Well, New Year was fine. I managed not to cry. Thankfully my name was not listed as expected employees to report on duty last night so I welcomed 2009 by not taking calls.

I spent my entire evening downtown. And thankfully everybody who noticed me being alone seemed to sympathize.

But first, I would like to thank my pocket book. Since there was nobody to chat for long, I dedicated myself reading few chapters from time to time.

Thanks to Starbucks guard as well for the perfect Customer Service and for the quickie friendship. Kudos to you Manong.. :)

Thank you to the friendly cab driver who took me to the right place to hang out after Starbucks. Surely I can't remember my way back there, God knows, but it is nice there. I would definitely come back. Anyway, I had few bottles and friendly smiles from the waiters so kudos to ya'll too. :) I stayed their for a couple of hours.

I didn’t find it lonely anymore as 12midnight was closing because people started their fireworks here and there. It rained with fireworks on that street and I just had fun. I was scared because it’s just in front of the bar and it’s an open bar. It was my first time witnessing such fireworks and it’s amazing.

Almost 11PM, I decided to leave. For a while I thought I’m going to be stuck their considering the fireworks going on and it’s close to midnight, there might be no cabs around. Thankfully, one arrived. I asked the driver to pass IT Park before going back to my apartment. I planned to stop by if there’s a countdown going on there but there was none so I decided not to come out from the cab.

Technically at exactly 12MN, the cab stopped at the gate of my apartment and I sat at the porch for a while since there were more fireworks going on around my building. Awesome. I spent 10 minutes there along with mosquitoes.

By 2AM, I finally went to sleep.

What a New Year.