Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe

Well enough about the past Dear Kids.

They say the best way to forget about someone is to have someone new. So after mopping and getting wasted, Mommy decided that it's best to enjoy single life and start dating again. I'm what they call a serial monogamist - always in a relationship and won't be single for a long time.

My oh my and what a ride it was! This is a secret between you and me and whoever is reading this that I've was shocked to see how extreme the dating world is after being in a relationship for a long time.


Let's get the ball rolling -

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I thought he was a catch. Good educational background, financially stable family plus he's cute. Such a sucker for chinitos that when he asked me out, I gamely said yes even if he took time to actually materializing the date. It was bright and sunny Sunday and he was supposed to pick me up 1pm. Being the typical Virgo, I was ready by 12:45pm and was excitedly waiting for him. 1:00pm.. 1:30pm.. 2:00pm.. Still no date, said he will be late. 2:30pm.. 3:00pm.. 3:15pm.. finally he arrives. Damn, he's later than a typical girl! I was thisclose in canceling the date. 2 freaking hours late!

So we went to this mall in Makati and watched a movie. I wanted this action packed movie but he wanted to watch a soppy romantic movie. He wanted to make the date memorable by watching a Nicholas Sparks movie that bored me to death.

But kids, that's just the tip of the ice berg.

After the movie, he apparently has set up a dinner with his parents. Yes, his mom and dad. Meet the parents on a first date. OMG. I felt like I was being screened if I was a potential wife for their son. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Me screening him if he's a potential boyfriend and later on your grand mama screening if he's a potential husband?

Nevertheless, I charmed his parents and later on his mom was calling me on my phone. But I wasn't charmed to say the least.

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This dude was an old officemate, a yosi buddy (yes, Mommy had a dark side and no, you shouldn't be following my footsteps) when I was depressed and heartbroken. He wasn't my type at all - he's mahangin, short, dark, thick full lips, with a big beer belly and well mayabang. But he's cool and the only person I can relate much with in that god awful company.

After a mass resignation of people in my department, we went out for drinks to celebrate our freedom and to do more office chit chat. And well, Mommy isn't a hard drinker so I was tipsy after a few bottles and my world was spinning by the time he was taking me home.

I guess you know what happened next? Ok, fine.. I'll spill the beans - he kissed me! At first I was like, hmm what's happening? And when his hands starting to explore the nether regions of my body, I suddenly sobered up and got the shock of my life that he was groping me! Damn, that was a good wake up call and he even dare said that he thought we had a "thing".

My god, he's really mayabang. Did I say mahangin as well?

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I was very optimistic about this date, my dear kids. We briefly dated back in college and got along real fine although it was a bad timing for the both of us. We reconnected recently and he's now a hot shot lawyer from a popular firm and I was in a managerial position in the marketing field.

I guess you must know how Mommy has a thing for being on time. A case made him stay up late the previous night so I was a little lenient with him being an hour late. Still, an hour!

Anyway, we had breakfast and caught up with our lives but I can;t get over the fact that his teeth are discolored from too much smoking and he was wearing a tight fit shirt but to say it nicely, he was like a teddy bear. But but but he was still the same sarcastic, fun guy I used to know.

What made it a disaster was he kept on talking about his ex. On and on.. in the car, while ordering, while eating, while he was smoking, on the way home. Non stop.

And I was thinking that this is not going to be fun. Non stop.


... to be continued.