oh Poddy, when will i hear your melodious megabytes? (details later)

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if last summer i was complaining about the sweltering heat, this time i'm venting my frustrations on the rainy weather. sure, the chill makes for fitful sleeps, but i simply hate it when there's a downpour everytime i'm outdoors. well, it's been all damp these couple of days and it makes my commutes hassle-y. i'm carrying a ton of a heavy bag and yet i have to handle a small wet brolly! it makes me look cramped and chicken-looking (cock-a-doodle-doo!). especially when i have to cross a particularly flooded passageway. my shoes aren't built for sloshes, dammit! and i would be so grossed out if the floodwaters reach the insides of my leathers. so i sometimes have to walk with my heels... it's the most awkward moment ever. i wonder how i look like. (Mother Hen teetering with her feathers!) i wouldn't want it if i carried more than my bag, like today, but i found it still tolerable nonetheless. (i hope it won't rain on tuesday though. you know why!)

and since i mentioned about my commutes... here goes the creme of today's post.

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my daily pocket money consists of my transport fare (usually 40-50php), whatever i have to pay (class fees), and the barely touched 'emergency dough' (i am such a cheapskate.) going to school (haha, i'm used to calling it school, not college) means having to take three PUJ rides to AND fro. it usually costs me 20php for both ways, and if the drivers were intentionally (or unintentionally) taxing, i'd reach up to 24php in some cases. so most of the time i come home ending up with an empty coin purse. poor dahling!

but since around july, i've taken another alternative whenever i have the chance: the bus! i call a 'stroke of luck' everytime i see a bus in the morning (they are not so many in the AM..) because it takes all the advantages over riding PUJs: 1) it IS more cost-efficient (1 bus & 1 jeep, rather than 3 jeeps. plus i hate it that the 2 PUJs i ride before the third only takes short distances... like if i had my way, i'd rather walk. but then i'm just kidding.) 2) it has a shorter 'road time'. the PUJ option takes me 45 minutes tops, while the other takes only 30! like today, i'm too lazy to come out of the house, but still i arrived on time. (but the prof was absent! *groan*). and perhaps 3)i have an excuse to go MALLING! since my "going-home" alternative also consists of a PUJ and a bus, and the bus pitstop is located behind the mall, i most certainly have to pass through the mall before boarding, right? (Mallrat Logic, baby!) in some bus-riding days (when it's still quite early) i hang out in the bookstores or simply stroll around (and eat? hahaha)... anyway i'm not doing anything illegal. (my parents know!) :p

and due to all these, i've been saving some of my excess fare for "the Fund"... where someday, somehow i'll earn enough and get to buy something i really, really want... like that iPod mini above (make it an apple green one!)... or maybe a CD, or a book... so far the fund's still pretty small. but then, with my *wink,wink* pre-CPA & economic managerial skills, one will never know...

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