Hi, I was XXXX

It's funny how memories are woven in our brains. And how memory recollection happens.

Yesterday, after being guilty of eating yang chow fried rice with fried egg for lunch (imagine all the oil I consumed), I decided to eat salad for dinner. I got all the greens and the dressing from the refrigerator. I couldn't remember when I bought that dressing, and what type of dressing was it in the first place.

It was labeled 'Coleslaw' though all this time I thought it was Caesar salad dressing or something like that. It was too pale to be Thousand Island, I'm sure.

Then I suddenly tried to recall who told me that this particular hotel has good Caesar salad. I remember it was Richard and Ian, former colleagues in Manila. Then I recalled if ever I have tasted that salad in that particular hotel and I had remembered that I did.

But when?

Oh yeah, that particular day when I was the subject of a photographer's hate blog entry.

Whew. Yeah, that's how our brain works, right? Tracing a thread of memories which was induced by simple salad dressing. Amazing.

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I don't want to go through all the details of that hate blog. But I remember that the photographer did not put my name. He just said that XXXX from blah blah magazine sent him an SMS asking if he would be willing to "shoot for us for free" (Hernandez, 2009).

Someone even commented something like this:

I think it is better to put their names here para mahiya naman sila at hindi na umulit.

That person who put that comment was not brave enough to stand by that statement as he remains 'Anonymous'.

To Anonymous, I am Nelly and I was XXXX. Fortunately, I am no longer affiliated with that magazine. Of course, I would not be sending pathetic SMS like that anymore.





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I think this is becoming a trend. I started off with one topic then the whole entry becomes a mishmash of what my memory recalls. Funny how my brain works.

Next time, I will commit to just one topic and I'm planning to do a review of Kimerald's Paano Na Kaya? next week (I am so LOL right now).I am following Donj's sugestion of reviewing Pinoy mainstream films. For now, Star Cinema's new releases muna.

Bakit ayaw nyo maniwala?! Seryoso, abangan nyo yan.