walang pakialamanan ng pashon!

my friend bob (one of my frequent source of amusing text messages) got himself a nikon d80, the lucky bastard. yesterday, he told me about it and were talking about photography, clay animation, and me reposting some of his text messages online.

i was preparing for work when he sent these messages:

Yung dslr camera kinukuha ng bro ko, sabi ko "no way! Akin to, hiramin mo nalang." sabi niya "lahat nalang sayo!" sabi ko "may play station 3 ka na nga e" sabi nya "lahat nalang ng camera sa iyo!"

(my brother is taking the dslr camera, i said 'no way! this is mine, you could borrow it instead.' he said, 'everything is always yours!' i said 'but you have a playstation 3' he said 'all of the cameras are always yours!')

I told him "its my pashon, walang pakialamanan ng pashon!"

('it's my passion, you don't meddle with my passion!')

he concluded it with:

Nagsumbong siya kay mama! Kunin daw yung dslr! No, ilolock ko to sa cabinet, late na ko for work! Anu ba yan!

(he told mama! he said get the dslr! no, i'll lock this in the cabinet, i'm late for work!)*

*it's difficult to translate the concentrated emotion when filipinos exclaim "ano ba yan!" (lit. what was that! but the real meaning is way different.)

i'd give bob's brother the fighting spirit award for brushing off a good counter-argument. in a way, i wish i have petty arguments with my brother like that but we have divergent interests. we even have different tastes in porn.