Photos taken with my phone at last year’s Art in the Park. In the summer, frizzling hot.
Art in the Park, the annual affordable art fair of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Saturday, 19 February 2011 2-10 pm at the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati. Featuring 40 galleries, artist groups and creative collectives; all artworks going for under P20,000. With pizza, yogurt, cake, sandwiches, wine booths.
Apropos of Auntie Janey’s agony column, here are 10 Pairs of Underwear That Will Destroy Your Sex Life, on Flavorpill.
Dear Auntie Janey,
What’s the best way to deal with other people’s breakups?
I ask this because I’m the kind of person who tends to be friends with the couple, especially when I’ve known both of them as friends since the very beginning of their courtship—and especially when the relationship becomes something close to long-term. In any case, I’m always the “supportive” friend who lets them vent while I listen to their problems…but even I get the urge sometimes to slap everyone involved and tell them that they should never have let all of this go too far in the first place.
The worst part of it all is when I find out too late that the relationship has actually turned emotionally abusive…and that the person who has been confiding to me all along was, in fact, the real abuser in the relationship. (And the only thing worse than that is watching the couple put up a front to make it look like it’s all cordial between them, even though the truth about their relationship has become the proverbial elephant in the room.)
Am I a doormat for not intervening during these breakups? Or should I gauge my level of support on a case-by-case basis?
Boggled,
stellalehua
Dear stellalehua,
Everyone has a friend who is romantically involved. We suppress our shrieks and giggles at the coffee shop (or laugh out loud at the bar) as we are regaled with stories on how their date went or how a partner has done something very romantic. It’s fun! And it’s even more fun if details about sex are shared. When we see the partner in person, we cannot help but think dirty thoughts. It is inevitable that our involved friend sometimes complains about the partner: how one seems never to understand the other, how the other is so thoughtless and dense, how the other never shows enough affection, and so on.
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Jaime Urquijo Zobel of the Philippine national men’s rugby team, and TV star James Van Der Beek, who was Dawson on Dawson’s Creek.
When I think about it, we can actually do face-mathics with James and Jaime and another Dawson’s Creek alum, Joshua Jackson a.k.a. Pacey. James + Joshua = Jaime.
Please don’t ban me from the Ayala Malls. I love Greenbelt sooo much!!!
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Reaction from Jaime: “Hahahahaha! Brilliant! One of my colleagues at the office used to say this the whole time!”
Brewhuh’s love affair with Greenbelt mall continues.
Disambiguation: Jaime Urquijo Zobel is the grandson of Don Jaime Zobel, the nephew of Jaime Augusto Zobel, and the cousin of Jaime Alfonso Zobel. Clearer? How about this: in French, J’aime is ‘I love’.
Today is the birthday of Michael Robrigado Letts, captain of our A5N Division 2 champion Philippine rugby team, eldest of The Fabulous Lettsies, and possessor of the exaggerated superhero jawline. Happy Birthday Kuya Michael!
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