minutes later, earl texted he's near our meeting place.. wow! the dude now sports a pretty long hair!
we had peanuts, barbecue, stir-fried noodles and some intestine soup (yum!) to match our San Mig Light Beer...
a few catching up and, well, chit-chat...
he mentioned how tough it is to work in Qatar. the heat, man, it's almost unbearable they had to changed their overalls as often as three times a day.. even at the peak of the building, air viscosity sucks.. there's not much fun and he'd most likely spend his day after work or during his day-offs watching DVD's.
he'd also spoke of letting go of things he's grown accustomed to.. he'd forgo hanging out or drinking with friends to save that much needed moolah so he could send some to his family.. this guy's sacrifices just blows me away.
after we've down a few bottles, he wanted to go to some videoke joint but he can't sing cos he suffered a hoarse voice.. the dude had been smoking while i quit for over a year now.. what the?? went in but we didn't touch the microphone... me can't sing too!
he was still in the process of acclimatization, but man, he just missed all the fun we've had before.. he can't wait to get his groove on..
what's amazing though is that after over a year out in the desert, he still remembers that GRO's name... i can't even remember her name 'til today.. duh!
now, the good thing about the fruits i ate earlier is that i was able to withstand all that alcohol and still made it to work early today... remember, i ate plenty of iron prior to binging.. i probably had ten bottles of beer but was feeling pretty good the whole time... talk about loads of calories, dude.
we bar-hopped from one place to another drinking a beer or two then flee.. haven't done that for eons now. these days, i'm usually glued to my seat in one place and the only time we split (me and my sorry chair) is when i have to go pee. my quads and my knees kinda twinge when i go stand up in some days.. either due to old age or i had too much leg work in the gym.. i prefer to believe it's the latter.
obviously, i didn't wanna stay up late as i need to rest (remember, i had a vigorous exercise earlier.. hehe.. i know, i know). good thing he wasn't planning to "morning the night."
around 1am we called it a night and head home..
forgive the picture but i need to get psyched up for my bangin' later today..
oh yeah!
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