Where was I when the whole State of Emergency fiasco started?

I was in the streets of Ortigas dragging my feet under the heat of the sun with my workmates.

I was talking about Gloria, Erap, Cory, FVR and some other political issues with her but with which I mostly didn’t know what I was talking about. I’m not a big fan of politics you know. Just a trying-hard, fairly opinionated, and having a political know-how wannabe.

I was looking around the fastfoods at Pearl Drive and trying to decide where and what to eat, and whether to eat rice or junk.

I was laughing with both the SEO and Web-Dev peepz about random jokes that came up. (Most of them web-related. Yes, we’re a bunch of hungry geeks gathered together in one table.)

I was eating the Tapsilog I ordered which took the fastfood I ordered from 58 years to prepare.

I was buying from a little boy, who was about 6 years old, a pack of Boy Bawang which he sold at P2.00 each. Pretty costly but we didn’t really mind.

I was laughing with the team when, a few minutes later, the little boy went back to our table and accused us for allegedly paying him P2.00 short. A feisty little boy indeed. Hihi. There really was no reason to argue.

I was walking back to our office with her and laughing my ass off at some spontaneous jokes we came up with. Now mostly about our bitterness toward the cruelty of life.

I was back in our office, seated in front of my PC, and squeezing my brain to come up with more content to write for a website I was tasked to do.

I was reading a couple of articles on the Internet about Gloria’s out-of-the-blue State of National Emergency speech.

I was receiving YM messages from friends asking me if I were still at the office and if the Ortigas area really is in some grave danger.

I was chatting with her and telling her about the (minimal) information I knew about what’s currently happening in our country. With which her response was that she’s relieved she’s working abroad. :P

I was looking out the window of our building, with my eyebrows scrunched together, and thinking, “What is all the commotion? I don’t see anything!”

I was surfing the ‘net and reading through some people’s blogs.

I was silently praying, “Lord, have mercy on the Philippines.”

And, that’s it. Hehe.

How about you? Where were you when “it” happened? :)