the difference between tami and rosas street girl

 Tami:

• Likes drawing

• Likes fashion, especially weird fashion.

• Likes customized interior design. She designs weird and useful homes. She likes special needs. She doesn’t design regal homes.

• Likes anime. A lot of her inspiration comes from anime and K-dramas.

• Likes abstract art. Likes modern art.

• Talks to strangers, even if they don’t know each other. Always weird things as her introduction. There is no normal introduction.

• Likes short films.

• Likes the internet. Likes Pastillas Girl and other Internet Outcasts. She thinks it gives her money.

• Likes get-rich-quick schemes. Would do anything for money.

• Likes thrift books. Would buy books from anywhere, including the convenience store and grocery.

• Likes convenience stores.

• Likes autistic people.

• Likes stories of school shooters, bank heists, serial killers, murders, abuse, theft and robbery, terrorism, wartime, revolutions

• Likes colorful tank tops, shorts and mini-skirts. And crisp T-shirts.

• Likes wearing an office polo as her jacket.

• Likes disabled people.

• Likes squatters’ areas.

• Likes big shoes. Likes colorful shoes. 

• Likes exclusive subdivisions and condominiums. Always needs aircon.

• Likes the mall.

• Likes the ukay-ukay stores.

• Likes the dry market for clothes.

• Likes dollar stores like Miniso, Daiso, Mumuso, Yoyoso, Artbox.

• Likes National Bookstore and Fully Booked.

• Likes pizza and ice cream.

• Likes milk tea.

• Likes the following indie magazines: Flow, Frankie and Savvy Tokyo.

• Likes Artwork and Japanese restaurants.

• Likes Viu (Korean Dramas) as her main online streaming service.

• Has pitch/ghost skin and also likes colorful things. So, she likes Ayala Malls.

• Victory Katipunan member.

Rosas street girl

• Is more complicated than a stupid girl with pigtails.

• Smarter than a girl who wears short shorts.

• Has a secret system of riding. Doesn’t take public transpo.

• Doesn’t ride the bus.

• Covers up her body with a big, fancy, velvet or leather jacket. Trench coat is okay.

• Let’s down her hair. Doesn’t tie her hair up like a prude.

• Has her own typewriter and factory items in her house.

• Lives on good old Bagong Ilog, Pasig City.

• The roof kind of leaks sometimes. But it’s just the right kind of atmosphere for some cigarettes.

• Healthy living? Nah.

• Likes strapped sandals.

• Likes ¾ ankle pants.

• Likes girls’ polo shirts.

• Likes vinyl records. Has her own gramophone.

• Rosas Mendoza is her name.

• Gets her rations from a secret food service. She doesn’t do groceries.

• Doesn’t like stripes.

• Likes secret costume parties.

• Has a digital watch. Not an analogue watch.

• Likes wooden baubles. Black or brown wooden baubles.

• Her electric fan is an industrial-strength fan. Add an old, rusty and noisy aircon.

• Likes a wooden house. A house with lots of wood. Not cement.

• Bunny slippers. Not beach flip-flops.

• Lacey underwear. 

• Just a civil union. No wedding.

• Doesn’t like metal or metal-plate jewelry. That’s for lizards.

• Likes kale. Doesn’t munch on cookies. 

• Chips are for pieces. It’s not filling.

• Just reads her readings once and attends lectures. Doesn’t review or memorize. Writes her papers off the top of her head. Leaves the lecture hall whenever she feels like it, and goes out for a smoke.

• Camel Cigarettes are her thing.

• Occasionally rolls some weed. Has a bong.

• Drives or rides a Cadillac.

• Likes her friends’ own bands. Just listens to her friends’ music on vinyl.

• Hangs out at her friends’ garage band practice for summer.

• Likes hanging abandoned warehouses.

• Watches on Netflix.

• Likes Film Noir and black and white films.

• Has a Canon DSLR.

• Has a Film SLR.

• Uses canvas, oils and big wooden brushes for paintings.

• Has a great big curly, wooden chair.

• Has a great, big curly front door.

• Has her own standing mailbox.

• She has no front gate. Just a front door. People/delivery guys knock on her door to enter.

• Has a big Balikbayan Box Subscription of all the best items in the Metro delivered to her door monthly.

• Has an oven stove. She also has a blender. When she doesn’t have anything to do, she listens to audio narrations of her inbox.