Teromantico's Love Advice Episode 1

New Year’s Resolution for Love

Since it is 2013 already, let’s start the year right. And yes, I’m using the third person for your consideration.

New beginnings. Fresh start. Let’s choose a love that is conflict-free especially for us guys. Seriously, whose loss is it? The ratio of male vs. female in the whole world is not even with females dominating us. Let’s make them hunt us and let’s not go crazy with the idea of falling in love. We’ll find the right person. It’s a cliché but patience is a virtue. Look at me, I’m 23 already but I still don’t have any girlfriend. As if having one is a requirement in life. If ever we get ourselves in a relationship, let’s just make the most out of it.

Let’s not wait for a love that we’re not sure of. I mean, I know it’s worth taking the risk to wait but it’s an ocean out there. Let’s catch a bigger, fatter, yummier fish. For practical reason’s sake guys! In love, we invest a lot including money, time, effort and most importantly, emotions. It’s not bad to resort to traditional courting methods but there should be an assurance that courting a certain girl will reap us rewards. It’s not practical to test the water only finding yourself drowning because you don’t have further knowledge that it’s 20 feet deep.

Start a quest. Conquer the world. Party hard and meet new people. Let’s just be careful and let’s always put our guards up. The world is full of shitty people who have the capacity to hurt us. Learn how to be open to and be closed at the same time (I know it sounds weird, right?).

Finally, don’t be afraid to love a friend. I mean, friends are the safest people to have a romantic relationship with. With friends, we have a strong foundation and we really know them. We can also use this as a strategy like befriending someone first and courting her later on. Just be ready to get friendzoned (in Ramon Bautista’s term) if it did not work.

Books books books

I’m excited to read my books. Only I’m not yet done doing our thesis. My partner did her part already while I’m still stuck. I was only able to find one local study which is really related to what we are doing. My only time to read books is when I take a dump or when I’m inside a jeepney when I commute to school. Sometimes I get the feeling that people get intimidated whenever I pick out a book from my bag and start reading. I hope people will understand that I don’t have the luxury of time to read.

I made a list of fiction novels I think I should read. I based it from a link I saw by The Guardian. Here are them:

1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Blindness - Jose Saramago
The Book of Job, Israel (600-400 BC)
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Iliad - Homer
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mahabharata, India (c 500 BC)
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The Odyssey - Homer
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Oedipus the King - Sophocles
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Othello - William Shakespeare
The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Ramayana - Valmiki
Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Tale of Genji - Shikibuku  Murasaki
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Trial - Franz Kafka
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas

Some of these I have possession already (some I borrowed and some I bought). Some of these also, I was able to read already like 100 Years of Solitude, The Stranger and Oedipus the King.

Here’s the link for your reference:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/08/books.booksnews?fb=optOut