Question at Midnight #6
Han Solo in carbonite: First love is traumatic.
Who is the first human you ever had a crush on? (Film/TV/pop stars included)
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September 29th, 2014 at 00:25
When I was four, I wished I were Sheryl Cruz so I could be with Romnick Sarmenta.
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September 29th, 2014 at 00:37
Christina Gonzales in her semi-nude photo shot in the poster for a famous alcoholic beverage in the late 1980s (can’t remember exactly but hell, she gave me something else then).
September 29th, 2014 at 01:03
Jeremy Irons (Uncle Scar).
September 29th, 2014 at 01:20
First Human Crush: Keannu Reeves as Scott Favor
Crush/Kilig Factor *insert irritating High School girlish giggling here* : 11/10
How it happened?: All because I watched “My Own Private Idaho” in the middle of the night, unsupervised, and mind you this was on free TV *ehem RPN*, a year or two before the millennium.
While most people were introduced to gay films after watching “Brokeback Mountain;” I, on the other hand have been indoctrinated by “My Own Private Idaho,” eons before. And I did wish that he and River Phoenix would make gazillions of babies looking like them. Anyways, I didn’t really know who they were until the glorious age of Google and Wikipedia happened.
September 29th, 2014 at 01:48
Si El-El (nickname niya talaga iyan). Dahil sa kanya, seven years old pa lang ako, may malisya na. Pinulot niya ang nalaglag kong beinte singko sa kanal nang makasabay ko siyang bumili sa tindahan. Kapag nagdadaan ako sa bahay nila sa tabi ng tulay, palagi kong tinitingnan ang graduation picture niya na nakasabit sa dingding. May asawa at junakis na siya ngayon.
September 29th, 2014 at 07:33
I was seven, I think, when I first saw Dondee and his terribly attractive teeth. He was nine, or ten, I think, thin, had thick curly hair that framed his malnourished face, and that pair of two front teeth on him, wow, set him apart from his squatter friends. What about his two front teeth? They were big. And white. And that was all it took. I rushed home to take a bath at five in the afternoon because I wanted to look fresh for that third world squirrel.
He had this white shirt on the first time I saw him, and it was a size too big, but that’s okay because it looked well with his big teeth anyway. Most especially when he smiled that darling smile. It was darling because of the teeth. Anyway, I was seven, I think, and I was opposed to taking baths, for sure. I had to make an exception because he was Dondee with the Two Front Teeth.
I knew I was gay years earlier. And then I came to terms with my taste in men. I had no idea I will be weird.
September 29th, 2014 at 08:05
The carpenter who worked on our house. He was fair skinned, kindly and, in retrospect, looked like a young Terence Stamp (if you squinted).
September 29th, 2014 at 09:11
I didn’t realize it at that time (as I was a pre-teen kid who was still in denial regarding his sexuality and did not think I was being so gay), but this distinction goes to the late matinee idol Ronnel Victor.
It was the late 80s, and I just loved watching him and his movies. Three of my favorite movies of the time were likely because of him: Mirror Mirror on the Wall, where he was partnered with Sheryl Cruz; Halimaw sa Banga, where he was partnered with Lotlot De Leon; and Mga Lahing Pikutin, where he was partnered with Nadia Montenegro. I have a VCD of the first and still regret being unable to find any kind of copy of the other two. I also remember him in Di Bale Na Lang starring Gary V. but could not recall if had a love team there.
“You just want to be him,” I convinced myself at that time, owing to my obsession in seeing everything he was in. Alas, hindsight is 20/20, and years later, I accepted the fact that he was my first childhood crush and not (as I kept on telling myself and others) Isabel Granada.
September 29th, 2014 at 10:26
My first crush was McGyver! I was an avid fan and religiously watched it when I was a kid.
September 29th, 2014 at 10:40
I was introduced to the Perry Mason series by an uncle boarding in our place while attending law school. The lawyer-detective occupied the dominant role in my romantic illusions during my entire high school years, somehow provided relief to scathing conditions an adolescent girl had to weather in a patriarchal, male-chauvinistic environment.
September 29th, 2014 at 10:52
Ate Sienna from Batibot. Kuya Bodjie drove me into fits of jealousy. I remember reading a recipe for kulam from a sleazy tabloid to freeze someone’s carnal desire, so I buried our helper’s toothbrush (to represent old man Bodjie’s member) in our backyard and perform oration for 3 nights straight. I was 7. Looking back I feel sick in the head for feeling “differently” when she starts singing “alin, alin, alin ang naiba” but at least I ate my is-kar-gu.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:05
Julian Lennon. I didn’t know it was crush back then. But I looked forward to seeing his video for Because on Thursday afternoons: long curly hair, one dangling earring, soft gaze, soft voice, soft smile. Because of him, I didn’t mind it so much anymore that the music video show (I think it was called MV2) had to come on and cut short my viewing of Super Friends.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:22
Joyce Jimenez. The raging hormones of a timid high school student made me secure a community tax certificate in order to enter Ayala and SM cinemas in Cebu.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:33
I was in grade 2 when I was first introduced to the word crush. “Sinong crush mo sa school?” I was quite ashamed that I don’t have a name to answer the question. And then I met my cousin four years my senior. He had a car (no one gave a sh** that a young boy drove freely and unsupervised in the streets of Marawi City) and plays the guitar. Being easily impressed and so eager to have a crush, I finally had a name: Hussein.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:38
Hey ____, a Beatles’ hit, my first love-themed song dedicated to him, a classmate bearing the same name. Every afternoon, after class, I would listen to that song and imagine him – he of the dark, masculine (as any 3rd-grader could be in short pants!), intelligent, low-voiced kid. With all the heart-fluttering, sigh-inducing, spaced-out look I had whenever he was in my sight, of course, I dared not to speak to him!
September 29th, 2014 at 12:04
Kevin Arnold :) The Wonder Years
September 29th, 2014 at 12:43
ariel rivera.
September 29th, 2014 at 12:44
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
September 29th, 2014 at 12:52
My dad was watching Simon and Garfunkel Live in Central Park on betamax. Out of the blue I asked my dad if Garfunkel has a wife. He saw right through the four year old me.
September 29th, 2014 at 15:06
The guy in class who could breeze through those infernal multiplication window cards—not just on paper but during surprise recitations. Lesser beings would’ve peed their pants.
He and his mom dropped by our house one time to copy some some assignment questions he might’ve missed. I was so excited, I grabbed my notebook and forgot I didn’t bother writing down any of said assignment. Needless to say, he never visited again.
September 29th, 2014 at 15:18
Ricky Martin, in all his Shake Your Bonbon glory. My aunt gave me a poster of him as a gift and I posted the damn thing on my bedroom door thinking that his smile would warmly welcome guests and relatives inside. I was turning eight that time and I remember playing his album, then in cassette tape, at 12 midnight (or what I believed to be 12 midnight) on my birthday, intently singing his songs in Spanish (or my own version of Spanish), and wishing for him to come to my party.
More than ten years later, he comes out of the closet–officially. I realize now that my ‘gaydar’ has malfunctioned ever since I had a crush on Ricky Martin; owing to the number of times I’ve had a crush on guys who would turn out to be in a platonic relationship with the same sex.
September 29th, 2014 at 16:03
Jan Michael Vincent in “The Winds of War”. I also watched him for 2 years in “Airwolf”. At 10 years old, I already had a predilection for men in uniform.
September 29th, 2014 at 16:57
I think I was around 7 years old when I watched my first Star Wars movie, it was Return of the Jedi. I remembered being amazed and ridiculously excited about the lightsabers , spaceships, shiny robots and the blue aliens. I couldn’t sit still. But when I saw Luke Skywalker all clad in black doing that back flip and catching his blue lightsaber in the air, whoa! I remembered quite clearly how my heart started beating up so fast I had to catch my breath and wondered why. That started a lifelong nerd quest for everything Star Wars. I was waaay too young to know what it was but when I thought about it long after I grew breasts and started fangirling over Ricky Martin then of Menudo, yeah, Luke Skywalker, definitely my first crush. And that’s not so bad. R2D2 was a close second.
September 29th, 2014 at 17:44
It was my uncle. My mother being the firstborn, her youngest brother’s and my age gap wasn’t that big. When I was 7 (or younger), I remember being excited whenever he visits because he always brought me pasalubongs. He also has this habit of biting my cheeks because my mother (allegedly) used to do it to him (and now I do it to his children). Of course there wasn’t any form of malice at that time. The feeling vanished when social constructs set in and I settled for a classmate.
September 29th, 2014 at 18:41
Eh Kasi Bata’s RR Herrera! It was a popular children’s show in 1991 (I was seven), LA Lopez was still considered adorable back then :D
September 29th, 2014 at 19:11
In the third grade, there was a new boy in school named Peter. I fell hard. I could talk and play with other boy classmates, but I always got shy around him. The following year I still went to the fair of that school even though I had been transferred to a different school. I saw him there but that was it, no recognition nor hello. It was very unrequited. (I don’t think he’d remember me, either, even if I find him on FB.)
September 29th, 2014 at 19:28
My first crush was a girl named Olive. We were six then. She took pride in broadcasting to all of our playmates that I was her boyfriend based from that fact that I held her hands in a stupid game that I fail to recall. I was the subject of ridicule from that point on. I did everything to avoid her and realized gradually that I fancy her as well. The idea of kissing her on the cheek bugged for some time. I finally stumbled upon a chance and went for it. She cried and ran home. Some days after she saw me and smiled like nothing happened. I can’t remember why but I never spoke to her again after. Maybe I was ashamed.
My first lustful crush was Maui Taylor. All I seem to think of back in high school was her bosom. He amazing amazing bosom.
September 29th, 2014 at 19:53
Ana Roces. I can’t remember how or why I got a crush on her, but I do know I kept a picture of her (wearing a white gown, probably from her debut) in my childhood diary. Our household help saw it in the palengke and bought it as a gift for me (no Google or imdb.com back then).
Funny though that my parents insist that my first crush was RR Herrera (I’m a girl).
September 29th, 2014 at 20:39
The very earliest I can remember is Erika’s brother Ulrich (Daimos). Loved the wings and the blonde hair! As for human, I can’t mention his very unique name but I remember we played harangan-taga and I went home singing Somewhere over the Rainbow or something really cheesy.
September 29th, 2014 at 20:43
My dance partner in a grade school performance of The Coconut Song. First time to hold a girl’s hand too. :)
September 29th, 2014 at 21:03
Diomedes Maturan.
I don’t know why I liked him as a kid. My nanny and I used to watch those black and white movies on TV and I looked forward to seeing him more than I liked watching Rogelio dela Rosa and Carmen Rosales buss cheeks under the mango tree.
September 29th, 2014 at 22:37
David Bowie as Prince Jareth in the Labyrinth. Those eyebrows. Sigh.
September 29th, 2014 at 22:39
Laana Malicsi.
Has a good set of teeth for a 7 year old.
I remember cheating at F-L-A-M-E-S so that it would end in M(arriage) even if the real result would be F(riends).
September 29th, 2014 at 23:56
Christina Ricci.
September 30th, 2014 at 00:20
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