A Personal Refresh

Today was finally my day to go outside and enjoy myself. I've been waiting for this day and I'm glad that I was actually able to go out and do thing today. It was just with myself, but I tried to make the most out of it. I left the house around 1 p.m. or so to go to SM MoA and watch Late Night with the Devil (2023).

I got the tickets first, there was a long line at the ticket booth because a famous K-Pop movie was premiering. I just waited patiently in line, even though it didn't take that long. The seats for the movie were surprisingly open, despite the show starting in 5 more hours. I think only 2 or 3 seats were occupied. But I guess it makes sense because this is a "director's club" film and the seats are more expensive, plus the movie isn't a major title anyway (I didn't recognize any of the actors either). So I got my ticket and then decided to eat.

I finally decided to try out the sisig at Manam that Reddit keeps raving about. I ordered a large bowl of it, and the waitress told me that it was for 6 people or so, and I just made a joking remark how I haven't eaten in a while, despite it being only 12 hours. I felt a little bit relieved once I got inside because I wasn't the only one sitting alone in the restaurant. But when I got my food and started eating, I could tell that it was very filling after a few bites. I couldn't eat that much for some weird reason. I haven't even finished my entire plate and I was just giving up midway. It made me full so quickly, weirdly enough. I ordered the rest for take out and took out the food I had remaining. Honestly, it didn't live up to the hype for me. I had to request extra calamansi because mine didn't taste like it had much. Mang Inasal's sisig still wins it for me (and it's way cheaper than this).

But I had trouble walking around for the next few hours or so because it had upset my stomach so much. And I was also overcome with this weird feeling of being tired. I eventually burned what I ate by buying some things at the supermarket and playing a few arcade games. I actually overestimated my time on the Wangan Midnight game because the film was 7 minutes from starting and I was still playing on the arcade. I had to leave my ride with some credits remaining and had a little weird situation trying to find the right theater.

The film started and I eventually watched the entire thing. Some guy I didn't know sat next to me and he had friends that had their chair light on throughout some parts of the film, which was kind of annoying. Also there were fireworks for no reason at around 7 p.m. which you could hear from within the theater. When the film was done, I just had 1 lingering question and then decided to use my remaining arcade credits on some stupid game because a bunch of dudes had claimed the Wangan arcade cabinets to themselves. I didn't have any dinner outside and just went home after that. My sister bought me some Popeyes chicken for dinner and it was okay, even though it was beyond dry and tasteless at that point.

Overall, I had an average-seeming day. Everything was kind of "meh" to me, nothing really excited me or anything, but I still had fun on enjoying my own company today. And, I finally got to go out after being cooped up too long.