[busy signaL]
[Tuesday, March 08, 2005]
this is going be another 'blast from the past'-type posts.
if you've lived in the philippine suburbs, you'd know that every town has at least one barbershop and one beauty parlor. the barbershop is run by either an old man who sings his own made-up tunes, or a young man sporting a crewcut, or, as in our case, both. all customers are addressed as pogi, regardless of age [a woman thinks thrice before setting foot in a barbershop].
the beauty parlor is run by a bakla*. the bakla will either wear unisex pambahay, or if you're unlucky, something that even most women wouldn't be seen in. the bakla always has a feminine nickname that can be traced back to a masculine root, like michelle or jaja.
ours is named girlie, from [believe it or not!] guillermo. this is the same girlie who reputedly was familiarized with steve austin's stone-cold stunner after trying to initialize a game of funnybones with some of the local youths.
i only suffered a haircut from girlie once, when the elder barber had died, or moved away, i forget, and the younger was indisposed.
anyway, girlie was dethroned by a less-masculine-looking haliparot** some years back and simply faded from my general consciousness, until today, when i happened to take the same jeep as him|her and his|her jowa. there was another guy with them, who seemed to be a friend of the jowa, and apparantly straight. third-wheeling, i guess. while the jowa and girlie were making harot in the jeep, he kept glancing at me, probably because i'd fixed a concerned look on them. they also got off at marcelo, but took a trike in.
funny how, now that i think about it, i'd probably recognize girlie anywhere, even if, save once, i've only seen him|her from afar, smoking by the parlor door. he|she, of course, doesn't have reason to remember me.
sige ingat.ΓΌ
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bakla: this class of person differs from regular homosexuals in that they're obnoxious, either with voice or fashion. since i use the term derogatorily, a funny bakla is not a bakla.
haliparot: this is the worst kind of bakla. he|she makes the mistake of thinking he|she is [1] a woman [2] attractive and [3] young.
posted by stani at 9:49 AM
if you've lived in the philippine suburbs, you'd know that every town has at least one barbershop and one beauty parlor. the barbershop is run by either an old man who sings his own made-up tunes, or a young man sporting a crewcut, or, as in our case, both. all customers are addressed as pogi, regardless of age [a woman thinks thrice before setting foot in a barbershop].
the beauty parlor is run by a bakla*. the bakla will either wear unisex pambahay, or if you're unlucky, something that even most women wouldn't be seen in. the bakla always has a feminine nickname that can be traced back to a masculine root, like michelle or jaja.
ours is named girlie, from [believe it or not!] guillermo. this is the same girlie who reputedly was familiarized with steve austin's stone-cold stunner after trying to initialize a game of funnybones with some of the local youths.
i only suffered a haircut from girlie once, when the elder barber had died, or moved away, i forget, and the younger was indisposed.
anyway, girlie was dethroned by a less-masculine-looking haliparot** some years back and simply faded from my general consciousness, until today, when i happened to take the same jeep as him|her and his|her jowa. there was another guy with them, who seemed to be a friend of the jowa, and apparantly straight. third-wheeling, i guess. while the jowa and girlie were making harot in the jeep, he kept glancing at me, probably because i'd fixed a concerned look on them. they also got off at marcelo, but took a trike in.
funny how, now that i think about it, i'd probably recognize girlie anywhere, even if, save once, i've only seen him|her from afar, smoking by the parlor door. he|she, of course, doesn't have reason to remember me.
sige ingat.ΓΌ
---
bakla: this class of person differs from regular homosexuals in that they're obnoxious, either with voice or fashion. since i use the term derogatorily, a funny bakla is not a bakla.
haliparot: this is the worst kind of bakla. he|she makes the mistake of thinking he|she is [1] a woman [2] attractive and [3] young.
posted by stani at 9:49 AM
Anonymous at 4:36 PM