whenever i'm in manila, i was remind myself not to bring my wallet and phone with me everywhere. i only bring a small amount of money going to school or making gimiks at SM. i don't bring my phone if we're just gonna have dinner in some small canteen or diner near the dorm.

it's a risk i'm taking, leaving my valuables in the dorm, too, or course. i don't know who can go to whose room and all. and there are stories about kleptomaniacs--not in our dormitory, thank God. but in other dormitories, there are daw.

so far, i've brought my phone around SM and taken my wallet with me when i commute going home--pero never pa akong na-hold-up or anything. simply put, i've never been a victim of hold-ups and robberies around manila.

SO HOW THE FUCK DID I LOSE MY PHONE AND Php1,000 IN MY OWN DAMN HOUSE?!

last night, i was really sleepy na at around 10.40pm--but i still wanted to check my mail on the computer, since mom said she just sent me a message. eh jinx was still using the computer, so i figured i'll take a quick nap na muna and use it after her. i set my alarm (on my phone) to 11.00pm, thinking i can probably use it by then. if hindi pa tapos si jinx, i'll find some other stuff to do na lang. with me, sleeping for a couple of minutes is enough to keep me awake for hours after eh.

bad trip. i didn't hear my phone beeping at 11.00pm! i woke up, not knowing what time it was. i looked around for my phone. i set it sa tabi ko lang eh, on the pillow. it was close to my ear para magising agad ako when it rings. i didn't find it. i didn't worry first, thinking magulo lang siguro ako matulog, so it's probably just around the bed. i got up and went to mom's room, kasi the clock in my room doesn't work. i checked the time--4.00am. i decided to just use the computer later in the morning.

when i went back to my room, i looked for my phone, kasi i'll set the alarm at aroung 6.00am. syet. i couldn't find it anywhere on the bed. my bed isn't big, and lalo na yung space where i sleep, since some of my newly-ironed clothes were still at the foot of my bed, with my wallet and all. those were the things i was going to bring back to the dorm. i looked around my table and everywhere else around the room. my room's small--jinx's room is even bigger. but my phone was not to be found anywhere. fuck. i started to panic, pero i told myself i just needed some sleep, it would turn up soon.

i was having a headache when i woke up at around 6.45am (i took JM's watch to know the time). the headache was probably caused by all the kaguluhan i was thinking about. fuck talaga. just the night before, i was thinking of texting my roommates to tell 'em i'll be late returning to the dorm since i'll be at the airport to pick up my mom. i was thinking of loading Php100 on my phone, since i didn't have load anymore, and nagpabili pa lang ako kay nanay ida ng prepaid card yesterday. then now, POOF! my phone is fucking missing.

i asked nanay ida to help me look for it. wala talaga. pati si lola umakyat sa room ko to help me look--nothing turned up. i thought that maybe if i fixed some stuff, like put my dorm clothes sa bag and all, i'll find my phone. so i packed up the clothes in my bed. my wallet, my charger, my mp4 were also on the bed, and i packed them up. before i zipped the bag, i thought i'd check my wallet first.

yesterday (saturday) afternoon, nanay gave me the change after buying the prepaid card. she handed me Php895, since the card was Php105. i put the money inside the wallet, the five-peso coins on the little pouch outside (which was home to my one-peso coins). i counted all the money i had, including the few i saved from last week's allowance: Php1,000+ coins. the prepaid card i put on the first slot, then my UAAP ticket (which was s'pposed to be for the UST-FEU game last 29July--i didn't attend because of exams) at the third slot. everything was neatly put there.

when i checked my wallet kanina, all the bills were gone--one five-hundred pesos, three one-hundred pesos, a fifty, and two twenties. the five-peso coins were also gone. my UAAP ticket was on the first slot, and it was slipped there upside-down. the prepaid card was gone.

i thought i had only misplaced my phone. but when i found out that my money was gone--there was just no way that i could've mispalced that, too. ako pa, na sobrang maingat sa pera. no way.

right. so i got robbed of my phone in-between the five hours that i've been asleep. i was robbed of my money God knows when, maybe in the early evening when i went to Mass, or maybe around the time my phone disappeared, too. damn it.

FUCK YOU, BITCH (WHOEVER YOU ARE) FOR TAKING MY MONEY AND MY PHONE.