03.12.07
Love in the time of blogging, Pinoy-style
- Features, Romance -
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
WHAT if you get a famous British writer, say, Neil Gaiman, to help you propose to your girlfriend during a book-signing event. Wouldn’t that be cool?
A Filipino blogger tried and succeeded.
The story begins with Jason Drilon, a Filipino writer for a local advertising agency who had been blogging for close to five years. Egged on by his friends to make his proposal “creative,” he decided to drop Gaiman an e-mail through his popular blog. It was, as he recalled it, suntok sa buwan, a Filipino phrase which roughly means he had his fingers crossed when he sent a long e-mail to the famous British author.
