Pounding The Keyboard

       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...

       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...

    "There is no friend as loyal as a book."                                                       --Ernest Hemingway      Charlie Kirk, a hardcore Donald Trump supporter and a right-wing political activist, was shot dead yesterday. He was hit in the neck and died instantly. As of this writing, the shooter hasn’t been identified and arrested.   Mr. Kirk supported gun ownership and thought there should be a couple of deaths by guns every year so people would realize the necessity of owning a gun. Also, he said that he couldn’t stand the word empathy and thought that it was a made-up term that was damaging. Also, he hated gays and people of color.      A few days ago, a birthday card supposedly written more than twenty years ago by US President Donald Trump and sent to demonic pedoph...

                  I watched this documentary on Netflix wherein a 14-year-old girl is being cyberstalked and bullied. The stalker would send her numerous text messages every day mocking her, berating her, torturing her mentally, calling her ugly, a whore, anorexic, and that everyone hates her, and that she (the stalker) is having sex with the girl’s 14-year-old boyfriend (the text messages regarding this are thoroughly explicit and nasty). The stalker repeatedly tells the girl to break up with her boyfriend, that he’s about to leave her, and telling her TO COMMIT SUICIDE. This goes on for more than a year, the stalker is relentlessly urging the girl to kill herself. Meanwhile, a lot of students are investigated and traumatized. Then, plot twist of all plot twists, it turns out that the stalker is the girl’s very own “loving and supportive” mother, who before the revelation, has been persistent to iden...

       If not for these corrupt and greedy politicians, Philippines would probably be a first world country by now, at par with Japan or Singapore or some European countries, like Italy or France.       I have an unfinished novel on Wattpad, and this morning, I woke up thinking that I should finish it, that it’s my obligation, heck, that it’s my duty to finish it for my six followers. Alas, I have forgotten my password to the site and I couldn’t log in. As I wrote this, I was still looking for my password…      I’ve been wanting to grow a full beard, I mean, one that runs from ear to another ear, wholly covering my jaw but alas, I can only have a mustache and a goatee.      A few weeks ago, I made a vow that I’d only send another message to this person if I’d see a “seen” message on my last message. It’s clear that they don’t want any kind of communication with me and won’t ever make the mistake of reading any of my ...