Ewwwwww

I found this saved in my phone, written sometime ago at 12:52 am. I won't explain any further. (Funny what late nights and too much green tea in my system can do.)


On some random days, I hope for you to come. Not religiously, just a thought of course. Yes, you cross my mind.

I have a vague idea of you. Maybe you're tall, bilingual, bespectacled because I had imagined you're the library type. I know you'll buy me Chocolat & Spice muffins and iced milk tea with pearls. We'll go backpack hunting in Shaw Towers, you'll send me off at Changi Airport, take me cycling to Pasir Ris Park or simply be there with me during my frequent trips to Chinatown. I know you'll wonder why I would choose bus rides over Singapore's efficient MRT system. You would tell me off as I drink too much coffee and too much green tea and you would prevent me from eating too much fries because it's oily. I hope you'll accompany me on long bus rides to Sagada and wait for me for dinners because I'll probably be late at times when I need to sign off magazines. I'm easy to please, really, just don't ask me to eat durian and we'll be fine. I hope you'll understand that I still like Amazing Race and Survivor and American Idol after all these years. And even though I have a huge crush on Henry Golding, please don't be insecure.

I hope you are waiting for me, too. I don't know what your expectations are, I may not meet them. I may surpass them at some point, but I'll just be me. No pretensions, no living up to the standards set by your ex-girlfriend/s or the ideal you have in your head. We'll argue about my erratic work schedules, travel itineraries, correct pronunciation of words, geography-related details, NBA championship trivias and other frivolous stuff. I will be a brat at times, you'll value sports and drinks over me at some point but that's fine. You'll drag me to football stadiums, I'll ask you to come with me to F21 and no matter how we hate these things we'll do it. For each other.

I don't know where you are right now. Maybe we've met, maybe we'll cross paths in the future. I may be in Singapore or probably travelling. You may be in your hometown, or also travelling. We can go around the world but in the grand scheme of things and with the help of six degrees of separation, we'll end up with each other. And this is the most important.

I hope to meet you soon.

The Nerd and World Domination

I know I'm meant for the corporate world when a friend told me that she feels she can conquer the world when she wears sports attire and I feel the same way when I wear a dress and pumps during editorial/copywriting meetings or brainstorming sessions in the boardroom.

Fine, I'm a corporate being. But I already stopped being a slave.
Journalism welcomed me back with open arms, lots of deadlines and bylines.

Awesome 2011 indeed.