i
bought a complete Ultimate Spanish language set. its about the most
expensive thing i bought since i purchased my sister’s Motorola E398
last April. and consider it is nothing but a book and eight compact
discs, it was really not something you would just decide to buy during
the weekend. but, i have good reasons buying it so for the kind of CPA
that i am, i am going to depreciate it over two years.

and
because there was nothing much to do after the purchase, i and my
sister hang around starbucks over at greenbelt (because we are already
in the vicinity) for a frapuccino. we end up commiting sins.

if
there are people i hated more than the flock of foreigners in the
greenbelt area, they are the long-haired, over-dressed filipinas that
they are with. we didn’t really take notice much of them until i took
out the Living Language* Spanish reference guide out of the powerbooks
plastic bag and scanned it. the expatriate must have seen it because he
was asking the two girls he was with if they knew Spanish and started
bragging off some Espanol words.

the girl wearing a white pair of jeans that neither looks good on her nor fashionable spoke up in a southern accent (yes, in my accent, people, but it was even worse cause she used it in speaking English):

“No, but i speak japanese and germany…”