seryosong tula

Gagawa ako ng tulang malupit
Kahit ako’y amoy anghit.
Wala akong pakialam
Kahit hininga ko’y amoy panis na ulam.

Masaya ang araw kapag may tula.
Para kang may alagang tuta.
Kailangan lang dapat laging bagong ligo
Para hindi siya maging mabaho.

Maganda ang umaga kapag may tulang malupit.
Parang basang utot na humahagupit
Parang mantikang sumasagitsit
Ang sarap ng feeling, I can feel it.

O kay saya sa mundo ng mga letra.
Sulat lang nang sulat, para kang tanga.
Eh ano kung magmukha kang gago,
Sabihin mo na lang, “postmodern ako.”

very serious goth?

my chemical romance’s new album is drawing praises from almost everybody. they’re cool, hip, goth, infectious, and somewhat new. new because i can’t seem to remember any band who effectively meshed punk and goth sensibilities long after the misfits popularized horror punk.
sure, the band has talent. but i must say that i feel a certain amount of apprehension to all this punk-goth front that mcr is trumpeting for all its worth. at one end, you can call that dedication, or honesty, or living what they preach, or walking the talk, or whatever. but sometimes, it does seem forced. medyo oa. sure, gerard way’s got street cred to engage in all of this, what with his artsy-fartsy leanings and his degree in fine arts. but that still quite doesn’t quite make the cut, because it seems beside the point.
okay, i’m being honest. i’m saying this after watching their two latest videos, the black parade and famous last words. something in there tells me that there are corporate schemes pulling invisible strings in that output. it just seems forced. parang pilit. it seems so glossy and manicured. mcr was dressed to kill. everything is so neat. they are seriously playing up goth ethics to the letter that it just doesn’t seem quite right. it doesn’t seem so natural.
there’s a similar incident. there is this band called jet. they wear their garage-oldies-classic rock influences so proudly on their sleeves it makes them look like total morons. from the clothes, to their mustache, they are complete fuddyduddies of faded glory, awkwardly trying their best to approximate their sense of relevance and significance to a contemporary culture that otherwise renders their musical tastes and intelligent quotients very passé.
okay. maybe it’s just the videos and the get-up. there’s just a cringe factor that bubbles up whenever i see their costumes and the now quite predictable gothic texture of their videos. it just seems so choreographed and manufactured. (ihearthelvetica have some amusing “observations” on the famous last words video.)

mcr’s songs though are cool, but it just boils down to my personal perspective of spontaneity over the glossy. great music, at least for me, should look effortless, and in that sense, empowering. effortless excellence/elegance. the italians have a word for it-sprezzatura.

maybe i’m just more amused with the used than my chemical. hey, maybe that explains.

serious photo-op

serious (dis)comfort

sino bang ‘di naiinis sa mga pangako ng mga student council na ayusin ang mga comfort room, na kadalasan namang ‘di natutupad, at kung matupad naman, ‘di nasusustain haggang matapos ang taon. siyempre, pabango lang sa kanilang pangalan at kalaunan, unti-unti na lang naiiwanan at bumabaho kagaya ng pagkabulok ng mga ga-bundok nilang pangako.

kung may makagawa lang sana nito .todo batas.

nakakainspire tumae dito.

serious announcement

lost in translation

kuha sa email mula kay ate cha na galing kay billy boy.
laptrip.

1. Black hawk down – ibong maitim sa ibaba
2. dead man’s chest – dodo ng patay
3. i know what you did last summer – uyy… aminin!
4. love, actually – sa totoo lang, pag-ibig
5. million dollar baby – 50 million pisong sanggol (it depends on the exchange rate of the country)
6. the blair witch project – ang proyekto ng bruhang si blair
7. mary poppins – si mariang may putok
8. snakes on a plane – nag-ahasan sa ere
9. the postman always rings twice – ang kartero kapag dumutdot laging dalawang beses
10. sum of all fears – takot mo, takot ko, takot nating lahat
11. swordfish – talakitok
12. pretty woman – ganda ng lola mo
13. robin hood, men in tights – si robin hood at ang mga felix bakat
14. 4 weddings & a funeral – kahit 4 na beses ka pang magpakasal, mamamatay ka rin
15. the good, the bad and the ugly – ako, ikaw, kayong lahat
16. harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone – adik si harry, tumira ng shabu
17. click – isang pindot ka lang
18. brokeback mountain – may nawasak sa likod ng bundok ng tralala /bumigay sa bundok
19. the day of the death – ayaw tumayo (ng mga patay)
20. waterworld – basang-basa
21. there’s something about mary – may kwan sa ano ni maria
22. employee of the month – ang sipsip
23. resident evil – ang biyenan
24. kill bill – kilitiin sa bilbil
25. the grudge – lintik lang ang walang ganti
26. nightmare before christmas – binangungot sa noche buena
27. annie hall – ang butas ni annie
28. never been kissed – pangit kasi
29. gone in 60 seconds – 1 round, tulog
30. the fast and the furious – ang bitin, galit
31. too fast, too furious – kapag sobrang bitin, sobrang galit
32. dude, where’s my car – dong, anong level ulit tayo nag-park?
33. beauty and the beast – ang asawa ko at ang nanay nya
34. the lord of the rings – ang alahero

the 10:10 conspiracy

ever noticed why analog clock advertisements are always set at 10:10? or sometimes 10:08? that’s something weird. something that clock companies are so particular with but something i highly doubt anybody even notices. why?

based from my inanely functioning prehistoric body part that goes by the name of brain, 10 seems to be a number that represents fullness. man tends to associate groups by chunks, and when seeing clusters, he groups them according to collective odd numers that usually goes by the multiples of five, like five apples, ten apples, 15 apples, 20 apples. it’s like, it’s easier to picture and work with ten pesos than thirteen, kumbaga walang butal.

also, ten seems to be the last number in the normal order of nominal progression that goes like zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, sever, eight, nine, and ten. then everything that follows just goes by the permutation of such numbers. (although you could argue that ten is a combination of zero and one, but what the heck, that’s my oddball “intellectual” theory.) hence, it’s a nice combination. sakto lang at sapat.

but of course that’s just plane baloney. it’s just me pretending to be intelligent and trying to make sense out of something i can’t explain. i mean, does the intended audiece of the ad even realize these, hence goad them more into buying the clock? i think not. unless it’s some underground formula for hypnotic persuasion.

the more practical reasons came when i actually took my chance to search for it in the net and actually found some answers. i even found some that i think are more bizarre than mine. some explanations say that 10:10 makes for a subtle immortalization of historic events, like it was the time that john f. kennedy was shot, or martin luther or abraham lincoln, or whatever. what is this, some kind of clockwork epitaph?

the more practical, and believable, seems to be that the 10:10 formation makes for visual clarity of the company’s logo located at the center top. the theory is that it frames, or maybe highlights, the logo, and also creates a more balanced image of the clock. in some cases, it also avoids to obstruct the date function usually found at the 3 o clock or 9 o clock side.

the weirdest one is that 10:10 resembles a smiling image that then entices consumers. what?

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for my next stupid question: do you still call an escalator/elevator as such even when it is going down?
*waiter! beer pa nga!*