Ego Deflation

January 15, 2007

Intro: 

So we drive off to La Union over the weekend to grab some surf as it has  been quite a while since we last communed with the sea. We bring our spanking new board dubbed "Didi" because of her color. (Dilaw = yellow in the vernacular) Didi is a custom shaped 9 foot, generation 4 epoxy board, the first of her kind in the country. She is incredibly light, like most higher end fiberglass boards. She is, however, a lot more sturdy. Fiberglass boards are prone to breaking in strong pounding surf, which is exactly what we found when we got to our regular surf spot, The San Juan Surf Resort in San Juan La Union. 

We left Quezon City at around 2:00AM Saturday with yours truly, as always, at the wheel. Fuelled by nothing more than 3 hours of sleep, a commuter mug filled with freshly brewed coffee, and a liter of water mixed with 6 packets of powdered energy drink (Extra Joss! Boosts energy and supposedly increases your chances of getting cancer! Yeah, I like living on the edge. Hoozah!), I drove Jen, Mac, Peachie, Mer, Vina and her new bf Francis and myself for 5 hours till we got to our destination. We had breakfast, waited to get checked in and then they hit the beach. I say they because at this point in time, all the caffeine, ginseng, taurine and wonderful wonderful aspartame I ingested has been completely metabolized and it was a veritable wonder how I was still actually walking around good naturedly. I go to the room and fall face first on the nearest bed and sleep for 3 glorious hours.

Ego Deflation Moment 1:

At around 1:00pm I get to the beach, Mer and Jen have already gotten in a good deal of surfing while Peach was in the water with our good friend and surfing instructor, Echo. Mac was sitting on the sand getting a breat buzz going courtesy of some gin and orange soda. (Hey, don't knock it till you've tried it.) I go in for a short swim and then I take advantage of the gently sloping sand and did a bit of skimming. I was quite surprised to have actually improved. I was getting pretty consistent rides on the blasted thing. That really rocked! I was having so much fun and perhaps I grew a tad over confident and tried to get a longer, faster ride. Next thing I know, the skimboard's nose dug into the sand and I'm sent hurtling through the air. I land my unsightly 205 pounds squarely on my right shoulder. I swear I heard it pop. TWICE!

So far, so good.  

Uh oh. This is gonna hurt. 

With more shame than actual force of will, I pick myself up and ignore the pain in my shoulder. I grab the skimboard and go for a few more runs, all of them a lot slower than my joint popping ride. After I had sufficiently convinced myself that I have redeemed myself from looking like a tool, I bring back the skimboard to our spot on the beach. My shoulder was aching like a motherfucker so I go take another dip into the ocean, where no one would notice my saltwater tears.

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Ego boost

January 8, 2007

So it's been a week and a day since 2007 came rolling in and I am happy to say that I spent most of those days gloriously drunk. That however had major consequences. I was confused most of the time and it took a few days to get my fine motor skills back up normal. Walking around like a big fat toddler, unable to button my own shirt, much less tie my own shoelaces dealt a bit of a blow to my ego. I started to get worried. Could I have drank myself to stupidity? Have I annihilated more brain cells than I could possibly spare? What an utterly revolting thought!!! So to put myself at ease I turned to…THE INTERNET!

Research would take too long I thought, so I took a drastically more direct route. I went over to Tickle, and took the IQ test. Well guess what friends, my brain is not only working fine, apparently, I'm a fucking genius!. Yeah. They even gave me a certificate to prove it to you!

So what does an IQ of 135 mean? According to the site, 

This means that based on your answers, your IQ score is between 125 and 135. Most people's IQs are between 70 and 130. In fact, 95% of all people have IQs within that range. 68% of people score between 80 and 120.

To simplify, out of over 30 million people who took this test, yours truly beat out at least 28.5 million of them. Pretty cool eh? But what's more important, what this test ACTUALLY tells me, is that I CAN STILL HANDLE MORE ALCOHOL! Good times! 

Now excuse me while I plan the 2007 TMB Alcohol Extravaganza.