EXISTENTIAL CRAP

Arctic ice melting fast!

Nobody seems to care anymore

If I remember it right, when I was a kid, the news of the Skylab crashing from the heavens was more ‘doomsday’ than the global warming of today

Maybe the whole world have become doomesday-fatigued

Blockbuster but crappy movies such as Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, War of the Worlds, of course,Titanic; with realistic special effects, they make the book of Revelation look like it came out of Funny Komiks.

"I told you so"

I told my wife when I let her read a column of Michael Tan and emphasized on the part about a study that a poor American family improving economically to middle class will take about 200 years!

And they’re even Americans! ( I hate to be redundant)

I was right when I told her not long ago how inconcievable - basically, from my own experience - it is to acquire wealth, much less to become a billionaire in a lifetime.

So fast was how these self-made billionaires amassed their wealth that they still have at least 3/4 of their lives to enjoy their riches.

While all I see around me are bootom-feeders and crumbs that begin to look like gold dusts, wealth’s elusiveness only confirm the idea that it is just a mirage, especially when rich men are distant and fictitious like Jose Pidal and Jose Velarde.

That is how I was led to believe that there is no such person as Bill Gates, only balikbayans.

I came to my senses as I closed my mouth (to prevent more drooling) and finally decided that that was it for me and Forbes.com

And so it has come to this:

Resignation and hopelessness for opting to stay

And leaving as the only hope

A colleague and friend left for the Caribbean the other day

Just two weeks before that another friend went to Dubai

Me sour graping?

My daughter onced blurted out that her economically-challenged cousin’s family in the province lives in a ‘Pambansang Bahay’

That was hilarious

Was she aware that she was equating poverty with a national pride?

Am I pushing my daughter into losing fast her sense of nationalism at a tender young age by LMAO to her innocent observation?

…Putik

It is when I don’t expect much that I get favorable results.

Maybe it is just like turning on the ‘easy-to-please’ switch and the whole system downgrades

Pareng Dave gave me an ordinary retic that loves to bite

Normally, I would not have taken it

But I thought that it would be a pleasant change to have an ill-tempered snake for a pet since I’ve been used to docile ones.

It’s a welcome challenge, besides it’s free and I haven’t had a retic for quite sometime

Somewhere along that line I lowered my expectations

Needless to say, it paid

I love every bit –and I mean literally, and all the missed and attempted bites- of the little rascal

Now, that is a display of being a true Pinoy and I’m proud of it

My take on a given situation easily explains what the rest of the world considers a mystery, which is, that amid deep crisis Pinoys still rank relatively high on the list of happiest people in the world.

Expecting very little and receiving slightly better is…priceless

Mababaw ang kaligayahan

That explains why developed nations, like the

US

, have a very busy judiciary

People expect much from each other, thus, easily provoked into taking legal action at the slightest shortcoming.

Pinoys wouldn’t think twice showing their wide grins in front of news cameras because if not for the erupting volcano their ‘15 minutes’ of fame wouldn’t have been possible

…MALUPIT !

Google Earth is arguably the best the internet has contributed in my world of daily trivialities.

It is way ahead of the pack consisting of break.com, subservient chicken and others like it…

The best Halo-halo is served in an old ice cream parlor in

San Fernando

City

…

My sister in-law, Manang Deb, cooks the best Dinakdakan and Pinakbet.

If not for these dishes she prepared I could not have possibly learned that they don’t make alka-seltzers anymore.

In a secular point of view,

Hollywood

’s best answer, so far, to the very important query on man’s purpose is the story of the Matrix trilogy.

According to the movie humans are ‘milked’ of valuable energy in some kind of an enormous human farm facility

To ensure continued maximum output from every human, encased in a test tube-like vessel, a simulation of the ‘real’ world is programmed in them.

(No wonder suicide is a taboo – it means less energy resource – and procreation is highly encouraged)

Among other things, it also answers the question of who benefits from man’s existence.

If a dung beetle benefits from a buffalo’s waste matter and a falcon survives at the expense of the beetle and so on, up to the top of the food chain (if there is such a pinnacle and if there is I do not think man is occupying it because any idea that puts man at the apex is just putting the planet earth back to the center of the solar system again).

There is a phrase: balance of nature.

Without doubt, the massive scale of abuse on the environment by human beings in exchange for a handful of fresh human s**t eaten by a stray dog or maggots devouring corpses is far from being considered a fair trade.

Having access to everything while giving very little in return seems to be a privilege enjoyed by those on the top.

Does it really end with man?

Or is something higher than man making it appear like it is to keep humankind going and multiplying, thus, guaranteeing – like wind or water is to man – a renewable source of energy?