EXISTENTIAL CRAP

I shouldn’t have downloaded the Royce Gracie vs Matt Hughes UFC fight.

I also could have wished that the celebrated heart-stopping and championship-winning jump shot by Michael Jordan against the Utah Jazz was the last play he made in the NBA.

Both Jordan and Gracie should not have made a comeback to their respected sport, if only to preserve their legendary status.

As I watched Royce Gracie being pummeled by the youthful and talented Matt Hughes my established notion (from watching kung-fu movies since childhood) of martial artists getting better with age and, sometimes, drunkenness, was shattered.

Obviously, Kung-fu movies are showing fight scenes that are against the laws of physics, specifically, gravity.

People tolerate it for the enjoyment value it gives.

But what escaped my good judgment is the concept of elderly, yet quick and strong, kung-fu masters being unbeatable in combat that I even embraced the idea as fact.

What the Gracie-Hughes video proved is that only wisdom advances with age

…that is, if one chooses to.

I don’t understand anymore the purpose of pre-school.

I believe that pre-school was conceived for the purpose of babysitting. That’s why the term daycare- to care for working parents’ children during daytime.

Now, instead of helping out the parents it has become a burden financially and is eating up valuable resources and time.

Now, as has become a necessity, parents must have a yaya or a paid helper to bring the children to school.

I don’t also understand anymore the purpose of a college degree.

What’s the use of a degree or a professional license if the degree holder makes a living totally different from his or her acquired skill?

Sometimes even landing a job that requires no skill at all.

There are so many who work abroad who didn’t use their own name nonetheless their employers are satisfied with their work.

Some falsify documents just to be hired and their employers wouldn’t know the difference and are even pleased with their skill and performance.

If the recent leakage in the nursing board exam was not exposed I bet employers wouldn’t know the difference.

It only helps explain some people’s mentality that they are really good at what they do but, nevertheless, cheat just to make sure.

It, like life, is too complex to explain.

Not like my blogs in which I can explain everything that happens in life in unbelievably simple manner – including this one.

Back to the topic, I believe that Pinoys have evolved to, and created a niche in the world market as, producers of quality laborers or a better term, manpower.

The new program of PGMA “Supermaids” supports my view with a push.

Thinking along that line, why doesn’t the government take it a notch higher - way higher economically.

Overhaul the education system by concentrating on the special skills of a region, just like the

One

Town

, One Product (OTOP) program?

This one, though, One Region, One Skill (OROS)

For example, if the Kapampangans produced Bata and Django, then, billiards should be the skill

Central Luzon

must concentrate on. Visayas and

Mindanao

specializes in producing world-class Pinoy boxers… so on and so forth.

No harm in trying.

(Sepermaid idea nga nakalusot)

It was found that only a small percentage of suicide bombers of the Hezbollah are Islamic fundamentalists

Some were even Christians.

It’s not about religion

It’s about protecting one’s own land from foreign occupation.

If that is the case, then, Filipinos could never produce such martyrs

Not at this point in time when the number of Pinoys who wants to leave their native land is at its highest.

Oddly, this is how, and the only way, Pinoys fight for their lot

But not exactly in patriotic sense

But in basic sense

Pinoys are fighting for the right to live decently

They can take my land anytime.

I’d rather work wiping off turd from the ass of an old fart in a foreign land

so long as I live well.

Anyway, Pinoys seem to be more patriotic outside their homeland

If I say I believe that the Philippines is inhabited by beautiful women, produces the best mangoes, has the best dive spots and is proud of Manny Pacquiao, does it mean that I have a strong sense of nationalism?

But even an average Japanese or Australian would agree with me

Does that make them nationalistic Pinoys too?

Obviously, my love for this country is as deep as that of a regular drunk tourist in a Boracay nightspot.