coffee breaking news

Kaye is undergoing training to be a barrista at Starbucks. After two weeks, she will eventually be assigned at the Branch at Forbes Park, Near Santuario and the Polo Club.

God! in two weeks, she's a barrista, while I, on the other hand, took four years just to be one! hehehe. c", )

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On the more ethereal side of things, I've been meditating on the value of friendship, and the definition of the word 'BESTFRIEND'. It conjures up scenes from movies, I know. However, being such a subjective and relative term, incapable of an exact and objective definition... let me defined the word in my own little way.

Bestfriend is Joyce. Having a girl bestfriend is wonderful, knowing that someone out there can put a little feminine perspective over things. They say that nothing's platonic between a man and a woman. Not so many know about our history, but it was a romantic tragicomedy, if not a complete satire. I loved this girl so much, but i realized that the whole situation was completely out of place, like some plot in the defunct TV show TGIS... but now, it ain't Eros, just plain platonic. I no longer envision me taking her hand after she walked down the isle, neither do I see myself having children with her, or that sort of stuff. Someone whom you can say "I Love You", kiss and hug, without being 'fired-up.'

Bestfriend is JL. A bestfriend is someone whom you can trust with all your darkest secrets. Someone whom you can be irreverent with anytime. Someone whom you're comfortable with even if you look like trash, unshaved, unbathed. Someone who'd lend you clothes when you visit them unsuspectingly. Someone whose fridge you can open anytime without asking for permission, someone who'd give most of your whims and caprices. Someone whom you're willing to invite to your home anytime of the day or night, in times of neccessity or fancy. Someone who can be crazy as hell like you. Someone whose humbled enough to admit he's rich and owns a lot of things, but at the same time humble enough to admit business reversals and the economic and social downside of things. Someone who shares with you dreams of fulfillment and contentment.

Bestfriend is JV. Someone whom you consider an arrogant enemy. Someone whom you stood up with during recitations and oppose with all your intellectual might. Someone who, despite the immense popularity, could acknowledge another great person. Someone who is a former rival, now a staunch ally in the profession. Someone who'd be willing to lend you a favor from the Favor Bank when either one of you would rise to power in the future. Someone who is ostentatiously mayabang, and infects you with that virus, after overcoming the disease previously. Someone whose worth the loyalty in this line of profession.

These are my bestfriends now. The modalitites of time, place and circumstance may change things. However, these only serve to change 'things' not the 'persons'.