Because it is the first night of the working week, you are still very much hyper and very much active. You just got a really good rest over the last two days (of your weekend) so you feel like you can take on everything.

You and your friends (or colleagues) decide to go out. You decide on this new bar in the Albay area (read: Chef's House) and you try it out. You find the environment a wee bit boring. So you decide to transfer to another lot. You car pool to Swaisi but you learn that smoking inside is no longer allowed. You go for it since you think that you can always go out for the smoke and your main purpose here is to drink and to sing. Yes, there's videoke.

You belt your hearts out. Your colleagues decide to do dance numbers during breaks. You also discover that one of your colleagues has this 70's style of dancing. You eat tons of pulutan like those really yummy sisig, a batch of onion rings, some french fries, and cheese sticks. You also down bottles of beer - San Mig Light, San Mig Strong Ice, and Red Horse. You listen to your colleagues sing and dance. You are totally happy because you can sing any song you choose and you would not have to wait for other customers - the place was all yours.

You go home at past 11pm and you car pool back to the Albay area. You go home while thinking that you still do not feel the beer in your system yet despite the fact that your usual load is just 1 to 2 bottles. You remember you have downed almost 4 bottles that night. You decide it's still too early so you go put on a movie and watch Gone in 60 Seconds. You go to sleep at past 1am.

In the morning, you have difficulty waking up. You decide to let three alarms go off before you stand up and face breakfast. You go to work feeling tired and sleepy and you suffer from this seemingly insatiable hunger and thirst - an after effect of drinking too much. You go to work and proceed with work like a zombie. You yawn just plain too much so much so that you start to feel tears rolling down your cheeks.

All the energy you felt during the first night of the week was gone. It was replaced by tiredness and by fatigue. You try to make up for the lost energy and sleep but you just could not. So for the rest of the week, you go to work like a zombie and you just could not get any kind of work done in your usual time span of completing a task. You now start to fear for your life that you may pass out any time because of sleeplessness.

Now, you are starting to look forward to the weekend when you can sleep earlier than usual and you can wake up way later than what you're used to. However, you know deep inside that such might just never happen.

These are the reasons why you should not go out during the first night of the week. Well, for me, that was a lesson well learned. Heehee! But then again, for fun and for time with friends sake, then it's all worth it. Basta ba libre ulit! Yeehaw!