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23 December 2008 @ 12:57 am
Contentment

“at this rate we’ll have to
wear the same clothes
until we’re eighty-five,
and move to a tiny, tiny house
with no indoor plumbing,

“we’ll bathe out in the rain
and jog daily to school.
also, please prepare for
the eventual and inevitable
selling of your kidneys,

“someday we’ll discover
which among our neighbors’
shrubbery or pets or persons
will give us less indigestion,”
you were ranting wildly as usual, and i -

- i can’t help but smile, because
i find the cannibalism jokes funny,
and the Christmas chill made us huddle close,
and we have never been poorer,
or felt more content.

***

i never had any intention to write about...this. maybe it's because i don't want people's pity. maybe it's because i resent our situation too much. maybe it's because i'm afraid people will not understand and laugh. or maybe it's because i'm vain - utterly and lethally proud - and i don't want people to think any less of me. because i already DO feel kind of less, and i hate it.

i realize now that i should've written about it a long time ago. i also realize that i have really, really stupid ideas some of the time.

hello, i'm jezzah and we're really very poor. i'm trying my best to function as best as i can, and i'm trying to overcome my baser, more materialistic and whiny nature. i think i really am getting stronger, and i hope to someday find meaning in all this mess.

i hope you guys a meaningful christmas!

 

 
 
27 December 2007 @ 09:48 pm
When people ask me what programs I've been tuning to lately, I always tell them solemnly that I have lost interest in watching TV. It makes me feel cool, I suppose. Plus it goes well with this deep and sensitive writer-slash-artist persona I've adapted. So yeah, TV? Nah, thanks, me has teh books and canvasses and we would like to be alone.

But for some warped, warped reason, I have been catching glances of Pinoy Big Brother on a fairly regular basis, enough for me to conclude that that Baron Geisler is reaching unimaginable heights with his poseurness. Bad boy of the house, my ass. Two bottles of beer and you're that uninhibited? Kupal ka lang. And my gulay, his 'they're all ganging up on me, nobody loves me,' soliloquy is just too damn embarrasing, I'm amazed he was able to say all that without expiring on spot.

Well, anyway, at least he's gone from the house now.  Impressionable people are watching this program, so practically it's a moral obligation to remove that pathetic excuse for a human being from public view. Keep him locked in a dark crevice somewhere together with self help books until he realizes that he'll do himself and the humanity great service by seeing the world from outside his head.

Anyway, this is quite late, but what the hey, MERRY CHRISTMAS! I also think a little plagiarism is in order to greet the looming new year:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can.

And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
--Neil Gaiman

Sabi sa feng shui swerte daw 2008 for those born in the Year of the Dragon. Hah, hope so. :)
 
 
Mood: geeky
Music: where do you go when the stars go blue--tyler hilton and bethany something