IT'S YOUR SMILE

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SMILE AND THE WHOLE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU! ;D

JUNE PRIDE

My favorite Fabcasters, McVie and Gibbs Cadiz with their other fabulous friends have been talking about "coming out" in their recent podcasts. It is an interesting and enlightening topic that hits me straight to my apdo and balun-balunan..

choz..;D

Being 'semi-out' (if there's such a word ;D), is living a double life. A co-worker, who happens to be a close friend, recently told me that one of my students last year asked her if I was gay, she answered the question with a story of me and his brother sharing the same girlfriend (which was true by the way ;D). The student was left dumb mouthed, but I told my friend that if ever the nosy student asks her again about my gender, she should tell me, so I could answer her myself:

Me:  Neng, tinatanong mo kung bakla nga ba ako? Ang sagot e isang malaking OO at excuse me mas makinis ang balat ko sa balat mo at di hamak na mas maganda ako sa iyo!

Tarush! choz lang..wishful thinking baga..hihihi ;D

But kidding aside, I would like to share this video as my contribution to Pride Month entitled: Reteaching Gender and Sexuality

Taas noong Iwina-wagayway ang Rainbow Flag!

Rampa na mga 'teh!!

PARE

For the longest time.....YOU are the only friends I knew since I went out of the seminary and started my life like the rest of mankind.


For the longest time.... I thought YOU know who or what the real "me", because I never hid it from YOU.



For the longest time.... YOU were my drinking buddies and shared the same glass in every 'tagayan' sessions we have.


For the longest time... We shared laughters, tears, stories, life stories, fears, joys, gossips, opinions, and what-nots because our relationship is not only built on friendship but of blood and faith.


For the longest time... I thought YOU have accepted homosexuals openly because you are not part of the society that condemns and ridicule people like us.

Until that night when we gathered once again to bid a good friend goodbye on his way back to work abroad.



For the first time...I heard homophobic jokes from YOU.


For the first time... I felt like a sinner in front of a condemning mob.


For the first time...I realized that you don't even know the meaning of 'homophobic' because when I told one of you that I never thought that you are one, you answered back: Sino yun?(Who's that?)


For the first time...I realized how dumb I am not to see that your gay jokes were really offensive and hurtful.



For the first time...I felt that I was not with the family I knew and loved.



For the first time...I realized the wisdom behind our group's break up and went on separate ways.

For the first time...It became clear to me who my real friends are and who are not.

BIG LOSER 2

While attending the Pondo ng Pinoy celebration, the boss of my boss commented in front of the other CL teachers:

Big Boss: Uy Prime, buti pinayagan kang lumabas..

Me: (naive that I was, asked) Pinalabas po saan sir?

Big Boss: Sa Biggest Loser!

Everybody: (in chorus) HAHAHAHAHA!

I heard it again, those dreaded words that I don't want to hear, with laughter on the side pa. 

Well I laughed with them, even if the joke was at my expense and that is after shedding a few pounds already (actually a lot of people are noticing it, finally).

After the affair and before heading home, we passed by MOA to have our dinner. I was not hungry so I went somewhere else. I went straight at the NIKE store and bought my first running shoes. My best friend and I have talked about this and I think it's just the right timing.

the Nike LunarGlide+

I know not sure my fashion guru, Madame Mel Beckham, would agree with it's color but that's the only thing they have in my size. It's quite pricey if you ask me, for a person living by a teacher's salary, but what the heck, if this will stop all those Biggest Loser comments, I'll do or pay anything at this point.

But I'll be doing this not because of the pesky hecklers, but for me, myself, and I.




Besides, the salesman who attended to my needs was cute, and looks like him

yes, really like him and repeatedly asked me

Cute Sales Man: Sir san nyo nalaman itong brand na 'to?

Me: (kolehiyala efek) sha internet..

Cute Sales Man: Ok na brand yan sir..

Me: Oo nga daw ih..

While slipping the shoes on my feet ala Cinderella

Cute Sales Man: Sir san nyo po nalaman itong brand na 'to?

Me: Kuya, unli ka? paulit-ulit..(kolehiyala efek uli) sha internet nga ih..

then I paid the amount at the cashier and went out the store. I really want to take a picture of him, (para hindi nyo isipin na nagiilusyon lang akitch) but my being a probinsyana/conservative persona got a hold of me.

haaayyysssttt..Descreet kasi. Paminta kasi. Putek. Sinungaleng na Palaka!

But Papa Boylet Cute sales man inspired me more to lose the fat, and be the Biggest Loser that the pesky hecklers want me to be, and when I'm buff enough, I'll go back to that store not to buy a new fair of running shoes, 

but to steal Cute Sales Man's heart...

Choz! ;D