M for Maybe
Our meetup with Nase was nothing from the romance books. Infact we met when applying for a job position, I guess as interns at a local media agency. She was just a girl with a blue water bottle next to me in the reception area filling out forms. I wanted to say hi, without saying […]
L for Love
The finest romances have the messiest stories. Not messy as in poorly written; au contraire, a good romance hits all the highest points of storytelling — the meet, the ecstatic joy of turning enemies into lovers, the inevitable wrench in the works, middles full of will they-won’t they tension, and a resolution that’s either a […]
K for Kairitu
Atīrīri… Before I started getting marital advice from TikTok videos of ‘keep her if her name starts with..’, in my heyday I dated a Muthamaki. Mali safi. Wittier than James Orengo after lunch at Ranalo Fish & Chips. Unlike your polemicist girlfriend who meets your problems with a “wah, sa utado?” (that’s not elite mentality […]
J for Just Kidding
The beginning of a new relationship sucks. This is where you just got her number, know shit about her, and so you literally have nothing to say to her. You have already said she is gorgeous, so you cannot say that again. You cannot ask her what her hobbies are because no one has hobbies […]
