I don’t know if I should be raving or ranting about what happened last night but without further ado, here it goes:

Uncle’s in town, after 15 years of their stay in the states, he, Aunt and cousin decided to spend a month’s vacation here in the Philippines. I can clearly remember before Uncle and family left for the US for good, I had a heart to heart talk with him for me to be a good eldest child and to look after my sisters. Of all the talks we had then, he specifically asked me to change my gay ways and be a tough, masculine, straight guy my late father and him wanted me to be.

So, it was a really awkward situation for a gay like me to be in. Imagine me on that baritone voice talking to my uncle about stuffs like girls (?), sports and all those guy talk. It didn’t help that he had seen my FHM collection and I really can’t blame him for assuming that I’m drooling over the tits and the butts when in reality I was looking for tips on how to pleasure men, hehehe!

T’was a real torture. I can’t even walk, move about, and talk without being too conscious that my gay tendencies will manifest in front of my uncle and the lot. Add the fact that one of my cousin’s guy cousin is really interesting that I can’t help but think that he is somehow getting the subtle messages I’m throwing him like, “Hey, dude, have you watched Liberated 2? Francine (Prieto) really did go all the way on that one, I can watch it with you if you want, huh?”

Good thing though, that uncle didn’t mention or smell anything about my questionable preference. The worst thing he said was something like about me being too pale – skinned for a guy. I just shrugged it off and reminded him that it runs in our family, that his brother (my late father) is even paler than me compared.

It was a real torture, yes. But I am still glad that uncle’s home again, but I hope this time no more talks like that when I was a kid. I’m his only nephew, but he still got four nieces (my sisters) to look over [and torture] with!