I Need Near Friends

Working for a French company gives me a huge amount of brooding time. My shift starts at twelve noon and ends at nine in the evening, which means , I can catch up with late night parties and still get a good dose of sleep before another day starts.

But that is not my case.

Although I have a flexible, almost always abused work  schedule, the parties aren't exactly trailing behind. You see, I am one geographically isolated queer guy. All my good, close, and best friends are -- in an estimate -- two hours drive away from where I am, traffic thrown.  They are all cramped up in the busy high-rise buildings of Makati, while I am lazily lagging, eyes droopy, in this quaint city of South Manila. They breathe parties while I breathe air with the smell of chicken dung.

So it is safe to say that my social life is as doomed as Chuck Bass in Gossip Girl's Princesses and the Frog episode.

Now if you are from the south, help me. I need a new near friend.

Sweet Innuendo

I can feel the throbbing sensation exciting me. A slight touch, and I squirm. I don't know how to keep myself from ever touching you again, because to me, it feels like you're calling, wanting, deliberately pleading for my warm finger tips.

As I look around to check for prying eyes, I slowly caressed you in front of the mirror. I see you're swollen red now and I couldn't be more excited. But I worry that maybe If I get too aggressive, I might induce an overflow of gooey liquid. So I whimper in soft moans, slowly massaging the sides of what appears like an enormous mass of circumferential entity.

Oh my dear swollen, bumpy zit, when will you be ripe enough for a harvest?

The Partner

It's all about meeting people.

You will never ever find the one for you if you stay locked in your room, read books about love and do a movie marathon of rom-com movies from the 90's. Forget about Tom Hanks or Jerry Maguire.You need an actual person. A living, breathing mass of carbon atom who will attend to your needs. Free yourself and be visible. The world is a marketplace of people who are longing for the same thing as you. If you stay underneath your make-believe world where you just wait until the perfect guy comes , nothing will happen. You will just be trapped in your own web of imagination and end up frustrated.

I say you go out. Create an account in dating sites. Go on blind dates. Heck, talk to the guy right beside you. In this time when personal space is almost paper thin - break it. Only when you let yourself open will you find someone who'll do the same.

Yam's view in finding love

The Author

I abhor people posting "LOVE:WANTED" kind of status messages on Facebook. It seems like their day would not be complete without them shouting into the world just how desperate they are for love and attention. While I understand that love is an important feeling to give - and to have, it never occurred to me that revealing your lack will result to acquiring one.


But I am also not a radically passive person  who throws everything into fate and chance. I believe that if you want love (or a lover), you need to act your part. You need to toil before you harvest. And most importantly, you need to be seen in the proper demograph. But saying it out loud in Facebook is just a tasteless way of finding it and also downright pathetic.


On that last note, I blocked those people in my feed. I feel sorry but I just had to.

Ton's view on finding love