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Woke up at 9am.

Cleaned my room.

Went to the laundry.

Had brunch at Sinangag Station Juana Osmena.

Watched a funeral procession along Gorordo, while I sat down and waited for the grindsman (the guys you see along Gorordo, near the Sudlon area, guys that sit down in front of small motors that spin around and around and make these deafening screechy noises when they put metal against these grindstones) to finish cutting and grinding my replica LMT-Style BUIS (back-up iron sights) for my airsoft M4CQBR. I paid the guy PHP 50.00, but I felt I should've paid him more because he cut his finger while doing it (felt bad about it, but hey, part of his occupational hazards!).

Took a nap from 12noon-3pm

Went to Colon area to find a shop called "Battery Kingdom"... needed new batteries for my replica EOTech 551 holographic sight. I never usually go to Colon on a whim--honestly, I'm terrified of the place, but then I really felt I had to overcome THAT fear and go. So I went and found the place, only to find out that it was closed, because it's a Sunday. At least I know where it is now.

I went to Fully Booked at Ayala Terraces...didn't have anything specific in mind to buy, but I was hoping for something military-related...then I chanced upon this...

"The Art of Non-Fiction" by Ayn Rand


"...demystifies the writing process..." When my eyes passed over those lines, I felt compelled to buy it, so I did. I truly think that, apart from vocabulary enrichment, I really need more "oomph" in the way I write stuff. Rand also has another one called "The Art of Fiction", but I felt that before I can start writing fiction again, I need to unlearn being honest and start being a liar (in a literary sense) once more--I believe liars make the best storytellers.

Now relaxing with a tall mug of hot chocolate at Bo's Sykes...wasn't that much of a Bloody Sunday after all..

-RODION