Conversations with Friends: Eye Check

Juven: Dili na daw kaklaro si Paul anang Exit sign.
Me (to Paul): Nagpacheck ka sa imong mata pag APE?
Paul: Oo. Stigmata daw.

Overheard: Shape

Rhea: Kanang square na rectangle...

Conversations with Friends: Movie Night 2

Jopay: Gabii ang movie? Di ta kita ana...
Me: Ngano man? Buta ka?

Conversations with Friends: Movie Night

Ric: Movie Night pud daw ta inig August 2.
Roseby: Feeling nako di na mahalin ang movie night.
Ley: Parehas mi ni movie night...

Conversations with Friends: Mingaw

After Marvin Fornis dropped off his car at my house...

Me: Do you have to go to J Mall na?

Marvin: Stay sa ko 30 minutes. Mag reminisce sa ko. Mingaw na ko sa inyong stove. Sa inyong sink...

(Marv, kung ni ingon pa lang ka in advance, gibinlan unta nako ka ug daghan hugasan para ma feel gyud nimo imong pag reminisce. But seriously, we had such good times. And now adulting took us all to different paths—read: everyone got married and had kids, except me. But I am glad that through the years, despite our busy lives, the bonds of friendship weren't severed. You are one of my closest guy friends and I am grateful for our friendship.)

Commentator

After the results of the Pacman–Thurman fight was announced...
Commentator: All I can say is thank God for the two judges who got it right. There's no way that this was a split decision. The judge who voted in favor of Thurman should not be allowed to judge professional boxing ever again.

From the Mouth of a Nine-Year-Old: Shorts

Pacman–Thurman fight
Fin: Is he (Thurman) even wearing shorts underneath that?!

From the Mouth of a Nine-Year-Old: Doctor

Doc Marvin was given the task of cutting the puso...
Fin: Uy! You're doing surgery on a puso!

Conversations with Friends: Choppy Part 2

Anne: When man imo first kiss?
Paul: 17... aw, 16....
Me: 2016?

Conversations with Friends: Choppy Part 1

Paul: Five minutes.
Glossil: Wow, big words, feminist.

Conversations with Friends: Available for Testing

Ric: Please confirm if available mo for testing karon...
Me: Available ko since 2013.

Conversations with Friends: Wholesome

Adie: Ric, wholesome ba mo nga grupo? O moinom sad mo?
Ric: Uh...both man guro. Wholesome pero moinom pud...?
Glossil: Wholesome man pud guro ta...
April (to Glossil): Ikaw man jud ang pinakapalainom sa ato!

Conversations with Friends: Pay Up

Juven: You own me 100 pesos.
Ley: I don't own you.

Conversations with Friends: Single

While walking around IT Park, I spot BDO and YO...
Me: Hello, Lovebirds!
Bryan: Hello, Single! Asa ka?
Me: Walk around IT Park.
Bryan: Is that the life of a single? Forever? Forever alone?
Yany: Di man na sya forever alone.
Bryan: Ugma naa na na syay kuyog.
Me: Me, myself, and I.

From the Mouth of a Nine-Year-Old: Fashion Critic

Going out for dinner...
Yuan: Tita Khonie, why are you wearing that (longsleeves, cardigan, skirt)?
Me: Why?
Yuan: Like you're going to work.

(Naa koy fashion critic.)

From the Mouth of a Nine-Year-Old: Japan

Fin: Mommy, can I go to Japan with Tita Khonie?
Mommy Kitchie: What about school?
Fin: Oh. I forgot about that.

From the Mouth of a Nine-Year-Old: Believe

Daddy Erick: Yuan, what time did you sleep last night?
Yuan: 1am.
Daddy Erick: I don’t believe you.
Yuan: I believe in myself.

Conversations with Friends: Reassurance

Christian Trazo offered some snacks...
Me: Thanks, but di lang, mosamot ko’g katambok.
Christian: Ok ra nang tambok kay naa pay chance moniwang. Ang putot wa nay chance motubo.

(Salamat for giving me hope even if ikaw wa nay hope haha)

Conversations with Friends: Crazy Rich Asians

While talking about buying/renting a house in Cebu...
Yohei: Oh, my friends (Yohei Koyama and Sasagu) are rich. Crazy rich Asians. I'm not like them. I'm not rich.
Me: You're just crazy.

From the Mouths of Nine-Year-Olds: BFF?

Yuan: Fin, are we best friends?
Fin (in an exasperated tone): Yuaaaannn, we’re cousins!

From the Mouths of Nine-Year-Olds: Snow World

Yuan: Fin, have you been to Snow World? It’s so cold there.
Fin: Yes. It’s so bati. The ice is not ground up properly, there’s ice cubes everywhere.

From the Mouth of a Nine-Year-Old: Curfew

Fin (to mommy): You pick me up 4 hours from now.
Mommy Kitchie: Haaaaa!!!
Tito Erick: It's already 9pm...
Fin (to mommy): Ok, sorry, sorry, 3 hours from now. 12 midnight.

(Wow ha, when we were in highschool 6pm among curfew; and in college, 12 midnight. Fin, you’re barely 10 and ikaw pa nagset sa imong curfew. 😅)