Always in pursuit of something, that’s my state of mind.

I think that’s what I miss most in Manila. As much as I have loads of friends and relatives that may keep me company at any given time. In Manila, I can be just one of them faces that fade in the background. Nobody can really know what you’re doing unless you tell them.

In Boracay, everybody knows everybody else’s business!!! GRRRRRRR!!! Even at your most private moments. OHHH sooohhhh hate it!

I had the sheer misfortune of finding this out the hard way. SUCKS!

1. You bump into people in weird places.
2. I’m neighbors with a white officemate who hardly smiles.
3. The caring Nanay who owns the carenderia always knows my mood for the day.
4. You never know who knows what you’ve done. People I hardly know, people I JUST met are knowledgeable of my previous liaison(s).
5. I was having a terrible day yesterday. And as usual I made Raz call me but the phone I was using would turn off so often that I had to borrow a phone and stay stuck by the outlet of this small crepe place. For some reason, someone saw me upset, and by that afternoon, a friend of mine already told me that I’ve been upset that morning.
6. You find out about other people’s business without even asking.
7. Every single Filipina who has married a white guy thinks you’re the enemy.
8. You’d think that since it’s an island populated by westerners, people would be more liberated and wouldn’t care less about other’s going ons but NO, that’s bull crap.
9. Faking emotions and keeping things hush-hush is common practice. 
10. The end all and be all, you have to be more careful with living your life.

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