Today, I got a new bag.
Nope. This isn't the bag from UN with an insurance policy inside.
This is a new black bag with three main compartments, two side pockets, and three inside pockets-- where my tvmobile phones can be kept. Its worth is $89 and if roughly translated into peso, its a bag tagging the price of P4,300 (current valuation). So you could imagine that this bag is equivalent to 3 sacks of upland rice or equivalent to a one semester tuition fee if one will enroll in a technology course in MSU-IIT, a state university here in Iligan city.
The bag is an original Nine West brought from Los Angeles and sent to the Philippines from a new found friend Ms. Belle, wife and beloved of a military officer in Lanao del Norte.
We once called this kindness synonymous to bribery. Haha. Pardon our over political-mindedness.
Inside this bag was a $21 dollars hidden in its pocket. Ms. Belle said its a gift to my baby Lexi.
It also has two books inside: Why Men Love Bitches and Why Men Marry Bitches. The former is a National Best seller in USA while the latter is a New York Times Best Seller. Both books price can be tallied to $30plus and individually addressed to specific recipients.
As got hold of it, I couldn't stop grappling its pages because we have waited on its arrival with such controversial passion and glee. An interest of something unread. Or, may be I'm terribly engrossed to philosophy and politics that I don't even have the nerve to read Cosmopolitan magazines and of similar kinds, such as these, that discuss men and women relations.
True enough, while I was taking my lunch at McDonald of Cagayan de Oro this afternoon, I was wittingly answering one of its quizzes to test how "bitchiful" I am.
Note the "Are You too Nice Pop Quiz" which is answerable by either yes or no:
1. Do you feel guilty when you say no, or do say no and second guess yourself?
2. Do you often try to tell your partner that you want to be treated with respect?
3. Do you find yourself bartering or negotiating for what you want or need?
4. Do you often pass up sleep or the need for personal time to meet his needs?
5. Do you regularly see him on short notice or when it is convenient for him?
6. Do you find that you repeat what you've asked for as though he didn't hear it the first time?
7. After a fight, are you always the first one to contact him or apologize?
8. Do you find you are much more doting and affectionate than he is?
9. Do you often feel depleted after he has been with you?
10. Do you constantly want more attention or reassurance?
And all of those ten queries got my NO answers. I am not even surprised that I have not answered any "YES."
The book said that if I've answered yes to five or more of these ten questions, you are giving far more than you are receiving. Its kinda giving yourself up without an iota of interest.
Now that I've reached page 70, I am all the more convince that I am not a doormat.
I remembered months ago that a foreign military officer asked a friend "is she nice?", apparently referring to me.
Ah well, I have just found the right answer. I am not nice.
I am Bitchiful!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Bitchiful and my new expensive bag!
Posted by VIOLETA GLORIA at 4/19/2009 02:00:00 AM
Labels: bags, bitches, gifts, love, ms. belle de leon