The question my straight friend and yosi-mate, Russel Crowe, not the actor of course, asked me not too long ago.


I was caught off guard, not sure whether to give an affirmative answer or otherwise. I remembered asking him why the question and why he wanted to know. If I had known him to have some homo inclination, I would have thought he's confessing his love for complicated dude, hehehe!


But he's as straight as he can be. So I had to cross that one out as a probable reason why he asked. Good thing coz I was beginning to formulate some weird theories in my head.


Turned out that Mr. Lover Boy, Russel, was having some love problems and I was the most convenient Joe D' Mango he could find that time.


Some of the questions I remember him asking me:


"How do you define love?"
"When can you say if it's true love or not?"
"When is love worth fighting for?"


I told him that I really have a jaded view of this thing called LOVE. But at the same time my mind was suddenly invigorated and surprisingly stimulated by these questions that I had to try answering them with all my jaded mind can muster. I was no help really coz everytime I offer consoling advices and words of wisdom, he would cut me off by saying:


"It's different coz you're gay and I'm straight."


I would then answer back with:


"It's just your straight guy's point of view."


To say that that one - afternoon cigarette pep talk between a straight guy and a gay guy was a waste of time - is the understatement of the century. Though we didn't end up in a shouting match or any of that sort, the conversation was utterly futile. After three sticks of cigarettes consumed, he ended up more confused and me still racking my brains on his first question until now.


Guess that's one thing I had to find out for myself first.