Thursday, August 30, 2007

Ano na naman ito??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIzcUlQFTjg

I am so sorry but I am sick and tired of Willie. Can you just axe him from the noon time show business?? Isn't it enough for him to massacre 73 people? And now pinapalabas nya na martyr pa sya since pinapasaya nya ang buong Pilipinas. Shut up, man. Sorry ABS guys. I boycotted his show since the stampede happened. Can you take seeing your kababayans die after shitting in their pants, standing in line for 3 days and doing everything standing up? I am sorry but this is beyond my level of comprehension of humanity. I mean I dont care about the geeks who lined up for Harry Potter, the iPhone and the Wii---at the end nobody died. But these people lined up and lost their lives for this freaking show. My question is WHY IS IT STILL IN THE AIR? The tragedy was so outrageous that even Chancellor Nemenzo made a comment on it in the Inquirer, condemning the show and saying it cultivates a culture of begging, which I think is so much true.

For the argument at hand, it was an obvious mistake and Willie should do reparations for that. Its obvious that he is not taking his work seriously and this mistake translates to pandadaya. What is so wrong about Joey's comment about it?

Mr Willie, I think you owe the public a lot of explanation.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Are We There Yet?

One of the must-have skill that I haven't learned yet is driving. So, when my friend Beej asked me to go with him on a cross-country drive to LA, I said yes, for the lack of better things to do. And then he went: "We can switch turns on the wheel." Uh-huh. Honey, I would LOVE to, but then I don't want to end up dead in the middle of Lubbock, Texas. He still took me in for the offer regardless (irregardless) of my incapacity. He's one heck of a friend!

In five hours, we will start our 4 day journey to California, which I have been dreading since the beginning of this week. I've never tried sitting in a car in a 12-hour car drive before. No, sir. So, I've been researching for the best route, best places to go (i.e. all those non-driving stuff), things to watch out for and this has kept me busy for the past days. I've been doing road researching and motel checks. So far, the only thing sure is the interstates that we are going to take. Hopefully, by the end in day 1, we will find ourselves in Dayton. OH. But then lets see.

So...it will be Beej, me and-- tada!--Cubby...his irritating pomeranian pooch, which I am willing to trade off for a room somewhere in Tulsa, OK. Bwahaha. Well, Cubby has a temper, which is apt for his 14-year life in this human world: if I am THAT old, I'll be grumpy as well. So we'll be bringing his car loaded with a trunkfull of books, backseat-full of clothes, two iPods, two sacks of chips, a cooler with water and soda and two laptops. Can we survive this one??

But I am excited as well. This is an adventure of a lifetime! A tick on the list of the stuff that you'll do once but never try again: e.g. standing for 4 hours in Times Square, in freezing weather, waiting for the wretched disco ball to fall down in New Years' Eve and jumping a cliff in Batangas that almost broke my coccyx (buti na lang it was soft sand). Hmmm...I wonder what Oklahoma looks like. And Texas and oh, New Mexico. One thing I like to do with trips is navigating. This time we are not using GPS but a guide from AAA and a map of the US interstates. I just hope theres no obstacles in the way: traffic, closed roads and ugh, natural calamities which have been giving me cold feet since Monday.

Honestly, I am also having anxieties of leaving New York City. Although I'll just be spending 2 weeks in the west coast, I'll be having NYC withdrawal. The city is my addiction. Its like sucking a good breath of cigarette after sex. The city suffocates you at first but then it speeds up your circulation, elevates your blood pressure and makes you hold your dear breath like its your last one. It puts you in a higher plane of awareness and a sense of euphoria for being there. The blinding lights of Time Square is ecstasy without the pill: it heightens your senses and dampens your mood. And when your get your down, you crave more for the city. More of what it can offer. More of what it can give and definitely more than what you can take. The city is my addiction, and the metaphor is lucid as a dreamless night.

Moreover, I am truly appreciating my place in the city. Hell's Kitchen is the best place to be. Bars that I frequently go to are one to two blocks from each other. I walk to Broadway shows and Central Park. And I have my closest friends in my reach.

But maybe there's something in store for me in LA. Something that I have always wanted and still not yet realized. I believe that travel increases my luck. Not that I have luck yet, but it is just a fung shui thing that i picked from my friend. Luck for us slimy serpents who are not so lucky in this year.

Well, then, I am off to sleep now...