Lighting event

Music (overused Christmas songs, to be exact) have been playing on the outside for the past three hours now. I went out around 5 pm and based from the number of people gathered in front of C-Park, it's safe to assume that the lighting of the Christmas Tree and the Belen will be held tonight.

The reason why I'm here instead of covering the event and taking pictures is because waiting for that lighting event wasted 2 hours of my precious life, a total of 5 if I were to include all those unwanted social interactions.

I never meant to leave my nest today, aside from academic activities which requires my physical and mental presence, but when the speakers blew out my favorite Christmas song (Star ng Pasko by ABS-CBN humans) I felt compelled to at least take a short walk. Outside, I was greeted with smoke from car tailpipes and countless of humans walking here and there. That feeling that I thought was forever long gone suddenly returned to me, I felt like a fish out of water again. Outside, where many strangers gather and you just don't know who's gonna do what, is somehow what I imagine to be the first circle of inferno (I'm not basing this on Dan Brown).

Anyway like I said, I wasted two hours of my life rotting as I listen to an endless stream of overused and decaying Christmas songs. If I have to include all the unwanted social interactions (eye contact, shoulder bumps, etc.) I would have to add another 3 hour loss in my lifespan. I just can't seem to find any good reason to befriend NPC's who abuse their freedom in public like it's their living room or bathroom.

Maybe this is why I haven't gained any supernatural powers for the past 18 years that I'm alive. I would've used it to murder these NPC's.

Faint music is still coming from the outside right now. I pretty much don't care anymore, in the end, this lighting event is a lightning strike to the university's electric bill.

I'll try posting photos later, or maybe not. Nope, thinking about that 2-hour long wait and suffering the wrath of the outside world is just too much.

(But anime, Japanese-centric conventions are different. Those social gatherings compared to the general outside world setting is like comparing Filipino dubbing to original audio.