Pounding The Keyboard

       So, there are these viral funny socmed posts that’s suggesting renaming Orange (the fruit) to “Sharmaine,” avocado to “Melanie,” and the fly to “Vanessa.” On one TikTok post, an orange is complaining about her unimaginative name. “Dahil ba orange ang kulay ko, Orange na rin ang ipapangalan sa `kin, bakit si Mango, dilaw siya pero hindi yellow ang pangalan niya?” she rues.      When asked what name she would like to be given, she answered “Sharmaine.”      On another TikTok post, a fly could be heard also grumbling about her name. “Dahil ba may pakpak ako, Fly na agad ang pangalan ko?’ she laments. She prefers that people call her “Vanessa.”      Meanwhile, an avocado is also whining because a lot of people are assuming that she’s an abogado because of her name, thus her desire to be renamed. She wants to be rechristened “Melanie.”      The problem here is, I don’t know if fruits have sexes, b...

  As time goes on, I realize Just what you mean to me, And now, now that you're near Promise your love that I've waited to share And dreams of our moments together Color my world with hopes of loving you.      Just days after I started listening to Chicago’s music again, posts mentioning the band started appearing on my Facebook News Feed, about the band, probably coincidence or, maybe, p roof that social media, like Big Brother, is really watching every move you make and listening to everything you say. Terry Kath, the band’s guitarist and one of their vocalists, tragically died when he was just 32 years old--he accidentally shot himself in the head while playing with his gun.     Self-described as a rock and roll band with horns, most of their songs are upbeat, catchy, and feel-good.      One of those posts is asking for the three greatest songs of Chicago. I can’t tell their three greatest songs since I haven’t listened to a...

       My old phone, OnePlus Nord N10, I think, is already five years old. I don’t know how old is that in human years, but I believe it’s quite old in smartphone years. It really isn’t problematic, never once it went haywire, hasn’t really annoyed me, just that it charges slower now, battery quick to fade and has become a bit outdated that it can’t download some new apps—so I thought of buying a replacement, which would also serve as a gift to myself (May is my birthday month). Come to think of it, I don’t remember ever buying a birthday gift for myself. Okay, I probably bought some new socks for me in the past.     And buying a replacement for my old phone I did. And since I was quite satisfied with the performance of my old phone, I decided to buy the same brand, OnePlus 15. Compared to my mid-range old phone, OnePlus 15 is a little high-end and pricier (it's a flagship phone but less expensive than other flagship phones), so it has much better specs a...

        So, yesterday was our dog’s birthday, and we all forgot it. Boo!       It’s not that we’re going to throw a huge party for him. Last year, we just bought him a cake, which he didn’t eat, with a candle he didn’t blow. He’s a beagle, so he’s inherently stubborn, independent and had a mind of his own. Beagle owners have been one in saying that it’s hard to train beagles, the reason you rarely see beagles doing those cute, saccharine tricks on social media reels. They say that beagles prioritize their nose and following scents over obeying commands. Their extremely strong sense of smell is the reason they are easily distracted during training sessions.      F*ck off!  is what our beagle seems to say whenever we try to teach him a trick.       Try walking them, and you’d spend hours traversing a few meters because they’d stop and smell and investigate everything in their path. And it would be disastr...

  Time has told me, You’re a rare, rare find, A troubled cure, For a troubled mind…       Just saw an article about Nick Drake on Facebook this morning. Nick Drake was a folk singer-songwriter who made and released three albums when he was still in his early twenties during the ‘70s. All three albums reached miniscule audience and failed miserably, which depressed him furthermore and pushed him more toward drugs and insanity. Nick Drake had always been described as depressive and terribly shy who was always reluctant to perform in front of an audience, he was reportedly so shy that he refused to promote his songs.     I discovered him years ago when I stumbled upon a video of “Pink Moon” (arguably his most famous song) online. Born in 1948, he died in 1974 of antidepressant overdose. Too young.     Ironically, only years after his death that many people realized how brilliant (and gorgeously sad) his songs were, and he then started b...

    “Your problem is you spent your life thinking there are rules. There aren’t.”                                                                                                                         --- Lorne Malvo                 I’ve just watched the first season (hopefully there’d be more seasons) of brand-new TV show Detective Hole and se...