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The Tower In My Dream

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       A few days ago, I saw this Facebook post about the Eiffel Tower, claiming that the popular tourist spot in Paris would be demolished next year, citing maintenance costs, public complaints, and structural fatigue as the reasons. It turned out that the post was just satirical. What a relief because I was still planning on visiting the tower, I just don’t know how. Lol. That night, probably because of the said satirical post, I dreamt of going to the Eiffel Tower, with a twist, with the twist being the Eiffel Tower was just located in a plaza just a few hundred meters from our house.      And then this morning, my sister told me that she’s been trying to get a visa to visit Europe this year. She would actually visit her daughter who’s currently based and working as an engineer in a country in Europe, and who has a nice apartment there. And I was reminded that this daughter, my niece, who is like a daughter to me because she practically grew up wi...
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Metahumans and Some Scary Ideas

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       I was watching season 2 of Peacemaker (starring John Cena), which explores metahumans (individuals with superpowers) and I remembered reading a Stephen Hawking interview where he said that in the near future, genes would be edited and enhanced, allowing super humans to be created. I’d like to have invisibility power, so people I owe money to wouldn’t be able to see me. Scary, because what if these super humans had criminal mindsets. Mr. Hawking also warned that Earth might be destroyed by an asteroid, just like what happened to the dinosaurs. And unlike in the movies, even super humans will be no match for an asteroid.      Conversations between officials and supporters of US President Donald Trump were leaked and it showed how they loved and adored Hitler and his gas chambers and how they fantasized torturing, raping and killing their political opponents. They called black people as monkeys and expressed their desire to bring back slavery. S...
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Mind Games

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  "Love is the answer And you know that for sure Love is the flower You gotta let it, you gotta let it grow... Yes is the answer And you know that for sure Yes is surrender You gotta let it, you gotta let it go..."       This is my favorite John Lennon song.           
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Your Horoscope for Today

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         So, after many years, I bought a newspaper again, a tabloid, which is a necessity to conduct some official business on someone’s behalf. A friend first read the tabloid, a wholesome one, not the sleazy type, and saw another proof that he really shouldn’t believe in horoscope. His horoscope for today, 8 th of October, 2025, says: Taurus: Magiging masaya ka sa larangan ng pag-ibig. Mag-ingat sa pagpapahayag. Baka hahantong sa hindi pagkakaunawaan. Lucky numbers at color for the day ang 1, 17, 32, 40 at orange.      The last time he was happy in love and had a girlfriend, he said, was two and a half centuries ago.      I told him that horoscope probably works for others. I am also not a fan of horoscope, but there was one time, while reading a newspaper, I got curious and looked what the horoscope had in store for me that day. It said: You would meet a sweet and pretty girl today, who would be very submissive and obedient...
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Roger Waters, Thom Yorke, Taylor Swift, and an Audacious Instagram User

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       Roger Waters (former Pink Floyd frontman) and Thom Yorke (Radiohead frontman), two of my favorite songwriters of all time, continue to feud with each other. The quarrel started a few years ago, I think, when Roger wrote and asked Thom not to perform in Israel, which Thom ignored. Roger has been protesting Israel for a long time and asking his fellow artists no to go and perform there. He called Thom “damaged and not very bright.” Lol.      I learned that a friend had recently undergone surgery for myoma, which was a common benign tumor in uterus, and wished her well. I really don’t know what causes it, but no, long-term celibacy doesn’t cause it. Lol.      I have an Instagram account which is empty and pointless and thoroughly inactive, but despite that, one account had the temerity to follow me. Lol. But a few days ago, my one and only follower deactivated their account. I don’t know if it’s a fake account, but if not, I hope...
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Music Lovers

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       I have no doubt that our neighbors love music. As I write this, music (Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas is You”) is blasting out of their speakers. They play music almost every day. From morning till night. There are days it would be so loud residents from ten miles away would complain. Sometimes, well, it ain’t so loud. They seem to always play a set list of a certain genre, for example, Tagalog hip hop/rap/reggae songs (Andrew E, “Shoot-Shoot, Gloc 9’s “Upuan,” Nik Makino’s “Moon.” These genres would play for hours. And then stop. And when they play music again after a few hours, a new set of songs from a genre (for example, OPM ( Roel Cortez’s “Sa Mata Makikita,” Claire Dela Fuente’s “Sayang,” or Freddie Aguilar’s “Magbago Ka.” Or mellow rocks, like Enrique Iglesias’ “Somebody’s Me,” Styx’s “Babe,” or The Carpenters’ “You”) will play.        YouTube’s algorithm is probably the culprit here. Yes, I think they listen to YouT...
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Stephen King, Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk, Ricky Hatton, and the Inventor of TV

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       You can’t be a bigot, racist, homophobe, who says people being murdered is just okay because it validates your beliefs and opinions and suddenly, when you die, you’re a martyr. That’s not how it works.      Sometimes, karma isn’t consistent, sure, a lot of people get what’s coming for them, but sometimes, a lot of wicked people still get rewarded, thieving politicians get elected again and again, sexual predators get awesome career opportunities, there’s one who even became a president. Most of the time, it’s the good people who are being punished, maybe because they don’t manipulate people, or take advantage of other people that they remain poor and vulnerable. Yep, sometimes, what goes around, doesn’t come around.      One of the most annoying tropes in horror movies is one where the protagonist has the chance to kill the villain, like they are able to hit the villain in the head and the villain collapses, but instead of del...
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