05 February 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Engagement Post-mortem: Lessons

Two weeks ago, if you haven’t heard already, I got engaged to my long-time best friend and girlfriend for almost two years, Maffy. What I can tell you right now is the euphoria one feels right after one gets engaged gets washed away just as quickly with the stress and pressures of wedding talks and [...]

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30 January 2009 ~ 26 Comments

Engagement: A tale set in Manila and Liberia. Also Diamonds.

If I were to write about engagements around 4 years ago, I would’ve probably written it with my friend Kenneth’s engagement in mind.
Kenneth was one of my best friends in college who proposed to his girlfriend about the time we were about to graduate from business school. Although Kenneth was one of my closest friends, [...]

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23 January 2009 ~ 11 Comments

Ugh! Kids nowadays!

Last week, I along with a couple of friends from the office went to this bar in the Ortigas Home Depot complex to de-stress and pop a few bottles. I’m not going to regale you with a colorful account of how we got a good buzz going, exchanged lame jokes about midgets and threw 80’s [...]

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15 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Taking Creepiness to a whole new level (aka a morning in the life of Mike Villar: Rising Internet Star)

Step One : Develop a borderline obsessive crush on a girl you absolutely have no shot of ever interacting with let alone, on a romantic level. You know? One of those “I shift uneasily on my seat whenever I see her on TV and sometimes my body even goes  to the extent of manifesting this [...]

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29 June 2008 ~ 9 Comments

Stupid Flowers

Something I realized lately was I’m probably sending a lot of flower shop proprietors’ kids through college with the business I’m bringing them.
It’s not that I don’t give flowers to girls I’ve had relationships with in the past but lately, and this is probably because I’ve been screwing up a lot and giving my girlfriend [...]

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