Junjun is a friend like no other. And by that I mean, he's the only person that I've barely talked to face-to-face, on the phone or chatted or texted with for long periods of time, yet I still consider him a very good friend of mine. It's weird, I know. And I think the weirdest thing about it is that a big chunk of our friendship is based on our interactions in the cyber world.

The thing is, even our cyber exchanges aren't so direct. I remember how I used to read his posts on genrev.net a lot, and how they'd always fall under music or the poetry section. I remember wanting to be his friend after reading all his posts, but I didn't really know how I could do that, given that he lived a couple of islands away from Manila. So I'd leave a few comments on genrev every so often, as I had become a fan of his work.

Despite the lack of frequency in our exchanges, there's something about my friendship with Junjun. I think it's to do with the fact that I know he gets me, without having to talk to me directly. It's probably through his poetry or something.

I think I'll end off here. Junjun will have gotten what I'm trying to say by now.


Happy birthday. :)