Pounding The Keyboard

I was in a supermarket the other day to buy two jars of my favorite brand of peanut butter, the Tastes Like Chicken Peanut Butter. I was already near the cashier when suddenly, the customer in front of me, an obese, bejeweled woman in her fifties, started screaming and berating the cashier and the bagger. “Ano’ng pinagsasasabi mong ayaw tanggapin ang credit cards ko?” the woman was screaming at the top of her lungs? “Ano’ng palagay mo sa ‘kin, hindi nagbabayad ng credit card? Ano ‘ko, poor na kagaya mo? Kilala mo ba kung sino ‘ko?” The woman then started dropping the names of powerful and influential people she allegedly knew, like the president, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the Senate president, the house speaker, Manny Pacquiao, Willie Revillame, Bentong and Pokwang. “Do you know that I have the power to crucify you? Kneel in front of me or I will crucify you and set Barabbas free! ” she threatened the cashier and the bagger. “Ngayon, mamili kayo ng paraan para maw...

“Tell me where the bomb is or I will kill your son!” -- Jack Bauer My favorite superhero used to be Spiderman but not anymore. Iron Man, Incredible Hulk and Batman are good but not enough to meet my standard. I never liked Superman. I always have issues against a man who wears his pants before his underwear. Surely, there is something wrong with him. I think he’s nuts and that one day, he’s going to turn against the world and destroy it, unless all men start wearing underwear outside their pants. My favorite superhero is Federal Agent Jack Bauer, Counter Terrorist Unit’s best field agent, the "terrorizer of the terrorists." I was talking to a friend through SMS the other day when she asked me if I watched 24, she told me she saw a picture of Jack Bauer here in my blogsite. I said, “Yes, I’m a big fan.” Everyone in the family is, even my eleven year old niece is a big fan. I have watched Seasons 1 to 6; never missed a single episode. Season 7 is currently being ...

I am not a fan of Journey. I don’t like their music even when it was still Steve Perry leading them or now that Arnel Pineda’s the one blasting at the mic. Their music is described as radio-friendly corporate rock which means that it can be played on the radio (without your conservative grandma raising much of a ruckus or some people asking what the hell is the song all about), in corporate parties, in discos and in parties where the attendees are class-cutting high-school students. In other words, people who really know and dig real rock music find their music bland, corny and eww!- inducing. You can’t expect them to write songs that have subliminal meanings or that cleverly tackle topics like death, insanity, depression, child abuse, euthanasia, government corruption and other life’s complications. They would rather sing about love (“To fall in love is so hard to do, I hope and pray tonight, somewhere youre thinkin of me girl” from their song When You Love A woman ) and other ...