scary movie

My head was spinning while reading a 200-page manual of MOST specification. Damn!! Too many methods and properties and classes and objects to get acquainted with. Though I'm quite excited to start this project, I was reading like mad since last week. MOST specification is 242 pages thick while the BMW MOST function catalogue is like 2,200++. Syeeeet!!!!!!! Well, I really don't need all 2,000 pages of information. Just around 200, I guess.

Okay, I'm done bitching about my work. Now, deep breath. Find my center. Relax..... and blog. hehehehe

I made my Sunday exciting last weekend by strolling around Colon area. I've never done this for quite a long time. Back in college days, I always go there to feel and breath the city. Up to now, I equated Cebu City to Colon area. If you haven't been around in that place then you haven't been to Cebu City at all. But when you decided to do it, be sure to dress shabbily. Never wear any jewelry and do not bring your wallet!!! And use your oldest mobile phone. These I all did. It never failed to give me a nice feeling seeing and bumping a lot of people going to and fro with their own business. Street vendors trying to impress passerby with their wares. You can actually find a lot of cheap items in there that are sold almost twice as much in trendy malls.

I'm not satisfied by just going from corner to corner. I'd also like to know what's going on in each corner. You can do this by striking a conversation with say, the cigarette vendors. Buy a 2-peso worth of candies and start a conversation but never make it sound serious so they wouldn't think you're some kind of a detective. Be affable. This means staying in one corner or perhaps along the sidewalk grills and bathing all the dust and smoke coming from jeepneys and cars passing by. But I learned to be street smart out of this. I learned that there are people out on the street who would buy stolen items of any kind, the usual pimps, or even tarts, a few drug dealers (they usually abound in Panagdait, Ermita and Pasil area), drug users (specially kids sniffing rugby discreetly) and some snatchers.

It was around 6 in the evening when I passed by Ultravistarama. I watched a lot of Hollywood movies in this cinema during its heyday. In fact, it was one of the best cinemas in the city before SM and Ayala were built. It is still in business but it was showing a lewd film starred by Isko Moreno, Elizabeth Oropesa(as his mother), and an unknown young and sexy bombshell. I was not yet ready to go home so I decided what the heck, I'll watch this movie. I paid for the Balcony seating.

The first thing I noticed when I went inside was the people or men standing along the passageway and giving me a stare. I felt nervous but shrugged off the feeling. There were only a handful of people inside the cinema and the movie hadn't started yet. I seated myself on the center of the right column. Another thing I noticed were some of those men in the passageway walking up and down the aisle. Maybe they're looking for the best seat and immediately dismissed the thought.

A few minutes after the movie started, a couple - most probably boyfriend and girlfriend - sat a few rows below me. The guy immediately went to business. Kissing the girl, petting and God- knows-what-else. I smiled to myself. What a cheap way to have illicit sex. Then a guy sat behind me. The movie was a hardcore bore. It's either the projector is old or the film itself is old. The vertical lines were very apparent on the screen and the sound system!! My goodness!! I would prefer watching anything on my TV at home anytime. And that's exactly what I wished after a horrifying event. The guy behind me bended over and murmured something to me. I didn't quite get it and since I was concentrating on the movie dialogue, I replied "okei ra bai."

He got up and sat beside me. I was getting nervous. He has a stocky build and could easily out-wrestle me.
Guy: Magpa-chupa ka bai? --Would you like to get a blowjob?
ako: HUH?? (I was startled and couldn't believe what I just heard.)
Guy: Magpa-chupa ka? --Would you like to get a blowjob?
ako: HUH?? (I couldn't move. My heart started to beat like a THX-certified bass sub-system. I heard him right the first time.)
Guy: Kuan man gyud, bai. Ang kasagaran man gyud mosulod diri kay mga bisexuals man gyud. --Most people who came here are bisexuals-- (I think he sensed the shock on my face.) Sige na kag ari? --Do you come to this place all the time?
ako: Karon pa --Just now (Waaaah!!! I wanna get out!!!)
Guy: Magpabayad ka? --Are you for hire?
ako: Dili ko, bai. --No, I'm not (He was blocking my way out of the row.)

He got up and headed out. Thank heavens!!! I was about to go out too but decided to stay for a while because he might think I followed him. Big mistake!!!

Moments later he came back with 2 companions. My heart beat like it's gonna rip out of my ribcage. My knees were really shaking. Then all those stories about getting raped inside a cinema came flooding to my brain. Syeeet!!! I don't wanna be gang raped.

Guy1: Okei ra ka, bai? --Are you okay?
ako: Okei ra, bai. Gawas nako. --I'm okay. I want to go out now.
Guy1: Ayaw sa gud. Ari usa ta. --Wait. Let's just stay here for a while. (He and his other companions were blocking the way.)

He introduced his other companions and I nodded my head making sure not to give away my awful fright. They were asking me some things which I could no longer recall because all the time I was thinking how to get out of that place. Then,

Guy1: Okei ra nimo kung magperform sila diri? --Is it okay for you if these guys perform? (Pointing to his 2 companions.)
ako: HUH??
Guy2: Ikaw lang chupa sa ako. --Give me a blowjob. (Talking to Guy3.)

Guy2 stood up and sat on the backrest of the chair in front of Guy3. He unzipped his jeans. I have to go out! I have to go out! I have to go out! I murmured this to myself. I immediately jumped on the seat in front of me even though I wasn't sure where I would land. Luckily, I landed on my 2 feet. I scrambled my way out of the cinema and almost toppled over because my knees were shaking.

My knees stopped shaking only when I was walking again on Colon street. But my heart was still beating fast like crazy. It felt like getting through a life and death situation.

It was the scariest movie experience of all time. I swear to myself to never, ever, ever again go in that cinema or any cinema in Colon for that matter.