if i were a boy « kookie-log express

What better to do during a lazy afternoon, when you get too mushy rubbing four feet together saying i love yous?

Let me share how productive my relationship with my better half is..

“I need to interview you..” I said while gently poking at his tattoo on his left shoulder. “Hmm.. for what? Celebrity na ako?” he answered eyes closed.. “Siguro..” I said smiling at the thought..

I gently pulled up my mobile phone, there recently downloaded from cyrus and gaed Beyonce’s If i were a boy (remixed) feat R kelly singing if I were a girl. “Wafu, listen to this please and tell me what you think” i asked him still poking at his koi tattoo..

I know wafu was not that interested in listening to any songs lyrics (at si beyonce pa!!) but he did siguro for the sake kasi magiging celebrity sya ulit (hehe.. mahal ko talaga tong taong to! ikaw na gid!) heres how the “INTERVIEW” went:

If I Were A Boy (Remix) (ft. R. Kelly) Lyrics

If I were a boy
even just for a day
I’d roll out of bed in the morning
and throw on what I wanted and go

Drink beer with the guys
and chase after girls
I’d kick it with who I wanted
and I’d never get confronted for it
cause they stick up for me

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taking you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

Her take: If i were a boy.. id be the perfect boyfriend for my girl but this is a classic gender war. Never ending; nothing new. All we girls are asking is you guys to treat us better.

His take: We would love to treat you better, but in the norms, guys will always be guys. Men will always be dogs.

- Men will always be dogs. Aso. Iro. -

- You can expect us to be LOYAL. But sometimes, we cannot be FAITHFUL –

Now there is a difference between faithfulness and loyalty. A Dog for example, might wag his tail around, show everyone just how lovable and huggable, he will let anyone touch just about the tip of his nose, so as much as to lick for the goodies prepared for him.. BUT when the real master arrives.. the dogs’ loyalty will bring him to go back to where he belonged.

Her take: No fair, not logical we expect as much loyalty and faithfulness as we offer..

His take: IF YOU WERE A BOY, then you would understand..

If you were a boy
then girl you’d understand
you need to stop listening to your friends
love, respect and trust your man

So I go to clubs with the guys
and sometimes flirt with the girls
I should be able to roll out
as long as Im coming home to you
and give you the world

But you are not a boy,
so you dont have a clue (ey)
How I work and pay the bills
girl everything I do is for you (eh eh)

His take: COMMUNICATION, not unless girls will know how to listen not unless men know how to listen. This is nothing new, ever since the start of the world it has been always a question of trust and communication.

Her take: That part where you should be able to do what you want as long as you go home to us.. do you think that is fair?

His take: It is.. you should understand what makes a man and what makes a boy.. a man would have all the flings but his home is where his heart is. A boy is sometimes reckless in communicating which is love and which is infatuation. Bear in mind that infautation is always a notch higher than love. Youll always be illogical when you are infatuated you tend to think you are inlove. But that as again what separates a man from a boy. If they are ready to sort the feeling of real love from infatuation, the one that they really love has nothing to worry about.

I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taking you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

If I were a Boy (Beyonce)

If I were a Girl (Kelly)

I would turn off my phone (Beyonce)

I wouldn’t play games (Kelly)

Tell everyone it’s broken
so they’d think that I was sleeping alone (Beyonce)

Girl you know thats wrong (Kelly)

I’d put myself first
and make the rules as I go
Cause I know that she’ll be faithful,
waiting for me to come home, to come home.

But you are not a boy,
so you can’t understand
You are not a perfect woman
and I am not a perfect man

I’d listen to her (eh eh)
Cause I know how it hurts (Kelly: and I know how you feel)
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taking you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

Kelly: Said Im sorry

It’s a little too late for you to come back

but I cant let you go
cause Im too attached (Kelly)

If you thought I would wait for you
you thought wrong

But you’re just a boy

His take: Given ang example na ito: When someone cheated on you girls, you decide to let go of the relationship, even if your guy promised you that he will do what he can to fix everything.. sino sa tingin mo ang talo? Don’t you think that if you really love the person and you gave up just because the guy did a mistake that he would promise never to do again pinahirapan mo lang sarili mo.? Bear in mind mahal mo ang tao, bakit hindi mo ipaglaban ang love mo na yun? It would be so much easier to pick up where the pieces all started to fell, rather than start all over again and all by yourself hoping for the best.

Her take: You think innocence is bliss?

His take: I think what someone need not to know, they need not to know. Inaamin naman ng lahat ng lalake sa mundo na minsan there will be “unfaithfulness” but again let me reiterate na iba yon sa “loyalty”, given na ang fact na talagang ganun ang guys. Why bother hurting the one that you love, that one that you are loyal to by spilling the milk? Flings, crushes, kisses, exciting lang lahat yun but we men will still crave for stability, sino ba naman ang mga fling na yan kung i kukumpara sa taong mahal namin talaga?

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Her take: In the end all this makes me think is a relationship really worth it then. Parang naglalaro lang parang wala lang yet we bank so much emotion, time, energy and love. On my end naman, people in a relationship bank will always give too much and yet we expect all kinds from that other half too..gusto ng suklian lahat …but then again it takes two to tango.

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My FINAL TAKE: being in a relationship does not require each half to give 50% each to fill out that 100%… give out your 100% no matter how small the other person gives.. you love him/her so therefore they dont deserve that 50.. Bank on all that emotions, even if there is pain .. because after all he is just a boy and i am just a girl. I may never understand his take, he may ponder and wonder on my take but thats it in the end what you both banked on will bring you to that real love that youve always prayed for. Again like that we will never be perfect even in that perfect relationship.

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PS. .. sabi ko , again, if i were a boy even just for a day, ang girl ko ang pinakamaswerteng girl in this world! sabi ni wafu, ah ako if i were a girl even for just for a day… hahawakan ko ng hahawakan ang boobs ko at aabusuhin ko ang sarili ko..

tsk men.. ok lang love ko parin sila hehe.