Pounding The Keyboard

     This pandemic is really wreaking havoc on the economy. Businesses left and right are closing down. The latest to fall by the wayside is the club and KTV industry. Pegasus, Air Force One and other known men’s clubs are reportedly shutting down. I don’t go to any of these establishments (when I was younger, yes, but not to these high-end clubs) but Pegasus has a soft spot in my heart. Lol. Who doesn’t love Pegasus, especially when he helped Perseus kill Medusa and the Kraken? Okay, I was digressing. You see, I had a friend who used to live near Pegasus (the club at Quezon Avenue, not the winged, mythical horse although the club has also reached mythical status), and this friend of mine and I (together with other friends) would be collaborating on a project every now and then up to the time of his (untimely) death more than a decade ago. Incidentally, there’s another high-end adult (affiliated) establishment beside Pegasus, a health club or a massage parlor calle...

     If your girlfriend or your wife is like my cell phone, relationship with her will be short-lived. My cell phone, a Huawei, (yes, it’s Chinese and we Filipinos should dislike anything Chinese   but it’s just a hand-me-down from my niece when she bought a new unit, it was still in good condition then,   and the timing was perfect because my old CP then was about to conk out), you see, this phone always asks for space. I had no problem with my old cell phone then when it came to storage (I can download any apps I want), but with this cell phone, I keep deleting apps because this Chinese f*cker demands space every time I want to download a new application. Storage would be almost 1 gigabyte today, the next morning, it’d be less than 300 MB, without me doing anything. I keep cleaning it. The brand new memory card I bought was useless because I can’t transfer files from the phone and I can’t send new apps into it. Free up space, that’s the message I recei...

"Oh, there's oceans of tea And years of TV But I miss you My trouble is I miss you, my trouble I miss you My trouble is I miss you, my trouble..                Elbow, "My Trouble"        Thank God, today is Friday, 5 th of June, 2020. The fifth day since General Community Quarantine (GCQ) was implemented by the government.      What do international singer Taylor Swift and local celebrities Catriona Gray, Pia Wutz-, er, Wrut-, er, Wurtzback, er, Wurtzbach, Nadine Lustre, Liza Soberano, Heart Evangelista, Kathryn Bernardo, Solenn Heussaff,   Janine Gutierrez have in common. No, they’re not my ex-girlfriends. They are all protesting against the anti-terror bill that’s about to become a law (only lacking is the president’s signature), and these artists are usually apolitical and rarely comment on political issues, so to hear them protesting is a sign that someth...

     Today is Wednesday, 3 rd of June, 2020, and the third day since the government implemented General Community Quarantine (GCQ). This government loves  to use such colorful terminologies  like Enhanced Community Quarantine, Modified Enhanced, etcetera, which  are probably meant to amaze the easily impressed. In most countries, they only use two words: lockdown (for the uninfected) and quarantine (for the sick), if they want to ease some restrictions, they will call it “easing the restrictions,” then they will enumerate the restrictions that will be eased, as simple as that. Nothing enhanced, nothing modified.   Here, we quarantine even the healthy and the uninfected. You wonder how many hours do they brainstorm these terminologies. "No, ‘lockdown’ is such a simple word," they probably argued, "we will use words that will shock and awe the masses, to show them how smart we are." If only this inept-in-every-way government would also put that m...

     Today is Tuesday, 26 th of May, the 71 st day since the Luzon-wide lockdown and the tenth day since the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) was implemented.      So I started watching, upon the recommendation of my niece, the Korean series Strangers from Hell (2019, see photo above). Genre is horror/mystery, it has one season, 10 episodes and available on Netflix). Story’s about a young office worker who dreams of becoming a writer (he’s on the first few pages of his first book, a crime novel). Due to financial constraints, he is forced to live in a cheap boarding house (really small rooms, common bathroom, common kitchen), together with some weirdos and psychos who unbeknown to him are brutal serial killers. The series is dark, intense and creepy (some comments I’ve read about the show include “it will give you nightmares” and “it will make you nauseous”).      Yesterday, I watched another film by Oriol ...