A Tribute to Beer

Sometimes it just helps to have a beer in hand.

I don't mean this is a drunkard kind of way, but just to admit that once in a while, those cold, bitter bubbles can be the saving glory to a seemingly downward-spiraling day, week, month, or heck if you're overly dramatic about it, you even sometimes think it salvages your entire life! (Even if just for a fleeting moment, ha ha!)

Oh SMB, how do I count the ways?

When teacher/boss/designated authority gives you a stare worse than that of the eye of Mordor, you help numb the fear;

When even as a girl I feel like I'm choking on imaginary balls out of nervousness, you inject me with just enough courage to take the first step (bahala na what happens to steps 2, 3, and so on);

When the day's drained me dry and left me in a stupor, you revive my system and turn back time;

Like when the Videoke machine is running out of a playlist, you find ways to get those hesitant fingers to punch the song numbers;

Or when I'm being unnecessarily timid and anti-social, you urge me to stand taller and push random words out of my mouth;

When I don't want to listen or I don't want to remember, you always make the perfect excuse;

When someone threw me crap (or made me feel like crap), inviting me to retaliate, you help me forget;

(Ohhhh, YES, how very adept you are in helping to forget;)

When I'm listening to a song or watching concert (live or recorded), you heighten my senses that gives me goosebumps all over;

When I'm sitting on the beach in my bikini and the scorching sun is high and all I hear is the sound of crashing waves...you're there with me, and you just let me be;

When the company is strange/awkward, you totally manage to break the ice;

Especially when the group's quiet -- somehow, at least one part animal bursts into an entertainment number cum conversation piece to last the night, kudos to you!

Then when the group's loud and rowdy, you never fail to make them even louder and rowdier!

And when I'm all by myself, acting lonesome and friend-less, sinasakyan mo ang drama ko at tinutulungan pa akong mag sulat sa blog kong ito.