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Monday, August 05, 2002

THE MINI ME

Last Satrurday, while drinking with friends at Hutu's Hut, we saw Disney's, "The Kid" playing on the TV set. And so i asked everyone:

If your 8-year-old self was standing in front of you right now and you would only be given 5 minutes to talk to him, what would you tell him?

We all thought about our lives back when we were 8 and realized that the real turning point in our lives happened when were 12. It was the time when we had to deal with peer pressure and being "cool" and all those pre-adolescence mumbo jumbo. So instead, we thought about what we would tell our 12-year-old self.

One of my friends said he wouldn't allow some guy to bully him and call him and his friends names, the other said he would prohibit him from eating too much. When it was my turn to spill, i said, I would tell mini Bunny to be brave and to not let the norms of society dictate what she should or should not do. My friends thought that was vague and that i had to say something specific. Something that only Bunny would know. We started talking about something else after that but i really thought about that something specific i would tell my mini self.

I spent more than half of my school years in an exclusive school for girls that was known for making tusok tusok the fishballs. Admittedly, there are girls from my school who speak in annoying taglish but the same goes for other schools.

While job hunting after college, i came upon an ad in the paper looking for project managers for the Pasig River Rehabilitation Project. I was soooo interested to apply. So i went to Malacanang and headed to the office in charge of this project to submit my resume...

Gov. worker: *looks at my resume* Oh, you live in Merville? I live there too!
Me: really? where there?
and she tells me that she lives in one of the small villages inside the subdivision. Then, she looks through my resume some more...
Gov. worker: Wow! Full blooded assumptionista ka pala....eh anong ginagawa mo dito?
Me: *fake smile* I'm interested in the position, po.

I was soooo stunned, that was all i could say. So there. If my 12-year-old self was in front of me right now, I'd warn her about this discriminating government worker and I'd tell her to answer back and stand up for herself.

Bunny @ Monday, August 05, 2002

about moi

Loves the beach, wishes she had more time and money to travel, recently got hooked to climbing mountains, reads anything she can get her hands on, frustrated writer, adores her 3-year-old Lhasa Apso, Tashi, constantly needs caffeine, ~~wonders when she'll quit smoking~~, and will most likely die due to liver complications from drinking too much ~~(if the cigarettes doesn't get to her lungs first)~~. Can't live without accessories especially big, dangling earrings, shoe freak (aren't we all?), sucker for discovering hole-in-the-wall restaurants, will ingest anything spicy, enjoys giving and receiving massages, addicted to Friends, Sex and the City and CSI, goes gaga over kids, dreams of being alone with Jim Morrison and smoking a joint with Bob Marley. Would love to party with Gwen Stefani, shop with Patricia Field, write poetry with Maya Angelou and have Sting, Nelson Mandela, Mark Twain and Bono over for dinner.

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