last sunday i bought a book by jd salinger, entitled the catcher in the rye. most of my novel-reading friends highly recommend it. halfway thru the book i still can’t see why they’re all excited about it. it’s a narrative of a self-centered rich kid in new york, faced with the biggest problem of his life: spending more than a hundred dollars in two days. im turning 25 in a couple of days. i got a little depressed. i blame this friend of mine who once gave me a list of things to do before turning 25. reading the catcher in the rye is one of them. the book tells me i’m poor.
i wanted a car badly for my 25th bday but it looks like that’s not going to happen. so i bought myself a used jacket for P125. a good buy, i should say. my officemate liked it. it makes me look like one of the junkies from danny boyle’s trainspotting. i happen to buy a pirated dvd copy of it two weeks ago. one of my favorite movies. the movie tells me to CHOOSE LIFE! way to go renton!
my mother texted me the sad news. remember our dog who ate the chicks? my father and his friends finally decided to end his life. the poor king has gone mad after biting a passerby. a minute of silence please, for king, our 5 yr old dog. i knew him since he was a puppy. his instincts killed him. we will surely miss him. i wonder what my instincts are. i hope it would keep me alive.
so what’s in store for me two days before hitting the quarter mark? 10 bottles of beer probably. it’s sad to know that i already know what i’ll have for lunch on my birthday: a quarter pounder from mcdonald’s. no it’s not a coincidence. a quarter pounder for lunch on my first day of quarterlife. i enjoy these kind of stuff. matching nonsense with my life. like how i savor every minute of this last tuesday as a 24 yr old. somebody fix me. somebody hand me a bottle of beer.
first book i’ll read upon turning 25: crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky. that same stupid friend also gave me a list of things to do before turning 30. one of them is to read a russian novel. dostoevsky is a hard read, i know. ive been reading the brothers karamazov for years now. one thing im excited about is the next one on the list: learn a foreign language. spanish is up next. muy bien senor climaco! sexo? please.. haha forgive my spanish. like the internet, porn is the fastest way to learn it. got a couple of spanish movies in my collection now. sex and lucia, and y tu mama tambien. got a copy of city of god, too, but that’s in portuguese. i dont mind. they sound the same anyway. i love spanish tiles. try dropping by tapas tapas in emerald avenue ortigas. they’ve got nice spanish tiles.
