8:01

Arrghhh…*insert stream of cusses here*  Why have the punctuality gods forsaken meeee?! Whhyyyy….!?? *kneels and spreads hands in the air while rain hits the face, crying* Engrande ang intro, d ba?

It’s my 3rd late this semester and all of those lates are on mondays, at 8:01am.

Why my day started out in the wrong foot you ask? Read on.

•  Our helper woke me up at 7am, and asked me if I was going to work? Duh..I specifically remember telling them that I should be awake at 6.30am on mondays coz we don’t have flexitime on mondays and we have to attend the flag ceremony.

• When I went to the kitchen for breakfast, the sotanghon (left over last night) was not re-heated and as sotanghon is one of my favorite food, I wanted to eat that.

• I went to the bathroom with my coffee to save on a few precious minutes. Yes, I can do that…drink coffee while ’shedding a few pounds’ *ahihih* Man, I should’ve been a doctor, I’m sure my stomach for grotesque would come in handy. But I can’t stand those ogrish stuffs though…

• After doing the deed, I sleepily got ready to take a bath and guess what….NO FREAKIN’ WATER! *screams like a little girl* Ok…so we had water but, the pressure level was soo low and the water was lazily streaming, taunting me of my undeniable fate.

• After taking a bath, I was starting to think I could make the 8:00am cut-off…then when I checked my phone I had 2 messages waiting to be read. Details below.

• Lola asked about the cheques(which I forgot to issue) and said that she needs it today coz she was going home to compostela later. So I hastily signed 10 blank cheques(I’m sooo going to jail for this…) and asked our ever faithful helper to fill in the details before giving it to lola.

begin procedure TEXT MESSAGES;

The first one was from jiji, my officemate.        

Gud AM. Reminders tomorrow. Guys bring you polo. *me* and jer, bring kau guitar…msg goes on about what to bring.

Holy pwet! I completely forgot about our presentation for our District Manager’s birthday. So I issued a stream of commands.. vian, paki butang sa kotse ang akong bass og gitara pati akong polo na blue na summer ang dating!    

The second message was from mabing, my officemate and badminton buddy.

Please bring your badminton arsenal (racket, outfit, shoes etc…). We have a game today till friday against PMO Davao. TY.

*sigh* It would take another 5 minutes to prepare my badminton stuffs and I haven’t got the time. But still I prepared it anyway.

END;

My ET(elapsed time) from residence to office was 9+ minutes. 12 kilometes of rush hour, crazy drivers, traffic and I clocked at sub-10 minutes? Schumacher would’ve been proud…Still, after pulling all the stunts my ass could provide, and after running from my car to the bundy clock….*gasp* 8:01 *insert stream of cusses again* I was a minute too late. 

I’m really starting to believe that 8:01 is an unlucky time. Sh*t.