The Subtle Threats Of Living

May 29, 2007

It was pissing rain by the time we went out of the Mall of Asia just an hour or so ago. I had this anxiety and resentment reposing in my chest so I dragged us out to the angry downpour of water outside. My black pointed flats got flooded within five seconds, my grey schoolgirl skirt clung to my knees in ten. I don't know why I had to do this. I felt mad, not angry mad—crazy mad. Must be the PMS. Pre-menstrual syndrome, that is.

 

I got on the passenger van without saying a word; it seemed like the craziest thing to do. The wheezing air-conditioning did a bad job of drying me up. Nonplussed, I went about the business of sleeping. It's been a long day of work, after all. I felt like throwing everything away. The rain did not help the mood. Not much surprise there.

 

Halfway through the trip and half-asleep, I felt a finger touch my knee, furtively. Oh, it was the guy on my left with the girl who talks in an annoying jologs-accented voice.  Might he be sexually harassing me? Seems the most obvious thing at first glance. But goddamn, what a pansy. If touching my knee gives his pants the happies, he must be one sad son of a bitch. Being horny and desperate in a cold van under the cold rain with a stupid girlfriend touching pretty strangers’ left knees is indeed, a sad thing. So yeah, fucker-who-supposedly-harassed me, maybe you thought you scored or some other shit you men call it, but you just made me sadder that moment a few hours back. I promptly closed my eyes and went back to sleep. Semi-sleep, that is.

 

At the entrance of the subdivision, I hailed a pedicab to take me straight home. Some fifteen-ish, eighteen-ish guy pedaled the cab. In the slippery slosh of the rain, he raced with three other pedicabs on the shiny asphalt. He beat them, which is cool, but it annoyed me because he could have killed us both. Or at the least, he could have given any one of my lovely, harassable knees a nasty scratch. Now that can’t be good. He pedaled straight to my house without any directions. Whoa, just my luck, I thought. This guy is one of my fans from the kanto. This is the one who knows exactly where I live.

 

What a fun night, don’t you think?


Posted by lizette at 9:31 pm | permalink

Previous Comments

Oh, puso mo, puso mo…

Parang kanina lang. Kapiling ang aking pinakamamahal na matalik na kaibigang kabayo, nagpaligo kami sa ulan pagkalabas ng isang mall. Sumakay kami ng bus na basang-basa. Hindi na ako siguro magugulat nu’n kung may sumapak sa’kin dahil nabasa ko sila but oh well.

Siguro kung mahilig kang gumawa ng eksena, you should have kicked the maniac in the balls. Ganu’n talaga kapag tag-lamig. Mas mataas ang sexual powers. Pero siyempre hindi excuse ‘yun para mang-manyak ng parang nagluluto lang ng pancit canton.

It’s just one of those days. Manalig ka lamang.

Posted by Jake The Miserable at May 30, 2007, 12:34 am

hm. you should have stabbed that guy in the van with your gom jabbar in the nuts. but jeez. the pedicab boy is creepy - he knows where you live!

normally i’d say ‘antindi ng kamandag mo!’ but now, i’d ask that you take extra care. i’m not that you cannot or you don’t; but hey, people worry about you too you know.

see you around

Posted by arc at May 30, 2007, 1:23 am

touched your knee in teh van? rawr~ that’s fucking dangerous. a friend of mine did that in an fx and the girl bitch-slapped him and went crazy. lol.

Posted by keysi at May 30, 2007, 5:36 am

jake who shouldn’t be miserable: manalig saan?

marcus: matindi talaga ang kamandag ko. you of all people should know that.

keysi: nah, i’m not the bitch-slapping kind of bitch. and yeah, it’s just a knee. i just felt really sorry for the dumb fuck.

Posted by lizette at May 30, 2007, 9:25 am

wow some crazy night huh? same thing happened to me before but it was in a bus, and the pervert had no girlfriend with him, and yeah i was in the semi-sleep trance too when i felt it, not only did he touch my knee, he was also rubbing his elbows next to mine…eeeww…i just stared at him looking annoyed (i did not know what to do at that point) and then he realized he had awaken me all he said was “Miss pwedeng makipagkilala?” ->what a loser!

Posted by alohapenny at May 30, 2007, 12:10 pm

tang inang yan! ANG KAPAL. fuck.

Posted by lizette at May 30, 2007, 1:12 pm

Cool my dear.

It has been one hell of a rainy night last night. Damn! Flooded streets! Plus horrible traffic!

Posted by jho at May 30, 2007, 2:12 pm

I… uhm. Right.

I feel incapable.

Posted by Niko at May 30, 2007, 3:27 pm

uhmm… maybe the guy has a knee fetish?
re: the pedicab driver — just look at it this way: at least you got home quicker and he saved you the bother of giving directions :) . i hope you have a better day tomorrow

Posted by onyxx at May 30, 2007, 3:53 pm

niko: incapable of what goddammit?

onyxx: yeah, put that way. haay. you know, this day has been considerably horrible. i just want to go home and sleep.

Posted by lizette at May 30, 2007, 4:03 pm

hope you’ll have better days to come this week dear. take it easy.

Posted by aMgiNe at May 30, 2007, 8:55 pm

Relax dear. You might kill someone.

Posted by Ade at May 30, 2007, 9:56 pm

Incapable of commenting. I was partly speechless until I managed to squeeze that incapability thing.

Or maybe incapable to realize that, being male, I can actually do such things. I might have been bound by my slight conservatism.

Golly, if the people around here think I’ve this biggest crush on you for saying such nonsense… nyaha.

Posted by Niko at May 30, 2007, 10:08 pm

amgine: thanks. hopefully. i just need donuts yay!

ade: physically or emotionally?

niko: speechless why?

Posted by lizette at May 31, 2007, 9:05 am

dapat sinapak mo na yung lalakeng yun… hehehehe =)

Posted by dy at May 31, 2007, 9:40 am

dy: siguro nga dapat. pero okay lang naman sakin eh. naawa pa ko.

Posted by lizette at May 31, 2007, 1:15 pm

the guy touched ur knee? on purpose? or did his fingers just slipped?

if u looked at it this way, and if he did touched your knee on purpose, you were beautiful enough to distract her away from his girlfriend? =D

Posted by rian at May 31, 2007, 3:04 pm

err.. ‘touch’

pardon me.

Posted by rian at May 31, 2007, 3:06 pm

Wow. He knows where you live?! Haha. That has to be very creepy flaterring!

Posted by benj at May 31, 2007, 3:51 pm

hmm, from da looks of it, lotsa guys are attracted 2 you…(too bad 4 dat guy in da van, u should have slapped him or sumthin or kicked him in the groin…) but hey i guess the pedicab driver has a crush on u…lol..peace! ^^

**advice: learn karate…it’ll be useful just in case…^^

Posted by saturn at May 31, 2007, 4:16 pm

Kanto fans! All hail LizLan!

I got rained on today. Fun. Kinda.

Posted by helga at May 31, 2007, 9:39 pm

if you happen to lose a piece of underwear, yu know who to ask. punta ka sa kanto har har

Posted by paolosbrew at May 31, 2007, 11:41 pm

ayan..wag ka kasing masayadong magalit sa ulan. ^.^

Posted by psyche at June 1, 2007, 12:34 am

er, hi too? sorry haven’t had the time to do my blogs. nice of you dropping by.

Posted by Aldwin at June 1, 2007, 1:30 am

rian: it’s on purpose.

benj: yeah. pag sasakay ako sa ibang cab tapos nandun siya sa pila, isisigaw niya sa mamang maghahatid sa akin kung saan ako nakatira. bleah.

saturn: i knoes tae kwan do! i got a dos for it! XP

helga: er, ugly smelly kanto fans much?

paolo: my underwear are very well guarded, given such circumstances.

psyche: really no choice. it’ll be raining from here onwards. June na eh.

aldwin: hello. thanks for visiting too.

Posted by lizette at June 1, 2007, 9:23 am

Must be a pretty rough day. That is why I avoid commuting home at all cost. Thank God for a driver.

But then again, the traffic sucks when it rains.

You must love your fans though. :D

Posted by George at June 1, 2007, 9:55 am

haha, indeed. ;)

Posted by lizette at June 2, 2007, 10:09 am