Spring Waltz is a typical Korean series for television that revolves around four lead characters. I’ve seen the same formula over and over again with the romantic comedy Coffee Prince and Princess Hours to heavy drama Memories of Bali and Forbidden Love. And all of the happily ever after of the fairy tales start when the girl did not choose the guy who loves her more (from my viewpoint) than the guy she’s loving.

Myk, a good friend who is known to be a guy believing in destiny, should read this post. He watches Spring Waltz and other telenovelas. And take note, he considers himself as Phillip (and Gerry as Christian) Oh yeah. I believe it is not about the looks. But I knew Arthur of Coffee Prince really looks like him. As for Gerry, ang layo kaya Myk. I can sense that Myk usually see himself as the good but the less fortunate guy. That explains your craziness over Koreanovelas. Don’t worry. I feel the same, dude.

Phillip of Spring Waltz and Troy of Princess Hours suffer from the ‘Best Man Ka Lang’ syndrome of telenovelas. Poor Phillip and Troy, who both patiently do everything nice to Arianne and Janelle against all odds. Even though they love the ladies more than the leading men and even the top billed males hurted the girl once physically and or emotionally, in the end the ladies would choose the latter.

‘Yung bang ginawa na ang lahat-lahat para mapasaya ang minamahal nila. At ginagawa ang mga bagay na hindi makakapagpaiyak sa kanila. Ibinigay lahat ng oras lalo na kapag umiiyak ang babae dahil sa ibang lalake.’ All you would hear is that they can only offer friendship at the most and the heart breaking sorry.

And in reality, ‘Best Man Ka Lang’ syndrome still holds. The best man never win. She would tell you that we never fail to make them smile, we never fail to make her special and we are too good for her. But actually, we never succeed at all.

I was asked during Mr. & Ms EAO last Christmas party in a question-and-answer portion of the contest which I already backed out from. What would you rather choose? To love someone you love or to love someone who loves you? I answered like a martyr who is loving someone he loves. I lost on that popularity-paramihan-ng-pera contest. Ella, one of the managers slash judges, came back to me and explained why I lost – my answer is wrong. I should have chosen the other one.

Well, in telenovelas and reality, it’s not happening!