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Blog Break Number 2

Posted in absent blogger, angel, crap, crazy, home, mom, netbook, tired

Okay, so I find myself pulling another all-nighter.

Before I dive back in to work, I'm taking a quick blog break. Spit my mind out, so to speak. To be honest, this hiatus isn't working out so well for me. Sure, I've been sitting on my ass for the last 2 months or so, but I feel like something's missing. What's missing? It starts with "Php" and is followed by a bunch of zeros at the end. Yeah, I miss the mundane trappings of a subservient existence. That's because that subservient existence brought food to the table. But then again, it's that same subservient existence that made me sick enough to call it quits in the first place. There's a pickle for you.

So I just tell myself to suck it up, and get on with the show.

Being cooped up in the house has really done a number on my thought train. It's like somebody shoved a cork down the idea pipe, and i'm struggling to find things to write about. Yeah, I can still spell "stifled creativity". Speaking of being creative, I'm gonna have to find ways to bring in the dough or else Mom will have to kick me out of the house. I'm too pretty to be a hobo.

I really can't get over how my computer kept breaking down this month. It must've thought it was going to be replaced by a brand spanking new laptop, so it decided to retire. Sadly, the laptop never materialized, but the stupid machine retired anyway. So now I'm reduced to using this old junker from my computer shop. This one's as slow as molasses. If you happen to be a sweet generous angel, who has no problems giving away a MacBook Air, smile my way please?

Anyway, break time's up. Time to take a nosedive.

Of course I'd settle for something cheaper.

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On Ends and New Beginnings

Posted in boredom, bum, crazy, jobless, mom, torrent, work, writing

Beginnings.

It took me long enough to finally accept that I spelled it right. Such a funny looking word, beginnings. The old adage says "Great things start from small beginnings.". So does the old Milo commercial. Bea Lucero suddenly started doing backflips in my head.

It's been two weeks now since my escape slash immediate resignation. I've practically been cooped up at home, and I hardly ever go out. It's not because I want to, mind, but because I can't. These pockets have never been emptier. But such is the price for freedom.

Cue warped sound effects.

Who am I kidding!? Of course I'm utterly bored and penniless. I miss eating out, I miss all the parties. Oh how I miss the night. Now I've been reduced to watching downloads of Smallville and White Collar over and over again until I fall asleep.

Well yeah, I am getting plenty of sleep now. Unlike when I was in the office slash prison, I was a walking, call-avoiding, technically gifted but financially impaired zombie. That reminds me, Plants versus Zombies is an awesome game. At the very least, its fun to play. Now playing games would've been a really entertaining thing to do if it weren't for the fact that I'm incomprehensively bored all the time.

So why don't I just a get a job, you ask. I definitely have no intentions of living off my mother's meager income for long. I'll find a job, sooner or later.

Fine, sooner.

I just need to tie up some loose ends over at the old slaughter house before I go looking for another employment opportunity slash suicide attempt.

Okay enough with the slashes.

It's a crazy world we live in, I tell you. I was watching the Pacquiao-Cotto fight yesterday, and as the country celebrated Cotto's free facial reconstruction and Pacquiao's seventh world title, not too many of us remembered that somewhere just outside the MGM Grand another boxer was fighting the fight of his life. Literally.

Bantamweight Z Gorres, another Filipino pride-bearer, went under the knife after winning his match via unanimous decision against Luis Melendez of Colombia. Apparently, Gorres got knocked down hard in the tenth and final round and only survived until the bell rang. He's now in a clinically-induced coma and requires further observation by his doctors. My prayers are with him and his family.

Yeah that's right. Apart from my illegal torrent downloads I've also found time to watch television. Now if only we had cable service back. I sure miss AXN and Jack TV, Discovery Channel too.

So I'm starting a new page in my pocketbook called life, and I hope it's worth reading. After all, I wrote the goddamn thing. It's gotta be worth reading. I'm the only one reading it.

Smallville S09E08 has just finished downloading. Yay me.

Start.

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The Jacque Bermejo Scandal

Posted in crazy, facebook, filipino, internet, post, scandal, shame, trolls, writing

From hero to zero.

If my earlier Ondoy-related post talked about a hero who saved more than 30 lives in a few hours, this one's about an overseas Filipino worker in Dubai who rose to notoriety when she allegedly made the most insensitive remark on Facebook regarding the calamity.

In a span of approximately 24 hours Jacque Bermejo became an instant Internet celebrity slash hate-puppet all across the world wide thingamajiggy. It all started when in the middle of the crisis brought about by typhoon Ondoy, a rather unsavory comment was found on her Facebook page. It said:

"buti n lng am hir in dubai! Maybe so many sinners bak der!so yeah deserving wat hapend!".

This is a prime example of how fast word can travel over the Internet. In less than a day people have started a hate page that as of this writing now has 10,596 members. One cannot blame a nation, who had just suffered one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history, for being sensitive to comments such as that, right?

Then there are also those who defend Ms. Bermejo, stating that her alleged Facebook and Multiply pages have been riddled with "trolls". They give a rather informative defense, as seen here. I just don't bite it.

Personally though, I really see no point in pursuing the matter further. If Ms. Bermejo was indeed an innocent victim of haters, I'd chalk it up to tough luck. No such thing as bad publicity anyway. She might even get her 15 seconds of fame on TV one day. But seriously, what is there to do about it? I highly doubt that anybody's gonna get a good spanking from mother, much less arrested, over this. If you're worried about clearing your name, think about the Gabby Concepcions and the Maricar Reyes's. Like I said, no such thing as bad publicity.

Now if she really was the culprit, then I hope she's ready to suffer the nation's electronic wrath.