Pounding The Keyboard

     These past few days, Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and the water companies have been incurring the ire of their customers for the inexplicable surge in the amount on their bills. Yes, I think these two utilities companies are being unfair, but still, the number one company on my beef list is PLDT. Try having a problem with your internet connection and you’ll see what I mean—they will accept your call, and your myriad follow-up calls and they will promise to respond to what’s been bugging you, and then, no one will arrive at your house to fix it.      “You still have a problem with your Internet connection, Sir?” they will answer your follow-up calls. “Why don’t we just upgrade your connection so it’ll be faster and you’ll pay more, I’m sure that will fix your problem.”      At least, Meralco responds quickly when a transformer’s about to explode in our street.      So I got me a newer version of Photoshop, not the latest though, but at least, it has new tools, and a li

     My six-pack abs is slowly disappearing. Blame it on my sibling’s tendency to buy food from online sellers. Apparently, friends and officemates have been texting and PM’ing them, offering them their products and my siblings, with their kind heart (and their love for food, of course), could barely refuse. So I’ve been eating puto, turon, all kinds of lumpia, ube halaya, egg pie, buko pie, banana cake, etcetera, but I’m not complaining as I love to eat. And I’m just kidding, I don’t have an abs, what I have is a burgeoning beer belly.      Another porn star or former porn star is repeatedly showing up on my News Feed today, and her name is Mia Khalifa. She and her fans are petitioning to have her videos (made 5-6 years ago) removed from different porn sites. The hashtag on social media is #justiceformia. Twenty-seven-year old Mia (she’s a sports commentator now) is saying that she truly regrets doing those videos and that it always pains her knowing that those exist. I don’t watc

     So this morning, I  had the bike finally vulcanized. Then, I biked around the neighborhood for around thirty minutes. The last time I went biking around our place, first week of March, I think, people still didn’t wear mask and you could still see smiles. Now, everyone has their face covered and the smiles have vanished. You could be walking into the path of some people you owe money from and you wouldn’t recognize them and you'd fail to avoid them. Lol.      Probably the strangest news you’d encounter today is about Ron Jeremy being charged with three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. Ron Jeremy, just in case you’ve been living inside a strict convent all your life, is a superstar in the porn industry. According to the news, Ron Jeremy has appeared in 1,700 porn films. And according to my friend, who asked not to be named, a porn film usually features at least three women. I have no way of verifying this because I don’t watch porn, I prefer Disney films. So,

     Actress Angel Locsin’s photos, showing her obvious weight gain, suddenly went viral a few days ago. Hearteningly, netizens (most likely because of her philanthropic activities in the past and during this pandemic) are showing nothing but love for her. I don’t know, but the stress/anxiety this lockdown/pandemic’s bringing us is making everyone either thin or fat. Chubby or not, Angel’s heart and soul remain sexy.      Another photo that went viral is that of a 35-year-old man riding a bicycle with training wheels. Again, majority of netizens gave him not mocking but love. (Jeez, this lockdown is also making a lot of people kind and nice). The man said that he got tired of walking to work (he lives in Manila and works in Makati as a messenger and public transpo is almost nil because of the lockdown) so he thought of buying a bicycle. But there was a minor problem: he doesn’t know how to ride a bike. So he bought one with training wheels (the kind your eight-year old kid rides).