NEWS TODAY: Monster Kid, Typhoon, and RH

Haven't been watching the news lately. Actually, news is the only thing I watch in tv these days. All the local shows which they call "teleserye/telenobela/bullshits" are just plain sick and stupid. Arrggh! Truly, the world of local tv is reeking of stupidity and evil.

This will be a short story, so just bear with me. I remember my sister telling me about her colleague's 7yo daugther.  Her Inaanak (godchild) to be precise. Well, her colleague brought the kid to the office one day, and being the typical mischievous kid, the kid took my sister's keys and hid it somewhere. My sister knew that it was her inaanak who took it.  She saw her inaanak playing around with her keys a few moments before she realized it was missing.  Being the "mabait na ninang", she (doing the baby talk) asked the kid to return her keys offering her some candies in return.  To everyone's surprise, the child answered "Sinungaling ka ninang! Wala akong kinukuha! Sinungalang si Ninang, Mama!" (You're a liar, I didn't take your keys, biatch!), like a short drama skit you'd often see in tv.  (Just kidding, hehehe - the kid didn't say the b word.  I just put it for additional effect.)  Later that day, the kid's mother found my sister's keys inside their grocery bag. Pfft. On that same day, the kid found another victim in the office, this time it's my sister's 8-month-old pregnant colleague.  Preggy was doing a report, or sort of, in the computer, but the kid kept pestering her, pushing random keys in the keyboard and interrupting her work.  Preggy finally lost her patience and ordered the kid to stop or she'd ask the guard to take her to jail. The kid, again, suddenly turned into a teleserye-montster-child and said  "Ayaw ko! Sige, papatayin ko yang baby mo sa tyan! Gusto mo patayin ko yan?!" (Go ahead and I'll kill your baby!  Do you want me to kill your baby?!)  Everyone was shocked. And what did the kid's mom do? Nothing. Pfft. The mother just laughed. You know, she just gave the "kids-are-really-like-this" kind of laugh and said pasensya na. That kid is abominable! It's evil! Give her few more years and she'd be yelling "Pasasabugin ko kayong mga putang ina nyo!!!" while holding a grenade. Ooops, haha. Don't get me wrong. I love kids, but I hate parents who don't know how to control and teach their children values. That's what happens when parents let their kids watch those sick, local tv drama series without adult supervision.

PAG-ASA was anticipating a typhoon to hit Manila and that's been the news since Thursday of last week. I just learned this morning that the typhoon went a little up north, thus avoiding Manila. Manila is safe for now. It's typhoon signal number 4 in some provinces in Northern Luzon.  People are worried that it's going to be like Ondoy, which was a real disaster last year. Imagine one month's worth of the normal rainfail, falling on Metro Manila in just 6hrs. That was the worst rainfall here since 1960's. The drainage system in Manila sucks, but I think even with a good drainage system Manila will still be overwhelmed by that amount of rainfall.  I haven't seen the sun since Saturday, and I miss it.

Another thing that's been on the local news since the beginning of the month, and I've been wanting to blog about but didn't, is the Reproductive Health bill (RH).  The Church's opinion of the RH bill doesn't really make them appear pro-life, but rather pro-birth.  Seems like they only care about the birth.  But do they really care about what happnes after it?  I wrote a comment in one of the dot coms that I frequent in the blogosphere.  I think it is best if I'll just copy-paste it here. (Saves me time. It's written in Tagalog though.)

My comment in Mabuti Na Lang Pala at Wala Akong Relihiyon by Lio Loco, on Oct.11

sa mga ikinakatwiran ng simbahan, hindi naman sila lumalabas na pro-life, kundi pro-birth lamang. Hindi naman sila nag-aalala kung anong mangyayari pagkatapos ng ipanganak ng sanggol. Napanood ko yung interbyu ni Boy Abunda with Bishop Deogracias Iniguez sa The Bottomline kagabi. Nadisappoint ako dahil hindi pa pala nababasa nung bishop yung kabuuan ng RH Bill. eh hindi lang naman ukol sa contraception ang laman nito. marami pang bagay ang nakapaloob sa bill gaya ng ano at ng ano (too many to mention, haha).

isa pa, may mga bagay na hindi dapat ikategorya bilang moral o imoral, gaya nitong RH Bill, sa parehong paraan na hindi maaaring ikategorya ang contraception bilang anti-life o pro-life. Hindi ito pro-life pero hindi rin naman ito anti-life. (malabo ba?) kaya labas na dapat ang simbahan sa usaping ito. pero mukang mahihirapan sila na basta nalang manahimik, kasi nga naman hindi lang bahagi ng idelohiya ng pananampalataya nila ang kailangan nilang isantabi pansamantala, kundi pati narin ang pride nila. pero kagaya natin, maaari ding magbigay ang mga pari ng kanilang pananaw tungkol sa usaping ito bilang mga mamamayan ng bansa (oo, miyembro din sila ng tinatawag na "boss" ni pnoy bilang mga botante at kapwa mga pilipino), ngunit hindi ang mag-utos ng kung ano ang dapat gawin ng gobyerno lalo na't bahagi ng kinabukasan ng bansa ang nakataya.

sang-ayon ako sa mensahe na nais na iparating ni beltran, ngunit hindi sa paraan na ginamit nya. marami namang ibang paraan gaya ng ano at ng ano at ng ano (too many to mention ulit). hindi lang naman yung pari na kumakatawan sa simbahan ang binastos nya, kundi pati narin ang pribadong oras ng mga tao na nagkukwentuhan (nagdadasal pala) sa simbahan. hindi naman kailangang magbastusan para maihayag ang kung ano mang nais sabihin. gaano may kainit ang isyu hindi parin dapat mawala ang respeto. at dahil inaantok na ako, tatapusin ko na to. sori napahaba.

I know it looks more like another blog entry than a comment because of its length, haha. That's what happens when I get carried away by the topic.

No sign of sun till now, only cumulonimbus in the sky. It's gonna rain again anytime soon.

Star Studded Shitness

The previous entry was such a crap. Please accept my apology. Ang Cheesy kasi eh, harhar, XD

I seldom watch the idiot box these days. To be honest, the only shows I've been seeing lately are just Eat Bulaga and PBB. I know many of you hates the latter. Well, me too, but not really in the exact way of hate-hate. I find the show more like a blah-shitness-but-entertaining media crap. Consider it like getting the goods in bacterias. It's like a probiotic drink (putek, why am I comparing it to a probiotic drink? It's like comparing apples and shit). Anyway, seeing those people's daily shitnesses inside the big brother's oddly-colored-house gives me the idea that my life is not bad afterall, hindi kagaya nila na kailangan pang ibenta ang pribadong buhay para lang magkapangalan at magkaroon ng kaperahan. Pathetic, really, but I cannot blame them. Besides, everyone has their own reason in whatever they do and do not do.

I'm not typing this entry to blather about the happenings inside the oddly-colored house. Going back to the idiot box, I noticed a lot of tv commercials airing these days are those of people running for office. Now, thats what I really call pathetic. They're as pathetic as the San Marino corned tuna commercial.

Dingdong: Ooh lala, I am handsome and macho, so
let's eat corned tuna that tastes like corned beef!

Marian: Oh yeah, I am so beautiful and sexy, so
let's eat corned tuna that tastes like corned beef!

They all, equally, don't make sense. If I were to make a law and change/remove a few things that I think are very inappropriate, both in tv and politics, those political tv commercials and print ads would be on my list. I will ban them! The same with the signages and government mobiles that identify public officials as the source of public works and such. Geez... It's our money they're using for self-promotion. Why don't they just simply do their jobs?

I want to be honest, I will not vote this coming election. Hmmmm....now I'm hearing you asking "why?" and you telling me how my vote can help change our country. Errr, but sorry, my vote will surely not matter. The up coming election is a no-brainer, not in the sense that I know who exactly will win. I don't need to think much because with the current line up of the people running for presidency...walang dudang wala kang pagpipiliang matino. The best you can do is to choose the least of all evil. It's like choosing between "taeng lasang cake" and "cake na lasang tae". Kahit anong piliin mo talo ka. Hahaha...gross, sorry. I guess a cake that tastes like shit is still the best option. It is still a cake afterall, hehehe. Sorry, but I don't have the time to rectify the best shit among them pile of shits.

Natawa ako at naasar ng sabay nung makita ko ang commercial ni Noynoy, pati na nung ibang mga kandidato. They all make me sick, especially Noynoy's star studded commercial. Eeww. Parang pang Film Festival yung commercial nya. Listen, I'm not against nor pro Noynoy. In fact, integrity wise, I was thinking he is the best (among all evils) in the presidential candidates line-up, until he made that commercial. Christ, have mercy please!

Speaking of Noynoy and his star studded commercial:

Right after the burial of his mother, former president Cory Aquino, supporters started to surface urging him to run for presidency. I find it really pathetic that he listened to them. The problem of this "Noynoy for President" shitness hype, I think, is that it is based on popularity and sympathy rather than an intelligent decision. I don't know how long "The Aquino Magic" will last on him. He's not a bad politician, but definitely not special neither. He's the sort of unnoticeable and forgettable politician, and he had not done much to be considered a possible president of this country. His petty accomplishments as a congressman and senator are not good-enough indicators of a possible-future-president. But look at him now (and the stars around him in his commercial, LOL)...running for office. I've never seen him get this much of attention until the much mourned death of her mother. Sikat bigla si Noynoy eh! Yeah, but it is not something that I'd be proud of if I were him. Obviously, Noynoy's supporters are just overwhelmed with the legacy left by Cory and Ninoy Aquino, that they were, like, "obliged" to hand the torch to Noynoy and give him an equal level of trust they gave his parents. Come on! I find it completely ridiculous. If I were Noynoy, I'd try to create a name for myself first. He might have the same integrity that his parents had, but having integrity and being "The Aquino's son" are not the only qualifying factors that make a good president. Competency, among all others, should be considered first, and not popularity. Reality check, being an Aquino is the only edge he has.

Speaking of Popularity:

We, Filipinos, have been showing that popularity is our main basis on electing government officials. No wonder why the stupid-action-star, elected president of the Philippines, now I hear, wants to run for office again! I don't want to go through the trouble of explaining how bad Erap was, and I am not a laywer to thoroughly explain the legality of his rerunning, but as what as the constitution says - The president can only run for one term. Give me a break please, the law is very clear. Now that Pacquiao won his fight with Cotto, I wouldn't be surprised if I hear people pushing him to run for whatever government position again, just like in the 2006 election where he lost. No wonder why Mar Roxas did his fucking marriage proposal on an equally fucking noontime show (but this is under the water now since Mar already backed out to give way to Noynoy). No wonder why Edu Manzano was chosen as the official candidate for Vice President, along side with the presidential aspirant Gibo Teodoro. No wonder why the fucking noontime show host Willie Revillame is rumored to run too. The reason is very obvious. Sad but true, popularity has become the Philippines' standard of excellence-shitness during elections. That sucks. When will we ever learn?

AFTERWORD:

Please, do not force me to vote, ok? I already decided I will not vote and that is final. You may say how un-Filipino and negative I am, but I won't give a flying fuck. As I've said - it's a no-brainer. No matter who you choose, you still lose. Maybe on the next presidential election, I might find a candidate worthy of my vote.

author's note: sorry about all the "fuck" and "shitty" words i used. those are just the exact words that best describe how i feel as i type this.