what's with the starbucks planner shmanner

i think i'm pathetic for collecting stickers and spending an effin' lot of money on starbucks coffee just for that planner. screw clever marketing. i think starbucks is a genius because even i, miss i-don't-get-why-people-spend-800-bucks-worth-of-coffee-for-a-stupid-planner, am frantically trying to fill in the amount of necessary stickers for the stupid planner. what's so special about it anyway when i can get a decent planner at Powerbooks for 600 bucks (YEAH, if i feel like spending that much on a stupid planner). i can buy a 15 peso planner, though. that is if i'm practical (which i am most often not...). or is it 30 pesos? i forgot. it's from Papemelroti. they've improved their planner paper. it's smoother now and easier to write on compared to the recycled brown paper. but it's small and convenient. and i've been using papemelroti planners for two years now. planners are perfect for people with short-term memory gap. yes, i am one of them and i need a planner just so i could keep track on dates to remember. otherwise, i'd forget. really. i'm so bad at it that i can't even remember birthdays of people who are close to me. so i apologize in advance if ever i forgot/forget to greet you. it means that my alarm on my cellphone calendar failed to go off.

i keep touching the red starbucks card with the shiny silver hologram stickers on it. i count the blank gaps, ones without stickers yet and think whether to continue collecting stickers for the stupid planner or throw away the whole idea of getting a stupid planner that's supposed to be special. as embarassing as it may be, i will stick to getting a planner. i'm more than half way and soon the black supposedly special planner will be mine. besides, i can turn it into a journal anyway. i love scribbling insignificant things that may seem trivial for the moment and then when i read what i've written again they begin to make sense. sometimes i'd just laugh at my own follies.

evertime i purchase an ice cold grande iced caramel machiatto with two packets brown sugar, the words of my former polsci professor Bing Ragsag keeps ringing in my ears:

"yung isang grande niyo na frapuccino sa starbucks, isang linggong bigas na para sa mahihirap."
(one grande frapuccino from starbucks is equivalent to a week's supply of rice for the poor)

and then i go, "oh shit!" and feel guilty. but i guess we're all entitled to guilty pleasures. hehe.

good luck to me :) 10 stickers to go!


oh... my desktop is in Christmas mode already :)