Terrible Pain, Incompetent Government and Wonderful Films

     I woke up this morning around 7:30 AM,  with a terrible pain on my back, near my left shoulder where I got a pinched nerve (don’t know if the two are connected).

     Today, 21st of May, 2020, is the 5th day of Modified Enhanced Communtiy Quarantine (MECQ) and the 66th day since the Luzon-wide lockdown was implemented. It has been more than two months since people were imprisoned in their own homes, and no, the curve isn’t flattening yet. This incompetent government with an incompetent president, it seems, is not capable of doing that. Only a vaccine and a cure can save us, aside from your survival instincts. Wear your mask, stay away (at least six feet) from your fellow human beings, and wash/sanitize your hands any time you touch something suspicious, and suspicious here means virus-contaminated. And if you still can afford not to go out, just stay at home.

     Today is also the tenth birthday of my youngest niece.There’s still a lockdown and most people still aren’t allowed to go out so she celebrated it with just her family, without the presence of his fabulous uncles, aunties and cousins. My sister—the mother—later sent us a video of her blowing the candles on her cake.

     Every day, there’s something that will remind you of the loneliness and the isolation this cursed coronavirus has blanketed over us.

     Another Marcos, who seems crooked, too, like the other Marcoses, is hogging the headlines this day. The man’s name is Francis Leo Marcos, reportedly related to the notorious Marcoses from the north,  although the authorities are saying that he’s a con artist and a scammer whose real name is Norman Mangusin. A con artist and a scammer whose surname is Marcos, no surprise there.

     So I’ve finished first season of the brilliant Gangs of London and the Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance (delightfully entertaining) and now, again, I have no idea what to do with my life. Lol.  Actually, I started watching another series, Better Call Saul,which is a spin-off of Breaking Bad (another awesomely fantastic series). Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching two memorable movies, Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut (2009), and The Invisible Guest (2016), the latter is a twist-galore, mystery-crime-thriller film from Spain and is available on Netflix (catch it, you won’t regret it) while the former is about superheroes and is three-and-a-half-hour-long.Yes, I've got a lot of time these days.

     And then just a few minutes ago, I finished watching 2012 The Body (another brilliant mystery-thriller from Oriol Paulo, the writer and director of The Invisible Guest), this film will keep you guessing and then will hit you with a massive, mind-blowing twist in the end.

     It’s now 10:40 PM and my back still pains like hell.

     The downside of getting old.

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