Caveat Emptor

I should have seen by the print that it was not what I wanted it to be. Hindi na sana ako nag-bid.

Sigh, sayang the 250HKD.

Ramping Mongkok

With the helps and influence of Kawadjan, DP and Mel, I am doing my first, and hopesfully last (?), photoshoot of my everyday wear for winter.

Wrap Around Jacquet by H&M Japan
over DKNY Ukay Sweats
UNIQLO Jeans
MUJI Reds

Closure

Palagi kang To be continued. Ang hirap mong isara.

I

Bago tayo magkita, inakala kong wala na tayo. Ilang taon na rin tayong di nagkikita. Nagkabanggaan lang ulit sa Library ng mga Fez nitong taon at tila habambuhay na lang birtwal na nagsusundutan.

Hanggang sundutin mo ako sa likod. Doon nga. Kina Charles De Gaulle.

II

Para tayong mga readers ng e-books na sinulat nina Stephanie Meyer at Danielle Steele sa mga kwentong Paris, Tsim Sha Tsui at Taipei. Tila mga telenovela series ang ating mga lovelife. Patapos na ang chapter ko kay Virginia P habang ikaw naman ay papalapit na sa umaatikabong climax ng pelikulang Si Aida, Si Lorna o Si Fe.

Habang nagdadaldalan, para tayong mga Benejezerits. Napakaraming lenggwahe.

III

Sa pagitan ng mga eksena mula Zaire hanggang Hong Kong, alam nating marami tayong hindi pwedeng pag-ugnayan. I was too communistic for you, sabi mo. You are too capitalistic for me, sagot ko.

Sa puntong ito, alam kong ipipinid ko na ang pintuan ng chapter nating dalawa. Pero tulad nina Gerard Depardieu at Robert De Niro sa pelikulang Novecento, tahimik nating inaming parang walang nagbago. Na kapag nagkita tayo ulit, maglalandian at maghuhuntahan pa rin tayo kahit ilang taon na ang lumipas, me ibang asawa man o wala, wrinkled o na-botox, me rebolusyon o wala.

IV

Alas singko pasado nang biglang kumanta sina Barbra Streisand at Andy Gibb. Guilty.

Natawa tayong dalawa.

V

Nung umagang yon, maagang nagbagong taon sa Hong Kong.

Resto City The Final Chapter

It took me sometime to get rid myself of my addiction. So I started a business - Chaps Laps.


Chaps Laps is the name of the business I made out of my addiction with Playfish's Restaurant City on Facebook. Business kasi kumikita ako ng coins by cooking virtual gourmet dishes, shaking trees and cleaning trash. Aside from the fact that I can employ 8 staff from my list of facebook friends as my restaurant space expands.

For some days, I did not do anything but give water to my staff, make them fit on new clothes and redesign the resto's interior. Until I was glad to have reached Level 27, apparently the pinnacle of anyone's career in this god-forsaken, no-unionizing virtual capitalistic world.

Peste, hirap talaga kapag mas madaling gawin at matapos ang tasks sa online games kesa sa sarili mong trabaho.

Umeechus lang!

Dinner at Red Ant

Even stars get grime.

I washed and scrubbed and rinsed myself of dust, dirt and disgust I gathered from my last hours in Turkey. I prepped myself for meeting P who decided that Wally Matt's was the best place to be at that moment.

He was his usual. I was my own. He held my hand as he let out a whiz which he quickly stopped from hitting my face. I kissed him back despite his expressed worries of me having his cold virus.

"I already have it," I laughingly replied. We both smiled - me tiredly, him hungrily.

We decided to eat.

Over dinner, I asked him about his past, his exes, me, us. He answered back quite truthfully, honestly.

I smiled. Quietly. He looked. To me. And back to his noodles.

We decided it was time to go. Back to the hotel. Not to the bar.

We kissed for quite some time. Hugged not wanting to let go.

Although the sparkle faltered somewhere 15 minutes ago, it became all moot.

I have a month to think about it. So does he.

Right now, I have to ask Yvaine to step aside for a while. It is my turn to shine.