twenty-something

i was updating myself with the recent wta rankings and i came across martina hingis' player profile. i can still remember her glory days back in when she was 19 and her trick shots beat the crap out of those williams sisters. eventually, women's tennis has been redefined from finesse to power and the likes of serena, venus, amelie, and those look-i've-got-muscles-and-i-look-like-vina-morales players have dominated the scene. as for hingis, well, she's 23 years old and she has retired from playing tennis after excusing herself out of the scene because of "injuries" caused by the adidas shoes she's been endorsing. as for her stats, her career earnings from tennis alone amounts to $18,344,660, with 40 career titles and 5 grand slams under her belt and she's not even the richest and most successful tennis player. i don't know if she's still dating a multi-millionaire golfer and she's most probably somewhere in the carribbean, sipping a martini and thinking of the shire (huh?).

as for me, i'm turning 23 next month and martina hingis is making me miserable. here i am...twenty-something, underpaid, broke, single, and my social life revolves around my work and my virtual boyfriend. and so as i add another year to my so-called life, i decided that i should come up with a yearender because i wasn't able to do one last december. these are the things that happened to me in my 22nd year of wandering into life's cavernous pits...

-had two home address changes - from the beautiful chaos of cubao, ryam and i transferred to the star-studded community of teacher's village where we lived in a big house located 2 houses away from regine velasquez's town house and across parokya ni edgar's apartment. months after we moved to bronx, mandaluyong due to practical reasons where we shared an apartment with maychelle situated in a very interesting neighborhood dominated by uhmmm...the poor. in other words, squatter ito. we plan of moving out in June...probably somewhere in Kapitolyo... :P

-had three drastic career moves- after plagiarizing science articles and editing senseless magazines for diwa, i decided to move on to events for apo duwaling. the job was not that financially rewarding but hell, it was fun. a guy needs to earn money so i had to move on to the call center industry and i suddenly found myself working for e-telecare, delivering a 45 second spiel for the telemarketing of a crappy website. the call center industry is such a trap but i have to do something that allows me to think so i transferred to convergys where they programmed me to be an almost-some-kinda-sorta-medyo-semi-techie. now i am thinking of quitting my job and do something more productive like going to Somalia and single-handedly deworm the orphans there, or be a part of the management committee of the Gay Olympics in Australia, or hacking the Yahoo! site and send fraudulent emails to its members, or be May Chelle's personal alalay (for she is going to be a star...soon!).

-became single again...4 months and counting!- after three short years, ryam finally called it quits. he said he still loved me but he doesn't love the same love that he felt for me before. first time after three years that i spent christmas and new year's with my friends, and spent valentine's at work with the boy that i am seeing. i also went back to the places that i used to visit before ryam came to my life most particularly malate. and spent more time with maychelle and together we visited millennia, cityjam and tapika, starbucks, cafe breton and had honeymoon conversations over coffee and beer. had wanton sex with random guys, felt uncomfortably empty. got dumped by someone when i haven't been doing any moves yet but hell... i am still seeing that someone. i don't know what destiny has in store for me. who knows if i'm going to be single till i turn 24. i'm getting used to it...better to be alone than to spend time with someone who takes you for a doormat.

-discovered friendster and accumulated 200 friends...and counting!- establishing my online presence became an unofficial part of my job as a support analyst. geez, crazy!

-reunited with my family- got to tell my mom that i am queer and i just had a major break up. she was fine with it and dealt with me as an adult. it was nice though i don't know how my dad reacted to it. i am looking forward to seeing them again soon.

time seems to fly so fast. well, as of now, can't think of anything spectacular that i had this year. there are 30 days more and maybe more things will happen...maybe a breakthrough in my job, or if "the ONE" will come into my life. now, excuse me while i find ways of being at par with martina hingis.