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Saturday, June 24, 2006

EI

I’ve been a slave of an 8-hour-a-day job for quite a while and have had the misfortune (or luck, depending on one’s viewpoint) of getting laid off. There are people who are self-righteous enough to look at me incredulously because I’ve been staying home for the past 5 months. They seem to equalize unemployment with indolence. I say there is nothing wrong with enjoying the benefits that the Canadian government provides those who are out of work. They take a chunk out of our pay cheques every week and I will take advantage this.

There’s something so sweet about getting paid whilst staying home and doing nothing.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Not Ready To Make Nice

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting
- Dixie Chicks

Backlash

Due to the fact that there’s a total absence of panache and class with everything that has happened, I opted to be the bigger person and went the other way. Instead of exhausting my throat yakking about someone who doesn't even care if you fell of the face of the earth, I chose to stay silent. But this silence doesn’t mean my mind is idle or that my hand is suffering from paralysis. The cogs in my brain are moving and my hands are fine so I will write what I want to write.

There’s this game show I watch that’s hosted by a person who doesn’t have the gift of diplomacy (Kris Aquino). That’s where I learned that ostriches have brains smaller than their eyes.

Recent events in my life seem to purport my theory that there are human beings with the same attribute. These people probably have skulls that could be used for storage space.

Their cerebral activity is limited to coordinating their makeup with their clothes and they don’t possess any aspiration to exercise their brain cells. Their capacity to have their minds operating is directly proportional to the size of their clothes - 0 to 1.

One of them has berated me for something that my mom and my sister have said and done. I admit that what they did was wrong but don’t hold your breath waiting for me to issue an apology on their behalf because chances are, you’re going to run out of air. I would hate to see you hospitalized waiting for something that doesn’t have a possibility of happening. I don’t want you dying before you find out who made that Friendster profile for you (I don’t even want nor need your apology when that happens. You can shove it up your *bleep*). Newsflash, honey: Even though I entered this tumultuous world through my mother’s vagina, that doesn’t make us one and the same. So if you have something against her, tell it to her face. Good luck getting her attention, though. I tried that a couple of million times as a child and was not quite successful. It resulted in me being the eldest child with the middle child syndrome.

The other one has steam coming out of her ass saying that I’ve been telling people I’ve been slapped, pushed out the door and ganged-up on at a party. Another newsflash: You are acutely delusional if you think I will walk out that party without exsanguinating someone if that was true. If that actually happened, your face would've been rearranged, so quit saying things that aren’t true. Why don't you exert more effort in being a wife and a mother? I'm sure it would keep you more preoccupied than trying to be a nuisance in my life.

They accuse me of making up a profile in Friendster intended to ruin one of them. I actually have nothing to say about this because I think they did it themselves to attract the attention that their skimpy clothes and thick makeups couldn’t get. Their infantile attempts to play themselves out as victims are plain BRAINLESS. STUPID. DENSE. UNINTELLIGENT. IMBECILIC. FEEBLE-MINDED. SLOW-WITTED. MORONIC.

And the list goes on….

Monday, June 5, 2006

Weeks After

I’ve made my peace with the reality that certain relationship gaps cannot be bridged anymore. Lies have been fabricated much faster than any Magna factory can manufacture car parts and fingers have been pointed faster than any text addict can send a message.

The embellishments have negated the possibility of friendships extending past clothes-swapping, sleepovers and straightening each others hair. I can’t share relationship troubles with you anymore because the next thing on the grapevine would probably be me, trying to poison Charles’ dinner just so I can bask in the luxury that his life insurance would give.

I can console myself with the thought that this is nothing to get all bent up over with, especially if the people concerned are inexplicably incapable of any form of civility. I am not going to torture myself with the should haves or could have beens because regrets are for people who feel they should’ve acted differently to make things better. But I’ve given my best and I’ve done nothing wrong. I chalk it all up to my experience chart and maybe next time I cross paths with such acquaintances, I wouldn’t trust so readily.

My naïveté has confined me in the belief that people are inherently good. From hereon, I will always keep it in the back of my mind that there exist people who consider back-talking and tittle-tattling a form of entertainment to their otherwise meaningless lives.

Friday, June 2, 2006

Love Thy Neighbor

I have come across people who I believe is trapped in a perpetual state of oblivion from understanding. I’m not one to point fingers because there have been countless times when my grasp of reality is dubious, and my momentary lapse of judgment occurs ever so often. But today, I’m on the other side of the fence. Everybody is barbecuing next-door, while I’m stuck pulling out weeds in my backyard.  Nobody wants to help because the neighbors are handing out steaks and cocktails and feeding the guests good stories that they eat up like children do Fairy Tales. The neighbors should keep in mind, though, that Fairy Tales highlight stark divergences between good and evil, shaping the habitually happy endings.

So when the whole neighborhood finds out…

- who fed Snow White the poisonous apple

- who put the pea on the Princess’ mattress

- who turned the Prince into a frog,

- who made that derogatory and disparaging Friendster profile and

- who ate the baby bear’s porridge and then broke his chair…

…that’s when I’ll get my happy ending. In the meantime, I’ll carry on weeding-out my garden.  it’s more important than breaking my fingers by pointing relentlessly at someone who just doesn’t care, and much safer than shooting in the dark and gunning down a guiltless bystander.