At last, Something To Smile About... (part 2)

... now i arrive at mayrics, kings and pawns were playing and i listened to them from outside... they were really good it's just that medyo nanibago lang ako sa kanila di ko lang alam kung bakit... during their set i was kind of tripping around with joey and gilbert... panay nga kantyaw ang inabot ko eh so when i had enough... i sought out mavi's company... cool talaga itong si mavi... parang si garfield kung umasta... sya yung pinang-tapat ko kina gilbert at joey since d namn nila gaanong close si mavi eh wala silang nagawa kundi tigilan ako... after a while, apol went out and approached me. i can see that she was a bit nervous and obviously uneasy - may mga friend kasi sya na nanuod... i assured her that everything will be fine and that it'll all be over in a short while... so we played starting of with "harsh words" and from that point on i knew that everything will be fine... we played in front of a very receptive crowd with joey and gilbert seated in the very front table... ayus talaga yung dalawa yan... ang lalakas mang-asar... ngiting-ngiti yung dalawa habang kinakanta namin ni apol yung "harsh words", "it will never last (forever)", "stay here for a while"... medyo nabaling lang yung pansin nila kay janpol during "wasting opportunities" at "i was right"... i think the peolple there really liked the songs we played specially "i don't know what to say" and "bathing in the sun"... i for one was so enchanted while doing "bathing in the sun" that for one moment there i felt a moment of pure bliss... like the one in 6UG, we got off stage in very high spirits although apol was at times uncertain whether she was able to it pull or not. i assured her that she did... my science project was suppose to be up next but since thier drummer was no where in sight, they decided to give their slot to the cactus garden... it was the first time i saw them and i was so impressed. i'm even considering to include them in the compilation project if my funds would still allow it... apol and company had to leave during the middle of cactus garden's set. so we said goodbye to them (yung isang kasama nila eh mukang may tama kay arjay, hehehe sorry ka, taken na yun eh...) so we went back inside to watch the remainder of cactus' set... ang kulit ni charles at dennis, kantyawan ng kantyawan. my wet shirt caught mavi's attention so she bullied me into taking it off upon seeing that i had another shirt inside... na-touch nga ako sa ginawa nya eh... he asked for charles' powder and had me put some on my chest and on my back... ayun ang bango-bango ko bigla... amoy charles na ako... after cactus' set, kel and dennis insisted that candyaudioline should play so i gave in to their request pero by that time, i was experiencing slight chest pains. i begged charles to play guitar in my place but he politely declined... so we played. there were just members of kings and cactus plus charles and mavi watching while mang oca was making pack-up... i felt kinda akward singing all by myself but i had to so i did... we played an mbv song, then followed by a spoken word version of "flaming walls" (which caught my bandmates a bit off-guard, charles even thought that i was crying that time...) then proceeded to doing an old version of "my silver chair" with "better view" as last song... i decided to play another song "if i could" just to play a joke on arjay who was became a bit distressed but was able to carry out the task so well... although nabitin and mga candymates ko, we still agreed that it was a very cool way to end 2005 (especially for me)... so we (me, charles, mavi, dennis, kel and arjay) all said our goodbyes to the las piñas people it was arleady 3am so we headed straight to marlets to continue our end of year bonding session... we stayed at my place where dennis continued playing "bookworm de lux" scoring a very neat 330,000 plus with the help of me, charles and kel's coaching while i let mavi lie down the sofa to watch a dvd movie... they all left at around 5:30am except for mavi who stayed for another hour and a half playing "bookworm" and chatting with me while i was watching "johnny english" on tv... at around 7:30am. we left my place, went to tracks studio in pasig to get some re-mastered cd's of backbeat bands and brought her safely home to her place in san juan... i got back home at around 9am then went straight to bed but suddenly, i began to feel some slightly painful chest spasms. fearing that the worse was about to happen, i texted all of my closest friends some really cheesy show of gratiduted semantics just in case... then i dozed off... i woke up at around 4:30pm feeling slightly relieved... eto ako ngayon buhay pa rin...