Notes from Lily
I can't help but listen to 89.9 today. I just wanted to listen to Grace Lee and find out how she's coping, now that the President of the Philippines just confirmed the news that he's dating her.
Grace Lee is one of the most intelligent, articulate and yet sweetest girl in the world, and I often find myself nodding, looking like a fool, as I agree with most of her viewpoints as I listen to her morning show as I drive to work.
PNoy is the lucky guy here - Grace Lee is one person you can be proud to bring home to Mama, or in this case, bring home to the roaring approval of mother country.
What a romantic story! They seem to find themselves in seemingly impossible circumstances, and one wonders if this relationship will flourish or end in tears.
I've been reading this incredibly romantic novel, and it reminds me of PNoy and Grace's situation right now. Fourteen Days is an exquisitely written work written by Mayet Ligad Yuhico. Auberon Wallace, Hollywood goddess, is drawn of all days during her mother's funeral to Luke Scoprire, a billionaire who made his fortune manufacturing cardboard thin computer devices and cloth-patch telephonic devices. As she gazes at him, the funeral takes a back seat as Auberon looks toward the stranger.
Perhaps sensing her gaze, the stranger slowly, deliberately inspected the crowd around him. When his gaze fell on her , Auberon felt as if she was pushed backward. The man's attention was overpowering, he had gray, intelligent eyes and full, sensuous lips. He looked familiar, and yet unfamiliar. She tried to recall where she had seen his face, sifting through mental images like a stack of cards at high speed, but felt like his image was in a box of memory buried underneath numerous boxes at the back of her brain...
Any romantic relationship starts like this, one is drawn to one another, because something feels familiar about the other person. One has to sift through numerous boxes of memory buried underneath to realize that at the very core, perhaps one shares the same values about family, work and love. Sometimes, this thin line is enough to bridge a gap of two people with dissimilar circumstances. Or sadly it could determine whether the relationship is doomed from the beginning.
It's still early days, and we are all agog at the flush of the beginnings of friendship or love (we will not know yet at this point) much like how we read through a compelling romantic novel. If nothing comes our of this PNoy-Grace romance, just grab Fourteen Days, and get a good read this Valentine's Day.
