother dearest this time, then surely, I wouldn’t have had any other choice than to go washroom-stealth. Again. Tired and a bit pissed from the unnecessary hassle, I try pulling my legs on the way to Tutto Moda, my heavy backpack unrelentingly banging against my spine with every despised step. As I slowly manage to get myself there, I finally catch a glimpse of what was, at that moment, the most welcoming sight ever.

Mama Mia.

So yeah. In the end, I was able to muscle my way through the inconvenience. Haha. Not long thereafter though, I started looking at the whole fiasco in a different light. In retrospect, it kinda was pretty amusing in the sense that it was sort of like an adventure.

At that moment, I was casually exchanging text messages with this girl I had met just recently. Naturally, I made kwento.

She then goes “inconvenience is adventure misinterpreted :)”.

I text back, “so frickin true”

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Hasta Luego. :)