F MARKS THE SPOT: SOME NOTES ON FRIENDSHIP and FURNITURE

This is my cocktail table. Unlike an ordinary cocktail table that serves no more than hold a stinking ashtray or pair of tired feet, my furniture has multiple functions over and above its inherent duty of balancing things up between sofa and loveseat. The 1st picture shows it's prime function: library annex. See that book on the right? That's "Principles of Uncertainty" which I got from Jet David last Christmas. The green book, standing 3rd from left, is my favorite anthology of essays, all winners of the prestigious Pushcart Prize. The red book, standing 3rd from the right, is a compilation of Nobel Lectures - acceptance speeches of Nobel Prize winners in Literature - from 1986 to 2004.




The 2nd photo depicts my furniture's more utilitarian essence: as emergency dining table for somebody hungry for food and yearning for tv. I'm sure your eyes are drawn to the steaming bowl of soup. That's corned beef sinigang, a dish I learned from food guru Toni Tiu.

These pictures show, among others, that in my abode, I am always within my friends' presence.