Closing Time

Closing time
Open all the doors and let you out into the world
Closing time
Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl
Closing time
One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time
You don't have to go home but you can't stay here

Back in freshman year of law school, my blockmates and I had regular Thursday inuman sessions at this bar called Cafe Dapits. I think it was because we were let out early that day and our classes the next day were really late. Anyway, we would drink until the bar closed down and our cue to exit was when the place would play Semisonic's Closing Time.

While walking to work yesterday, the song came back to me. My boss is retiring in seven months' time and since I'm co-terminus, my stint here is ending as well. I can transfer to another boss but given my current state, it doesn't seem advisable to do so. However, I did make moves to transfer to another government office early this year but they still haven't called me back for an interview (boo) so maybe I'm destined to stay here for the meantime.

Apart from the retirement, everything seems to be closing down around here, and by here, I mean around the office. We are near the Philamlife building and sometime last year or early this year, it was bought by SM. I like Philamlife building because it houses two of my banks, BDO and BPI, so I can run bank errands during my lunch hour. There was also a Dell's where we could eat relatively cheap  slow-cooked food. There was  a small Mercury Drug where I could buy my medicines without a long queue. But they have all since moved out except for BPI. BDO has transferred to the other side of the street, in Times Plaza. This would have been fine except that there used to be a connecting walkway from the LRT to Times but it has also been closed. So now, I have to go down the LRT stairs to get to Times. In my state, it's kind of a hassle.

Closing time
Time for you to go out to the places you will be from
Closing time
This room won't be open till your brothers or your sisters come
So gather up your jackets, move it to the exits
I hope you have found a friend
Closing time
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

Maybe it's time for new beginnings.