headache blues

yes, my head is in the deepest pits of the earth. it's hurting a lot. it's probably because of the intense heat before i got here in the CHE lib and the coolness within the lib afterwards. i dunno. but i wanna talk about other things.

the past week has been the upmc applicants' dare week. it's a process every batch goes through where the applicants showcase their wares by playing in dorms for four nights. i went through my own two years ago - yep, it's been that long. and since, i think, the last two batches, there's a culminating activity during the last day, which has been traditionally played at the kalayaan dorm, which has sort of become a tradition. so after the dare night, the apps and mems gather together to bond. others do drink, others don't. but most of the time, i think everyone drinks. everybody makes a contribution so that there'll be gin or beer and chips to go around, then there's an assigned mixer/"tanggero" - i'm not sure about the word right now - and only one glass to go around for everyone to have their "tagay." and things happen in between. if there are guitars, then there are people singing, or people holding on-the-spot workshops. there could be a game of truth or dare or simply people teasing each other and sharing stories.

last night was such a night. they've improved since the first night at narra. i haven't been able to watch their gigs in between. anyway, it was almost okay. but there are still some things lacking. and it had been agreed that the "culminating activity" will be held at yves' place in matimtiman st. it's like a condo building where he occupies a room with 3 female roommates. we stayed on the rooftop since that was the only place that was wide enough for everyone of us to stay. at first, there was alessa, yves, jok, mitch, martin, jude - the tanggero for the night - owen and i among the mems. the apps present were daniel, sally, i(rish), jason, jek, honey, carl and gia. then afterwards, the guys came back from bartolo's which was just across mini-stop after the game of ginebra and talk 'n text. ginebra won the game. i'm sure mars, my roommate, is very happy while ate fe, our landlady's companion at home won't be too glad. i'm sure she's gonna be pissed if the people who buy at the sari-sari store will continue to talk about ginebra's success (she's a san miguel fan). so the new addition were dave, rob, ron, mario, tet and rocky among the members and marco, among the apps - he's applied for the last two sems and still hasn't been able to make it to the FR. r.a. followed afterwards, as well as joyce and sid, who was practicing with rocky for their performance for the fair. that was around 11pm and some of the apps had to go home. but we were just starting. i had three rounds of gin-iced tea and gin-brandy. then i drank up what's left of owen's red horse in glass. after that, i was really drunk. i couldn't feel much and the world was spinning when i walked. afterwards, i lay down and i think i eventually got some sleep. my "amats" was gone but my head was really hurting. that continued till 4:30 am when everybody else went home and alessa, mitch and an unconscious jok stayed at yves' place to sleep since we can't go home to our respective places of residence here in UP. when i woke up at around 7, my headache was gone. and we left a little after 7:30 because mitch still has an exam for math 55 at 8:30. i hope she does well, considering she's still a bit drunk and hasn't studied when we were having breakfast at mcdo. and she has to get a good grade, since this is her second take of the subject already.

ah, where am i going with this?

i can't really say i enjoyed the past day since due to my terrible headache, i haven't participated in the storytellings. and there were different groups different things. so my headache did not make me in the mood and i just ended up sleeping only for some two and a half hours and another headache this very moment.