Today’s post is brought to you by my ginormous credit card debt

There is really nothing more awesome than spending 3 hours of your Monday morning begging the credit card company trying to get an extension for your monthly credit card payment. I swear to god, it’s so fucking sweet. It sends your self-esteem and general perception of self worth through the roof, especially when the phone representative you’re talking to pulls up your credit record and asks “Are you sure you’re going to be able to pay us? I don’t see how an extension of 5 days can make a difference seeing that you are neck-deep in debt and your monthly minimum is close to 5 digits” and you have to plead and cry and say “Dude you totally don’t understand–I’m Mike Villar, I’m really famous bro, I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of me. If you read my blog, you’d know that I recently got a promotion and although my payslip doesn’t really reflect it yet, I was given verbal assurance that I will soon get an increase. I will be rich bro. Just please, do me a solid here and give me this extension, I do not have enough money to even eat. Please bro, I’ll put your bird in my mouth. I’ll even buy you beers, I know this place in West Avenue that offers like 6 bottles of San Mig Light for 140 pesos on Wednesdays. Help a brother out here bro. Please. [cries]”

The good thing is that they eventually agreed to give me an extension.

Now what?

Anyone here interested in buying some old Nike’s? Or a 2 year-old Laptop? (It has like Gigabytes upon Gigabytes of music, porn, and some unpublished drafts for my blog that, in the future might be of significant value.

I would also like to take this opportunity, as I am very desperate and under duress from the credit card company, to thank the European companies I did freelance work for in the last couple of months. I’m really proud to see that the usability/web consultancy projects, which I finished four months ago, are doing wonders for your online businesses.

It’s also nice that you guys gave me 20% of my contract price–monies which went straight to the credit card debt I accumulated from purchasing 100 Peso an hour WiFi cards and overpriced coffee concoctions from Starbucks where I usually work on your projects. Again, thank you, you guys are great.

Now, when do you think you could send over the rest of my monies? I’m sort of starving here.

(The good news is that the weird-looking effeminate guy who flips burgers at the Burger Machine beside my office apparently resigned. If things don’t work themselves out soon, I might pick up three shifts a week to help me alleviate my cashflow problems)

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