The oddest thing happened today. This morning, a geek-looking (thick, wide-rim eyeglasses), short and fat, english-speaking middle-aged man came into the net shop asking for the possiblities of data storage. CDs…etc. I overheard that the guy happened to be a writer (a real one!) and so is looking for a big memory storage beacause his hard disk just crashed and just have everything on CDs. When flash drives came into their discussion (that guy and the owner of the net shop, my classmate), I couldn’t help but butt-in and shown him my mobile disk (stick) that I’ve been using for quite some time, at least until I’ve gotten my own lap-top.

Well, he strike me as the guy who is tech-ignoramus, more than me I suppose, because he doesn’t even know what a flash drive is. So i couldn’t help but inquire more about what exactly he is looking for. That was when the conversation went to what he is doing: which happen to be writing novels and stories for children’s books. Ah ok…I said, so you are a real writer because he said he has published a lot of his work in the US. He just came come to Gubat when his parents (Gubat locals) retired home.

Then he couldn’t help but wonder too about what I am doing. I guess he was just being polite and asked if I am a writer too. So I said, well, sort-of but not really because I am only an internet writer, writing for blog networks about med and pharma. Well, he hasn’t heard the word blog before and he insisted that I show him the website. So I did. ;-)

He was more like wondering if I was for real than impressed.  Honestly, I didn’t care what he thinks or anybody else’s for that matter. And then he surprised me more by commenting on my rather-perfect english and asked if I can translate a book from english to tagalog. I said yes, no problem…while thinking, duh? why would that be a problem?! He he, yabang ko!

So we exchanged names, he got my contact details with his parting words: “I would certainly need an english-grammar editor and tagalog translator for my work, so I will really call you”.

Ha ha ha! Is he for real? Let’s wait and see. ;-)