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Sunday, June 17, 2012

ORTIGAS WALKING BLUES (PART 1: FUCK THE NORMS)


I am actually buying my time to think of things that can complete me nowadays, it is just that finding the real completion of self is hard to find. Whenever my eyes post its focus, it tends to shatter in a way that I can’t really comprehend; a scene to which my moving consciousness is alien. At the moment of planning the grand conclusion of my life, a strife appeals to be heard at the deepest realm of my thriving awareness of being a tidy man in a so-called ordered universe. At first the bite of reality was neglected, to the innermost complexity of my ‘undying spirit’ to resist the urge to be one with the many. In that point of time, the diversion to confusion starts to linger, away to the spirit of the so-called bohemian/idealistic/philosophical life. To which the conclusion arrives at the most contradictory endings of my so-called planned existence.
I used to live in a not-the-usual fashion, burning books inside my mind, burning cigarettes, roaming and exploring things with my muse, writing poems and drinking liquors with friends while talking about deepest metaphysical thoughts you could ever imagine, that was the lifestyle I am imploring to the world/society to understand. That is life per se on a man searching for his place in a diverse universe with different sorts of choices are to be made.
I remember once a Japanese movie character said to the protagonist while his practicing his samurai skills, the character actually said ‘too many minds must have one’ (I can’t recall the exact phrase but the thought is more likely the same). And to that phrase I remember myself being on the verge of thinking of doing different things at the same time. And David Hume actually talked to me that fast, like a lightning bolt struck me with a fraction of a second; ‘you cannot see the totality of the moon, only its partial side’. Damn! It makes sense at all! The tilting of my hourglass of life is near; I must find a way to cure the fits that’s eating me. The confusion that resembles the inner cycle of maturity, the confusion of leaving the old self, everything that composed my future reverberates like a pendulum in wooden room. The stings of reality crashes as it turns out to be unfolded, by the things before which are blurred turning to be clearer as the time of revealing draws nearer and alas the plight of transition came; I must react on the things at hand.
      I left my old lifestyle with just a snap. Forgetting the usual Saturdays, weekdays with the muse, liquor heavy Friday nights with some philosophical talks do not exist anymore. Reality came like death misfiring its stray bullets on the things I’ve enjoyed doing. The things that I am actually enjoying at this moment are thinking in a long blank just like ______________. That’s a non-sense for some persons, because they actually spent most of their time thinking on the 15th pay out, the 30th, the credit card and household bills all of that sort to which life of theirs are revolving.  Naïve for others that is actually their judgment over me that I am taking things not that seriously or I have got an immature views about things. Basically on ‘mature’ person’s point of view it is. For thinking about a date, a new phone, a nice car to put a loan is a mature man’s line of thinking. Not that sort runs inside my mind. I used to think about a world wherein everyone’s got a right to point things out, things they want to be. Things that can actually make their lives much better, the kind of stuffs an idealist dream of. Well as my confession continues, it is a form of putting objects on the blank spaces that I am thinking of. A leeway of some sort, call me weird but it is just like a game, like a million chance of a lifetime game. Putting letters that can actually make you won the price you dream of, for others it is a six letter word that comprises their aspiration W-E-A-L-T-H. A typical answer to everyone’s dream but what would be the completion of my million chance of a lifetime question? Come to think of it. The prescribe focus that standardized the goals are biting my limbs, as I walk through the concrete jungle of Ortigas, the conditions are much and much more becoming harsh. To the fact that clothing myself with long sleeves and tie doesn’t make sense at all. The furious stares and uncanny words starting to spray a tinge of stain in my modest being that of which everything that conspire to transform me to the many is putting blood on my back up; my philosophy. At some extent it is incomprehensible, but the way language games starts to mingle with my own language games solitude ‘Ortigas-dreamy-state’ the violence occurs. Eating my world, being fed up with intrigues that I am no involved with but they‘re keep on putting my place over it stacks up.  Politics of the office, fucking hardcore of faggots and their escapades are neither of my business. All I want is to forget the stereotypical bonds to which ‘others’ keep on imposing. Resistance, it is a tabooed concept on their part. You must conform on the sorts of their doing. You must put side in order not to be taken down, demotion; a fucking parasite! A splinter of the civilized world to which numbness is your best friend, for eating the shit in order to survive resembles the vomiting part! The part of which, you and I are situated to conform on their own gauge and standard. Most likely the mores of the society claims to be the standard, a way to which that presupposed concept to which it is repressed to the core affects the judgment of the people. It affects everything and the effect is vital. To which the inevitable part is the convulsive way of stereotyping. Thus the confession leads in a very furious revolt against societal norms. And as to conclude this shit of mine a phrase will complete the million chance of a lifetime question “FUCK THE NORMS!!!”

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Nagyoyosi ka ba?


Isang maikling sanaysay para sa araw ng kalayaan, gamit ang kinalakhan kong wika...

Hindi ko talaga alam bakit sa tuwing papatak ang alas dose di ko mapigilang mangasim sa yosi. Tila ba may demonyong humahatak sakin paalis ng station ko para humitit sa labas ng mapanirang-baga na usok. Eh pano ba naman sa lamig ng opisina na pinagtatrabahuhan ko, sino ba naman ang di mapapayosi! Tanghaling tapat, tagaktak ang pawis, tila ako litson na pinaiikot ng kawayan sa nagbabagang uling. Di ko malaman bakit pa ako lumabas ng opisina gayong duon malamig, dito naman saksakan ng init.

            ‘Lights nga!’ ika ko dun sa takatak boy na maya’t maya umiikot sa gilid ng mga railings ng bilding na pinapasukan ko. Sa gilid kung san ako nakatayo malapit sa baitang paakyat ng gusali, nakatayo din yung mga taong giyang, na kagaya ko maya’t maya din ang hitit sa mga nagbabagang tabako na umuupos sa mga abo na nagsisilbing mga alaala ng kangina’y matikas na Marlboro. Pero sa totoo lang, kung may tatanungin ka bakit nagyoyosi yung mga tao dito, wala kang makukuhang matinong sagot eh. Laging hanging yung mga sagot kumbaga mga sagot ni boy pick-up minsan eh, walang direksyon walang pinatutungkulan.

            Teka nagkakalimutan, yung dahilan nga pala, teka nyemas naman “ano nga ba?” dahil nga ba pag humihitit ka nito para kang si Rudy Fernandez na astig hawak mo lagi ang fortune sa buhay mo? O para kang isang cowboy na gwapings na malupit maghagis ng lubid sa kabayo? Di man para kang isang action star na tamang nagyoyosi pampadagdag ‘bad-ass’? Isa yan sa tingin ko sa mga dahilan ng iba, pero kung uugatin natin yung lalim ng pagkahumaling sa nikotina di na siguro natin mahuhukay pa.

            Grabe yung init, wala naman talagang koneksyon yung init sa pagyoyosi ko! Siguro talagang naiinip lang ako sa paulit-ulit na pangyayare sa opisina. Papasok, magtatrabaho, makikipag-plastikan sa mga plastic na katrabaho, kakausapin yung iilang tropa sa station, mababagot, makakatulog ng dilat at mag-iisip na sana alas siete na at makaka-uwi na din sa wakas! Teka di ko napansin, kangina pala nung pababa ako sa elevator yun ang naiisip ko habang nagigiyang ako magyosi. At habang hinihitit ko tong yosi na to, naisip ko bigla; kaya naimbento ang yosi kasi nabobored ang mga tao.

            Tamang hintay ako sa sa pinsan ko kasi kanina pa ako nakalabas ng opisina, sya naman eh palabas palang. Grabe nakaka-bagot tumayo sa gilid ng bangketa na nakikita mo yung mga mukha ng mga burgis at mga nagpapanggap burgis na naglalakad habang kumakain ng magnum at humihitit ng starbaks (status symbol ang magnum at starbaks wag ka!). dulot ng pagkainip di ko malaman ang gagawin ko, hinawakan ko ang celfone, naghintay na may mag-text. Wala. Tumingin sa tabi-tabi, pinandaw ang paligid baka may tropa. Wala. Kinapa ang bulsa, may matigas; lighter! Binunot ko yung yosi sa bag ko, lights na Marlboro, sinindihan-hinitit-dinama ang usok-binuga sa ere-humitit muli. Paulit-ulit gang sa maubos ang isang stick, sindi ulit! Isa din pala sa dahilan ang pagka-inip sa pagyoyosi, Damn!

            Alas otso y media, wala pa ding pinsan, kalahating kaha na ang naitumba, pa-ubos na yosi at nandito pa din sa gilid ng banketa—naiinip (sabay buga ng huling hitit).

Sunday, June 3, 2012

The Angst Connection


Dwell in the cold space
Beneath the soil in its place
Lie down and view the wilderness
Conclusions whether foolishness
Appeal to be drawn
Out of nothingness

Climb up to the edge
Wicked scenes to picture out
That certain coldness
One cannot explain as you long
For something out of nothing

But your thoughts into the sands
Dances away and it’s stillness it stands
As it runs out and slip within your hands
Searching life on the thread
Fire losing heat, arises now dread

Tell me something that you fears
Neither weary put yourself on tears
Cold spaces between us sears
Out here nothing you can feel.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Ortigas Walking Blues, Part three: Late in the morning garbage talk



“Working from seven to eleven every night…” Led Zeppelin starts to sing and my dream with the muse was dismissed. It is another morning my body says and I must shun away the demons of the bed. Because it is so hard to get up and wash away the hangover of a nice relaxing sleep. Only to notice that you must again face the reality of being a capitalist whore, a need for mind setting is a must. For a person like me, convincing me through introspection before standing up and preparing for work is a habit. Scratching head, throwing the extra pillow to the other bed is always the start of my waking up tantrums. At some cases, I am not like this especially when there is an appointment with my loved ones.
As I looked at the clock, it deceives me at first because I thought it is still 7:30. But when I checked my phone, it had already snoozed ten times! Rushing downstairs, I grabbed my mug prepared some coffee, sipped a little, and then rushed to the bathroom. There, I sang continuously, never heeding the ranting voices of my aunt and cousin.At 9:10, I already got everything prepped up! However, as I set forth away from the house, I realized that I forgot something. DAMN! It’s my fucking necktie! I went back, fetchedthe little thing, and rushed to the highway.As I waited for a jeepney ride, I didn’t get quite lucky either. Instead of coming at work late, I decided to just hail a cab with the faintest wish to salvage today’s office log in. I am not quite sure if all these are meant to be happening or if everything’s just plain coincidence.
Inside the cab, stress lingers for time is running out. Looking at the digital clock, the numbers six and nine annoys my eyes; it’s something like ‘you’re fucking dead meat if you’re going to be late again’ shit. Nine and six has always been a part of my childhood, because I used to have a classmate who is damn so religious. I remember that situation when I was cursing my classmate in the vernacular (PUTANGINAMO!!!) he approach me and slap my face. Shocked and awe resembles among my extremities, because I can’t make any decision whether I should kick her in the ass or bitch slap her ass. While in shocked, a prayer resonates like the sound of crumpling tin cans. Irritating! Damn! Afterwards some of my classmates reacted when she shouts 666! Get away from him; don’t get my classmate for he is a child from god. Fuck! Do I look like a devil? Damn! And after my nerves went in, she actually told me that I was possessed by an evil spirit, that’s why she slap me to the extent that I almost forgotten my name! She keeps on talking about revelation and the numbers 666 and 999. For the latter is god’s number and the former is fucking devilish one! Ha! Believing in that stupidity is something like believing that there is a something like except of nothing! Those numbers are just created in order for people to be afraid, or whoever is the person who invented the meanings behind those numbers; I will congratulate him, for he frightened 99% of my stupid classmates when I was in fourth grade.
The taxi ride reminds of different things. Stories that for some are stupid and irrelevant, everything goes as they say. Different foolishness and philosophies are created through a single taxi ride. And I’ve got this certain conclusion that taxi drivers are like barbers! Telling ‘supernatural’ stories about their experiences that sometimes they saved someone who is in trouble and in return the cool taxi driver gets a fuck on a gorgeous model he saved. That kind of stuff, anything goes. That sometimes the driver experiences being snatched by a group of thieves and he manages to escape them and hit them all that all of those bad kiddos end up in jail. Those heroic deeds that even in the movies won’t happen. Sorry for this, taxi drivers, but this is what I’ve noticed. 
But there is always an exemption, for I don’t generalize the totality of all taxi drivers, for my experiences always resides on the partiality of the many. I’ve got my favorite taxi driver too, his name is Travis Bickle. Alright you win, he’s not for real. He is a character played by Robert de Niro some decades ago. He is actually the philosophical one, because when he said that this should be this and this should be not, he will find a way to make things right. And I’ve got a favorite scene in the movie, when the senator who is candidate for presidency hops in Travis’ cab. The senator asks what Travis wants when he won the elections, Travis replies that he wants to cleanse the city. That washing away the dust and garbage of the society is the necessary things rather than doing Pop-Politics. And when the senator heard what Travis says, he nearly laughs for what my favorite taxi driver explained. But the thing is, the senator didn’t understand that Travis pertains to the thieves, pimps, gangs, and drug dealers that pollute the city of New York. If all of the taxi drivers are as sensible as him, maybe I will always ride a taxi instead of doing the usual bus-solitude trip. Anyways, the taxi driver that I rode in was stupid for he actually don’t know the traffic rules and he actually ended up surrendering his driver’s license. What a cost of delay damn!
When I woke up, I’ve got a jinxed feeling. I don’t know why but the thing is I’m going to be late again. Even though you planned to be early and motivated yourself, outside forces harasses the time that you’ve got. And that taxi driver fucks my time! Though blaming isn’t good but it’s his fault! When I arrived at Mr. Ortigas’ place, he actually reminded me of time, the time arrives 9:58 at the back of the building, that’s when the time I’ve texted our HR that I’m going to be late for a couple of minutes. Shame, for I’ve managed my time and I even rode a fucking taxi! What a waste of time and money! Damn!
My station is always the same, faces in front, side (left and right) and back. But what’s special is, I always had a back up. Usual killing time is on! To kill time is like sweeping leaves around the yard. Choosing which one will be sweep first and which one will be the last. Letting time flows until my first break reminded me of some gossips pertaining to office politics, personal intrigues and conformism issues. What a waste of time to deal with but sometimes it is kind of annoying especially when you’re one of the casts of the tongue-play. And I’ve got a message to you Mr. ortigas, do you know that your dwellers has a this issues? Could you please resolve it for me? As if, you’re a amoral entity though you can’t make a way. I should leave them until they’ve noticed that the time for them to clear up their garbage full mind has been swept up by the hurricane of KidlatTahimik or the torrents of Travis Bickle. Maybe I should’ve had my own catastrophe, and that is worth a sitting for I should think of it first.

P.S. I hate to admit but to some extent conformism is a necessary thing, in order for you to fuck it; the norms with it. You must be aware of the things they deal with.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Illusion no. 4: The Birdman & the Dreamer

I flew! Can you see me roaming around the air?

 Moved my wings to and fro,
 Feeling the breeze of gentle wind around my feathers,
 A heaven indeed!
But as I have said
I flew
 But, is there someone out here seen me on my flight?

 Not a single soul said the old man.
I continue laughing. . .
And started to walk away with a madman’s smile
                                                This trip roams like tiny caterpillars
                Smokes fettering the lungs
                                                ‘Sublimation’
                Then I realize

I am not flying at all…


Thursday, October 20, 2011

Para kay Angel-O


Natagpuan na lang ang abang labi
Sa puntod ng iyong inang agnas
Nakapalupot sa iyong binti
ang tila palos na kasalanan,
 na sa kaluluwa mo’y tumutugnas!

Dala ng hiya, na wala ka naman talaga
Nananangis ka! Kinapos ka pa ng hininga
Sa paghingi ng tawad sa binging bangkay
Na sa ilalim ng lupa matagal ng nakahimlay

Akala mo ba a-ayon sa iyo ang simpatya?
Tanging mga tanga lamang ang magluluksa!
Dahil sa pag-amin mo anghel na walang butsi,
Pinagtatawanan ka ng masa hatol sa’yo guilty!

Bangong puri ba ang iyong ginawa?
Hindi, ngunit isang pag-aadya!
Sa mga tropa mong ayaw mong masangkot
Sa baho ng iyong putok, umaalingasaw—pagkabantot!

Kay sarap nga naming mamumunini
Sa pagod ng marami, sa pamilya mo itinabi
Para sa pagdating ng araw meron silang masayang wakas
Para sa balana, mga bulsa at pitakang butas!

Anghel ka nga ng nasa lupa
Pero gaano ka kasigurado na may paraiso?
Hindi-kamatayan ang magsasalba
Para sa katulad mong mapag-hangad at lilo!

Hinatulan mo ang iyong sarili,
di-porke namatay o nagpakamatay ay bayani
dahil sa gaya mong tiwali
kulang pa ang ikaw ay mabigti!

Nakakatawa ka anghel na may O
Ikaw ang huwaran ng mga duwag
At mga taong walang bayag
Kaya pag may sumunod sa ‘yong yapak, eto ang para sayo: is that SO?

P.S.
kung nasan ka man, dyan ka nalang...


Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Illusion no.3 Murdered Consciousness

                Over the threadlike swarming sunlight, a voice ignite; a wave of morning fright
                Chilling in the shoreline, wiggling sight makes the soul show his fearful dread
                A rusty iron barrel creaks, pointed in cranium covered slimy gelatin of consciousness
                Mark a jolly Sunday in a beach of joy, contradicting as it appear; a vast terror trouble!
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                Poignant memoirs reached the dawn of the stereo sounding threat           
                 As a beastly image of bruised and painful life in an afternoon delight
                A feast of comrades in the grave of nothingness, birds did no chirping
                Instead, a requiem of thousand crows starts the agonizing wailing.
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                Requiescat in Pace! Trigger happy lunatic—a television star!
                Speaking with your own language will stupefy the meek
                A march of band of gypsies will devour media’s reign
                Rot in death! Bastard TV stars! As they will put you some reins!
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