Monday, February 28, 2005
That Day in Rockwell
Friday, March 25, Ryan had his birthday blowout at Rockwell and who were invited? Me, Ryan, Stan, Berk and Myles went but aside from them who I meet regularly at Ateneo, the day was celebrated by the long awaited reunion with James and Gerome, me amigos, my brothers from other mothers haha. I have not seen Gerome since that car accident and James since December and having them all together again was a grand occassion!
For those of you who don't know, James and Gerome are the two people who made high school, HIGH SCHOOL. These guys really know how to make the best out of situations in the funniest ways. Is it because of our wit and comedic timing? or maybe something more? I don't know but hell, it had been a great two years ago and college doesn't change it one bit as will be known to everyone involved on that day.
Oh yes, we had a blast. Ryan treated us to lunch at Burgoo and since it was libre... Wooo, did we have a good time. James kept commenting on buying "sparkling champagne". Four digits! hahaha. Over lunch, I don't know, we kept talking about our old frog dissection days in high school. Stories from Miko's frog jumping to his face, Berk's group and their squeamish dissection experience, that flaming frog that jumped in the shoe, and many more frog stories. We caught up with each other then and I informed the Burgoo people that it was Ryan's birthday which resulted in a rather embarrassing bit where they were singing Ryan happy birthday. Ryan was smiling too much in embarrassment that he squinted his eyes too much that we couldn't see them anymore. "If eyes were windows to the soul, Ryan would have no soul" hahaha.
The bill came up in whopping 4 digits! Turned out like this:
Ryan: Oh god, the bill.
Marty: Lemme see (looks at bill) Holy crap! (shows it to James)
James: Oops
We played arcade after that. We got whooped in World Combat cuz it was every man for himself. If we were in a real war, we'd be running like whiny little girls. Stanley got some really embarrassing videos then. He took a video of me and berk jamming on this japanese drum game and me riding a horse, jockey style. Me and Berk also played Power Stone which was so much fun. I used the big guy and just chucked rocks at everyone hehe (Big guys with rocks are always fun). Myles stole the show when he tried that Safari game. We all watched in excitement on the chase. Myles vs Zebra, apparently, the Zebra got away but Myles wouldn't let that happen, we went back for a rematch after bowling and what do you know, he caught the goddamn zebra!
The bowling part was the best. Me and Gerome picked up where we left off since Celebrity. Bowling is a very boring sport but hey, you got us playing the game so obviously, something was bound to happen. Oh yes. James got a strike the first bowl, no not cuz of mad bowling skills, but because of this computer error thing we couldn't fix. A sign of things to come.
Me and Gerome battled like idiots over score. They kept using this lucky pink ball which seemed to always end with 8's and 7's (wtf?!) . My constant laughing threw off most of the playahs; ask Stan, I threw him off the most. The game was getting to exciting then, the badgering started! Yes, there was a psych out showdown in lanes 3 and 4. Gerome and Berk, Me and Gerome, Me and Stan, Me and Myles, Myles and Stan, we were all going at it.
While the other guy was going to bowl, we walk alongside him trying to psych him out. But the best was when Stanley was going to bowl, I laughed as I followed him and it threw him off so much, he got a gutter! woohoo yey me. When Stanley was winning, Me and Myles initiated a double serving of contagious laughter and it worked! haha. Berk and Gerome were hilarious, they were badgering each other so much that they both got gutterballs. Myles owned the game with his unique "barbaric" style of using pure brute force and it came down to Stanley and Myles at the end. Tied. These guys had a rivalry since the day I met em and I knew, this would be great so... I took a video. Stanley won after all, (mad pektus power) but Myles gets my vote for best bowler. But I win with most psych outs in the game :)
So that was it. Another adventure long overdue. Gerome went home after and Berk followed. Stan, Myles and James went home with me and that was it. It was one of the best days ever. Lotsa crazies, lotsa memories. Sometimes I wish we never left high school. James and Gerome were always my best buds and our adventures in facing the real world is something I really miss in college. But still, friends like that are hard to come by and even harder to forget.
Ride the Lightning, guys! We own this storm!
Riding the Lightning
7:01 PM
