the wanderer who spoiled valentines

i think its too early to write something about how to spoil this day. but i can say that i already have done quite a number of things. i woke up quite late this morning though not that alarming to be late for work with a frown in my face. this is one of my pre-set plans that i've came up before i slept last night. the list would include the following:

hope that you'll wake up on the wrong side of the bed or pretend that you did.

i just realized that waking up on the wrong side of the bed with a temperature that drops around the 70s, which is chiller than the past days, was already not a good day to start valentines. knowing that even the weather is actually teasing me and rubbing,

"hey this will be a long cold day for you, erik"

or probably its just me trying to relate almost everything to this day. i just hope i am not the only person who realized this.

wear something that would ruin or divert the essence of the occasion.

i thought of wearing green today. i realized wearing black would actually be something quite obvious. it would either mean you're so bitter about the day because you don't have someone with you or your participating the black valentine event of a shampoo commercial because you think you are sexy. well, wearing red is not actually on my option. people who doesn't have anyone with them doesn't wear red during valentines. its like torturing or putting yourself into fire if you're going to wear red and being single is you're gasoline.

i decided to wear green because of very silly idea that if everyone will be wearing red and i am wearing green, if i go near them we will look like yuletide colors. eventually, the essence of valentines will be replaced and diverted with christmas and atleast, everybody will be happy.

wear a very dark tinted sunglasses.

the traffic in katipunan is still horrible, as usual. but today, it actually took me 20 minutes to get a cab. but the thing that annoyed me most was the burning view of everything in red. don't they realize the view looks like hell? it was like almost all corner you passed through, there is something red on it. as if everybody is overrating the occasion (now, look who's talking?). good thing, i have my sunglasses on. atleast, everything was in black or in darker hue. but i should have brought a .45 magnum pistol instead, and shoot anyone that is either wearing or carrying something red, seriously.

annoy everyone around you.

the traffic jam when i reached edsa wouild already tell me how most people are excitedly anticipating this day. yes, everybody woke up and hit the road earlier that is why the traffic build up came in unexpectedly. but despite the eagerness of most people to beat the road, i still manage to reach work 20 minutes earlier for my shift. nonetheless, the crazy me still decided to punch in late up to the provided grace period of 44 minutes. considering the tons and piles of work i have to do. definitely, my supervisor will be annoyed hearing this as well as my other coworkers that will be forced to carry over my work loads and render overtime.

people were greeting "happy valentines" when i walked in. i figured the best way to annoy them was to tell them, "go to work!" or "what's happy for this day? do you have a date?i bet not" i actually enjoyed annoying my officemates i am and they are used of that. this were the type of the jokes we normally had. i was actually expecting they would retaliate and throw something that would tell me " bitter ka lang kasi" or something, which they normally do. but today is quite different, which i already overratedly pointed out earlier, it's valentines day for crying out loud. they just turned back and work silently as if you drained the perkiness inside of them. i felt bad in a way, thinking i am already late and this guys already carried over my work but i still gave them this. but in second thought, i liked it. once in a while its nice to be mean.

broke yourself.

today, i am officially broke. i only have less than a grand in my pocket that i need to stretch until next week. i have also maxxed out my credit limit and i still need to pay my place. even my cellphone load doesn't have a peso left on it. but looking on the brighter side or simply putting a meaning of it to excuse myself, i thought its a good form of a hunger strike.
comrades, i am proclaiming and expressing to you my disgust to this day. the day of february 14 is not a day to celebrate love between lovers nor an international celebration of single awareness day, it is a deceitful manifestation of the capitalist structure to let us spend more than we are ought to spend for this day. roses, chocolates, gifts and even food are on their highest cost to favor the ones who are in the status quo. come and join me in tackling down such injustice.

never turn back to these plans.

as i ended this long post, i just realized three thing:. first, despite the pleasure of being so mean, it didn't really gave me any good. second, despite the day being so freakingly long, i just have to bear with and live on for tomorrow. lastly, never to write a series of mushy post again---ever.