Some people may call me proud. I burn bridges when necessary. Turn my back on people who have betrayed me. And I'm unforgiving to those who don't ask for forgiveness. It's not pride, I tell you. It's self-respect. I'd rather have few people around me than plenty of "friends" who choose to betray me, hurt me, and malign me. I know my worth and I'm uncompromising. You piss me off, disrespect me, become disloyal to me, you'd have to practically kneel before me so I can forgive you. I may forgive you, but I will never trust you again. So stop pretending like things are ok and we're ok. We're not. And pretending like we are will definitely win points with me. You might think I don't know the things you say about me. I know perfectly well how much crap shit and lies you say about me so you better shut your mouth. I'm the kind of person who does not deny my mistakes and wrongdoings. So when I say something is a lie, something is definitely a lie. Stop telling me things or warning me about other people. Stop thinking we'll ever be ok. Stop hoping you can…
Tag: Friends
Podcast 6: Being Friends with the Ex
This is the podcast where I bash all my exes. NOT! Are you friends with your ex? I am. Find out how I manage to be friends with the cause of the biggest heartbreaks in my life. I talk about being friends, how to be friends, and other subtopics that were asked or suggested by different people. This is my longest and most stressful podcast yet. I wasn't stressed out by the topic but by the editing I had to do. LOL! Listen as I talk about being friends with my exes and how you can maybe also be friends with yours... Apologies for the looong recording. Hope you were able to finish it. Agree? Disagree? Post your comments below. :) Credits to the exes who gave me ammunition for this podcast. :P Thank you to the people who contributed: Ate Joanna, Reissa, Ate Dominique, Poyty, Orman, Jesse, Donna, Steph M, Tiara, Massa P, Rastapopulous, Sparkeh, and anonymous! :) Sound clips from Star Cinema's One More Chance and Phil Collins' Separate Lives.
Podcast 4: Friends to Lovers?
By request from Vanjohnn Mendoza, a young blogger from Cebu, my podcast is all about friendships and how these turn into romantic relationships. In this episode, I talk about how the media influences our ideas about this, how some people can get the wrong idea about their friends of the opposite sex, mixed signals, friendship as a foundation of a romantic relationship, and more. Listen as I try to make sense of a very interesting but complicated issue... To download this podcast, right click, and pick “Save link as…”: LINK. Here's a link to my "For All the Meantime Girls" article on SunStar. Do you agree or disagree? Do I even make sense? Thank you to Jam, Chattee, Poyty, Donna, Christian, Dulce, and Sparky for suggestions and input! :) Photo of Lyle Santos and Brendel Balaga courtesy of Chattee.
A Letter to You
James, You have become the people you loathe so much. And it pains me so much that it has come to this. You can no longer be talked to, without you reeking of smugness and arrogance. Yes, I hope you read this and realize this is for you. I have a thousand things I'd like to say to you but I say everything because despite everything you've done, I still consider you as a friend. You've told me many times about how this one person is too proud and harsh, how he makes your life hell. Well, guess what, you've become like him. Harsh, too proud, and unwilling to listen to others. We've bashed this other person many times coz he thinks too highly of himself, and he wants to get credit and attention even id he doesn't deserve it. Know what, you have become him. You might not know it but people are starting to talk about you and how you have changed so much. Changed into somebody you despise. You talk as if you have achieved glory and success by yourself, with your hard work. You didn't and everybody knows it. You are so smug about what you…
Life's Timing
I am currently facing a sort of crisis right now. Not that big as the other problems and crises I've faced before. Imagine my happiness when I heard my bestfriend (ok, one of my bestfriends, baka may magtampo) is here. YEY! But when we started catching... I realized that life is funny. His problems and that of another friend by far outweigh mine. It made me realize that I am quite lucky. We realized that life has gotten harder. Most of us are not where we expected ourselves to be. We have not lived up to what people expect of us, to what we expect from ourselves. Life is hard. We all have challenges to face, struggles to go through. My burden might be not as heavy as theirs, or as many others' in fact but it is a burden. I write this because I realize that life has a funny way of timing things, of working things out. Just when my life is starting to get crazy, fate or coincidence or whatever you call it bring my bestfriend to Davao to make me see that my life isn't that bad after all. It's not easy to see the brighter…
Has Life Been Boring?
People (the few who really read my blog anyway) must be wondering why my blog has been quite inactive. There used to be a time when I would blog two or three times on this personal blog. Now, it's more like two or three times a week. So how has life been? Fortunately, I haven't run out of interesting things to blog about. Unfortunately, I have been running out of time to blog. As a certain wise person once said, "blogging is a slacker's job." And as I have been getting more work, getting involved in more things, I have lost most of my precious time to blog about the more personal/emo stuff. And even as I blog now, I feel guilty because I am not sleeping yet as normal people are supposed to do... and I am supposed to be doing or thinking of other stuff. BOOHOO! Life has been interesting. I have been going to different places (within Davao, that is), meeting new people, getting more jobs and projects, and I will be going to Manila soon for iBlog 4. I will be a speaker there. CHAR NO?! I still have to prepare my presentation, though. Heck! I…