Monday, September 21, 2009
In my dream, I was supposed to embark on my weekend trip to the mall. Along the way I stopped by a store along Dart Street to pick up some snack. At the store, I thought about grabbing a meal so went to the store next door. There, I saw this man who looked like a foreigner. His skin was pale; he had a receding hairline and a stubble. He was dressed in white sleevless shirt and slacks. He didn't seem like someone I knew...and yet he looked familiar.
It was when I went back to the other store that I realized who it was: Gordon Matthew Sumner himself...the musician also known as "Sting"! I don't know what he was doing there or why he looked the way he did. But it didn't matter as I found him in the other store later. Since Sting was a celebrity, it was natural that people would be swarming him. After all, as far as Filipinos go, any foreigner is a celebrity. At first, there were only three of us there as he gave an "impromptu press conference" (I was sitting on the "conference table" to his left) but soon more people came. Later, the onwer of the store decided it was time for lunch and gave everyone a boxed meal that consisted of rice and "lumpiang shanghai". Check out my Doberdog's Art Update blog for more "lumpia" reference.
It was when I went back to the other store that I realized who it was: Gordon Matthew Sumner himself...the musician also known as "Sting"! I don't know what he was doing there or why he looked the way he did. But it didn't matter as I found him in the other store later. Since Sting was a celebrity, it was natural that people would be swarming him. After all, as far as Filipinos go, any foreigner is a celebrity. At first, there were only three of us there as he gave an "impromptu press conference" (I was sitting on the "conference table" to his left) but soon more people came. Later, the onwer of the store decided it was time for lunch and gave everyone a boxed meal that consisted of rice and "lumpiang shanghai". Check out my Doberdog's Art Update blog for more "lumpia" reference.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
In this dream, we were residing at the Fabie estate where my maternal grandparents used to live. So I was on my way to see a movie at a local mall and I had a five hundred peso bill to take with me on the trip. That's roughly ten dollars and regular movie tickets here in the Philippines cost about the equivalent of three dollars.
Anyway, I was going to take a jeepney to the mall and I know full well that jeepney drivers are loathe to provide change for a five hundred peso bill as jeeepney fare costs only seven pesos...or fourteen cents.
So I had to stop at a nearby foodstand to have my five hundred divided into bills of smaller denomination. Unfortunately, the guy running the foodstand didn't have change either. But as it happened, one of his friends was passing by and he asked his friend for smaller bills. That friend (more about him later) didn't have change either and asked his friend, who also happened to be passing by, for change. Thankfully, the second friend had change for five hundred pesos.
Later in the day, I was telling my mother about this particular incident. I first told her about the second friend...then the first friend. The thing is, there was something very odd about that first friend. And it was the fact that he loooked like the Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland!
Anyway, I was going to take a jeepney to the mall and I know full well that jeepney drivers are loathe to provide change for a five hundred peso bill as jeeepney fare costs only seven pesos...or fourteen cents.
So I had to stop at a nearby foodstand to have my five hundred divided into bills of smaller denomination. Unfortunately, the guy running the foodstand didn't have change either. But as it happened, one of his friends was passing by and he asked his friend for smaller bills. That friend (more about him later) didn't have change either and asked his friend, who also happened to be passing by, for change. Thankfully, the second friend had change for five hundred pesos.
Later in the day, I was telling my mother about this particular incident. I first told her about the second friend...then the first friend. The thing is, there was something very odd about that first friend. And it was the fact that he loooked like the Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland!
This is not the knave you're looking for. Savvy?
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