I know I said I was staying away for a good couple of days to catch up with work but I couldn’t help myself.

I have a friend. She hasn’t really done anything eversince we graduated a couple of years ago. She didn’t know what she wanted to do. And whilst my other friends and I were busy just applying for jobs in the entire Jobstreet list, she was sitting on her ass, contemplating what she MIGHT want to do. And then she left for Japan.

So okay. No biggie. But all of us were envious. She got to go to Japan on a scholarship. Good for her, I guess. She studied .. all sorts of Japanese things for an entire year. She was devastated to leave the Philippines but once she got there, we almost never heard a peep out of her. So what do you do to keep in contact with someone who can’t be reached? We surveyed her Friendster account. Apparently she was having a ball of a time with all the international students that she met there. They went to all these Japanese places and ate Japanese food and posed like Japanese anime in their Friendster pictures.

When she came back from Japan. She didn’t stop talking in Japanese. I wanted to slap her with a fish. HELLO?! We know you went there to study and speak and all that but I know for a fact that you can speak your fucking native tongue!  Ohayo gozaimasu! Yoroshiku onegaishimasu. Anata wa eigo o hanashimasu ka? Putanginasasampalinkitaaa!!! As if that wasn’t annoying enough, she kept talking about all the great friends she met there and blahblahblah. The rest of us just surmised that we just weren’t “cultured” enough for our friend’s taste. Or that perhaps it was because we were lacking a second language. Whatever it was, she came back Japan-ified.

No, she did not get back into work. She went galavanting around the country because she was setting up her own travel agency or something. That’s good, I guess. At least now she knows what she wants to do. But not only did we get to hang with her, (why the hell are we even inviting her anyway?!) but she kept leaving the country for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, etc. Lucky bitch. The farthest any of us have gone was to the North. We lead such pathetic lives.  But now she’s stopped her travel agency thing because her partners became busy, etc. etc.

Guess what she’s doing now? SHE’S IN FRIGGIN’ FRANCE!!! Seriously, God. That is SO uncool of you to show her too much favor. It’s not like she does anything! We work our butts off just to get a 3-day weekend and she can just fly off to EU-FUCKING-ROPE?! HELL NO! She didn’t work hard for that trip nor does she deserve it! What did she do that we didn’t?! Because if we can get that trip just by being flighty and by being difficult to all my friends then I’ll gladly do it! I’LL DO IT! Damn be those that saw me through college and were there to listen to all my problems eventhough they weren’t really problems and game me moral support and had great laughs with. Damn them all, if it means I get to go to Europe! And now her Friendster photos showcase her trip to the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the Versailles Gardens, Champs Elysee, with her international friends and her looking like a Japanese tourist.

We never used to care where she went because we didn’t particularly care for the place. But when we talk about Europe, that’s a totally different thing altogether. We can’t take it that she’s gallavanting around there while we’re stuck in the office working for the man. Yes. Call me jealous. Call me envious. But I’m calling this ABSOLUTELY UNFAIR.

*sob*

Why? WHY?!

*sob*