Pounding The Keyboard

That one night You made everything alright So raw, so right, all night, alright Oh, yeah        I read a comment on a Facebook post that says Donald Trump is basically Michael Scott from The Office . It makes sense, because the two men, according to their critics, are both arrogant and have gigantic sense of self-importance. That they are both self-professed geniuses (but are actually idiots, childlike, immature, and incompetent managers) and think they know about everything and are better than everyone else.      Trump repeatedly says that he is going to lower drug prices by 500, 600 percent while Scott says he is not superstitious but just a little stitious .      Both suffer from pathological need to be liked and admired.      Doctors think these two men suffer from malignant narcissism and histrionic personality disorder (and also dementia for Trump.)      But according to his critics, ...

       The Office (the American version) is officially on Netflix now—and because it’s one of the reasons I resubscribed to Disney+, I decided to cancel my Disney+ subscription. It’s not that Disney+ is bad, it’s just that Netflix is a lot better for me and its line-up of shows more satisfying.      The Office , starring Steve Carrel (the boss), John Krasinski (of the A Quiet Place movies), Rainn Wilson and Jenna Fischer among others, is an award-winning mockumentary sitcom TV series. It depicts the everyday work lives of employees of a paper company while a documentary camera follows them.      Rolling Stone named it as one of the greatest TV shows of all time.      I’m still on the last few episodes of Season 3 so I don’t know if I can wholly agree with Rolling Stone , but almost all the episodes I have watched are hilarious. The show ran for nine seasons (from 2005-2013) and every season has twenty plus episodes ...

       Yes, he still remembers and cherishes that connection…      More than four decades ago, he, then a married man with kids, suddenly got close with a pretty single co-worker.      She showered him with favors and attention; the other workers could see that.      She would flirt with him with her eyes and would always be thrilled to see him.      She would always ask him to sit close to her whenever they were together in a room.      “If you have any feelings for her,” he would tell his male friends, “Forget it.”      He was certain she would eagerly run away with him once he decided to leave his family for her—but he decided to stay with his wife.      And that she remained unmarried because she couldn't get over him.      “Do you see that?” he tells the man in white standing beside him when something distracts him from his...

       Accidentally found the card (lifetime membership in Video City, a video rental shop) above yesterday while rummaging through a drawer of mine containing junks. Can't remember when I became a member, probably in mid 90s. I was also a member of several small video rental shops in our place. My favorite movie of all time? Probably The Godfather (1972). Home Alone (1990) is a close second. Lol. I remember reading the The Godfather book first and getting enthralled by it, I didn’t know that the movie was better than the book, which as movies-based-on-books go, was a rare occurrence.      Last movie I watched, just last Saturday, was Obsession (2025), a horror movie about a guy in love with a co-worker, who obviously has no intention of initiating a romantic relationship with him. He then stumbled upon a magical, supernatural thingy that grants a wish (an old, overused trope, I know), just one wish (a genie is much more generous, obviously), one ...

           There are rumors going on that Kawhi Leonard is coming back to San Antonio Spurs. Some big shots in San Antonio probably read my blog wherein I said that Kawhi Leonard could limit or completely shut down Jalen Brunson. Lol.       The Office is coming to Netflix. Some Netflix honchos probably read my blog wherein I confessed that one of the reasons I resubscribed to Disney+ is because I wanted to finish watching The Office . Lol.      Actually, this blog entry is about the delivery of the cinnamon powder (49 grams) I ordered online. Cinnamon is a small part of my health regimen. It’s rich in antioxidants, it’s anti-inflammatory, supports heart health, regulates blood sugar, and may help fight cancer and lower blood pressure. And for women, it may reduce menstrual pain. I consume half a teaspoon or less in my coffee or tea, and that’s it, I’ll partake of it the next day. You can also add it to yogurt or smoothies ...

       My bank, despite it having just a balance of 480 pesos, replaced my ATM card with a shiny debit card. Now, I can withdraw from ATMs across the country and all over the world. I can purchase things with it nationwide and worldwide from lots of physical stores. I can also buy from many websites, from fashion and electronics to travel and groceries.      But not with a balance of 480 pesos, of course.      The world seems to be really going cashless now. You can basically leave the house now and go anywhere without cash in your wallet, just your debit card or your GCash (phone or card), and of course your credit card.      In fact, as I walked towards a mall yesterday, a beggar called my attention to ask for some alms.      “Sorry, I don’t have cash with me. What I have is a debit card,” I said smugly.      “No problem,” he said. “I accept debit cards, Visa or Mastercard.” ...

     While inside a mall this morning, I went inside a tech store to try to buy earphones for my phone. I wanted a wired one because they were less expensive than the wireless ones with the same sound quality, according to experts. I walked to the counter and inquired with a salesperson:      ME: “Do you have one that’s type C?”      SALEPERSON: “Yes, sir.”      He put several boxes of earphones on the counter.      ME: “Are those compatible with my phone?”      SALESPERSON: “May I see your phone, sir?”      I put my phone on the counter.      SALESPERSON: “iPhone, sir?”      ME: “No, OnePlus 15.”      SALESPERSON: “What’s that?”      ME (grinning): “A phone.”      He looked at the type C port on my smartphone.      SALESPERSON: “Yes, sir, these would all be compatible wi...

When you’re passing on your way, I say Mmm, hello little girl, When I see you passing by, I cry Mmm, hello little girl, When I try to catch your eye, I cry Mmm, hello, little girl…        Last Saturday, while walking our dog, I stumbled upon a lost puppy (see photo above) just a few meters away from our house. I observed it for a few minutes, no one else was around except for the motorcycles and cars that were dangerously speeding in front of me, my dog, and the cute puppy. And the puppy was recklessly trying to cross the street. I assumed that it had been abandoned by its owner, so I took it home, and it turned out to be a girl. It’s been a long time since I took a girl home and introduced it to my family. Lol.      If we’d be left without any options, we were ready to take care of it. The only problem was that our dog was a libidinous male who was always ready to pounce on every bitch he’d see. As we were still planning on what to do ...

       Rex Heuermann, the serial killer who strangled eight women to death (there’s a documentary on Netflix about him entitled Gone Girls: The Long Island Killer ) was sentenced today to life imprisonment without parole. When he was arrested, the cops looked for his search history on his computer, and it included queries about his own crimes and on why he was yet to be arrested. He also researched about his victims and their families; about prostitutes; little girls; pornography; torture-related subjects, and ways to avoid detection of your crimes.      All incriminating and helped convict him.      If cops would barge into my door right this moment and look at my browser history for my queries for the last few days, they would find that they included:      Will there be a season 2 of Spider Noir?      single storage bed      who’s gonna win in a fight? Homelander or Superman? Spide...

       Just as I thought, their Game 4 loss to Knicks was so devastating that the Spurs would have a very difficult time recovering from it. It’s a good thing I am not a Spurs Fans. Lol. But I prefer them than the New York Knicks. I am actually a fan of LA Clippers/Kawhi Leonard.      De’Aaron Fox’s Game 4 blunder was no doubt one of the most grievous mistakes in the history of NBA Finals. But it’s water under the bridge now. The Knicks are the champions now. If only Donald Trump continued attending the games…      And Jalen Brunson was no doubt one of the best one-on-one players. Only six foot one, he’s almost unstoppable in isolation plays, though I think Kawhi could limit him, if not entirely shut him down.      Meanwhile, Earth finally has a trillionaire—Elon Musk. I agree with many people saying that being a billionaire should be outlawed. You shouldn’t be a billionaire when millions of people live way below pov...

       San Antonio Spurs suffered a devastating loss in Game 4 of their championship series against New York Knicks this morning (Manila time). They led by as much as 29 points (in THIRD quarter), only to lose by one point in the final seconds. With the Spurs leading by one point in the final fifteen seconds and the Knicks with the ball, Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox was able to make a steal, but instead of holding on to the ball and just dribbling out the clock or waiting for a foul, he tried to score and was blocked, giving the opponent the opportunity to score the game-winning basket.      Monumental blunder, yes.      Another reason the Knick was able to win was because the curse was already lifted: Donald Trump didn’t attend game 4. Lol.      Speaking of Donald Trump, a lot of people apparently are suspecting that he’s gay, nay, bisexual (remember, he’s being accused of raping little girls in the past). Want proof t...

       So, I resubscribed to Disney Plus just so I could watch the NBA Finals between New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs live. It turned out that, contrary to what Google had told me, a basic subscription will not do it, and that you have to also subscribe at ESPN, which will be too expensive, so I didn’t bother—and I ended up watching the game again on Facebook. Lol. But you can watch all the replays on Disney Plus. Lol.     New York Knicks won the first two games in Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, and game 3 will be held at Madison Square Garden in New York, their hometown, so the Knicks, clearly, were the hot favorites to win again. The last time the Knicks won a championship was 53 years ago. But then, just as the stars were shining favorably on them, US President Donald Trump, a longtime fan of the team, decided to make a grand entrance into the series and watch game 3 inside the venue, and turn all their stars into black holes. Lol. ...

       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...

       Today is Holy Wednesday, the day Judas betrayed Jesus, and here’s an experiment you can do that’s appropriate during this week, go to some popular public Facebook accounts, especially the political ones, where there's always heated arguments. And when you see someone swearing and commenting obscenely, rudely, harshly, and wickedly against the ones that they are having an argument with, or wishing them and their family the most cruel and tragic deaths, take a peek at these vulgar people accounts, the ones doing the cursing and the threats, and a lot of times, oddly, you’d see Bible verses there preaching about loving your neighbors or being kind and forgiving, or quotes about how they fear and love God.      Sometimes, you’d even see an image of Jesus on their cover photo.      So, what does the Bible say about these people? Titus 1:16 “They profess to know God, but they deny Him by the way they live. They are detestable, disob...

  She’d rise from the sea White as the sun, first creating a giant splash Before swimming for a few minutes, or an hour It would then dive deep into the sea again And disappear for hours, or days But he’d stay on shore, waiting to catch a glimpse of her majestic self again And when she didn’t show up for weeks He knew that she now rose in a different part of the ocean…

       Two siblings of mine are currently in Japan vacationing. I wanted to come but who would take care of the house? And the dog? The house can be locked. But the dog? So, I stayed home. Travel is nice, but taking care of the dog is nicer. Anyway, maybe, our dog and I could travel together sometime very soon, probably to a country in Middle East. Lol.      Anyway, they asked what souvenirs I wanted.      I thought for a moment, and then said, “A laptop.”      “Nope,” they rejected quickly.      “A phone?”      “Nope.”      “A tablet?”      “Nope.”      “A ref magnet?”      “Yes. Anything else?”      “A watch?”      “Nope.”      “A keychain?”      “Yes. Anything else?”      “A geisha?”      “Nope.”     ...

       Lately, it is a recurrent theme on her social media posts: Panic. She’s panicky. She’s panicking. And she needs to calm down. Why? What’s wrong? Maybe, she knows something a lot of people don’t know.      Maybe, she’s aware that the world will soon end.      Perhaps, an asteroid the size of Hong Kong will hit Earth before the year ends.      Or a nuclear war will soon erupt, initiated by a deranged president.      He wants to comfort her; tell her everything will be all right even though he has no idea what is making her panic. He is an ex-boyfriend. He wonders if it’s still his responsibility to mollify her during anxious times. He continues to feel something for her. But she’s too far away from him now, emotionally, mentally, and physically.      He also has no idea that she has some sorts of power. Like a third eye. Or the ability to predict the future.     ...

       Her house had seven doors—doors to three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a storage room, and a mini-library. And he watched her through all those seven doors. In her bedroom, he watched her sleep. In her younger sister’s bedroom, he watched her talk to her sister and sometimes sleep beside her. In her parents’ bedroom, he watched her converse with them. In the mini-library, he watched her read her books and admired her shelves filled with wonderful books that opened portals to amazing worlds, and in the storage room, he watched her keep and organize things.      It was love at first sight—ever since he saw her at her old relative’s interment.      His agony started a few months ago when he heard her talking to her parents. “I feel like someone or something is haunting me,” she told them. “It’s standing by the door of my bedroom, watching me, I can’t see it, but I can feel it.”      They consulted a spirit medium. ...

          I saw this meme for introverts (see photo above) this morning and I laughed as I was reminded of an incident last year. I was in a small restaurant (just a stone’s throw away from our house) buying something and there’s this lady with her young son sitting beside me. We’re in one table. We’d been waiting for around probably ten minutes for the food we ordered when she started talking to me (I was busy with my phone).      “Kumusta ka na?” she asked me.      “Okay lang,” I said, surprised that she would ask me that.      Then she started small-talking me, and I’d just smile and nod and answer tersely, wondering why this stranger was talking to me like we’d been a part of each other’s life.      It turned out that we were former neighbors (she just left the apartment beside our house a few weeks ago that time), and we were neighbors for years. Lol. And she’d often see me going out of our...

       US and Israel continue to wage war on Iran and posts about it continue to dominate Facebook today. While talking about the war and the US soldiers that were killed, Trump suddenly, out of the blue and without any provocation, changed topic and talked about the “beautiful golden curtains” inside the White House. That demeanor is called “creeping dementia.” The sad thing about this, people around the world are saying, is he will probably die before he gets punished for all his crimes.      Love, if you’re still suffering from high blood pressure, there’s this simple but effective exercise to lower it. No equipment needed, just your strong, smooth, beautiful legs. They claim that it’s more effective than running miles. It's called wall sit. You sit still against a wall for two minutes, take a break and rest for two minutes, and do it three more times.      Jim Carrey is still going viral because of his “unrecognizable” appearance. P...

        So, there's this thread that appeared on my News Feed, claiming that reading gay literature will make you gay. I think it’s BS, I didn’t join the conversation and continued scrolling down, but it reminded me of something: a book, a boys’ love manhwa actually, that I’ve had since last year. It’s Roses and Champagne, written by ZIG and illustrated by Ttung gae. It's a compilation of four comic books. I planned of giving it as a gift but I wasn’t able to do it, and I wonder why. Lol.      I haven’t read it not because I fear that it would tweak my sexuality and make me wear skirt; it’s just that I am not a fan of boys’ love. But trust me, reading gay fiction won’t turn you into gay, just like actors accepting gay roles will not turn into queers, not that there’s wrong with being that way. I’ve read (as part of my job as a freelance editor) a few gay literature and comic books, some of them really hardcore, and it didn’t make me want to rush to a ...

       So, Today is Chinese New Year, it’s a holiday so it must be big deal. And we had tikoy for breakfast this morning. Lol. Filipinos hate Chinese (re West Philippine Sea issue), critics say, but ironically, they love many Chinese things, especially their New Year. I don’t know, but what most Filipinos hate is the Chinese government, not the Chinese people per se. Like me, I hate what the Chinese government is doing on West Philippine Sea but I don’t hate Chinese people or their products. My phone is China-made, and so is the all-in-one PC I am currently using. Many of my favorite foods are Chinese influenced, like siopao, pancit, lumpia, mami, hopia, taho, and tikoy, of course, and we love eating in Chinse restaurants (Din Tai Fung is a favorite). And our next-door neighbors are Chinese, and they're sort of nice because they are quiet and they mind their own business, unlike the other neighbors. Lol.      So, most Filipinos don’t hate Chinese. In...

       You know that joke that whenever you hit your little toe on something hard, you learn a new language, or more succinctly, you learn some swear words in a new language? It’s true. Lol. Two weeks ago, I hit my baby toe on the foot of a table really hard, and I thought I cursed in German, I think, something like  Ich liebe Dich ! Nope, I don’t think that’s a German curse.      And then, just hours ago, that same baby toe, which was almost healed, hit the door as I was going out of my room, and I thought I cursed in French, something like  Je t’aime! Nope, I don’t think that’s a French curse word. Lol.      Anyway, hitting your little toe onto something hard or getting yourself hurt physically are not the only reasons you curse in a foreign language. You also do it whenever you read some political bad news, or tragic news like some dastardly murder or other crimes being committed, or when you hear some cruelty being don...