THE NEXT ACT

Most of time you would never know how special a close one is until somebody notices it for you. In our backyard, we got two trees both of which are full of oranges. “Hitik sa bunga” is a Filipino term for it. It has been for several weeks that oranges of both trees so shining in the pursuit of attention. Over mature fruits kept on falling and we kept on throwing them in the rubbish bag. One nice day barbecuing in the house with close friends got the attention that both trees wanted. Friends were in awe how rich the trees were with oranges. They tried tasting them and indeed they were sweet and juicy. “Take as many as you want.” By all means they sought for plastic bags and filled them with shimmering oranges. Each of them brought home at least two plastic bags filled with oranges. At the end of the day, there are still more clinging in those trees. The following day and the next, friends brought friends and friends’ friend to the house to get some more plastics of oranges. “If you’ll r...

I am always caught with the lifestyle which relies on the modern technology no matter I say to myself that I want to keep my life simple. I am always fascinated on how to get things done faster in one push of a button. You may say, it makes life easier. No sweat. O yeah? But, hey, the more you see yourself able to do one quickly the more you think of other things to do and the more you multi-task. You think that this is how you can get ahead. The equation gets more and more complicated. And then you find yourself doing juggling act with a whole lot of activities. Well as long as I can handle it, you say. Phew. Peace of cake. Well, just like a peace of cake, your juggling act eats out some aspects in your balance mind, body and soul. Sounds deep eigh? Well the rationality is that if you found something wrong on the surface, you gotta go deeper to find the root. So what’s wrong with harried and busy lifestyle? Nothing’s wrong as long as you wouldn’t notice that you are already in a men...

What is it like living underwater? I am not talking about being in a capsule or a dome being secured with air to breath under water like a lost city submerged. I am thinking about possessing a b reathing system that could work with air and water. Kevin’s mutant character in the movie Waterworld would best describe what I mean. Imagine having a set of gills so that you can breathe in water and a nose to breath air. The capability to live in both widens your options. What’s it like living in the water? Do you think we’ll having a blast like Sponge Bob and the gang? Hik hik hik. I reckon that life would be easier. At least we don’t worry too much about Tsunami or the tidals going up a couple of millimetres or big flood. Water covers almost 70% of the earth. Talking about solving population explosion.