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American Expat in the Philippines, B Side Makati, Filipina, Hipster, Manila, One Night Stand, Sex, Sonic Youth, The Collective Makati, The Godfather
So I’ve met a guy again, an American expat in Manila. He’s acceptable, young and still calm. He didn’t show that he likes me but he told me after rounds of beer in a Makati hipster club, “I need to take a shower” followed by “Do you think there’s a hotel around where I can do that?”
I am not naive with these kinds of things. Shower or no shower, just the word hotel, in the late night of alcoholic binge insinuates an imminent copulation. And I didn’t hesitate. Why, because I know myself, I know I like it.
What I like about Manila hipster clubs is that they’re filled with black- haired, olive skinned, hipster dressed people, and the majority speak English, and the majority have this artsy fatsy stance. I really don’t care, I somehow feel if i am a hipster myself, but I don’t like bands which I haven’t heard of. I actually get my music from suggestions from friends, those who are cool back in the day. They’re one of those who were black haired, olive skinned, rock dressed people back in the day when Sonic Youth made their first albums. Why I hang out with them? They offer me protection.
You know in Manila, how it would be unsafe just to hop off an FX (public transportation) in the wee hours and swagger around the streets. But these “back in the day” people knew people who are also up these times in the morning who sort of identify me already and automatically register in their minds not to hit on me or watch out who will hit on me.
So I feel protected as if I’m the wife of the Godfather.
So we went to the hotel, and he really took a shower. I felt beautiful, because his stupor was a little bit washed away and yet, he still showed interest in that woman lying in the hotel bed. So we started with the usual torrid kiss, then the taking off the clothes, the further kissing. He smelled like a hotel shampoo and a hotel soap, these non special, non fragrant stuff. And when I woke up, I forgot how sex went. I think it was quick. But basically I forgot. So i think I should’ve taken a shower myself..