Tough and tougher

(with excerpt from my journal entry dated October 22, 2011, a Saturday.)

An inspiration came to me. I want to explore this idea for a blog. Two things: (1) Fill in the blank: “It must be tough being so _______ and so good for nothing.” Bale, yung “good for nothing” part dun, yun yung punchline. Gets?

I originally thought, “It must be tough being so right all the time and sooo…good for nothing.” But then, naisip ko, it could be applicable to a lot of other qualities, e.g. “talented” (as in, “It must be tough being so talented and so good for nothing”), or “intelligent,” or “beautiful,” etc. Fill in the blanks na lang.


Na-surmise ko tuloy, lahat talaga ng qualities dapat may purpose. Like, kung maganda ka, dapat may silbi ang ganda mo. E kung maganda ka nga, wala ka naman silbi (unless mamatay ka na at gawin ka na lang fertilizer), that’s tough, right?

E pano pala kung negative yung qualities mo? As in panget ka na nga, tapos wala ka pang silbi? E di dapat “tougher,” as in, “While it is tough being so beautiful and so good for nothing, it must be TOUGHER being so ugly and so good for nothing.” Tama ba? Ewan.

Second thought: Blog entry about the irony of the Philippines being an archipelago surrounded by bodies of water and visited by no less than 20 typhoons each year, yet we still experience water and electricity shortages from time to time.


My point here is that if there is one force of nature that we as a nation should be able to harness and control, it has to do with the element of water, right? I mean, water is the most plentiful resource we have! Instead of polluting it and wasting it, why not control it and maximize its use? Biglang naalala ko yung Captain Planet a.


Ang mga Arab countries nga, panay ang export ng langis, e di tayo naman, mag-export din tayo ng mga produkto harnessed from water power. Big batteries and power containments (alla "energon cubes" sa The Transformers) harnessed from the power of our typhoons, or kahit man lang ambrosia-flavored water, or water fit for a king's bath. Ewan.

Aside from that, they say that with the oceans rising (because of global warming), the Philippines is sinking fast into the depths. How fast this will happen, I don’t know, even the scientists aren’t sure. But the indications are evident in the typhoons and floods that ravage the country worsening each time….