Pounding The Keyboard

       So I was half-asleep inside a passenger jeepney one night when I was jolted by two thug-looking tattooed men   who boarded the vehicle and promptly announced: “Don’t be afraid, we’re not out to harm you.” But it was too late, some of the passengers already got scared, one of them, a woman, almost dropped her high-end phone in an attempt to quickly hide it. Me, I almost jumped out of the window.        The two thugs or thug-looking men then brandished a (fake) document, saying that they were asking for a little help for their mother sick with cancer. (This is quite a common occurrence in public transport, people boarding the vehicle you’re in, asking for help, brandishing documents as proof of disease or of death, telling their captive audience that they’d rather ask money that way instead of becoming thieves or criminals.) Talk about emotional blackmail.         O ne of th ...

       Some of my favorite albums are heavy metal (Metallica’s … And Justice For All and Metallica (The Black Album ),   Faith No More’s Angel Dust and King For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime and Megadeth’s Countdown To Extinction ). These bands are experts when it comes to writing songs that will deliriously shatter your eardrums. And their— so what’s my point?        Wala lang, just saw this video loitering in my Facebook News Feed, two metal musicians (one of them Jared Dines) writing a   “corny” pop song in just 24-hours, proving once again that many metal musicians are more talented than most pop stars even in writing pop songs. Well, that’s actually my point.        The song is entitled, wait, they didn’t mention the title of their song. Anyway, the song is good, it’s catchy and has a great hook.        Okay, all together now:  ...

       So, I was watching over my 6-year old niece and her 17-month old brother who were playing Play-Doh. My niece was shaping up something that resembled a stethoscope. “Do you want to be a doctor when you grow up?” I asked her.         She beamed. “Yes.” Just a year ago, she wanted to be an astronaut.        “Are you going to cure me of my illnesses when I grow old?”        “Yes, of course.”        My heart leapt with joy with that answer. “Thank you, you’re very kind,” I said. Imagine not having to worry about medical expenses when you’re old. I did right when I bought my niece an expensive gift last Christmas.        “But you have to pay me,” added my niece.        My nephew looked at me, shook his head, and quipped, “Oh, man!” ...

       When I reached the LRT station last Tuesday, February 14 at around 1 PM, I saw a couple ( a man and a woman who were probably both in their 30s), talking at the top of the stairs. The woman was carrying a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Nothing unusual with that, until I was just a few feet away from them when the man suddenly grabbed the woman and kissed her torridly on the lips. The woman placed her arms around the man’s nape and returned his kissed with the same intensity. You could hear the slurping and smooching sounds they were making. Eww, yes. Lol. They were still kissing and talking and kissing again (the whole shebang lasted fifteen minutes) when I went to the ticket booth and I was so amused by what I was seeing that I answered “Sogo” when the teller asked for my destination. I mean, the kissing couple should have gone to a motel and not to an LRT Station.        But then, love probably ju...

       So there’s this Facebook female friend of a friend of mine who texted him this morning telling him that she was blocking him because she had sent him a “provocative” private message yesterday (February 14) and was embarrassed by it.   (She was probably carried away by the occasion.) Personally, he says he doesn't find the message “provocative” and it seems like she was just kidding. Well, jokes are half-meant, some will argue. Provocative messages for him are the ones with attached nudes, or least ones that show a cleavage. Or one that starts with the question: “What are you wearing in your bed tonight?” Lol. Anyway, it looks like she won’t change her mind about the blocking so my friend will remain blocked, which is sad, because they have been friends for so long.        And speaking of Facebook blocking, a few weeks ago, I read a post in Facebook where a guy, after a girl (which he had a crush on and ...