q1. a love poem to sensual barok

i was disappointed that we were not able to meet that night. i was right, the guy with her was her boyfriend. everything has been set, she had told him she will stay late as she had overtime work - do some quick inventory of some things. it was a good match as the boyfriend was on fieldwork that day and he was planning on going home straight from the fieldwork and will no longer return to the office since they were not going home together.

she had started to walk to mcdonald's when all of a sudden she saw her boyfriend go down from a jeepney. apparently, the work of the boyfriend finished early, one of the stores they went to did not have the store manager. since it was early, he decided to go back to the office to get something from his desk. he was expecting her to be at her desk working and asked her where she was going. she told him she felt hungry and was on her way to mcdonald's to get some food so she can have an early dinner so that she can do her overtime work uninterrupted. haha

and so that was how the boyfriend ended up going with niNa to mcdonald's.

it was hard to contain the disappointment. that night, i went to eastwood just the same and had dinner in the restaurant that i was planning on taking her to. funny thing to do, but at least i was able to do a part of the plan for the evening. a tiny part but still a part of the plan.

something else happened - after ordering dinner, the waiter asked me what drink i wanted. "sir, gusto nyo corona beer? meron po kami." i almost choked on the water i was drinking when i heard that. i wanted to be mad, but the night was already full of disappointment that adding anger into the mix was not a very good idea. i just looked at him, wanted to ask him if he goes to PEX and if he read my story. it was strange in a cosmic way that he would actually offer corona beer to me and specially after the event early in the evening. it felt like he knew it was me and that he knew corona beer meant something to me. i just smiled at him and said no i don't want beer but wanted red wine. (napa order tuloy ako ng red wine! haha) i told myself i have not drunk corona beer since that time in the beach and that's a lot of years, i'm not going to start tonight.