Hand In My Pocket

HAND IN MY POCKET

I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful baby
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five

I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless

-- Alanis Morissette

What do you do when you just have a couple of bucks left in your pocket going around unfamiliar places?

What I did was walk. Walk from Eglinton West up to Yonge-Eglinton intersection which is a good hour and a half's walk. It was a stupid move but I saved a couple of bucks'. The good thing about my good walk is that 1) got to see some quaint little stationery stores and 2) saw some interesting people. I also proved to myself that I am not a weakling and that I have that hidden energy inside me. But would I do it again? No! I maybe crazy but NOT THAT CRAZY!!!!

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PIZZAIOLO

There's this pizza place near my work where they sell a huges slice of pizza and a pop for only $ 5. My cousin Ate Kaye was the one who pointed me and my other cousin towards that direction when I first went to downtown for my interview. It's a little pizza place with good looking guys (though I suspect two of those guys are gay; what a waste!) . Went there to eat after my very long walk and man-oh-man was my tummy filled! ^_^ Wish Table_03's here and then we would all enjoy our gourmet pizza (with a cheap price) and oggle at the good looking guys! ^_^

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YORK NEWBIE

Thanks to our pc and I was able to go to York U without any hassle and confusions and minimal asking of questions to strangers.

York U have a very big campus somewhat similar to UP. We have our own version of the ikot jeepney of UP which is the Glendon-Keele flag bus. It's a very big campus so most of the time you have to have a map or directions going to places but hopefully, I wouldn't look too much of a newbie with the help of my cousin, her boyfriend and her friends. ^_^

A part of me couldn't wait to go to school and a part of me also is hesitant in going back. First of all, it's a new and BIG place. Quite different from the clustered buildings of DLSU. Second, everybody speaks English (duh!!!!) and well, not that I couldn't speak in English its just that sometimes I miss talking in Tagalog/Filipino. The only time I would be able to talk in Filipino is when I am home or sometimes when I'm talking to my cousins. It's only now that I understand why some Filipinos who study abroad or stay abroad for quite sometime would acquire a twang and would speak in Taglish when they go back.

I used to despise those Filipino people who seems like they are foreign to their own tongue just because they stayed in another country. Now, I am seeing things through their eyes. It's hard not to get the twang or to speak the way these foreigners do because you will be "forced" to acquire these abilities. If you wouldn't talk you'll be a hermetic which would be hard because as the cliche goes: no man is an island.

My Japanese Acrobat Sister/ Freudian Slip worshipper Sister commented that I already got the twang when I called her. I really don't notice it. Barok pa nga ako dito eh. I refuse to be foreign to my own tongue. I refuse to be one of those high and mighty Filipino-Immigrants that doesn't help out their own kind. I will forever and always be a Filipino na nakatapak pa rin sa lupa ang mga paa.

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I am Angel. . . missing her lengthy conversations in Filipino.