a full moon(ed) friday night

FRIDAY. i look forward for friday nights like my ice cream cravings on a hot summer day. to end a week's hard work, all i need is a good movie to watch, chat sessions over coffee and shopping with friends. that was my life before... but now i ask: what to do on a friday night on this little island where the best coffee shop in town closes at 2pm and the closest you can get to a cinema is a large video screen showing in a school park on selected times of the year? how about that!? i live in a simple town where the only access i have to shopping and movie watching is through the world wide web and the only coffee i get is brewing some lovin' via whatelse-- coffeemaker? i'm slowly getting used to it, in fact i come to appreciate more how valuable the internet is. but friday night is my friday night, and while i have other remedies out there, i still prefer to spend it the way i always had.

FULL MOON. according to research, friday's full moon was the brightest and biggest of all full moon days of the year. this is because the moon reaches its closest point to the earth. the last time this occured was way back in 1993 and the next sometime in 2016. so much for trivia...

incidentally, full moon parties are well celebrated on the island. by well i mean lunatic helluva crazy partyyyy! there's a place in the outskirts of the island called bomba's shack, where a lot of foreigners and locals come and celebrate under the bright-lit moon on the beachside. bomba's shack is a tourist hotspot in the island. it is an adult junkie-sort of shack made of old surf boards, and other creatively recycled items. panties and bras adorn the celings, while pictures of topless women are posted on the walls. all of them are trademark memorabilias from their wild and fun-loving customers. the cool breeze, stunning waves, carribean music, rugged junkie ambiance and endless booze is a perfect haven for all ye party-loving peeps.






FRIDAY + FULL MOON. last friday night (technically saturday, past midnight), just to satisfy my curiosity, together with some friends we drove to the west end of the island to see for ourselves how this full moon party is going. besides it's my friend's birthday celebration - thus, a valid cause for going.

so there it was, under the flourescent moon, people partying, merrymaking and enjoying in the streets. love it! so there it was, the infamous shack whose stunning creativity matches those posh bars and resto in the metro. love it! and so there we were, although boozeless, happily observing the fun going on around us. love it!

it may not be the kind of friday night that i was used to -- there was no macchiato nor was there any movie, but it was a good remedy just so for the sake of going out on a friday, on a rare full moon night . well at least for now, a temporary escape from reality.

forever searching

it's kinda weird how i find myself blogging half across the globe, on this tiny virgin island in the carribean. unthinkable? yeah, who would have really thought...

it has already been a month since i first set foot on this island. a month later, i find myself still a nomad and immobile with no apartment and no car. in this island where no jeep prevails and taxis are for tourists, you have two options to transport: hitch or drive your own car. while i would love to hitch and save dineros, i'd prefer to drive my own... at least i can go to the beaches and explore the mountains whenever i want to--btw, these are the only means to entertain yourselves on weekends if you've had enough of the world wide web, tv series re-runs, facebook-ing (sometimes the net can just be boring) or even on-line shopping (yeah, no malls here!). but it seems so that luck is not on my side... well at least for now. i've had already two attempts of being at the tip of a car deal. unfortunately, sellers here back out at the very last minute. and as for my apartment, it's really really hard to find studio flats-- and if there are, they're way above my budget. pffffffffffftttttttttt!!!! (read: FRUSTRATION)

so while i write this out of frustration, i come to accept the fact that for a little while, and unwantingly so, i will be searching for my car and apartment. and while i'm searching for these tangibles, i re-think on my purpose why on earth am i on this island thousand miles away from home?

i came in search for something. that something-- i'm not sure of... perhaps in search for a new career, or explore a new environment or maybe even plain self-discovery. and just like finding for my apartment and car, i'm pretty sure that it will also take me a little while to find what i have really been searhing for here on this beautiful island.