2009-04-25

Anti-Stress Part N (for Ndi tuloy)

I'm wasting the night of April 24 away. Oh, it's April 25 already. In about 2 hours, I should be leaving for McDonald's Katipunan. It's our meeting place for the Mt. Pinatubo trek we all vainly called 'Conquer Pinatubo: Rain or Shine'. Sadly, the trip was cancelled a few hours ago due to... the universe.

The original plan was way, way back March (3rd week, if I remember correctly). I already had a scheduled trip at that time so we decided to move it to the succeeding weekend. However, as the open invitation reached recipients outside our group who wanted to join but only if it could be done on April, we now moved from March to April 18. Further discussions and negotiations urged more people to join the trip and move again the schedule to its final date of April 25. And so we wait in delight.

But the universe said: "Not so fast, techies. Let's see if you can dodge this!". The first roadblock: There's an ongoing US-RP Balikatan exercises. They will only allow the 4x4s to pass through at these times: 7-8am, 12-1pm, 5-6pm. Ok. So let's move our meeting time from 5am to 3am. Fine. Kaya yan! Let's go sago!

Incensed, the universe again: "Aba, ayaw nyo talaga ha. Uhm! (Throws in two low pressure areas in the middle of summer, thereby not only ruining our own plan, but the rest of the Filipino people who also wanted to chillax this weekend)". Ah, ok lang yan, hindi naman umuulan sa umaga eh. Tignan nyo 'tong forecast ng PAG-ASA sa Capas, Tarlac. Kaya pa yan! Let's go sago!

Universe: "Mwahahaha! Yan ang akala nyo!". Then Gyobs finally received an SMS saying that the 'skyway' (the path we're supposed to trek towards the crater) has been rendered impassable by the heavy rainfall...

Si Jenard kasi pakipot pa kay Finley eh! Bumili pa man din si Milo ng sandals for the trek. :P