The "Road-Around"

Today actually started out pretty normal. I joined VHH with someone at around 12:25 a.m. and we streamed a video from Rotten Mango about the case of the "Korean Junko Furuta" and it was the only scary video playing that evening. I eventually left VHH but I couldn't sleep, so I stayed up for the entire evening and that's how my horrible sleep-deprived day began.

In the morning, I ordered breakfast for myself first, then I was busy right off the bat. I apparently had a lot of things to take care of and the morning was just me being swamped with work. I still talked to someone on the sidelines. I even got into VHH with someone relatively early at around 9 a.m., but we didn't do anything noteworthy. We mostly played Sky and I helped them collect some memory lanterns. For our break, we mostly played Sky and then went back to work. Our afternoon was fairly normal, with me helping them with this Photoshop task about editing the "new hire kit" for one of the company's new hires. Things were fairly chill with my tasks in the afternoon. Someone and I had our OSH meeting about the next plans for the Sportstival next month and I was tasked with taking notes. I got called out for taking poor notes by someone, but after that, my shift ended.

I had plans to meet up with someone at SM Bicutan so we could have dinner together and eat at Sumo Niku like we always used to. I left first because I was a bit far away from them, but I eventually arrived around the scheduled meetup time which was 6 p.m. I mostly walked around the mall and then tried to get a table for two. The staff informed me that there was no beef being served today and a few items on the menu were missing. I quickly told this to someone. Also, I saw another person who looked like them but I was shocked when it turned out that the person actually wasn't them. But we eventually met up and they looked a bit tired. We had a plan to just go to another Sumo Niku place they knew in Paranaque, which was supposedly in SM Sucat. The trip there looked like it would take a lot of time (spoiler: it did), but I still booked a ride regardless. I quickly got one and we just talked for a bit while we waited for the driver to arrive. We talked about their upcoming job application and they finally told me the secret they were holding off on telling me, which surprised me, but it wasn't out of what I had speculated. We then just talked about other things like we always do.

Soon, the driver arrived in a black sedan and we both sat at the back. I was told to contact the place in advance to see if they had beef, but I couldn't find any Sumo Nikus in SM Sucat. I asked them if they were sure that they went to SM Sucat and they gave me the usual "bahala ka nga" and things in the car quickly fell silent. It got awkward between us but then they also started checking out if there actually was a Sumo Niku at SM Sucat, and after telling their mother, they quickly realized that it was in SM City BF Parañaque, and we were going to the wrong mall, which was also far away. I couldn't protest much since we had already made the turn to SM Sucat by then, but we just quickly formed a plan to hitch a ride to SM BF once we got off. We just chilled in the car while we were on our way, and actually, it was a pretty long drive. We just talked about a bunch of topics like how one of our coworkers is in a "mutual understanding" relationship with another, Meryll's departure, and other stuff. We were so bored while waiting in the car, someone rested for a bit and so did I. Then we talked about Sky and then they played the game. I opened the game but I couldn't log into my account, so I quickly stopped playing. Eventually, we got to SM Sucat and we immediately booked another ride to SM City BF Parañaque. It was funny because we just got out of the driver's car when we booked him again. We got into the car and the driver didn't even realize that we had booked him again for another ride. It was pretty funny and unexpected, and she joked that I now have something to put in my mood calendar for today. The car then continued the trip to SM BF.

We took a then-unfamiliar path to SM BF, it was different from the road we took during our Starbucks hangout in SM Sucat. But we eventually reached a stretch of road that we did take and that we were familiar with. We eventually arrived at SM BF a little later than usual, at 8 p.m. When we found Sumo Niku, they told us that they only accepted orders until 8:30 so we only had 30 minutes left to eat if we ever decided to dine here. We just called it off and someone went home. I was so sad from this whole thing just going wrong that I just wanted to treat myself to something good so I could at least feel better. I got steak and some beef quesadilla at the Outback Steakhouse. I was just eating in silence and then I heard "All Too Well" playing in the background, which perfectly matched my mood. By the time I finished my food, the mall was already closing so I just went home and thankfully found a ride really quickly. The rider offered me a raincoat to wear, but I just wanted to be rained upon since I was still not feeling okay. I went home and didn't bother replying to someone's messages. I slept and ended the day there.