Foreign Crossroads

I think I have a good idea of what Yune's feelings were the first time she stepped into France.

nope, not a complete sense of wonder

The feeling of solitude and isolation are there at first because you don't know where you are and where you should go, and when you can return to where you really came from. Yune's foreign labyrinth was another country after all. But in my case, well, errr, my foreign labyrinth is just, ehh, another city...in the same country. Heh. I am a wuss. I can hear Septa Unella broadcasting her famous words and ringing her bell from a distance right now.

© HBO

The University's Mid-semester 2015 started four days ago, that means incoming fourth year CMSC students are advised to intern at a company with software/web development as its focus. I spent the last two months of the second semester looking for a company that would happily take me under its wing. It wasn't until eleven days before registration when I finally got accepted. I'm in Quezon city until I complete my internship. The place I'm staying at is a thirty-minute walk from the office, inside UP Dilliman, and across the highway from the office is UP Town Center...and, and, and inside the mall is *inhales wildly* a Data Blitz branch, kyaaaaaah!

My mom gave me seven weeks' worth of food + commute + laundry + grocery allowance, if I went on a strict diet and use the same pants for seven weeks maybe I can save enough to buy a copy of Hyrule Warriors, yey! Also, a there's a Fully Booked branch just ten minutes away from the boarding house I'm staying at, so more reason to despair over saving my allowance! Double yey! (but deep inside there's an internal struggle of "To Buy, or not To Buy"). 

I went there this afternoon and it quickly became the best branch on my list. Just looking at the shelves of their graphic novels and art books made me literary hungry (heh, I'm so punny). There are a lot of books in this branch that I haven't found on any other branches of Fully Booked that I've been to recently. Some of the books that caught my undying interest are the Vocaloid Art Books, Ghibli Art Book, English translated manga and not some copies ruined by becoming "Philippine edition". It's cheap on the price and easy on the wallet, but c'mon do you really want to read Eren saying "Gusto ko patayin yang mga Titans! Tara na Mikasa, Armin!" on a speech bubble? It just doesn't feel right. The Adventure Time Encyclopedia by Hunson Abadeer is also pretty interesting. 

the books is 265 pesos, I think

There's also a copy of Hyrule Historia priced at 1500+ if I remember correctly. It still gave me the same goosebumps I felt as when I first held the copy my dad gave me a few months ago. I haven't browsed all the shelves in that Fully Booked branch and with the books that I have picked up I resisted the urge to buy. If I ended up buying everything that caught my eyes on my first weekend here then I lose this game of realistic monopoly. Besides I only have the uncontrolled spending urge when it's the weekend. If I can resist the urge for 48 hours a week for seven weeks then I can friggin' spend all my savings on one inning gyahahahahaha!

There are also plenty of good food shops (restaurants, I meant restaurants) near the area but I don't have the luxury of eating out to somewhere fancy everyday. I have, however, found a nice Chinese-like restaurant near the gates of the subdivision. I say Chinese-like because the restaurant presents their food the Chinatown way (in special take-out boxes) but their menu has a variety of dishes. I guess you could say that their restaurant is mainly East meets West in mutually exclusive boxes, so they really don't meet at all, eheh. My favorites so far are their adobo rice, sisig rice, and pork kung pao rice. Box o' Rice's price ranges from 85 pesos to 105 peso-, hey wait a minute I'm advertising their restaurant shouldn't I get something in return? *gets a tissue*...ok then.

Anyway, for someone who doesn't like to go out much I sure have a lot to say about this foreign labyrinth, huh? To be honest I feel like I haven't really walked a mile on one outing seeing as all of the places I mentioned are nearby. The farthest that I've gone would be at the UP Town Center yesterday. I'm not used to being around too many NPCs (save for conventions) especially when I'm alone. It makes every step I make awkward. Y'know what I'm talking about, in Psychology they call it the Spotlight Effect. And I dare not say how many times I tripped while overthinking things, I looked like a donkey trying to pick up a penny glued to the ground. Walking on the sidewalk on the way home also didn't feel like walking on a sidewalk since many motorists use the sidewalk to cut through the highway. I mean c'mon, motorcycles already fit between the space of two adjacent cars in the middle of the open road, why take the sidewalk, it's called a sidewalk for a reason!!!

Yeh, I said more than I really wanted to in this post, huh. Must be from all the hype of not being able to pick up that penny glued to the ground.

I started my internship at Solutions Resource last Wednesday after crying myself to sleep knowing that Anju and Kafei can never ever be together no matter how hard I try. 

My first three days at Solutions Resource refreshed my memories about html and CSS via Wordpress. I also finished my first two tasks within that same three days - yep, it took me that long just to build a single web page with zero features. Wordpress is awesome by the way, even though I've only scratched the surface web designing seemed a lot easier given the templates.

That is all for now, I suppose? Tomorrow is Monday again oh how time flies even Raid can't knock it down. I usually don't have any classes on Monday which is why I'm a little disoriented but, again, I am in a foreign labyrinth. It'll take more than one ladies choice's sandwich to fill the gap.