Daily Archives: January 1, 2008

Square Dance

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   My good friend Thea posted a comment in my Friendster account asking if I was the one she saw at Nevada Square.  I also happened to see Abel, and perhaps the whole of UP Baguio’s Debate Society and some members of the University Student Council.  It sort of begs the question: what in the heck was I doing at Nevada Square?

   Anyone who has been in Baguio lately would know that Nevada is the destination for drunken debauchery.  While I am known for consuming copious amounts of alcohol, I don’t do my drinking in nightclubs.  “House music” strikes me as porno music, and I don’t take too lightly to glowing balls (so to speak).  Besides, I’d rather sit down with drunken men in a sari-sari store than to squeeze myself (so to speak) at La Cuna.

   My good friend Ian also sort of “caught” me there, and asked if I was a regular there.  A regular?  Do I go to the University of Nevada earning my Bachelor’s Degree in Alcohology?  Nope: for one, I find their prices atrocious, and the blue-ness of Bedroom is nauseating.  Looking at scantily-clad clubbers also gets stale after the first few minutes of discreet ogling.

   I’d rather sit down on an easy chair nursing a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, doing my Al Pacino impersonations.

In 2008, I'm Gonna Get Myself A Girlfriend

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   Here comes the pain. 

   I’m only doing this because I suck at making New Year’s Resolutions.  Maybe if I made a New Year’s Resolution public, the responsibility of sticking to it becomes even greater.

   Today is January 1, 2008: I am giving myself exactly 364 days to get a girlfriend.

   I got to thinking that maybe it’s high time I got myself involved again in the ways of love.  After three years of singlehood and living two years of my life in varying degrees of heartache, I think I’m prepared to tackle the joys and responsibilities of being committed to someone I love.

   Maybe I am being hasty, but let’s face it: I’m 22 freaking years old and my last serious relationship lasted three freaking months.  Maybe I wasn’t prepared to handle emotional rollercoasters at 19 going on 20, but after a few years of finding my center, I think I’m prepared to handle a relationship no matter how much it gets fucked up.

   Of course, there are a few hurdles to getting a girlfriend in 364 days: for all I know, I may be gay.  For two, if in 364 days I would finally get to have sex, I would realize that it really isn’t instinctive (I may get my John Thomas in the wrong hole that’s not found in the immediate location of the female pelvis).  For three, a 364-day deadline won’t work, and I’ll be back here again, making yet another New Year’s Romantic Resolution in 2009.

   I’m not pressuring myself, but something tells me I will need romantic companionship this year.

The 2008 Showbiz Prophecies

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   It’s the New Year.  Bring it, 2008.

   A year ago, we visited a faith healer in a remote hill at Pozzorrubio, Pangasinan, to find some cure for my psychosis.  I have nothing against faith healing in general, but I don’t buy into it.  But outside of his trick of balancing an egg to a 25-centavo coin, he thinks that I’m actually clairvoyant.  It’s not that I hold the secret to Armageddon, but he thinks that I have the power to predict the near future.

   There are too many things that will obviously happen in 2008, but I am going out on a limb with a few prophecies of showbiz events that will happen this year.

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   The libel suit filed by GMA-7 against ABS-CBN will be quashed.

   The ongoing feud between Joey de Leon and Willie Revillame will reach new lows this year: Joey will once again refer to a new YouTube video exposing scams in the newly-relaunched “Pera o Bayong,” and Willie will refer to a new YouTube video exposing scams in “On the Spot Jackpot” where answers are written on the question cards.

   New emerging faces in showbiz would be Aiko of the ASF Dancers, and Chloe of 26K: the former would be 2008′s Diana Zubiri, and the latter would be the Vanna White of the Filipino version of “Wheel of Fortune.”  Rhian Ramos would move to ABS-CBN, but the biggest “ober da bakod” of the year would be Judy Ann Santos or Kristine Hermosa moving to GMA-7.

   Marian Rivera would be the leading lady of Richard Gutierrez.  Speaking of Gutierrezes, Ruffa and Yilmaz will be back together in the latter half of 2008, with Annabelle Rama finally giving in.  White Castle will be endorsed in calendars by Anne Curtis.  Lolit Solis would be convicted of libel, and Alfie Lorenzo will replace her in “StarTalk.”

   In an unprecedented move, the biggest local movie project for this year would be the comeback of Gabby Concepcion, starring in a family drama with his former wife Sharon Cuneta and his daughter KC Concepcion.

   Although I could be wrong…