Rich Rants

With 2008 done and over with, everyone is just looking forward to the year 2009 full of hope and wishing for good things to come.

I hate to say this but, it wouldn’t be as pleasant as everybody hoped it would be. I know, I know, I shouldn’t be this pessimistic specially since 2009 just barely started. But hey, I’m just being real you know?

Anyways, the first half of my 2008 has been pleasant– things were (seemingly) looking well: things between me and this girl were looking pretty good, my health was going well and I had laid out my plans for the later part of the year. Despite the souring US economy exacerbated with the soaring fuel prices, the trip to Dubai would be the highlight of my 2008.

But as fate would have it, the Dubai vacation turned out so-so… if it weren’t for my cousins Steph and Jan, his wife/my cousin-in-law Sheryl and her friends, my trip would have been a total bust. Their company made my trip enjoyable despite the thing between me and this girl deteriorated.

Oh she’s beautiful all right but her true personality was the opposite: it was so rotten that it sickened me to my stomach that I was in bed for almost two days during my 18-day trip.

On my way back home, pleasant the other half of the trip may be, it is still tainted with that money-grubbing, pretentious, lying bitch.

And so it marked the the turning point of my year from July-December:it felt like everything was spiraling down all of a sudden–my health, my future plans, my sanity.. everything. Despite my (halfhearted) efforts to keep things in order, the feeling of helplessness still washes over me in the end–taunting me of my inability to rectify things in order.

November 12 came: I hit the 3-0. Looking back at my life the second I became more aware of my surroundings at the age of 2, I know that I still have ways to go. Despite I’m going all emo and shit, I started drafting my plans for this year; I will put these things in effect once my overall situation improves.

December arrived and I think Las Vegas hit an all-time low in the Hospitality Business–only to be rivaled by the sudden plummet in the aftermath of the 9-11 Attacks: Hotels laid people off by the thousands, construction work on the spiffier Casinos were halted as revenues shrank, Stock share prices reduced to a shadow of their former selves and everything else–housing, finance, banking, whatever—it all went down to the fucking shitter. And with these, hotel staffing went down to bare minimums. I got lucky that I wasn’t canned in my job–personally, if I was indeed fired, I would’ve went back to the military service… or jumped off from the roof of our hotel because seriously, I had it.

But since I’m sharing a survivalist trait of a Cockroach (it’s been reported that these critters has the ability to survive and thrive on a Nuclear Winter), I’m still here.

And with that, I’m fucking glad that 2008 is done and over.. of course, I still have my reservations with regards to 2009… but I think it gives me a clearer picture now on what NOT to do (like, wasting my time on somebody FOR LET’S SAY, 12 YEARS? Yea, I’m talking to YOU), I will still go on with my plan that I drafted last November and we’ll see how far it will take me this time.

We’ll see.