one rainy day

last sunday was the pinoy festival at DC and me and my friends were all going to show our all-out support for two of our friends who had bands playing there. fyi, the pinoy festival is an event that pinoys here celebrate every year, just in time for the RP independence day. they close down part of a street in DC and different pinoy bands play and there are a lot of stalls that sell pinoy stuff- food (yummy!), beer (syempre, san mig!), dvds (pati dito may pirated pinoy dvds pa din! wahahahahaha!), and a lot more (pati fake signature bags meron! hehehehe).

syempre i was looking forward to the event since it only happens once a year but lo and behold, sunday came and with it rain. as in lots and lots of rain. normally, rain would make me quit going anywhere and just stay home and snuggle in my bed. but since i was going mainly to show support to my friends, siyempre go pa din. i went there with twinks, george and loy. the metro trip to dc was uneventful. to pass the time, we took some pictures (syempre, camwhores in the train!). when we finally got there, it was raining even harder. when we got to the event itself, everyone was wet, granted there were some people (me not included) who had the good sense to bring umbrellas with them and were less wet than others but all in all- everyone was wet. but syempre mga pinoys talaga. the party must go on. people were still walking on the streets not minding the rain. people selling food were cooking bbq in sticks under the rain. in fairness, masarap yung bbq. i think it must have been the added rainwater that did it. there was no place to sit down kasi the event was done in open air and since it was raining, everywhere was wet (obviously) so we had to eat rice and bbq standing up, our backs against the wind and rain and rain just splashing on our food (yum!).

when our friends finally went up the stage, we had to stand under the rain to watch them because the small tent with seats for the audience was completely filled up. the bands were good but not to be bias or anything i think our friends' band was better than the others. the lead singer had a really powerful voice given that she was so tiny! ang galing niya! plus, i just have to say this, i think it was impressive that she could belt sing that strongly given that her jeans were probably cutting off her circulation because they were so tight! not that she looked bad or anything because she looked great. it's just that her jeans were so tight, really. i don't even think my foot would fit in one leg of her jeans. anyway, i think the highlight if the event was when the band The Speaks came on stage. i know that they had an album out in the RP and they did a song with Barbie but hindi ko talaga sila kilala. but man, did the people go crazy when they went on stage or what! suddenly there was a mosh pit in front of the stage and people were just body slamming against each other. one girl jumped down from the stage onto the the mosh pit. another girl tried to do it twice but kept on chickening out at the least minute. the second time she went up the stage and didn't go through with it i kinda felt sorry for her. i'm not a cool person but even i know that chickening out to jump to the mosh pit twice (!) is definitely not cool. The Speaks were ok. i don't really know much of theor songs but they were good. but i don't think they were that good for people to just be body slamming onto each other and going crazy over them. it was kinda funny how the people were going crazy, like they were on a real concert when in reality, they were just a small crowd in front of an equally not-so-big stage going crazy under cold rain. it was kind of lame actually. but the funny part was when the DC security guy had to go over to the mosh pit and threaten to stop the whole thing if they didn't stop body slamming and then just as he turned his back, the guitarist/bassist (i'm not quite sure what kind of guitar he plays basta he was holding an electric guitar) of the band propels himself to the mosh pit! wahahahaha! you had to be there to see it.

when we finally had enough of the rain and getting soaked, we decided to go home. but unlike the train trip to dc the trip back home was, let's just say exciting (wink wink). we were all tired so we were just keeping to ourselves in the train. we were sitting one seat away from each other, minding our own business when george suddenly moved over to the seat behind me and just started laughing. i kept on asking her what happened and she won't answer because she was still laughing so hard. she kept on laughing until we got off the train and when she finally told us why she was laughing, it totally grossed us out. apparently, they guy sitting behind her got a little too excited (if you know what i mean) and was relieving himself right there in the train. i guess he couldn't wait until he got home to do the deed and decided that the train was the best place as any to jack off. ahhh, you gotta hand it to the pervs out there.

all in all, it was a fun day. even though it rained and we got soaked, it was worth it. i just felt bad i didn't have the chance to buy dvds (hehehe). jologs na kung jologs but i really was looking forward to watching pinoy movies. oh well, i guess that'll just have to wait.