Gutar Hero and then some

5/30/09

Guitar Hero rocks!! Too bad the drums weren’t working 100%, though. Still had a blast! YEAH!

2:50 am -ish.

5/31/09

So, yeah, I had a blast last night in Ate Jay T’s house, playing Guitar Hero. I never thought I’d like it, but I did and still do. I couldn’t write about it last night, obviously because it was too late. Speaking of Ate Jay T; I heard throughn the implicit grape vine that she prefers or is used to her name being Jay not Jay T. But I’ll still use the T for old time sake. We arrived in Tito Al’s house for his birthday party (50^th) at around 6:20pm, about one hour late. I was expecting a pool party with Jarien and Kelsie screaming and running around or playing in the pool and Tita Leah talking away with Tita Sol laughing in a high pitch voice. Instead I found myself greeting unfamiliar, yet welcoming faces – both young and old. I didn’t mind that. It’s not my party anyhow. I just knew that we needed to kick it up a notch. Steph and I stayed together sitting on plastic chairs, eating Filipino spaghetti, cantaloupe juice, mango, lumpia and puto. The cake was good, as usual – ice cream cake! Tita Lanette kept pressuring me and Steph to finish the cake before it melts, but we were too full. We were chit chatting away in the setting sun’s direction until the sun decided to go to bed for the day and it got too cold to sit still without fidgeting for warmth. I asked Jaila to sit next to me so we can catch up on what we’ve been doing when the perfect question suddenly popped into her head: Wanna play Guitar Hero? That was the start of an awesome night.

I was nervous at first because I wanted to do the drums. But we soon found out that one of the main parts of the drums wasn’t working. I felt so bad! If I was in their shoes, I would feel a little bit embarrassed and let down that that failed on me at the most inopportune time! But eventually, we brushed that away and continued to play – I mostly on the guitar at easy level and Jaila singing. If only she could reach them high notes! I don’t mind. It’s kind of cute, actually because she’s not ashamed; she just “sang” the whole night through. That’s what I like about her. Steph didn’t participate much and I think it was because she was just disinterested or tired or too shy. I gave it a try and soon enough Jaila and I had gigs and were making money. Not much, of course. The funner parts were when Ate Jay (I’m loosing the T) joined us as her break from studying. At one point, she wanted to sing and do the guitar at the same time, so I held the microphone for her. I offered to kneel over her shoulder to see if holding the microphone there was easier for her. But it wasn’t. We got through the song after a couple of tries. Then Jaila had to take a shower, so Ate Jay kept playing the guitar while I sang to Sweet Home Alabama. I sang average, I would say, but we kept having to do the song over and over again because Ate Jay kept failing. I didn’t mind that at all. I felt like I was liking the experience of bonding with her, and I was! I don’t talk to her much so it’s nice to catch up – even if that means singing a song 12 times in a row (about, probably more, but it’s all worth it in the end).

We got home at around 2:30 in the morning, but I was still in Guitar Hero mode – which included my passionate desire to impress other people, particularly the one I have a thing for. I was still pumped and ready to rock the night away, in more ways other than Guitar Hero. But I had to sleep and so I did that at around 3:45 in the morning. Part of the interim between 2:30 and 3:45 was spent trying to get Oliver (Ate Sherry's pet bunny) to go in her cage again (Steph had let her out). For the lengthy rest of that interim, well let’s just say I laid in bed for a while before I got around to sleeping . . .

2:45 am