Pounding The Keyboard

       There’s this (homely) man—who dabbles in a sport, and is quite infamous and notorious in this sport— who seems to have an endless source of money. He is quite a celebrity; he has a sexy starlet for a girlfriend with a humongous, really humongous, pair of boobs. He left his family for her.        He is omnipresent on social media (he has lots of accounts,   mostly with fake names), badmouthing his perceived enemies, lecturing them on humanity, and giving cash handouts (5k, 10k, 20k, 50k) to anyone who sucks up to him and who is willing to be his sycophant. He is admittedly very entertaining in a debauched way. He also loves to post photos and videos of bundles of cash amounting to several millions of pesos, which makes one wonder,   Where are all these money coming from?   He isn’t a rich businessman, just an ordinary government employee who is fortunate to be acquainted with some political bigwigs.  ...

           If a picture says a thousand words, how many words then a six-minute plus long video could say?   A billion, or a trillion maybe, words so many it could create a vortex inside you. And these words may conjure many images and emotions and feelings and revelations and realizations, and might evoke illusions, delusions, fear, calmness, hopefulness, hopelessness that would make your heart dance with joy and cry with despair simultaneously, and make your brain melt and expand at the same time. It also might hint of an end and a beginning, even though this video was just discussing something so banal and so trivial, like how to make a live video on Instagram.      And if you’re fortunate or unfortunate to record it and had watched it a gazillion times, you’re probably spinning inside a black hole now.      And if a face could launch a thousand ships… well, that’s a different story. ...

       So yesterday was Valentine’s Day, and there were lots of chocolates in the house, and I decided to eat one. As his wont whenever he sees someone eating, our dog sat next to me and tried to manipulate me with his oh-so charming eyes into giving him a piece—unfortunately for him, chocolates are highly toxic to dogs, so he'd never get a piece      Still, he remained sitting next to me, even leaning into me and cuddling with me, and not eyeing the chocolate anymore.      Imagine that’s your girlfriend, asking you to give her some chocolates and you refuse, telling her that her blood sugar’s already high, but she wouldn’t hear of it, instead, she’d probably break up with you right there and then, and curse you non-stop and will probably try to physically harm you, and make you jealous, like joining a neighborhood gang bang with five men—irrational and vicious, yes, and all you did was show your concern for her. ...

  He plans   to love her take care of her appreciate her validate her be her umbrella when sadness pours be her lifebuoy when tears flood be her ladder while she touches the clouds delight in her smiles and laughter                                              but clearly she has other plans

       Even if you’re just a bit active on Facebook, I’m sure you’ve already come across these comments (usually on posts of popular FB pages) asking for some financial help with a GCash number.   A peso will do and will be a big help to a loved one who’s sick, the comments say.      Yep, begging has also become digital. Imagine posting that comments—which doesn’t need much effort— daily on myriad of popular FB pages and touching the hearts of some generous netizens who think giving a peso or five or ten is nothing. A peso each from many people will certainly amount to something.      I have a GCash but I don’t think I’ll ever give even a peso to these people as they are mostly just scamming.   If you’d take a look at their profiles (to see if they’re really needy), you’d see that most of these profiles are private. I’ve seen a profile whose owner’s cover photo showed him straddling an expensive motorcycle ...