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Carrie Bradshaw : Does everybody know when it’s right? And how would you know? Are there signs? Fireworks? Is it right when it feels comfortable or is comfortable a sign that there aren’t any fireworks? Is hesitation a sign that it’s not right or is it a sign that you’re not ready? In matters of love, how do you know when it’s right?

Maybe our friends are our soulmates and men are just beautiful creatures that we can play and have fun with. Well this is my way of thinking nowadays. I’m bitter about love and I’m just one bad date away from being bitter about dating.  Given these, I decided to just give more priorities to my friends, have an emotional investment and just be with them, anyway, when we’re single we depend on our friends and when we break up with someone, we never will get over it without our friends. So let’s look at the odds realistically, how many guys do we ever hit it off with? very few and even if we do, those relationships don’t last. And even if they did, eventually will still break up or be in an open-relationship and we’re back right where we started. So I’m thinking why not just cut the drama and enjoy each other’s company.

By my fifth piece of Ferrero Rocher, I realized — maybe I wasn’t banking on my friends. I was hiding in them.

Then I met up with my two new friends, had dinner and cocktails after. They are a couple. I saw how sweet they were and glimpsed how their relationship was like. How they treat each other and how they have been together. Only then I realized that maybe there are some things worth gambling on.

After a few minutes I had a thought. To hit jackpot in the future, you might have to bet on where you are in the present.

It’s Christmas and New Year time again. I miss my friends so much, the ones I left behind in the Philippines. Anyway, I was talking to my best friend and he asked me what is my heart song. I was like, what do you mean by a heart song? Then he explained that in the movie Happy Feet, the penguins have a heart song to find their true love or something.

And after some minutes of thinking, I’ve concluded that my heart song is Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here by Deborah Cox. The club mix version by Hex Hector and Mac Quayle is a lot better than the original. This is a very powerful song about someone who had her heart broken and doesn’t want to love at the meantime. So she turned her back on all possibilities of love because she was scared to get hurt again. But suddenly she came to know this person who broke down the wall and made her pull down her guard. I think it’ll be much better if you read on the lyrics. I love this song so much. Here it is:

Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here (Hex Hector & Mac Quayle Club Mix)
Deborah Cox

I’ve spent all my life, on a search to find
The love who’ll stay for eternity
The heaven sent to fulfill my needs
But when I turn around
Again, love has knocked me down
My heart got broken oh, it hurt so bad
I’m sad to say, love wins again

So I placed my heart under lock and key
To take some time, and take care of me
But I turn around and you’re standing here

[Chorus:]
How did you get here?
Nobody’s supposed to be here
I’ve tried that love thing for the last time
My heart says no, no!
Nobody’s supposed to be here
But you came along and changed my mind

This time I swear I’m through
But if only you knew
How many times I’ve said those words
Then fall again, when will I ever learn
Knowing these tears I cry
This lovely black butterfly
Must take a chance, and spread my wings
Love can make you do some crazy things

So I placed my heart under lock and key
To take some time, and take care of me
But I turn around and you’re standing here

No, nobody, no, no, no, no, no, no, ooh!

No, no, no…

I must admit. This year, the movie that I obssess about so far is The Devil Wears Prada (topbilled by Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs and Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton). followed by the amusing She’s The Man (Amanda Bynes as Viola Hastings) Well, my all-time favorite movie is still Cruel Intentions (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon), then followed by: Mean Girls (Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams), Legally Blonde (Reese Witherspoon), So Close (Shu Qi, Zhao Wei, Karen Mok), Never Been Kissed (Drew Barrymore), Clueless (Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy), Jawbreaker (Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart) and the list goes on and on.

Now going back to the Devil wears Prada. The lines were just simply hilarious. I mean I watched it with my girl friend (friend na girl), she sat to my right and I realized na to my left pala was my crush/bootie call. Wala lang. So there. I was like so laughing on most of the scenes espcially the ones with Miranda and Emily. They’re fun and mean. I love it. Just like Mean Girls. So the entire time I was really laughing, some people were just silent. Perhaps they didn’t get the humor or I’m just simply corny.  But nonetheless, the movie is devilishly funny.

Anyway, let me share some lines, which in my opinion are funny, from The Devil Wears Prada: (I have the dvd, so I exerted an effort to pause and type the lines)

Miranda Priestly: I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to confirm an appointment.
Emily Charlton: I know, I’m so sorry, Miranda. I actually did confirm…
Miranda Priestly: The details of your incompetence do not interest me. Tell Simone I’m not going to approve that girl she sent me for the Brazilian layout. I asked for clean, athletic, smiling; she sent me dirty, tired and paunchy. And RSVP yes to Michael Kors’ party, I want the driver to drop me off at 9.30 and pick me up at 9.45 sharp. Then call Natalie at Gloria’s Foods and tell her no, for the 40th time, no, I don’t want dacquoise, I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote. Then call my ex-husband and remind him that the parent/teacher conference at Dalton is tonight. Then call my husband. Ask him to please meet me for dinner at that place I went to with Marsima. Also, tell Richard I saw all the pictures that he sent for that feature on the female paratroopers and they’re all so deeply unattractive. Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here? Not really. Also I need to see all the things that Nigel has pulled for Gwyneth’s second cover. I wonder if she had lost all that weight. Who is that?
Emily Charlton: Nobody. I mean Human Resources sent her off for your assistant job and I was pre-interviewing her for you. But she’s hopeless and…
Miranda Priestly: I know. That’s why I’m gonna have to do that myself because the last two girls you sent me were a complete inadequate. So send her in. That’s all…..

Emily Charlton: Oh my God! Andy looks so chic!
Andrea Sachs: Thanks Em. You look so…thin!
Emily Charlton: Oh do I?!? *smiles* It’s for Paris. I’m on this whole new diet where I don’t eat anything. And when I feel I’m about to faint, I eat a cube of cheese.
Andrea Sachs: Well it’s working.
Emily Charlton: I know, I’m just one stomach flu away from reaching my goal weight.

Emily Charlton: I’m gonna do all of this and you are going to Calvin Klein.
Andrea Sachs: Me…?
Emily Charlton: Oh I’m sorry, did you have a prior commitment? Some hideous skirt convention you have to go to? *giggles*
Serena Elksend: What is she wearing?
Emily Charlton: My gradmother’s skirt. *laugh*

Emily Charlton: Face it Andy. You sold your soul the day put on your first pair of Jimmy Choo’s. I know. I saw it. And you know what really just kills me about this whole thing is the clothes you’re gonna get. I mean, you don’t deserve them. You eat carbs for Christ’s sake! God! So unfair!

Miranda Priestly: Do you know why I hired you? I always hire the same girl — stylish, slender, of course, worships the magazine but so often they turn out to be disappointing and stupid. So, you and the impressive resume and the big speech about your work ethic. I thought you would be different. I said to myself, go ahead. Take a chance. Hire the smart, fat girl.

Andrea Sachs: Hi, I have an appointment with Emily Charlton…?
Emily Charlton: Andrea Sachs?
Andrea Sachs: Yes.
Emily Charlton: Great. Human Resources certainly has a lot of sense of humor. Follow me.

Just like my friend, I’m also a suckie for Sex and the City. Among the four girls — Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon) and Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) - the one I see a great deal of myself in is Miranda Hobbs. The red-head, skeptical, cynical, pessimistic and judgemental lawyer. Not to mention, practical, blunt, realistic and a good friend. Miranda, just like the other girls, exudes confidence in her field. She knows what she wants and knows exactly how to get it. But then, like Miranda, I do believe that ONE can’t have it all. Having it all is just a state of mind.

Anyway, let me share some of my favorite Sex and the City quotes:

Miranda Hobbs: "Smart, yes! Funny, agreed. Sometimes cute but never sexy. Sexy is the thing I try to get men to see me after I win them over with my personality."

Carrie Bradshaw: "Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring you lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the "YOU" that you love, well that’s just fabulous!"

Carrie Bradshaw: "That night I started to think about belief. Maybe it’s not even advisable to be an optimist and maybe pessimism is something we have to apply daily, like moisturizer. Otherwise, how do we bounce back when reality batters our belief system and love does not, as promised, conquer all. Is hope a drug that we need to go off of or is it keeping us alive? What’s the harm in believing?"

Carrie Bradshaw: "I began to realize that being beautiful is like having a rent-controlled apartment overlooking the park: completely unfair and usually bestowed upon those who deserve it least."

Carrie Bradshaw: "I think it’s pretty much agreed that it goes: open-minded = good; judgemental = bad. But are we being too quick to judge judgement? Perhaps judgement is not as much a snap decision as an early warning or detection device. If it is instantly clear that a person, a place or a profession is not for you, is it better to ignore your better judgement and read between the lines or should you judge a book by its cover?"

Carrie Bradshaw: "Later that day I got to thinking about fairy tales. What if Prince Charming had never shown up? Would Snow White have slept in that glass coffin forever? Or would she have eventually woken up, spit out the apple, gotten a job and a health care package? I couldn’t help but wonder — inside every confident, driven, single woman, is there a delicate, fragile princess waiting to be saved? Do we need to be rescued?"

Samantha Jones: “A guy can just as easily dump you if you fuck him on the first date as he can if you wait until the tenth.”

Charlotte York: "Everyday I try to believe. I want to believe but nothing is happening. I just don’t think it’s working, or it won’t work for me — anymore that is. That’s the thing though. I did find love. I believed that there was someone out there for me and I met him…finally. We had a beautiful wedding and then everything just fell apart. I’m worried. I’m afraid he took my ability to believe and I hate him for that because I’ve always believed before. And now, I just feel…lost. And I am trying to put myself out there but I feel hopeless."

Carrie Bradshaw: I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.
Miranda Hobbs: So what, you’re like a flystrip for dysfunctional men?
Carrie Bradshaw: Yeah, but one of those really pretty floral scented ones.

Carrie Bradshaw: Well that’s the thing about relationships: sometimes they look prettier on the outside, and what’s inside can be different than it seems.

Carrie Bradshaw: Does everybody know when it’s right? And how would you know? Are there signs? Fireworks? Is it right when it feels comfortable or is comfortable a sign that there aren’t any fireworks? Is hesitation a sign that it’s not right or is it a sign that you’re not ready? In matters of love, how do you know when it’s right?

Carrie Bradshaw: Later, I started to think about restlessness and relationships. Once we’ve found what we’re searching for, why are some of us so reluctant of letting go our single selves? Is single life just a constant flurry of fun and friends that settling down immediately fills us with the urge to shake things up again? And why does becoming a couple imply settling down? Maybe we shouldn’t expect to get everything from one man, but instead feel comfortable getting things from different people. Although at what point does separate interests become separate bedrooms? I couldn’t help but wonder, to be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?