No, Christmas Doesn’t Start Today


      Today is September 1, supposedly the start of a long Christmas celebration here in the Philippines.

     But I doubt if many Filipinos are thinking about Christmas these days. All they have in mind, I’m sure, is how to continue surviving in the coming days.

     And as if to fortify how nasty the year 2020 is, Chadwick Boseman, beloved actor of Black Panther,  died of colon cancer a few days ago after fighting it for four years. He was 43.

     Also a few days ago, a new Pinoy-made sex scandal erupted in social media: a barangay chairman and his treasurer (both are married) were caught doing some nasty sexy time as they were about to participate in a Zoom meeting. In the video, Miss Treasurer was seen giving Mr. Chairman a fellatio before they proceeded to a doggy-style sex. They did it while the other participants in the meeting were watching them with wide open eyes. One thing that is quite hard to understand here is why didn’t they take the time to turn off the laptop first. Were they so horny that they couldn’t afford to delay the act by turning the gadget off? The two have since resigned from their posts and are now facing charges. What charges, I don’t know. Poor impersonation of dogs in heat, maybe. The only positive thing that can be gleaned here was the porn-stars-wannabe duo were both wearing a mask while doing it, though they didn’t practice physical distancing. Lol.

     But yesterday, I half-understood the sexy duo's blunder of not turning their gadget off. Maybe this pandemic is really doing something to our minds. This virus is screwing with our brains. That or I am just on my way to having Alzheimer’s. Lol. I went to a Mercury Drugstore branch yesterday, locked my bike on a railing of their concrete stairs (they don’t have a bike rack), fell in line, got inside, bought some medicines and supplements, got out, walked into the streets and I had taken possibly twenty steps before I remembered I came there mounting a bike.

     I rushed back to the drugstore, luckily, no one seemed to notice my gaffe. I unlocked my bike, pedaled away, beat a red light(lol) and got home.

     More than 220 thousand Filipinos have been infected with COVID-19 cases and more than 3,500 have died and an effective vaccine/medicine is still nowhere on sight.

     No, Christmas doesn’t start today and, no, Virginia, there will be no Santa Claus this coming Christmas.

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