Ludwig consumed ten pesos of my precious prepaid load yesterday [until this morning, actually] inquiring about Puerto Galera. It was my fault, though coz I couldn't help but reply. It seemed to me he thought I were a travel agent for White Beach [which I might as well be considering my knowledge of the ins and outs in the area]. He was going to go with his beloved WEG.

How sweet is that. I wonder, though, why he acts as if he knows nothing when in fact, I discovered some of those ins and outs through him. He goes straight to White Beach everytime after going down Mt. Halcon. Check out the photo of his henna tattoo in Gekko's Tribe should you go to White Beach.

I remember. It was a Friday night and my first time to go to 65B by myself to meet Sisses Len and Cha and Nadette and Cecil. I sat at the side of my office building while talking to him on the phone.

He was sprawled on the beach getting a massage. Awww. He was thinking of me.

When I arrived at 65B, Sis Len told me Ludwig had officially assigned her to babysit me the whole night. Awww. He was still thinking of me.

A few hours through the night, he called again to tell me he was a bit tipsy and he was gonna call it a night while his co-mountaineers flirted with the girls. I coaxed him into flirting with the girls himself but he said he's not that kind of guy. Awww. He always had me on his mind.

This weekend, he's in Galera with WEG. Only the two of them. Ewww. So this is love.

Anyhow, Gwen Stefani couldn't have written a song more apt for us.

And after all the obstacles
It's [not] good to see you now with someone else
And it's such a miracle that you and me are still good friends
After all that we've been through
I know we're cool

It's funny, though, when you have someone on a pedestal and you thought he would always have that special status power [over you]. But then, he ends up with someone you deem is not good enough and you are astonished to realize that the special power has a worthy partner as a prerequisite; otherwise, when the girl in tow fails to impress, the pedestal shrinks and you can't help but snicker at the pathetic status he subjected himself to be in.

You have always been better off as friends. You have always been better off as "buddies".

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*.* as if! @ 2:59:00 PM • • RBJ