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What could be better in a bachelor’s life when,  after graduating from college, he lands in a high paying job, having an income more than enough for himself and more for night life and life savings? I was just on that same fix when some few years back (actually, decades ago), I partied here and there, with friends and kin, girls and women. Saturday nights seemed timeless and more often than not, we ended up in the wee hours of the morning…It was a dream life for singles, I would say. Booze are a-plenty and no commitment to look up to whomsoever you end up with when you feel like going to bed… It was a purely a care-free life back then…

“Every night seems, dinner and wine Saturday girls,

I was never in love never had the time in my hustle and hurried world.

Laughing myself to sleep, waking up lonely,

I needed someone to hold me, Oh…”

“It’s such a crazy old town, it can drag you down, till you run out of dreams;

So you party all night to the music and lights, but you don’t know what happiness means.

I was dancing in the dark with strangers no love around me,

When suddenly you found me, oh… “

My golly, looking back with my life, I spent more than eight years of my bachelor days fooling around in bars and friends on weekends and back to work on Mondays to Fridays.

But lo and behold, and quite unexpectedly, on a fine and exquisite summer day, I was sent on a training to the “City of Smiles” (Iloilo City) where I met this girl who changed everything in me…changed the world around me…where fantasy and reality are at par with each other… you can’t tell the difference…

“Girl you’re every woman in the world to me.

You’re my fantasy, you’re my reality

Girl, you’re every woman in the world to me.

You’re everything I need, you’re everything to me, Oh girl”…

She’s a girl all right, but not quite…She’s the type of a young woman capable of challenging my choosy taste. She stirred me intellectually and ahh, biologically, I may say…No wonder she’s smart and eloquent. She’s a UP graduate…Need to say more?  She got the body and physique that passes my personal criteria … She’s perfect, in and out…my ideal woman, for all legal intents and purposes…

For a very desperate heart of a bachelor, no woman can be as hard to get as the Helen of Troy….Well, her beauty may not launch even a single ship, but beauty is relative and and I would say, she’s relatively cute…

It was a whirlwind romance, and our engagement didn’t take long as we were already ripe of age at that time. She being twenty six and me, twenty nine. Legally, under the Family Code, both of us may proceed with contracting marriage even sans parental consent. Finding sense to my proposal, she interposed no objection thereto. I can’t simply let her go. I can’t afford to…So, on one rainy day in December 1993, we got married…

“Everything’s good, everything’s fine, that’s what you are

So put your hand in mine and together we’ll climb

As high as the highest star

I’m living the lifetime in every minute, that we’re together

And I’m staying right here forever, Oh”

“Girl you’re every woman in the world to me

You’re my fantasy, you’re my reality

Girl, you’re every woman in the world to me

You’re everything I need, you’re everything to me, Oh girl…”

I have to reveal, I am married to a star. Not in the real sense but literally. She’s neither a starlet nor a TV personality or an athlete of some sort.  She’s a star simply because her first name is Starjoan, Star for short, and she’s my every woman in the world…

I was lucky, I came across with the website GenSan News Online Mag where it was announced that there will be an Air Supply Concert in GenSan sponsored by the deliciously prestigious Grab A Crab Restaurant and also featured a blog contest entitled What Air Supply Song Are You? Blog Contest. This will be a golden opportunity for me to strengthen the bond with my Star and a good time to relive our past and renew the flame of passion we initially shared…

Of late, however, owing maybe to the moral orientation and the present culture of liberalism and boldness of youth, a young third party had emerged – threatening to snatch my all out attention to my star…she got the better looks, more passionate, aggressive and charming, whose closeness to me easily melts my fickle heart…But I will fight this feeling…I was married to a star and will always be…I will live a day at a time, in rhythm with the passing of days…and the other woman?  Well…she’s still young and more is in store for her in the future…

She’s very close to my star too…In fact, the three of us are very close with each other…

Finally, my two every women in the world had come to some kind of understanding and posed for posterity…

My gratitude to the following ad logos…

Dreamwork Ventures Inc.’s Platinum Concert Series 2009, in cooperation with the City Government of GenSan, the GenSan City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc., ABS-CBN. Other partners are Grab A Crab Restaurant, MISO Hardware, San Miguel Corporation, Coca Cola Bottlers Inc., East Asia Royale Hotel, Coffee Dream, Giacominos, NY Fries and Dips, Giacominos, Gaisano Mall of GenSan and Gregoria Printing Press.