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at certain times of the year, or in my particular case every other month, i become hormonally-imbalanced and have too-close-for-comfort encounters with my emotions.  i get too bloody sentimental, pun intended.

i also become a little more OC than usual and have been known to fall into cleaning frenzies.

on one such occasion, i decided to ( Read more... )

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i miss manila.  truly, madly, deeply.

i've been saying it since i got here, but more so in the past few weeks.  i really, really miss the metro, especially makati.

crazy as it sounds, i was even sad that i didn't get to experience 'milenyo'.  i got so used to being rained on & flooded out at this time of the year, i actually felt that something was ( Read more... )

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the first texted greeting came at 12:30 AM, october 20.  i fumbled for my cell and tried to chase the sleep away while i read the text.

it was from ian c. sending me advanced birthday greetings and iloveyous.  next was joseff's in his usual literary fashion, so tagalog and sweet.  gian, as usual, was asar and tried to hide the fact--unsuccessfully ( Read more... )

the last thing i expected to hear was a marriage proposal, but i did at half past midnight last night.  the appropriate reaction would have been a sigh, batting eyelashes and a carefully orchestrated tear on my cheek...instead i guffawed, not the very least romantic.

the whole thing was surreal.  deja vu.  he proposed to me--sort of--nearly ten ( Read more... )

lami ra gyud ang bisaya.

kung ikumpara sa tagalog, i am certainly prejudiced kay bisaya gud ko!  palag?!! hehe.

from the time i first learned to talk until the time i went off to college, i spoke tagalog...well, "davao tagalog" really.  it was what was spoken at home and in school.  i could understand bisaya, but i couldn't speak it fluently.  the ( Read more... )

Your Brain is 60% Female, 40% Male
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