Scenes from my so-called life

Say something brilliant “What’s the square root of 2?” Cathy asks from out of nowhere as we are walking back to her apartment. I answer with a blank stare. “Well? A little help here,” she presses. “You’re not actually, seriously considering that I can possibly answer that question, do you?” I manage to blabber after snapping out of my stupor. “What? It’s a simple question.” “Sure, if I were Einstein. Ask me about useless trivia and I might come up with an answer. But math? Let’s be realistic here.” “Oh, you’re so useless.” “I resent that, but if it would keep me from answering your question, then thank you.” I smile at her. She sticks her tongue at me. “Now you’re just being childish,” I say. She glares at me. “…But cute. Childish, but cute,” I quickly add. “You better know it, mister,” she says pointing an accusing finger at me. I stick my tongue at her. “Oh, you’ve grown a backbone, I see. So that’s how you want to play it,” she says while raisi...

(Here's something I wrote back in 2005. I stumbled across it again while reviewing my friendster blog and thought, "Hey I like what I wrote." Nhinya thought it was nice, too, and to me that says a lot. So I'm reposting it here. Makes me wonder if I should've used all 9 free electives on creative writing subjects to sharpen my skills, so  to speak.) Someone called out my name and I looked up from the book I was browsing. I looked over the bookshelf and I saw her looking back at me. I replaced the book and walked over to the best sellers section, where she stood. I smiled. She smiled. And like we had always done, we suddenly broke into laughter. It had been a while since we last met and besides the corporate get up we wore, nothing much changed. “Wow, you’re wearing heels,” I said. “Office policy. It makes me look tall, doesn’t it?” she grinned. “Yup. Before you only reached up to my chin but now you’re up to my ear. Great improvement.” ...

Stupid MyHeritage.com! I tried four pictures and three out of the four churned out matches with girls. I look 70 percent like a certain Miriam Yeung, 82 percent like Michelle Williams and 72 percent like Tata Young. The only consolation I had was an 80 percent match with Chad Michael Murray. Aaargh! I look like a girl!