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On the first 30 minutes with a client on a first time business meeting, it was pure business - ROI, diminishing returns, marketing campaign, etc. On the third hour of what's obviously a conversation that extended beyond its usual duration, it already went like this: (Jan 2011)

Client: "...so I was going out with this good looking guy who was intellectually challenged. I was thinking, if I end up with him, in our old age when sex is no longer high on the priority, what can we talk about?"
TheLoneRider: "Pardon my french, but you don't have to wait for old age. Immediately after ejaculation, sex is no longer a priority. If you can't find anything to talk abour, you're screwed...(again, but in a bad way!)"

Confided to me by a matriarch: (Sep 2010)
Matriarch: "My henchman has stolen much from me. But I don't kick him out of the property because he's such a good kid."
TheLoneRider: "Good kid?"
Matriarch: "Yes, he's very quiet. He doesn't say anything."

While talking about the environment with a guy I just met minutes before, he said:
(Aug 31, 2010) "The worst thing that ever happened on this planet are the environmentalists. I've invested in gold and gold can't be mined because of them."

Mel Bascon in a recent conversation about Bacolod at her coffee place, Bascon Café:
(Aug 25, 2010) "Bacolod is black or white. Everything is based on sugar. If sugar harvest is good, then there's plenty for everyone. If sugar is bad, then there's doom and gloom."

While talking about the delicate preparation of Hototay Soup with a visiting Chinese balikbayan, she said:
(July 23, 2010) "Let's cook this in Vancouver. There are so many mosquitos here in the Philippines."

I was in a conversation with a friend over a sticky issue: (Jul 7, 2010)
Friend: "I know that to be a fact. I've read it."
TheLoneRider: "I've known it to be otherwise. I've lived it.."

Alastair Duncan, a GIS specialist and expert in LIDAR mapping, during his workshop:
(Mar 1, 2010) "The moment a map is made, it's already obsolete due to inaccuracies brought about by assumptions in its development, the passing of time, built-in errors...There is no such thing as a perfect map and you should be vigilant about taking any map as gospel."

While visiting St. Frances Cabrini Medical Center on a stopover from the Step Juan walkathon, the photographer taking pictures also gave us a tour of the facilities, talking about the state-of-the-art cancer equipment: (Feb 11, 2010)
TheLoneRider: "I'm impressed. For a guy who takes pictures, you seem to know a whole lot about cancer."
Photographer: "Well, I'm also the Director of the Cancer Institute and Board Member of the Philippine Radiation Oncology Society. I'm Dr. Enrico Tangco by the way."

Remarked on a casual conversation with a movie buff:
(Jan 30, 2010) "How I see the world is based on my life experience...or a movie I saw."

A thought bubble during a gathering of idealists:
(Jan 17, 2010) "Hmmm...no one came on time. No one...and the guests-of-honor was a no-show."

Said by a Rey Agapay to a UPM member who walked up the stage:
(Dec 18, 2009) "Ang pangit mo!"(You are ugly!)

Said by a Jerry in a UPM party:
(Dec 18, 2009) "Oo na, malakas ka nga, pero, masaya ka bang kasama?"(yeah, you're strong, but are you fun to be with?)

Said by a meditator in a restaurant:
(Dec 4, 2009) "I used to envision my millions through hard work. Nowadays, I just meditate on it."

Heard from an invitee at an art openning:
(Nov 30, 2009) "We just met. Since we have no other basis for a friendship, savoring her cooking is the only available means to develop this friendship."

Said in a clandestine meeting of activists:
(Nov 22, 2009) "My secret handle is The Unicorn. My email address is herminilio_sapungan@yahoo.com."

Discussed in a clandestine meeting of activists against a fractional monetary-based economy: (Nov 22, 2009)
Guy A: "Cosmic Blaze cannot make it to the gathering. His mother didn't allow him."
Guy B: "Why? She's afraid he'll be shot?"
TheLoneRider: "By whom?"
Charlene Tan: "By a Swiss banker!"

Heard from a Pinoy who got bumped off a Chinese wedding:
(Nov 21, 2009) "Lauriat is my metaphor for everything Chinese I'm excluded from."

Overheard after the guy bombed on his party joke:
(Nov 19, 2009) "I pity those who don't get my humor."

Said by a chicken taster in a fried chicken tasting shoot-out:
(Nov 18, 2009) "...sa larangan ng pride chicken, ikaw ay katangi-tangi." (in the realm of pride (not fried) chicken, you stand alone)

Confidently uttered by an SM executive at a dinner table:
(Oct 2009) "Trinoma is the best thing that ever happened to SM North. Now, our shoppers have a more convenient passage."

Overheard:
(Sep 3, 2009) "I need my 10 million to appreciate my poverty!"

Told to me by an affluent female friend:
(Aug 31, 2009) "You have to keep in mind, I'm a by-product of A/B market folks." (read: Hoy! Anak mayaman ako!)

I was in a looping argument with a friend who's known for her smarts. Frustrated, her final retort was....
(July 2009) "I'm smarter than you!"

I once said this to my girlfriend (now my ex):
(July 2009) "My dear, from the waist up, you look like a lanky school boy. But from the waist down, you're all woman!"

I was listening to a conversation between two lovers. (June 2009)
Girlfriend: "I don't usually workout...hardly."
Boyfriend: "You mean, the only thing propping you up is youth?"

The same two lovers. (June 2009)
Girlfriend: "Would you consider marriage at some point?"
Boyfriend: "Darling, I'm not even sure we'll last one more week."

Me and Greg (an Australian) were walking our mountain bikes through Besao Poblacion, a remote village in the Mountain Province, 13 hours away by bus from Manila. Everyone was looking at us. (Jan 2008)
Greg: "(whispering) I guess they're not used to seeing tourists around here."
TheLoneRider: "I don't know, Greg. I think it's because we're 2 guys in Spandex."

Said by Tana Madrigal in a conversation about spirituality:
(Sep 9, 2007) "I'd been teaching yoga for over 10 years now. I realized that unless I devote myself in the service of others, all this asanas and pranayamas are nothing but ego."

My Dad grew up with the boyz in the school of hard knucks (knucled-fisted neighborhoods). Well travelled within the Philippines, he developed friends, drinking buddies, associates in every place he moved to. In his prime, guys wanted to buy him beer and women wanted to sleep with him. He was at his best in the company of people. In a rare unguarded moment, he said to me:
(many many years ago) "You know what son, if you go through life with one true friend, you're lucky."

Coy Uy, a friend working for Prudential Bache as an investment banker took me to a tour of his office in New York's Wall Street. (1988)
Coy Uy: "Here's my office. But you see that other office across? It'll take me 2 years to get there. And that other office with the corner window? It'll take me 3 more years to occupy that."
TheLoneRider: "I guess you really have to be brilliant to get to that corner office."
Coy Uy: "Actually, that starts at my level."