Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Today's post is about a student who is all into the grand gestures.

Around this time last year he had not yet courted a girl whose birthday was coming up, and he gave her a two thousand peso badminton racket. Eventually he did tell her she was his crush, but only after he waited for several "signs" from the universe, which probability says he will get at some point.

Anyway, when he brought it up anytime after, she'd reply she didn't want to talk about it, which is another way of saying I don't feel the same way back, but I don't want to lose all the freebies you're giving me, so let's not bring it up.

Sometime later, he found someone else, or more to the point, he rediscovered someone, a classmate since first year who has been giving him gifts for his birthday way back then.

The girl was recoiling from an abusive relationship, and he was there.

One time he saw a bag he thought she would like, but he didn't have the money to buy it. Coincidentally, it's worth two thousand pesos again.

In the end he did buy it, on loan, but before he could pay it all back, he bought her another grand gesture of a gift, this time a ticket to a concert that happened last night (you look it up).

Not surprisingly, he bought her a ticket to watch at roughly the same price as the bag and the racket - but get this, by herself.

Why? Because it's a school night and he won't be allowed. But her parents are more strict, not even allowing their daughter to go to school on Saturdays to work on their culminating project.

So what makes him think they'll allow her to go to that concert?

Session 2287 will conclude by saying ticket wasted due to lack of foresight. Class dismissed.