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Hallu! This is your girlie infatuation junkie reporter reporting! ^_^

While I was pondering about the whatnots of life and why HIM still doesn't have a clue as to my exponentially increasing liking towards HIM, I stumbled upon an old article that I snatched from one of our broadsheets  a year ago. This is actually my problem right now. I am typecast as the Girl Friend Material. Don't understand a thing? Read on. . .

Girlfriend Material

By SOCCERGAL

If most of you have notice, the girls getting the revered gifts-- flowers and chocolates during special occasions especially during Valentine's day, are those who are considered girlfriend material. When I say girlfriend material, I am referring to those who are sophisticated and beautiful. This is the type of girl who guys would love to have on their arms during the graduation ball or to introduce to their parents.

They always look pretty and fresh, with no effort required. Make-up is just an option if they want to attract more attention or to let the mere mortals such as me to realized they are endowed with the beauty of a goddess.

They don't have problems with zits or maintaining a svelte figure. They can eat as much as they want without ever gaining a single ounce. With figure-retention comes the endless array of clothes they can wear without ever worrying about large thighs, a bulging tummy or flabby arms. The are always perfectly poised and graceful. They smile perfectly, their eyes have enough twinkle in them to outshine outer space and what comes out of their mouths are immaculate words that guys hang upon her every word.

They are the girls whose closet consists of skirts, dresses, form-fitting tops and open-toed sandals. Their fingernails are trimmed at the exact length and prefer a French tip to Revlon Red nail polish. Their hair is usually long (like those you see on commercials), or if it needs to be short they sport the Teresa Herrera tousled look. It is quite unlikely that you see them in jeans but if they must, they wear capris, skinny pants or boot-cut jeans. They are the ones who act really nice and extremely lady-like that guys' parents actually encourage their sons to court this type of girl because "she's perfect for him".

Now there's another category, one that I'm pretty sure I belong to. It's called the girl friend material. Notice the space between 'girl' and 'friend'. These types grew up in an environment where boys are for arguing, not kissing. Yes, they tend to dress up sometimes but their choices are very limited because they are either muscular from doing so much 'guy-type' activities, or they are a little fat because exercising isn't really their greatest friend.

These types are also not afraid to get dirty. Nail polish is an absolute must only for social functions (which they attend to), and most prefer short hair -- the easy "wash-and-ear" look. They shift from one trend to another -- spoon watches, Baby-G's and mountain bikes.Backpacks are the choice mostly for this on-the-go girl and , most importantly, she's always one of the guys.

The girl friends envy the girlfriends sometimes. For those who have never experienced being a girl friend, let me tell you that life isn't a bowl of cherries.

One will go through several instances wherein a guy friend of yours will be calling you up at 2:30 in the morning just to talk about another girl, a girlfriend type. Basically, everyday conversation will run like this: school, what GM (girlfriend material) wore to school today, homework, GM asking him to help her with the Accounting homework, music and some sports, how GM doesn't understand basketball (or any other sport for that matter. Hel-lo! Michael Jordan has retired from basketball, like, a season ago!), love, what GM (according to him) looks for in a guy, religion, how GM is seriously considering buying the perfumed incense sticks and so on. Of course, no girl friend will be complete without the usual ritual of having Crush Boy call your house to ask for courting advice, which he could use on girlfriend.

The girl friends have more real worldly connection to the guys. They know all their secrets, their yucky side that they don't show to the perfect girlfriends, their eternal hate for sentimental music, their reasons why they pretend to like sentimental music and the like. They're closer and more bonded and, even if a relationship with a girlfriend bombs, they'll always end up running back to them.

But there's also a time in every girl friend's life when they want to be the one that guys give a first look and then never take their eyes away from again because it feels good to be wanted, not sexually, though.

Most girlfriends are not looked upon as sexual objects but rather as kind of like a modern Maria Clara type, the kind who gusy bring home to mother. Admit it-- it's nice to be adored and pampered sometimes but it just happened that our personalities aren't meant for the girlfriend material type. So instead we have to settle on becoming friends with the guy we adore who adores someone else.

The upside to being a girl friend, sometimes we get to score, too. We just have to wait for Prince Charming to come soon.

Tsk! Tsk! Sad di ba? : (

Hopefully, one of these days HIM would eventually notice how much I adore him. ^_^

Girlie infatuation junkie reporter signing off. . .

.: Angel :. Sorry Japanese Acrobat Sister. I just felt like posting this one. I know how you hated this article when I showed it to you. So sorry po. . .