mmaya and i

this year, for the first time in a long time, i knew what the perfect gift for frank's birthday would be. i'd been hoping it would be available even as i knew it wouldnt.

today is his birthday and yesterday i decided to go find something ...any thing.

the perfect gift for femme's frank this year would be tekken six.

he has been waiting for it like a child for Christmas.

you see femme's frank fancies himself the worlds best tekken player and i assure you if we could translate the time he puts into it, we just might be on Forbes's list ( or maybe Networth's list of richest blacks)

so i went from store to store looking and after 2 hours i had bought a beautiful rug i just couldn't leave behind and Erica Jong's SEDUCING THE DEMON.

i decided to take a break. it was my first meal of the day and it was already past 4 so i was really hungry but interestingly i felt the itch for alcohol(can alcoholic craving be an itch?).

femme and frank had been out last weekend and i tasted his caipirinha (Brazilian cocktail) it was so good,I'd been thinking about it all week.

so there i was in the restaurant, i asked for a steak and caipirinha. the drink came almost immediately,

i am a very social drinker but come from a family of drinkards. as soon as u become an adult( no particular age) my uncles and aunts and my parents expect to see your boozing strenght.

so alcohol is no stranger to me.

so i fell on this drink with glee but found this one different. it wasn't as mellow as franks, this was the real deal.

the first one i tasted was made of almost same quantities of vodka sugar and lime while mine had very little lime, it had almost no sugar and seemed to have mostly cachaça(another Brazilian drink made from fermented sugar cane juice)

i was half way through it when my steak was ready but unfortunately i had forgotten to ask that it be well done. the waiter brought it to my table with a flourish and me smiling up hungrily only to see the blood.

since i still had to wait, i decided to get another drink as the caipirinha was growing on me.

by the end of the meal i had 3 glasses of caipirinha and was feeling very glad with myself.

i knew something was wrong when i got up to leave and it took extra seconds to catch up with my head.

so I'm leaving the restaurant talking to my self

Femme- omg! you are so drunk.

Self- this is not drunk, I'm just a bit tipsy, when the food catches up wit the drink, i will be fine.

Femme-stop talking and look at where u are going,

Self- I'm looking, I'm looking . you stop talking to me. these people are beginning to shift from you. meanwhile a whole guilder chick like you falling all over the place because of 3 glasses of sugar cane water.

i found this so funny i began to laugh but i stopped laughing when i realised i was standing on the escalator that was moving up when i needed to go down.

then my phone rang, it was frank i had told him to meet me at the mall.

i leaned against a wall and described where i was then waited till he came.

any way today is franks birthday and i didn't get him his tekken 6 but i sure had a nice time looking.

* slight exaggeration to this story