Friday, June 26, 2009

Sponghabob Quadradopantalon

You know, for all the crap the world throws at me on a daily basis, one thing really cheers me up. I can't start my day without seeing it. I'm referring to the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants dubbed in Tagalog.

I kid you not. Spongebob has been translated to Tagalog, dubbed over and broadcast over a local channel. It is fucking hilarious. Seriously, seeing an American cartoon like this entirely in Tagalog busts my gut. What's even funnier is that I don't even understand Tagalog! I can barely understand them yet I laugh my ass off every time. The dub is excellent by the way unlike the other shit dubs done for Japanese anime.

I don't know how to speak Tagalog. I can understand it a little but I'm not fluent in my own national language. I can't learn it because I don't have use for it. The teacher tells me to watch Tagalog show and movies to learn but the brain learns language when it is used daily. That's how it works. Tagalog is useless for me and I have been struggling with this subject since elementary but if there's something that can make the learning experience infinitely more entertaining, its Spongebob. Pupunta na tayo sa Krusty Krab!

Sunday, June 21, 2009

I would have blogged about something but I have this unusually huge headache. No.

Monday, June 15, 2009

CON-ASS My Ass

There has been a lot of noise lately about changing my country's flawed and unnecessarily rigid constitution. As usual, like all attempts done before, the congress accuses the president of using charter change to hang on to power then the priests and nuns get their groove on then the students skip class to join rallies and whatever. Look, I've seen it all before. Boring. Charter change? When pigs fly.

If there is one silver lining to the ineptitude of the government, stupidity of the people and our inability to unite, is that when I decide to study law, I would still be using the same constitution. It would be way easier on the student since nothing would change. If I become a lawyer, I bet I would still be studying the same constitution and using the same old law books I had in college. As I get old, my grandchildren and their children's children could still use the same books I had and have as much fun learning about the 1987 Constitution as I did. Think of all the money we could save on books!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Sex Scandal Again

It's been two weeks but it seems like forever. The media vultures are still feasting on the stinking dead horse carcass that is the sex scandal featuring some celebrities who I previously have not even heard of or gave half a rat's ass about. In my earlier post I mentioned the whole stupid story and if you don't know the story despite the media supersaturation, then I envy you, I really do.

The rich, allegedly educated "doctor" guy who taped his own unimpressive sex tapes with celebrities now claims he was on drugs at the time, which the woman in the film gave him. Right, I guess that explains the other volumes of tapes huh? I guess that makes everything better. I guess some people will say anything to make it seem that they couldn't help it. Twice today I have read psychologists describe the idiot's "condition" as voyeurism or gender-identity disorder. Again with the "disorder" bullshit. What this implies is that what he did wasn't a voluntary act but from a mental sickness. The guy even has his own supporters and sympathizers! I'm supposed to feel sympathy? Whatever. I stick to Occam's Razor, the principle that given multiple explanations, the simplest is best. In this case, the "doctor" was just a moron with astonishingly poor judgement, taping his sexcapades with celebrities to show off and stoke his own ego. That's it.

What troubles me most is the whole attention this is getting. This sex scandal bullshit has gone on long enough. In fact, the other day, we received a call here from a relative of the family who is in the US. Eventually the conversation with our relative, who we seldom speak to, arrived at the critical issue: the sex scandal. Yes, Filipinos in other countries have heard of it and probably seen it too. If anybody has voyeurism in this story it's the people themselves. How entranced everybody is with this non-issue. The people are just lapping this shit up right up and enjoying it.

As for me, I'm sick of it. I will never think, write or speak of this again unless one of the parties of the scandal dies a hilariously ironic death. I have been hypnotized by this nonsense for too long and I say no more. From now on, I go back to not caring even one percent which I already used up writing the last paragraph. If anyone mentions this sex scandal to me in person, I will choke that person until he dies.