Okay. I’m no Angelica Panganiban, and neither is my spouse a Derek Ramsay. But our duo has something very similar to their duo in the sense that we are both opposites.

I am south to his north, I am the creative one, he is the more sensible one. When you open his cabinets, everything is in it’s proper order, filed according to function and color. When you open mine, well…. you better have a helmet on, lest something comes crashing down your head.

Differences notwithstanding, we learn from each other and hopefully bring out the best (sometimes the worst… but that’s another story) in one another. I couldn’t help but smile when I read this article on Angelica and Derek. Consider too that there is quite an age gap between them so it’s expected that A will learn more from D because he has more to teach. Maybe they should do a second part of this email and ask D what A has brought into his life perhaps?

Says she –

Boyfriend Derek Ramsey has done wonders to broaden her perspective. The London-raised hunk is outgoing where Angelica can be painfully shy. He goes out of his way to call up press people and explain his side when an issue arises. He greets everybody, from the highest to the lowest in the cast and production crew.

“I’m afraid people will ignore me,” Angelica says. “That’s why I don’t initiate conversations.”

Derek has taught her to take risks in dealing with others, to trust in their willingness to make friends and put themselves in her shoes.

Now, Angelica is less afraid to let people peek into her thoughts, her feelings.

*Sigh. What love can do…. Read the rest of the article here.