hallo-when?

Hello, wazup? Time and time again I keep on asking questions for the state of me. Maybe its time to write on this space as its quite dizzying if I only let it go in circles in my mind. Its October 31 and halloween. And the time is ripe to write up my annual review.

I had my birthday on the first week of October and lots of my friends wished me a happy birthday, most with the famous line, "o san tayo mamaya, pa-icecream ka naman!" and God knows what else and that's normal among friends. And believe me those lines didn't easily die off with time, the "greetings" linger up to this day (they say its due to my "strength" in not giving a birthday bash or shall I say, in not bowing to their demands, hehe). In my workplace alone, octoberians are in droves. It's a relief that October comes to an end, now.

With birthdays some long-lost and long-distance friends and families greets me with the famous Filipino komusta na, usually in smsscript musta or how u. After dozens of musta wishes I started to think "hmm, how's my life na nga ba? And here comes the thoughts of what now?, so what?, sigh, I'm getting old! or the positively charged yes! same, same young me.

A lot of things happened in the span of time since my birthday last year, of course. Notable of them are: (hmm, I can't enumerate these significant events, let me think...)

• I wasn't lucky on the offfice Christmas party raffle. I was the back-to-back defending grand prize champion, winning the least-value entry that night of December 2006
• Waki's last name was changed to mine atlast on March 2007 after a tiring battery of back-and-forth government office tours in Quezon City and Manila
• My personal income plummeted to horrific levels in the months of June, July and August this year, and this is my first encounter of pandora's box (hope the box won't be opened again) forcing me to review my economics 101 and entrepreneurship 0
• my to-be-wed best friends split up around the week of my birthday
• and lastly, Zsazsa and I celebrated our anniversary this October 22, a day late

That's it, I squeezed my mind-juice and only those five events are that notable and significant to me that I recall those and nothing else. It's quite diluting to the list to include things like my brothers went off to New Caledonia and Korea, Zsazsa's only sister stays with us, the home transfer to Montalban didn't materialize, and even things like why I'm still working at the company (ode to Earl, Charles, Charlotte, and Miezel) and two of my office friends got married before I am, and a teammate got pregnant.

As for me, whenever October ends, it's time for a cool change. but the question is --- hallo:when?