Pounding The Keyboard

        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...