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24 Months To Pay

June 24th, 2006 by epoyz

"..Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in showbusiness
Now it’s hard to get in the door.."

          -"If God Will Send His Angels", U2 from Pop

yesterday i opened my virtual paper to this page and immediately found my chuckler. hold your horses, though, don’t hoist your hopes up, she’s okay.

 

i guess the baby just kicked a little too hard because her administration’s insidious plan is taking a bit too long and damien’s getting a little testy. by the way, he’s okay, too. what’s that, her mom’s a jackal? exactly.

i saw the headline of a real newspaper at the gasoline station that proclaimed it was just diarrhea. di-ar-rhe-a, cha-cha-chah! di-ar-rhe-a, cha-cha-chah! (if you didn’t watch beavis and butthead growing up, you won’t enjoy that..). seriously, diarrhea in the fucking headline, man. how apt. for her, for everything.

but hell, everything’s getting a little too fucked up now.

welcome to epoyz weekend whining.

lately i’ve been doing the kwento rounds, participating in huntahan fests that inevitably funnel into one common denominator of a conclusion: it’s getting too hard to make a goddamn living in this fucked-up country. everyone from my stepbrothers’ grandparents to my college friends to my high school friends to my painting works foreman to my brothers, it’s the same damn thing. unless you’re filthy fucking rich, the choke hold is on. not usually fond of small talk, i’ve found it easier to keep a conversation going even with a relative stranger by whining about the government. wow, look how i’ve grown.

 

it’s just that with nothing much to do than to let my brain cells die from inactivity, i am therefore forced to read and juice a reaction to what’s happening around me. hey, if i’m planning to raise a family in this country, might as well start  weighing shit.

for one thing, look at this. the arroyo administration declared an all-out war against the left, after weaving a story about a left-right conspiracy to unseat her. ok, ok. if you ask me, i see this as another one of her endless counter-measures towards an initiative to impeach. but again, that is just me, b. i can just as easily be branded as a freakin’ conspiracy theorist, a playa-hata, or someone who just can’t let things "move on". ok, call me that, but read that article again. collateral damage? this coming from my most favorite fucker in the world right now, secretary raul gonzalez. his statement just mad raised my hackles.

 

i’m sorry, mr. justice secretary, but with all due respect: fuck you, you mangy dog. kiss my ass, you old wanker.

if they’re doing this whole thing as a crusade for the good of mankind against the forces of evil, i’ll still be hard-pressed to accept this collateral damage bullshit. but it’s pretty obvious that they’re going through this whole charade to maintain the divisiveness and instability that keep them in power. and now innocent civilians, who could be our loved ones, our friends and family, are now supposedly expendable while this whole thing is going down?

imagine the threat of bombings and terror attacks (be it coming from the embattled leftists or the administration itself to scare the people to mire us deeper in this tyrannical rule) becoming a possiblility once again. now we are supposed to accept that we could be casualties of this "war"? how ’bout people from the provinces where the leftists keep camp, we’re supposed to accept their lives are expendable to this administration’s "cause"?

fuck that.

cause? agenda is the proper word here.

i’ve never been able to figure out up til’ now what i want to make of myself, but one thing i don’t plan on amounting to is a fucking statistic. this collateral damage shit declaration is unacceptable, i guess i’m making that clear.

 

that’s why i hate watching 24, though i love the plot twists and conspiracies they present while jack bauer (who, by the way, is my guy for the "hero-most-treated-like-shit-the-whole-damn-time" award..) tries to stop the bad guys. a lot of innocent people get murdered and killed and get snuffed for such mundane things as a bad guy refusing to pay for his slurpee in a 7-11 or some shit like that. jack may be in search of a needle to repair a hole in his flak jacket, and a patriotic citizen helps him find a sewing kit in the middle of a riot-ravaged part of L.A., but after performing this purple heart-worthy deed, he gets hit by a bullet in the ass, bursts a nerve ending and loses feeling in his legs, that he falls on a candelabra and dies. in one sequence there would be an arab terrorist on the run who happens upon an 8-year-old with a bike, and they immediately allow the kid to be gunned down in the story and let the terrorist escape unscathed, ringing the bike bell to add insult to injury (or death?). i mean, the 8-year old girl isn’t even allowed a kick in the shin in the script. come on.

 

ok, jack saves the day in the end and avenges them all in a way, but that’s just it. i fucking hate collateral damage, and there’s a worthy cause in that series, man. jack’s favorite line is "bajillions of american lives are at stake, please..", and when you see it like that, collateral damage may seem almost acceptable. but definitely not for some shit that these fuckers in the government are trying to pull.

 

this whole random guy death situation was presented years ago by the first austin powers installment,
International Man Of Mystery. i never looked at the random guy the same way again after seeing that masterpiece of a movie.

see, the random guy they kill is not a random guy to someone. and that shit hurts deep, to lose a loved one to something you can’t make sense out of. Jack Bauer may be out to save the world so a lot of random people die in the wake of the whole thing, but random guy may mean the whole world to his unlucky wife or kid. di ba?

now, can you imagine someone you love being a random person who dies among scores of people in an mrt bombing because some group wants to "send a message"?

 

i’ve never seen the use for any war of any kind, never saw the sense behind  any of it. and this war they’re declaring, it’s just a fucking laugher. their assessment, the possible "outs" they’re preparing once shit really hits the fan, it really is troubling. if this thing escalates, we really have to make a move, because by then it may have really come to us needing to fight for our very lives.

 

fucking collateral damage, dude. i can’t get over that fucker.

here’s another whiner: next week’s "big fight". they never posted the price for the nosebleed  general admission seats, but i heard it will go for a thousand bucks. A THOUSAND BUCKS!! shiiit.

 

this is a testament to what we have come to.

pera-pera na lang lahat.

this may be the only chance for our countrymen to watch their hero live, and they’re charging at least a thousand bucks for a view of two insect-like figures squaring off in the ring?

 

i mean, come on.

fifty bucks would have been ok to let simple folk get in, then just spread the difference among those big spenders occupying the 30,000, 20,000 and 8,000 peso seats. i mean, they can afford it, another thousand or two would be virtually unnoticeable to the elite bunch, right? compared to 950 additional bucks poor old-timer mang gaston can never afford to burn to see manny live, whom he followed since pacquiao was a snotty unproven rumbler from gensan, that would really be a great deal, wouldn’t it? i was thinking of buying general admission tickets for my worker boylets at the construction site and was absolutely mortified to find out that even i can’t afford to see the fight live.

 

damn.

and to think abs-cbn is making a lot of money in this. a whole boatload of money, and they can’t even spare some to make general admission tickets affordable for simple folk. i heard they raffle some of the tickets away thru texting and shit, but hey, that generates even more money for them. the producers of this fight, the promoters, they’re really not thinking about the true fans, those who really get inspired with each knockdown manny scores or each crafty combination he unleashes. only those who can afford it get to see this shit up close, and a lot of them don’t even know manny when he was still doing rounds in Boxing At The Park.

 

i’ll tell you this much: manny will win this fight, but he should have fought for the poor folk. for me, he totally lost this one.

 

fuck all the greedy rich fuckers. i hope you fucking choke on all that money, you fucking fuckers.

how’s that for a parting shot?

"Apron strings
Hanging empty
Crazy things
My body tells me
I want someone to tie to my 
Apron strings

Apron strings
Waiting for you
Pretty things
That i could call you
I want someone to tie to my lonely
Apron strings

Baby looks just like you when you were young
And he looks at me with eyes that shine
And i wish that he were mine
Then i go home to my
Apron strings
Cold and lonely
For time brings
Thoughts that only
Will be quiet when someone clings to my
Apron strings

And i’ll be perfect in my own way
When you cry i will be there
I’ll sing to you and comb your hair
All your troubles i will share

For apron strings
Can be used for other things
Than what they’re meant for
And you’d be happy wrapped in my
Apron strings

You’d be happy wrapped in my
Apron strings."

              - "Apron Strings", Everything But The Girl from Idlewild / Home Movies / Acoustics

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2 Responses to ' 24 Months To Pay '

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  1.   george said,

    on June 26th, 2006 at 8:32 am

    brod, fearless forecast larios will have a field day with manny boy pakyawan ng commercial. i am not anti but i wish larios would beat the ass off manny boy walang tulugan pakyaw. i will be the ist one to raise a fist and would say mga hinayupak kayo pera namin pinambayad nyo dyan!

  2.   Epoyz said,

    on June 28th, 2006 at 11:03 am

    mali pa pala ako, parekoy. mukhang walang 1000 pesos na upuan. yung 2760, pag umapaw, dun ka na talaga makakaupo sa dulo kasi walang numero yung upuan mo. mga swapang talaga. para namang si tyson at ali ang maglalaban. sana langawin sila, mga hayup na yan.

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