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• WORK: The Best Remedy For A Broken Heart
  Posted on March 13, 2010 12:00AM by Veronica | 5 Comment/s »
  
  
  
  

  
  Crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. Is it the same with depressed people?
  
  One day at work, I went down to buy a cup of coffee at McDonald’s. I was on my way back to the office when a thought popped into my head, and it felt as if someone switched on the light inside my brain. If it was a scene from an American movie, it would be Cher’s “I love Josh” moment by the fountain in the movie Clueless.
  
  I found out that the best remedy for a broken heart is work.
  

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• The "Veronica Lodge Syndrome"
  Posted on March 12, 2010 12:00AM by Veronica | 30 Comment/s »
  
  
  
  

  
  Finally, Sam and I finished putting wallpaper on the glass wall around my room. As the months passed, I started to learn a lot about this whole I-want-to-learn-how-to-be-independent thing or what’s it’s like to live with someone somewhere else. My parents would text me every now and ask how I’ve been doing, what I’ve been eating, is Sam gay, and if I’m wearing clean clothes, because they know I don’t do laundry at home. I haven’t changed, I guess. Three months after leaving home, I’m still stubborn and impossible.
  
  A big chunk of my salary from the agency—my bread and butter—went to my half of the rent for the condo. The next big chunk went to my food and transportation allowance, phone bills, and personal necessities like soap, shampoo, conditioner, creams, lotion, etc. Sometimes, I would go to the grocery and buy some food to stock at the condo. Sam told me I need not do that because his place never ran out of food anyway, and the restaurant’s pantry was just a few blocks away if ever we run out of anything. But my pride got in the way, and I would still buy cereals, oatmeal, cookies, chips, and milk.
  

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• Meet Jai--My Very Bold, Very Loud, And Very Gay New Friend
  Posted on March 8, 2010 12:00AM by Veronica | 30 Comment/s »
  
  
  A whole week passed. Sam bought me another shoe rack. As more weeks passed, mornings with Sam became a routine.
  
  It must be fun to have your own business. You don’t have to wake up early to clock in, and you can stay as late as you want without bothering to clock out. On most days, Sam would sleep in up to 9AM, so I had to cook breakfast for two (which was usually made up of fried eggs, bacon/meatloaf/sausage, and toast). But most of the time, I just gulp down a mug of coffee, grab a bagel, and go without waking him up.
  
  My new job turned out to be challenging. I feel the familiar rush of the new conquest and the foreplay-like build up whenever a copy is approved and sent to production. And every time I see my work up there in billboards/commercials/print ads, I experience a massive intellectual orgasm. Yes, no kidding!
  

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• New Work, New Friends, Same Questions
  Posted on March 7, 2010 12:00AM by Veronica | 19 Comment/s »
  
  
  
  

  
  It was Franco who told me about the opening in this big advertising agency where he worked as a graphic designer. And it was Franco whom I found standing in the spacious lobby and working his PSP to death while waiting for me that Monday morning.
  
  When I met Franco at an event two years ago, I thought he was your average “laking Stateside” Pinoy. Regardless of the simple shirt and jeans get up, he looked like the type of guy who scores baskets during the day and scores with the ladies during the night. Franco and I shared the same penchant for RPGs (Role Playing Games in Play Station) and musicals (Avenue Q), and we soon became friends.
  

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• "Welcome Home, Veronica"
  Posted on March 6, 2010 12:00AM by Veronica | 32 Comment/s »
  
  
  
  

  
  At 9 o’clock in the morning, Sam, with his bushy eyebrows on rebel mode, looked like a child to me. He smelled of sleep and his right cheek bore reddish pillow marks. With his sous-chef holding the reins at the restaurant, Sam was able to linger a little longer with me that Saturday morning.
  
  “What are you doing today?” he asked.
  
  “Shopping,” I said. “I need to pick up a few things at the mall. A shoe rack maybe.”
  
  “I thought you wanted those transparent shoe boxes?”
  
  “Yeah,” I answered. “But just imagine how dangerous it is for me every morning to decide on what shoes to wear.”
  
  “Shoe avalanche,” Sam said with a laugh.
  
  “I know.”
  
  “First things first,” he said. “Bumili ka muna ng wallpaper para matakpan na natin 'yung glass wall.”
  

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