M.C. Tolfo - Storywriter

My job is to fix things. Your job is to find the problem in everything. Your heart is broken, waiting for someone     My heart is jaded, waiting for no one. You were lonely and looking for company     I was bored searching for somebody. You looked at me and found a friend     I looked at you and found something more. I wanted to be there until the end     You have nothing for me in store. You were someone who needed so much love     I was someone with too much love to give. I was willing to give everything I have     You only want yourself to receive. You reach out looking for someone who will care     I reached to you telling you I'll be there. I opened my heart out, expecting you would see     You closed yours and left me nothing but a memory. I asked, you didn't answer.  I demanded explanation, you gave nothing but a cold shoulder. All I wanted was to unde...

I wrote this in Reddit as a sort of exercise to help me off my writer's block. I never intended for this to be this long, so I'm posting it here as well since it's been a while since I last blogged. I saw my crush's pictures on Facebook today... sigh.. I met her when i went to Malaysia some years ago. A friend of mine who works in Kuala Lumpur let me stay in their apartment for a day, and that's when I first saw her. It was early in the morning when I arrived, and I was worried that I woke them up too early. As I came in, she and their one other room mate got out of their rooms and we were introduced to each other. I found her interesting for that moment, though I couldn't point my finger why. My friend and her room mates agreed to accompany me on my tour of the city, so they prepped up that morning, eating lunch and watching movies while doing so. They played the film "One More Chance" on the TV, and it's the first time I saw it. Coming o...

I awoke at the voice of the conductor. I looked through the half-tinted, fogged window of the bus, and saw that it was drizzling outside. The road was busy, deceitful and unwelcoming, as cars veered to and fro it's intersections. I stared at Rachel, sitting beside me, sleeping, her head resting on her side, with her hair brushing along the scarlet curtains. I watched as the lights from outside brightened her full cheeks. She is beautiful as ever. I noticed her pale red lips, dried by the cold temperature of the bus, move and twitch, and so I let my eyes escape her view. "Are we there yet?" she whispered, half-awake. I let out a sigh, then turned my head to her, shaking it, smiling. "What's taking us too long?" "We got stuck in traffic earlier. As always." Now its her turn to let out a sigh, an irritated one, and I saw her breath as it came out of her mouth. "Do you feel cold?" I asked. She nodded. I reached out my arm to t...

One thing life thought me was that, you should never find happiness from other people. No, you don't need to be a loner, or alienate yourself from the rest of the world. You don't have to be an island. Humans are social beings, and we definitely need other people to last 60-90 years of our life. What I am saying is we should not let other people be our basis for our happiness. If we want to be happy, we should be happy because of ourselves. Not a tough thing to do, right? We start finding happiness by loving ourselves. Remember that famous verse Jesus said in the Bible? "You shall love your neighbor". Seems pretty easy, you say. Jesus here actually is technically saying that we should love almost everyone around us. We should love our family, our friends, our wife or husband, the cleaning lady next door, the traffic enforcer from across the street, everyone! This is one-half of what Jesus referred to as the "greatest commandment". But this commandment act...

<<< Nakaraan JOEY : Hello? SEPH: Hello, Joey, bakit hindi mo sinasagot? JOEY : Seph? Ikaw ba yan? SEPH: Bakit? Sino ine-expect mo? JOEY: Hindi, wala, nasa CR kasi ako eh, tawagan na lang ulit kita mamaya, ok? SEPH: Sige, bye. JOEY: Ok, bye. Binaba ni Joey ang cellphone, at nanlilisik ang mga matang tumitig kay Seph. JOEY: Who the hell was that? Bakit kaboses na kaboses mo siya? What's this? Is this a sick joke na naisip n'yo nila Treena? Well, Mr. Reyes , malayo pa po ang April Fools, and as so you know, it isn't funny. Cut it out, ok? SEPH: Joey, this is not a joke. JOEY: Then what is it? SEPH: Hindi ko din alam! Ang alam ko lang, 4 days ago, Thursday night , nakipag-break ka sa kin. Nagkita tayo nung Friday, we had a closure . Then, I was wasted for a couple of days, yesterday , kinontak ako nila Treena, nagkayayaan, nag-inuman kami, I drove home, drunk, I had an accident, and then, THIS. Ok? JOEY: So, alam mo na pala? SEPH: Ang alin? JOEY: Na gusto ko nang ...

<<< Nakaraan Seph: Why? Joey: I don't love you anymore... Seph: Why? Joey: I don't love you anymore... Seph: Why...? Dahan-dahang lumabas si Seph ng sasakyan. Hindi siya makapaniwalang maayos pa niyang naigagalaw ang katawan niya. He can hardly stand up , saka nya napansin na marami palang tao. He checked himself , nagulat siya nang makita niyang wala siyang sugat maliban sa hiwa sa pisngi na nakuha niya ng pinilit niyang lumabas sa bintana ng driver's seat. Lumakad siyang iika-ika patungo sa sidewalk at naupo sandali sa gutter. Taob ang sasakyan niya, grabe ang sira nito. Pinagtitinginan na siya ng mga nasa paligid, napatingin siya sa kanyang relo -6:45 PM- labasan ng mga nag-oopisina, kaya pala maraming tao. Mula sa mga estrangherong nakatingin sa kanya ng may nag-aalalang mata, he heard a familiar voice. Seph?! Hindi niya alam kung nagha-hallucinate lang siya, pero kilala niya ang boses na yun. ******: Oh my God! Seph, ano nangyari sa 'yo? Seph: Joey? L...

It was 4 days ago , nang nakipag-break si Joey. A day after that, pumunta si Seph sa bahay niya asking for explanations . For a couple of hours, they were quiet , hindi nag-aaway, hindi nagsisigawan, hindi nagsusumbatan. Joey explained, and he heard the things he never imagined he would hear from her. 3 days ago, Seph didn’t showed up for work . Inubos niya ang buong araw na naglalasing. 2 days ago, same. Yesterday , ganun pa rin. Early this morning , nakatanggap siya ng text mula sa isang College friend nila ni Joey. To think na 3 years na silang hindi nagkita-kita na magbabarkada, he never expected na kokontakin siya ni Treena. Natawa na lang si Seph, gusto nyang sabihin na 3 days na siyang umiinom. 10 PM, sa Metrowalk, nagkita-kita ang magbabarkada, nakapwesto na sila Treena, Lex at Faye ng dumating si Seph. Treena: Finally ! Akala ko i-indyanin mo na kami. Seph: Sorry , mahirap mag- park eh. Kamusta na? Long time no see... Lex: Heto, climbing the corporate ladder.. but, we...

Yes, I finally finished Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Though I originally planned to finish it within a week, it got delayed due to some unfortunate *cough* events, but I still finished it anyway. Though the game's ending (which in all it's fairness is a shocker, but I will not spoil it) never took me by surprise simply because I already watched the ending on Youtube. Yes, I do that all the time. I enjoy spoiling myself of endings, be it movies or games. You see, I have this desire to know the conclusion of everything in advance. Maybe it's my left side of the brain, or maybe I am just really curious, I still can't understand. One reason could be because I'm a schemer , like what good-'ol Joker once said. I plan things, I make decisions on things that yet to come, that's why I always make it a point to see how it will end early on, or to predict how one thing would happen. I have these strings in my mind, where I connect events and decisions in my lif...

Sometimes we can't help but to live on dreams... Matalino ka, isang henyo. Halimaw ang tawag sa iyo ng mga classmate mo, hindi kasi utak ng tao ang nasa loob ng bungo mo. Para sa iyo sisiw lang ang mga bagay na gabundok ang hirap para sa lahat. Hindi sa 'yo uso ang salitang imposible. Kaya mong gawing madali kahit ang pinaka-komplikadong bagay. Ikaw ang tipo ng taong gagawin ang lahat matupad lang ang mga pangarap...maliban na lang sa isa. Maganda siya, mabait at matalino bagamat hindi 'sing-talino mo. Noong una mo siyang makita, inamin mo na agad sa sarili mo na may gusto ka na sa kanya. S**t! Nakahanap ka rin ng katapat mo. Ngunit binawi mo ang lahat. Pilit mong pinapaniwala ang sarili mo na wala kang gusto sa kanya, hindi ka puwedeng magkagusto sa kanya. Para sa iyo, mas superyor ang utak kaysa puso kaya hindi ka puwedeng magpadala sa nararamdaman nito. Hindi puwede, hindi dapat. Pero ano 'to? Sa tuwing nakikita mo siya bumibigay ang kabuuan mo, bumabagsak an...