Pounding The Keyboard

       Around four years ago, during the pandemic, the time when everyone’s got too much time, I found a video editor on my computer. My niece put it there and used it. I never used a video editor, so I tinkered with it and tried to learn it, and afterwards, decided to create a video—about my favorite band, Pink Floyd. Maybe, I could put it on YouTube, just to experience creating a channel and uploading a video on YouTube and getting some subscribers. I thought of creating another video (also about Pink Floyd), then I finally created a channel and uploaded the two videos. YouTube forewarned me that the videos wouldn’t be monetized because almost all the songs in it were copyrighted. I thought all right and uploaded the videos. I monitored it the next few days, saw it getting microscopic number of views and not one subscriber—and then forgot about it.      I only remembered it when I received an email from YouTube yesterday informing me th...

  “What a loss to spend that much time with someone,   only to find out that she's a stranger.”                                           From Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind        Until last Saturday (more than a week after it hibernated), our TV remained in coma and wouldn’t turn on. We already made contact with a few technicians and all refused to come, like they were aware that any attempt to resurrect the appliance would just be futile—that thing is dead, died in its sleep. Our TV is almost seven years old, they say that’s like a human in his seventies.      We first computed if buying a new TV wouldn’t ruin us financially, and after determining that it really wouldn’t (I can still buy medicines for my terri...

       Today is Valentine’s Day. And it seems that whatever you do, you’ll be reminded of it. Like I went to this neighborhood pet shop to buy something, and I noticed that the staff were all males when it used to be always all girls, and eventually, I was told that the girls were all out on dates because it’s Valentine’s Day. Even the female cats I'd always see in the shop were missing, probably out on dates also.      I went online and almost everybody’s talking about Valentine’s Day and all the things connected to it—a lovestruck boy is asking for prayers to make the girl he’s courting say yes to him today; a lovestruck girl’s asking if today’s the perfect day to confess her love to a boy; a naughty girl’s asking if a red underwear would make her more seductive; a naughty boy is wondering if drinking pineapple juice is really effective; someone’s expressing annoyance at the sight of flowers everywhere; someone posted about Saint Valent...