fRom the 4 coRneRs of my mind II

Praning    ::     Filipino slang for crazy, paranoid, or paranoia

I don’t know who was the first to call my friends and i “tropang praning”. It’s a famous colloquial term. Guess the name kind of stuck. I don’t really mind. Each and every one of us are sick and twisted in our own “special” way. There’s one with a constitutional inability to let go, one curbside variety perv who happens to be a girl, one who looks every bit of 35 years old but denies it and insists to be “our age”, one who can’t separate the emotional from the physical, one narcissist with severe attachment disorder, one weird like al yancovik, and one who just enjoys pressing nose against the glass (our glass!).

To illustrate, below is a series of text messages we exchanged to go out for a few beers..

Group text >> Hey,hey,hey!d biatch is back!abbey is back fr dubai.u can text her sa no. Nya!wii!kumpleto n tyo!

Di     >>     Mare?kamusta naman ang jet lag?ahehe.

Nefy    >>     Me inuman daw b4 valntyns.set ntn ng 13.me mcle ako dis wikend n nxt eh.mishu 2!

Foz    >>     Memorandum

For : Mga mangininum

From : Manginginum din

Subject: Inuman dated feb 13

Date :Jan 27 2009In view of my unavailability on the scheduled session, may request that said endeavor be moved on a different date. Thank you.

Sabik na uminum,

Justice aka used to be alcoholic Foz

Nefy    >>    I chekd wid my secretary.i’m available on d ff d8s:

2/20

2/21

pls confirm availability on said d8s.

Coreen,field worker formerly 2mador gurl. haha

Anoi    >>    Republic of d

alcoholics }

City of d inuman cse 001
addicts }ss

DECISION

On 27 june 2009, corazon nefalar mde an nvtation 4 an inumn session. Negotiations wr made 4 parties 2 set a date 4 d arBEERtrati0n.parties draftr manifstd dat dy r available on d 3rd of feb 2009.

WHEREFORE, premises cnsdred, parties r hereby drected 2 attnd said arBÈERtrati0n scheduld on d 3rd of feb 2009,tuesday.

parties wil b nformd n d days folowing as 2 d tym and place of said event.phew!

B    >>     anong difference ng walang ginagawa sa gumagawa ng wala? =D

Di    >> Nku mare.parang wla.bt since wer trained to reason widout basis,ang wlang ginagawa,ders absence of action.ang gumagawa ng wla,may action bt wlang sense.wahaha.

Foz    >>     anong difference ng walang ginagawa sa gumagawa ng wala? =D - anu?ü

B    >>     it wasn’t an actual trivia dude. I seriously didn’t know the answer. Let’s ansk anoi pag lasing na. It should be a riot.. lols..

Anoi    >>     Republic of d

alcoholics }

City of d inuman cse 001
addicts }ss

ORDER

On 27 june 2009, ds nt so honorable court rndrd a dcsn n ds cse d dspositiv portion of w/c provyds:

“WHEREFORE, premises cnsdred, parties r hereby drected 2 attnd said arBÈERtrati0n scheduld on d 3rd of feb 2009,tuesday.

parties wil b nformd n d days folowing as 2 d tym and place of said event.phew!”

WHEREFORE, premises cnsdered, parties r hereby drctd 2 sbmt dyr sugstn as 2 d time nd place of d arBEERtration.

Sober city,phils.

-anoiskidneystones.

Nefy    >> Anong final order sa lakad? Packo’s nlng uli. Ü-la pko nresib n order eh.

See what I mean? They type these ridiculously long text messages on their mobiles. Like they don’t have jobs. Replies stray from the topic too. Can’t wait to see them again.