a view from my side..

~ thought bubble ~

HAPPY 2011!
WOOOOHOOOO!!

Another year to have great adventures!

Let's go!!
rant@ 1/17/11 :P

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~ black&blue ~

~ looking out ~

~ cool stuff ~
~Improv Everywhere~
~Letters to Crushes~
~Travesty Clothing~
~Jiro's Deviantart~
~Post Secret~
~Newgrounds~
~30-sec Bunnies Theater Library~
~The IMPOSSIBLE quiz~
~Yahoo Games~
~Serious Shorts~
~What does your name mean?~
~http://youdiehard.blogspot.com~
~http://www.pinoyblogosphere.com~
~SA on B :)~

~ friends ~
~amelie colobong~
~arik abu~
~arnel cosme~
~avis alibuyog~
~carmela ugay~
~dominic yatco~
~earl foust~
~earl masacayan~
~gelo lecaros~
~java lee~
~jerica riego~
~jiro tamase~
~joice carrido~
~jose tanjuan~
~jowee corrales~
~julianne alberto~
~kat silva~
~katrina perez~
~liana colobong~
~mandy mangubat~
~merie clarete~
~michelle kim inot~
~mika lopue~
~mike esguerra~
~nancy bansil~
~paulene bucag~
~tessa tamase~

~ et. al. ~
~anton silver~
~bianca gonzales~
~jim paredes~
~neil gaiman~

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~ about.. ~

UNDER CONSTRUCTION.. sorry for being a lazy b*tch. lol.

I'm stuck in a different time zone as of the moment. ;)

--isabel--atebel--isa--bel--bei--

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~ talkback ~

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~ looking back ~

~ Guts ~
~ old and new. ~
~ sucking it all in.. ~
~ Excerpts 1 ~
~ agree to a certain degree. ~
~ why he is sooo likable :P ~
~ KRIS-ADAM Face Off! :D ~
~ 100 ~
~ happy - sad. ~
~ The Tree, The Leaf and The Wind.. (and some other ... ~

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~ and beyond.. ~

~ June 2006 ~
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~ November 2006 ~
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~ February 2007 ~
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~ January 2011 ~
~ February 2011 ~
~ March 2011 ~
~ April 2011 ~
~ November 2011 ~

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~ wishing on a star ~

reason
happiness :)
know and do what I really want
not be afraid
~~a music box :)~~
~~scream out loud~~
~~graduate :p~~

Credits
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udub
Thank You! :)

~ cab. ~

i was running late to work the other night so i chose to ride a cab instead. i walked to the stop light near our house and waited.

like most people i know, i also like the comfy-looking cabs... the ones that are nice to look at and great to ride in. so there goes one which i hail and in i go.

the driver was in his late 20s i guess.. didn't pay that much attention so long as he knew the way to where i was going. off we went to makati.

i looked around the interior of the car. nothing fancy but it was alright.. like i said, comfy. i glanced once in a while at the taxi meter, looking at how much my extra time in bed would cost me tonight. i wished buses were faster so i could go ride one even if i got up a little late than usual. the mrt was another option but i'd still have to ride a cab once i got to ayala so the cab was my last option.

it's so like me to think about stuff while commuting to work, and i pretty much did the same during that cab ride. my eyes wandered around, looking at the billboards (which had their lights off now) street lights and other things while cruising along the highway.

then i remembered THAT cab ride. the one where i was so drunk that everything was spinning... the one where i was conscious but was woozy and vulnerable. good thing i was with a friend, and the cab we got was nice. she told me at a later conversation that she felt scared for me that night. maybe coz she wasn't used to seeing me like that... or better yet, coz i'm usually not like that.

that cab ride WAS a little scary. it was 2am.. i was drunk and my friend's house was nearer than mine...meaning she was to go down before me... maybe that was why she was afraid.

i looked out the window. we were near boni station now. it was late so the traffic wasn't as heavy.

i remember when my friend got down the cab and told me to text her once i got home... or did she? i remember thanking her for that fun night, and as she slammed the door shut, the cab driver asked me where to next. i told him, "qc" and some more details as to how we'd get there. i felt the cab move and my head spin at the same time.

like some cab drivers, kuya started a little chit chat. i remember him mentioning something about his NBI clearance, but i could not recall why the heck that even entered the conversation. he said that he had a hard time getting one coz his name was similar to a cult leader or something. i remember more details about this as i type just now. i was so dizzy that even if i wanted to pay attention to his story, all i could say were words (?) sounding like i agreed or aknowledged what he said or was saying. i wanted to listen more but the alcohol overpowered me. i didn't want to sleep though, so the part of me that was afraid and sober kept me up.

then there was the final right turn to our street. i knew the guy knew i was drunk. i told him to stop by our gate and i tried to compose myself. i looked at the meter and gave him the fare (nope can't remember how much it was...) i got out and struggled to find my keys. it took about 5 seconds for me to find them (and that achievement made me say to myself "hindi naman ata ako lasing eh..") and when i looked back, he was still there, waiting till i got in. "what a nice guy," i thought.

we were at ayala avenue now. and i looking around again inside the cab, i suddenly thought that cab we rode that night might be this very one i was riding in. it was comfy... and kuya could be that same driver. i wanted to know if it was him, so maybe i could thank him for that night he waited, but how could i? i was too drunk to remember, fat chance it was THE same guy, and even if it WAS him, who was i to be THAT memorable? plus, it would be totally weird if i did remember him and thanked him. that sort of thing doesn't happen... this isn't some tv show or movie after all.

and then the right turn to the office. the cab stopped. i paid the fare. thanked the driver.

and off i went for another day (night) at work.

Labels: a day in my life

~ isabel ~ posted @
Monday, June 22, 2009,6:17 PM

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