The Photography of Honza

My Czech friend Honza is an accomplished website designer, painter and photographer. Most of his works are posted on his website www.koumar.net but once in a while he sends me his latest pictures. He’s using a Pentax K100D with a 15-50 mm kit lens and 70-300 mm Tamron lens.

I adore his pictures. It inspires me to visit his place on the Czech Republic. In time, I’m hoping to travel to Europe. For now, let me just share some of his latest pictures he sent me via email. We both love to take pictures of churches by the way.

Thank you Honza for the gorgeous pictures! Keep them coming.

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Happy 3rd Year Friendship Anniversary Honza!

Honza is my Caucasian Czech friend whom I’ve been exchanging emails for almost 3 years now. Our 3^rd year Friendship Anniversary is actually on the 17^th of August, 2012. I’m just excited to greet him thus I’m already posting my blog post about him now.

I saw Honza’s profile on Gay Friend Match and I sent him an email on August 15, 2009 saying:

Hi!

I read your profile from www.gayfriendmatch.com and you seems like a good guy! What's your name by the way?

I'm Elmer, 32 years old from the Philippines. I'm also looking for penpals around the world. I hope we could get to know each other soon.

Hope to hear from you!

Elmer

Honza replied back on the same day saying:

I am very ordinary guy from the Czech Republic, looking for penpals all around the world in order to know more about foreign countries and about people living there. We can talk about everything.

I am especially interested in people who prefer the spiritual life to the perfect body and who know how nice this world can be

I look forward to your e-mails

It seems that I wasn’t able to reply immediately so he made a follow-up email saying:

Hello Elmer

Thanks a lot for writing.

Well, my name is Honza ( it is an informal shape of the name Jan ). I am 31 years old and I live in Jihlava which is a smaller town in the centre of the Czech Republic at about 120 km far from Prague ( our capital ). I work here as a shop assistant and sometimes I work as a guide in the local historical Underground Labyrinth, because I like guiding and tourists and languages

I am single but I do not look for partner by this way, I think that the relationships on the distant do not work. How about you? Are you engaged? If you are interested be sure to write. I look forward to your email.

Honza

I finally replied back saying (or should I say, emailing):

Hi Honza!

Thank you so much for writing back! I really hope we could get along very well and have good correspondence.

I'm also a single guy and is not engage with anyone. I do have lots of good male friends but no lover at this moment. I'm meeting guys around my vicinity, in Pasig City, but I can't find the right guy for me. Maybe it would take some time. I also don't believe in long distance relationship (among lovers) but I certainly believe that 2 guys living half-way around the world can be the best of friends.

I'm an average happy-go-lucky Filipino guy. I'm Catholic (but I'm not religious) and I work in a Call Center as a Customer Service Representative. It's my way of improving my oral and written English since our clients are based in the USA. I've been working in the Call Center Industry for almost 3 years now. Prior to that, I work in a construction firm as a Clerk.

I'm a guy who loves playing computer games. I'm also into novels, movies and music. I'm fascinated with the vampire myth -- that is why I read almost all novels about vampires. Have you heard about the novel-to-film "Twilight"? It's a huge box office movie about a gorgeous vampire.

Regarding relationship, I had a boyfriend for about a year and a good sexual buddy as well. I do enjoy monogamous sex a lot.

Tell me more about you. Can you send me some pictures? I'm inserting a picture of me using my cellphone Nokia.

Take care always and hope to hear from you soon!

Elmer

From those first few exchanges of emails, we soon find each other celebrating our 1st Friendship Anniversary and our 2nd Friendship Anniversary. I can’t remember exactly why our friendship anniversary is during the 17th of August (when in fact, I sent him my first email on August 15, 2012). I guess I was the one who suggested that date and I erroneously saw my Thunderbird client showing that I sent the email August 17. It’s only now that I am certain that I sent the email August 15, 2009.

Well, the important thing is that we’ll be celebrating our 3rd Year Friendship Anniversary very soon. So far, Honza is the 2nd guy that I’ve been exchanging emails with the longest. The longest foreign pen pal I had was Geoffrey, a Canadian guy around my age, who, I’ve been exchanging emails for 4 years until his untimely death in 2004.

Honza is tied for 1st place with my first love John as the closest guy I have ever met. I have talked with Honza (through email) on EVERYTHING under the sun. I feel very comfortable when I share the things that have been bothering me with Honza.

Honza, I just wanted to thank you for being friends with me for almost 3 years. I hope we’ll celebrate more friendship anniversaries in the future and hopefully, we’ll meet in person soon. Take care always and I love you my friend!

Photo taken from here.

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Letter To Honza

Honza is a Czech friend of mine whom I’ve been exchanging emails for almost 3 years now. He’s a Caucasian guy around my age, PLU and currently teaches at a university in Prague.

A marsh land in Czech Republic. This is one of the numerous pictures Honza is sending me for the past 3 years. He’s also a photographer.

Hi Honza!

How are you doing today? I hope everything's okay.

Chill out Honza. Don't feel depress. Also, don't be bother by age. If someone seems to be interested in you (who happens to be younger than you), just be friendly. There are some young guys who prefer older guys. If you're not that interesting, I doubt if he'll spend time talking to you. The mere fact that a guy is talking to you means that somehow he wanted to be friends or so. So relax, entertain those guys who strike a conversation with you.

You read an 800 page book? Wow. That's quite a book. I wish I could return to my younger self who's fond of reading novels and books. I haven't read a book in a year! The last book I read was the 6th book of the Harry Potter series. Internet access really is bad for reading. I felt that most of my free time is spend on the Internet and I have absolutely no time for reading. Whenever I read lately, I tend to fell asleep. I haven't finished the last book I've purchased -- The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. BTW, is your thesis in English? Hope you could send me a copy once it's finished.

I adore the pictures of the churches you've uploaded on Facebook. They're gorgeous. I envy your buildings because your power system (electricity) is laid underground, right? So your buildings are more picturesque since they don't have wires hanging all over the place. That's one problem here in the Philippines. We're a tropical country who's prone to flooding that's why our power system is overhead. Thus, most of our pictures of buildings have some wires in it.

BTW, Glenn broke up with me a few weeks ago. He said that I failed to pass his test or something. We know each other’s password in Facebook and we sometimes log in to each other’s account. I noticed that he's been chatting over Facebook to some guys and he's calling them "baby" (sweetheart or something). So I grab a screenshots of the conversations and sent to him. I asked for his explanation. He said that he's just testing me or something, if I'll get jealous. Of course I said I'm jealous because he's being a flirt over Facebook. He got mad about it and broke up with me in the end. He said he was just testing me and I failed his test. I said he did well with those test because it appears real to me.

Prior to that fight, we also had an argument on how I spend my money. I was not paying my bills for this cellphone company and he's worried about it. I said I'll pay it if I feel like paying it. I don't care if they cut my subscription or something. I feel like spending my money more on dates with him. He's mad about it saying I'm being childish for not putting priority on my dues. I said, I'm just spending money more on the things I feel like spending it too. I also said to him that he should not interfere on how I spend my money because even married couples don’t do such thing. This really made him angry.

So he broke up with me even though I said my apologies for not believing his explanation. We haven't seen each other for weeks now although we still send each other text messages. We're quite civil to each other nowadays and I miss him a lot but it seems he already moved on. The last time we exchange messages via chat, some rich guy is courting him and that he's still thinking on whether he'll say YES to the guy. So right now, I'm officially single but still feel sad about the whole thing. I feel sad that he broke up with me for such petite arguments.

Lately, I've been diverting my thoughts and time to photography. I've been attending a lot of seminars and I even join a local photography group. Next week, I'll actively take pictures of Araw ng Pasig (Pasig City Day Celebration). Photography is such a nice therapy.

Happy 3rd Friendship Anniversary Honza on August 17! Thank you for being my friend. BTW, I'll be publishing this email on my blog. Take care!

Elmer

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