Good genes

As a favor to a friend, I let a couple of 3rd year law students interview me regarding work-life balance in my current career. As I understood it, they were interviewing different lawyers in different fields.

Considering that the subject was work-life balance, the questioning inevitably turned to love life...or lack thereof. After finding out that I didn't have a boyfriend right now and I had no plans to get married and have kids, one of them exclaimed:

"Naku Ma'am, sayang naman. Ang talino at ang ganda nyo pa naman. Dapat ganyang genes ang nag-aanak."

Naks.

This seriously made my day.:)

Blue sky

Just some random photo I took without looking at the sky. Just pointed the camera straight up.

Based on its place in my memory card, this was taken in Blue Mountains.

Make your own drama - 3

"I thought you didn't like him? What is all this fuss about then?"

"I thought I didn't like him that way either. But seeing him with her hurts more than I thought it would."

"That way? That way? I thought you didn't like him. Period."

"Well, maybe I wasn't being completely honest..."

Make your own drama - 2

I hate it when I start second-guessing myself. It takes so long to get my equilibrium back.

Make your own drama - 1

why do I continue to fight when you tell me it's over? I've seen this coming for so long. sometimes I thought the waiting was unbearable. but now that it's here, everything in me refuses to accept it.

why do I continue to fight for you and for us? it's that little thing deep inside me that thinks that we can work it out. that belief that this isn't it. this couldn't be it. all those years wouldn't lead to this. shouldn't lead to this.

why do I keep getting back up after so many times you've hurt me? it's because I still believe that the person I loved, love, is still somewhere in there, loving the person I have become. that the person you have become will love who I am now, too.

but no amount of fighting brings you back to me. that little kernel burning inside me is dying down. I am near to giving up. I choose to give up. but I cannot let go completely because that hope inside me may be dying, but it is still there.

hope is the enemy.

Pag walang drama, walang masulat.

Yun lang.

a YM conversation

Friend: You've been ignoring me.

Me: No, I haven't been ignoring you. If I were, I wouldn't have replied to your message.

Friend: You haven't talked to me in a month, what's that if not ignoring me?

Me: I wasn't ignoring you then. Did you say "hi" or anything to me? No, you didn't.

Me: So, really, I wasn't ignoring you. It's more of I've been avoiding you.

No more venting

I opened the draft new post page with every intention of venting...

then I changed my mind.

Good for me, yes?

Haiku 10

What's in a haiku
five-seven-five syllables
must make sense and rhyme

Haiku 9

I eat Koko Krunch
a cup each day without fail
gives tummy more paunch

Haiku 8

koko krunch I munch
with chocolate-y goodness
gives my day a punch

Mt. Mayon

On the way to Bohol, the plane captain called our attention when we were flying past Mt. Mayon.