The Gospel According to Redge

I'm back on planet earth! Finally, natupad din ang wish ko na makapag-beach ngayong summer...

This entry is actually a tribute of some sort to the only guy whom I consider my closest friend right now...I'll just share his words of wisdom kasi...wala lang. Natutuwa lang ako sa kanya because I never thought that I'd ever connect with a straight guy. But with Redge, I like his frankness, candidness, humor and honesty (kung naging babae 'to malamang na-fall na ako sa badet na yun). Anyway, para sa'yo 'to, dude!

Don't slouch! Never put your head down when you're walking. Keep your chin up, stomach in, chest out...You'll look timid and shy when you do otherwise. Besides, it doesn't look good.

Hindi naman totoong nalilimutan mo ang mahal mo sa pagdaan ng panahon. Hindi totoong napaghihilom ng panahon ang sugat sa puso mo. Nasasanay ka lang sa sakit, kaya naiinda mo na.

Kahit hindi tama ang ginagawa mo, basta't masaya ka, go for it! Ang pangit yung mali na nga ang ginagawa mo, tapos, hindi ka pa masaya...

Will be posting pics next time...

Eleksyon 2007

Call me idealistic or patriotic or whatever...pero old-fashioned pa rin ako pagdating sa exercising my right to vote. Thus, after my shift on Saturday morning (with a stopover sa birthday party ng officemate ko sa Project 8), I went home to Caloocan wherein I'm a registered voter. Kakaboto ko lang ngayon at imagine all pains a voter must go thru para lang sa "right" na yan! Hmp! Dapat ang mga kandidato ay tiyakin na kumportable ang mga botante pag ganitong eleksyon. I only elected six senators (karamihan mga bagito) at iniwasan ko yung mga galing sa kongreso na wala namang ginawa sa Mababang Kapulungan kundi mang-akusa ng kung sinu-sino at pumutak ng pumutak laban sa Administrasyon...Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro-administration. Pero naniniwala ako na ang kongresista at senador ay inihalal para gumawa ng batas. Hindi para mag-imbestiga ng anomalya...Let the PNP and NBI do that...

Anyway, apart from voting, I had a good weekend with my family. I baby sat for my favorite nephew; I watched the Game 3 of Round 2 NBA Playoffs between the Spurs and the Suns (which the Spurs won, kaya abot-tenga ang ngiti ko ngayon); I watched a movie marathon with my favorite cousin (we watched Pumpkinhead which I found boring kaya hindi namin tinapos; The Covenant na napanood ko sa sine last year; and Eragon which I find okay naman pala although I didn't bother to watch it on the big screen).

Heard that Ayala Trinoma is opening this week. In fact, dun ang premier ng Shrek 3...hmmn, better check it out before others do...Hehe!

Random Thoughts

Never allow yourself to grow too close to anyone...In doing so, you are only opening yourself to being hurt.

Be lavish on praise; be gentle in criticism.

Never change yourself just to please other people. It's better to be yourself and be content than to let other people take control of your life.

Just shrug off other people's negative opinion about you. Afterall, you can't please everybody. As long as you're not hurting anyone, do what you will and let others do the same.

Do not bear grudges. Let them bear their own grudge but cast yours aside. It will only slow you down.

When you're down, there is no other way to go but up.

On Special Friendships, MU's and Pseudo Relationships

Just this week, I learned from a guy friend that he has finally decided to end a two-year "friendship" with a girl with whom he has exclusively dating. The reason? The girl had just recently committed herself into a formal relationship...with another guy. My friend of course was completely devastated saying that he never learned about the girl having a boyfriend already. Kung hindi pa sila nagpunta sa isang despidida party nung barkada nung girl, hindi nya pa malalaman na may boyfriend na yung isa. He never got the chance to ask the girl about it coz he stopped communicating with her upon learning of the situation.

Nung tinanong ko naman sya kung sino sa kanilang dalawa ang nag-decide that they should be on that kind of set up, he said, he was the one who made that option. During that time, he said, he still love the mother of his child. So I told him:

'Tol, don't you think it's somehow your fault why you are in that
kind of situation now? Don't you think she got tired of waiting for you to make
up your mind when to take your friendship to the next level? Don't think that
she has no intention to tell you about her recent commitment. Perhaps, she does,
but other people got to you first before she did. You were caught off guard and
you didn't know how to react. And I believe that is the reason why you're
hurting..you were blind-sided. It would have been less painful if you got the
news from her first than from a third party. Plus, you were caught unaware. Ni hindi nya nabanggit na merong nanliligaw sa kanya eh alangan namang basta
nya na lang sinagot yung guy di ba?

The thing is he never realized the extent of emotional investment that he had with girl until just now. He thought that he could put it aside and just be content with the kind of relationship that they had...na parang sila pero hindi naman.

Personally, I never favored pseudo relationship although I don't condemn people who are into it. I strongly believe that if two people are committed enough to spend too much time together, I think it would be better for them to officially commit themselves especially if they're both free. However, should you find yourself into that kind of situation, it would be safer for you to never allow yourself to fall too hard. Coz you might find that there is nobody there to break your fall...