girl, a journey that was.

My big thank you's: I sooo love people who have dearly touched my life like my best friend **ariane** who always manages to make some sense out of my erratic and sometimes out-of-this-world thinking/behavior, how one phone call brings me back to reality when i seem to have been lost in "drama land" once again, trapped and weaved in analytical thoughts, or have i overdosed in self-involvement. the first person i call in whatever ordeal i maybe in at any given time, the kind of friend who listens: my own personal shrink! my admiration she has won time and time again... my preacher, my listener, my coffee buddy, from playing house and barbie dolls to rooftops and trips to batangas, from old songs to childhood dreams, to starbucks to sbc to monk's to merks to every jazz bar in town... the girlfriend i can sing my heart to and get "soul-drunk" in deep thoughts with, my home base: the person who reminds me of who i truly am, where i've been, to where life has taken me now, my heart, mind, and soul doctor! (literally) the one friend i truly cannot live without :) there's my gimmick and booty-shakin' girlfriend **lamae**, my true reminder of how "everyday hangover" was like. wednesday, thursday and friday nights, sausage weeknights, from porch to wherelse to porch to clubv to porch to pravda to porch to ccw.. from sanmig light to kurant, bad burn, boy bastos, from fashion show rehearsals to dreadful go-sees to sneaking out of my dad's condo and late night cabs to 6am ride home, from chinese boys to yuppies to dj's to some we wish we never met ;) the friend whom i spent the turning point of my life with: those endless nights of dancing to our hearts content and freeing ourselves from inhibitions that restricts us to live our young intoxicated lives to the fullest... feeling every heartache, running away from dysfunctional-fam-despair, living like we'll forever be 19 & 21, embracing what's ahead of us with a beer in hand (a kurant7 in mine)... knowing that in time we'll get there (a.k.a the real world).. and look at us now babe, so fab we did! onto the lighter side of things, my girlfriend **drakery** the best shopping buddy! finally i had found somebody who has the same passion and utmost clinical habits for shopping like me, or shall i say maybe even worst and more sinful ;) trips to shang to powerplant to the tiangge has never been quite the same.. i have someone to share guilt with and nevertheless the best second opinion ever. shoe-fitting to rading books, chatting, confiding and giving advices in between, ravishing on mocha fraps before driving home... it's all therapeutic ;) now ending up broke has never felt this good.

how my single life would have been left as nothing but a meaningless series of bad dates and sour-relationship-attempts, if i had not found the love i had long waited for.. my friend, my smoking buddy, my steady, my prince **jp** the one guy who has successfully brought me out of my commitment-phobe (romance proof) shell :) they say, you fear what you don't know.. i knew nothing of love; of falling and letting go, of giving in and of compromise.. it's amazing what friendship and love combined can bring, that not even the sweetest of words or the most endearing of prose can make me describe where i am with him right now.. this journey led me to his arms.. and to my dearest of friends who's all been a part of it, thank you, thank you, thank you! :D