It was not so long ago that my younger girl friends dragged me out to Republiq (that massive dance club in Resorts World) for some fun. We started downing alcohol like there's no tomorrow. Everything went fast before my eyes then I saw 4 of them jumping up and down, dancing, giggling... giddy over the booming voice that rocks the party. Then they screamed! I scrambled for my possessions (including the bottle of Grey Goose) thinking there's a fight that broke out in the club but no... they screamed because of the club's emcee! They went screaming "OMG! OMG!" and my jaw dropped when I saw it's my brother from another mother... Mitch Malli!
Now you ask, who the hell is Mitch Malli to merit a blog from me? Apart from being a hardworking business man, a great PR person, a mushroom that sort of sprouts everywhere (yes he's very visible anywhere that's good)... he is family to me.
Yup, I have known the boy since he was just starting that process of major physical changes by which a boy's body becomes an adult body capable of reproduction. Along with his best buddies Jon Hall and Borgy Manotoc, they were our boys in a gang of hot, party goddesses who acted as their sisters, mothers and best friends. Yes, we were very protective of them. It was like no other group of girls were able talk to them ha ha ha! Altogether coming in clubs and bars (nightly!), the red sea would literally part! I mean, who wouldn't?! Those were the formidable group of happy and good-looking people! Just by looking at the 3 boys alone, women were confused as to who they prefer! We all had fun memories with Mitch, Jon and Borgy... those seemingly endless nights of mayhem and days of alcohol recovery... days when our livers were screaming!
Mitch Malli however, is a far cry from what he is now. Aside from him being more serious with his business, health and physical fitness (girl, did you look at his body lately?!!)... before, he was that ever-smiling but shy type guy... often more quiet than mysterious and suplado-looking Jon Hall. Not to his family of friends though... he is still what he is now... makulit ever!
"Some shit never changes", as we always say in the group... papa Mitch as we all fondly call him back then, has always been the same with us whenever we bump into him. He would always give us big hugs and kisses despite the many changes in his life. He always makes us happy! He is Mr. Happiness for us! He would always get us drunk too! And to barely a handful in my group who have become sober for years, it becomes a beautiful nightmare the next day with matching memories of a lot of leaning... leaning on bars, leaning on walls, leaning on sisters, leaning on waiters, leaning on club bouncers + lots of hugs... hugging bottles, hugging lamp posts and hugging toilets! And what about friggin' Mitch Malli? His ass would still be sober in the morning enough to see us off to our homes safe!
I must say we all literally survived the fun and wrecked nights in the old days with Mitch Malli... and even if we all don't have much photos with him (not yet the digital age at that time), in our minds, we will never be able to survive recalling how much fun we all have in the family back then! He was that good to embed good memories with him in our "then-dying but recovering" brain cells!
In behalf of Melissa, Cristina, Christine J., April, Richelle, Angel, Kelly and the rest of my family of good girl friends, I raise my glass of iced tea to the guy who, as he grows older, he pays less attention to what men say because he just watches what they do. Happy birthday, papa Mitch!!! We love ya!!!
Mitch Malli... Mr. Happiness! Ironic... when one Googles his last name, the first on the search is Malli Leaves... suitable for kidney cleaning yet, he is now one of the ambassadors of fun and clubbing entertainment. That means, unknowingly, he'll give you one heck of a good time at the clubs you never know you're drunk as effed when people tell you the next day you were experiencing a lot of leaning and hugging the night before!
For ladies who likes my hot brother, by all means, follow him at Twitter... @MitchMalli!