I remember back in the days when I was still working in one of my early jobs. It was a rough time for a number of us – young and brilliant who felt overworked and underpaid. Several of us weren’t lucky enough to have been born to well-to-do families and had to dole out part of our pay to help out. Some of us even occasionally went short on the budget and had to ask other co-workers for short-term loans. If someone ever did splurge on something, no one really broadcasted it to the rest of the group for tact’s sake.
Save for this one guy. Now this guy, was really something. Every pay day, while the rest of us were ranting about how our semi-monthly take home pay would be split to paying the bills, family support, and daily expenses, this guy goes out during lunch break and goes back with bags and bags collectible action figures or a new gadget. And that’s where his half-month’s pay went. No worries since he didn’t have anything else to spend on. Living with the folks and not needing to help out.
Some of us would jokingly comment about him being a real dick doing that during a workday especially when he’d spend the rest of the day ogling his loot while the rest of us worked on our Excel sheets budgeting where our money would go. Oh how we really wanted to kick his balls in for that.
Basic politeness and decency have it that you need not flaunt what you have especially in the face of those who don’t. It’s really no wonder why quite a number of people living in a place where tuyo and galunggong are already luxuries took offense when some people dine on steak and caviar.
How difficult it is to write about the Hayden Kho sex videos without sounding like an MCP. Even as I’m writing this, I am unsure at how I’ll be organizing the thoughts and phrasing them for me not to take a step back in humankind’s evolution.
Over the course of yesterday, I’ve had several chats with both male and female friends and acquaintances regarding the Haydeng Kho sex video scandals. There’s the typical mind-in-crotch guy talk three bottles into a drinking session. Typical. But more interesting are the female reactions to the issue. Simplified, their reactions to Katrina Halili’s plight fall into the choices in FML – “Your life is f*cked” and “You deserved that one”.
I wonder if these reactions have anything to do with gender lines. I somehow think that judgments based on gender lines are moot and that reactions can fall either way or even in the gray areas of these choices regardless of being male, female, gay, lesbian or transgender.
So I’m joining the Boyet Fajardo meme. For those not yet in the know, please read this post over at Lagahit. For added spice, feel free to watch part of the incident caught on CCTV here:
Success does make one’s life story interesting. What one makes of that success, defines that story’s ending and that’s what most people remember. I remember our theater director (Ronan Capinding) back in high school reminding us that “You’re only as good as your last performance.” That piece of advice always kept me on my toes when it comes to decisions and actions.
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