One day, we’ll meet, I’m sure of it. We run in the same circles and we know the same people — back home in the province and here in Manila. And when we do, you’ll know.
“But until then, I’ll be the girl staring blankly back at you wondering if I should just go and say ‘hi.’ At the same time, I’ll keep hitting the refresh button on this website, hoping you’re looking for me too.” —You cut your hair way too often. -w4m- Katipunan
MANILA, Philippines - Something very strange is happening with Tumblr right now. The “right now”: somewhere in its recesses, a new account is slowly on the rise — not that skyrocketing to ubiquity is news — but the very strange? In a sphere of 100,000 handles devoted to the “me”s and “I”s, this one is all about you.
Missed Connections Manila, according to the blog’s anonymous author, is just that: a connection you made with someone in the city that you weren’t able to follow through. It’s a local adaptation of Missed Connections New York, a section on Craigslist dedicated to rendezvous with strangers. Here in Manila, encounters submitted take place anywhere from Katipunan to B-Side, chronicling one’s experience “with” that guy in the nice tie, or that girl reading her map.
All post titles subscribe to the same format of description of the person you had a missed connection with, plus “m4w/w4m/m4m/w4w” (“man looking for woman,” “woman looking for man,” and so forth) plus location of the missed connection — narrowing down the bearer of the crystal shoe to a few people, and further isolated by short narrations within the text. If you can’t get that missed connection out of your head, submit away, if you fancy — because as the blog’s instigator says, the biggest question is “What if?”
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