To Change or Not?

It's been long since I last posted something on this blog. Finally, I decided to return to my old activities - the time when I was always excited to post something in my blog. I don't know if it was because I was influenced and surrounded by people who frequently update their blogs or I plainly love posting and writing something. Whatever the reason may be, this year, I decided to get my old self back.

So here I am writing my very first blog entry for 2011. But I am faced with one question: to change the concept of this blog or not?

Right now I just want to write and I don't want to be tied up to the concept I created so long ago. But I also don't want to lose the concept of answering trivial questions.

So here is my answer to this dilemma. I will uphold the concept of this blog as long as I can but I could not say exactly until when. Expect changes this 2011. But there is one thing I can promise you now, this blog will slowly carve its mark in the word wide web.

With that, cheers to everyone and Happy New Year.

Fame or Fortune?

My philosophy teacher once asked me why I do all the things I do. Others may answer they do it for the incentives while some would hypocritically say they do it to help other people and to be a responsible citizen in the Republic of the Philippines.

But I told him I don’t know the answer to that question.

Now that I have more time to think about the question, I asked myself, “What do I really want?”

I did a lot of thinking and I was able to come up with four (4) answers: fame, power, riches, and most importantly good looks.

There are so many possible reasons why I picked these four. But the real question is, if you rank the four incentives I mentioned, “What is your number 1?” What is your last?

If I choose fame as number my number 1, it cannot assure me that it can bring me riches. It may give me a little power and I am pretty sure that there are people who are famous but with “disturbing” looks – not good.

Power will surely bring my name in the hit list of all gunmen and assassins in the world. Everyone is after the demise of the powerful because everyone believes that they are better than the rest and everyone believes they deserve everything. And I am part of that “everyone.”

Riches remind me of the TV series “Dirty Sexy Money.” I wish I am part of the Darling family, the richest family in Manhattan New York. I could be Jeremy Darling and Bryan Darling. If I combine these two characters, I can be very powerful and famous. You might be wondering why I did not pick Tripp Darling, the head of the Darling Enterprise.

But if you analyze everything, “good looks” is the only ticket to get the three I already mentioned. With good looks you can be famous and when you are already famous you will earn your riches. Finally, once you are rich, you are already powerful.

So I re-evaluated my four choices. Am I still after the four incentives? My answer is yes. One major reason is I can’t have good looks if I can’t afford the total overhaul doctors would do to make me look good. So if I am to rank the four incentives I mentioned, I would pick riches as my number followed by good looks. Then I will run for national office to give me fame and power.

That’s how the actors-turned-politicians did it.

I still have a year to put my plan into action. Enough time for the 2010 elections. Will you help me pick the right position for me?

Is there a position called prince charming? I might need a muse to help me run the office smoothly.

Happy Fakeday!

How would you react when people sing “Happy Birthday” to you in a restaurant?

Most restaurants, specially the expensive ones, offer a cute cupcake or perhaps a slice of chocolate cake to a customer celebrating his/her natal day. All you have to do is declare to the rest of the world that it is your birthday. Once you do that, or your friends do that, the restaurant crew will swarm around your table and start singing the “Happy Birthday” song.

Can you handle the crowd looking at you at that very moment?

A simple plan to get a slice of chocolate cake and I’m sure that I would take part of the singing as well but I am not sure if I can play the part of the birthday celebrator.

How would you react if you are the celebrator, fake or not?

A smile would definitely work for the real celebrator followed by signs of gratitude and hugging and kissing and swine flu influenza virus interchange, which, by the way, are banned in Mexico already.

For the fake celebrator, a smile would always work. I did that when we ate at Bigby’s. I flashed the most sincere smile. Yes, I was sincere. I was sincere and sure that the moment we step out of that restaurant, all of them would get a verbal beating from me.

Then I acted like it was my birthday and they could not say no to all my whims and caprices. IT WAS my BIRTHDAY right?

And hell I wish birthdays are like that.

What would you do? I know mine is a bit safe and genteel.

A New Start

I always wanted to create a blog that answers some common, yet trivial questions, we face everyday. The kind of questions often asked by philosophy professors in college and most of the time, questions I never really thought would require a great deal of effort to come up with an answer.

So join me as I take this journey. I will be posting questions often, and not so often, asked by your friends during parties and during first day of school specially when you are taking a speech or a theater class.

I once encountered this question, "How will you introduce yourself using an eggplant?"

How will I introduce myself indeed? How will you introduce yourself in front of 20 classmates who are waiting for the most creative and eloquent answer you can come up with that question?

How indeed?

Here are the rules in answering my questions:

1. I get to answer the question first.

2. Then you post your answer as comment to my post.

I hope you will join me in my great quest of knowing my (space) self.

Enjoy!