Our 36th

It's our 36th month today. E and I didn't really make any eatout plan as we want our pockets to breathe. Oddly, his brother invited us to dinner with his girlfriend. Double date. A first. The relationship they have is not as open as ours so we're kind of glad that they're sort of coming out of their shells, at least to us.

I hope there will be more "bonding" moments like this one. I know it makes E one bit happier to have his brother finally opening up to him...and we're sensing she's going to be the sister-in-law soon :-)

learned by rote ツ

girl meets boy. girl breaks up with boy. girl cries over boy. girl forgets boy. girl meets another boy. everything is then repeated umpteen times without thought. it can be a pretty grim world.

epiphany. that's all we need. and i'd like to think that's what i got. it just feels so right this time.♥

superiority defined by beauty

take a room full of people. if you're attractive, you're greeted with an equal mix of curiousity, civility, and resignation. cusiousity from men, civility by some, and resignation from women.

women loathes other women they see as more attractive than they are. it's something stitched in our genes and cannot be warded off, however one pretends. fault-finding scrutinies will start boiling, some very vocal about it and most keep it to themselves. it has something to do with attractive women getting most number of backtakes, most number of ear-to-ear smiles, getting away with almost everything, and more importantly, being called and recalled beautiful.

if your face is nondescript, you're usually non-existent. "Joy, who?". you are then recalled only by the length of your hair and the purple tight-fitted jeans you wore ten years ago. "ah, kato nga Joy."

so if you are not cute, you might as well be clever. and that's hard to sport.