A byutipul day

The gang decided to drop by a nearby beach because it was everybody's day off anyway. People can hang around, stay in cottages, and enjoy some good food, but if you want to take a dip, you should travel for an hour on a boat to the other side of the beach, and you have to pay P350. Because everybody was on a tight budget, we decided to just hang around and take the chance to catch up with one another.

I was startled by the screaming of the phone alarm. Ugh, the only beach I am in was my bed. Nice dream, anwyay.

My eyes are still heavy and my head is still on hibernation mode. The phone clock said 7:58 AM. Alright I have to get up. It's a wednesday morning and should I give in to the summons of my sleepy head, I would have to give up some portion of my salary, and I don't want that.

Blah blah blah blah

Besides riding two jeepneys, I still have to walk for a decent 15 minutes to get to work. No fuss. I need that exercise ahead of a 9-hour sitting spree at the office. It is also the only time of the day that I can get a healthy dose of the sun.

Blah blah blah blah

I was walking blankly when halfway through, some mother-ish woman looked up at me and said:

"Hello, byutipul."

I smirked thinking that was my record-breaking early morning hallucinatory phase. I was about to dismiss it when some guy I was walking with smiled at me and looked at the woman who was two meters from us now.

Ok, I wasn't hallucinating after all. This time, I was smiling.

Most things do not surprise me anymore. I mean, when walking down the street and some man greets me, I just greet him back and go on. I find it normal and neccessary that men express how they feel when they see an ehem-ehem attractive lady. I'm serious. Can any woman say that they have not been greeted by some stranger (a man) at any single moment of their lives? It's something we have lived with since we realized that men and women naturally get attracted to each other and vice versa (Set aside the liberalism, please.).

For a man to appreciate a woman's beauty, that is something natural, at least for me. For a woman to appreciate another woman's beauty, now that is something.

Most of the time, when a guy says: "Ganda nun o!", a woman would say: "Hindi naman eh." or "Ok lang. Walang boobs.(hahaha!)"

Seriously, people say that men and women appreciate the same sex in a very different level. That is why I have come to believe that a woman saying another woman is beautiful is more sincere than a man in the same situation.

This is not a chauvinistic remark against men, but I just think that men can always say that a woman is pretty without thinking about it. Oftentimes, wherever whenever, men just say: "Miss, ganda mo ah." or "Hi, ganda." It is not that I do not appreciate it, but the remarks are so abused that I want to barf everytime I hear it.

Today, I have nothing against the roughly similar remark-- 'cause that lady sure does know how to byutipuly start someone else's otherwise lazy and ordinary day.