0075B: False Alarms Present New Dangers
The weather is nicely calm right now. It's still humid, so it's still bound to rain anytime today, but at least it won't rain with anything nearly like the seemingly endless downpour that was Ondoy. A part of me can't help but think that having Typhoon Pepeng NOT cause gloom, doom, damage and destruction on the population after a week of paranoid rambling and fear-mongering will probably be worse for the country somehow. Ondoy taught us a very harsh lesson on the need to be prepared. Pepeng's "disappointing" performance today will ultimately make many of us let our guards down. Give it a few months and we'll go back to our old ways of viewing storms as just another part of life in a tropical country - that is until the next big disaster.
I don't mean to sound cruel or overly pessimistic - it's just how I see we tend to respond to such things. We still get bars overcrowded with people with only one way out despite Ozone. All these security checks at train stations and shopping malls are mostly for show after the December bombings some years ago. Shanty communities still pop up out of nowhere, huddle too closely together and run too many illegal power lines despite numerous fires under such conditions. Political dynasties continue on and corruption remains well-rooted in our government even after Marcos. There have been so many mistakes made in our history but the lessons we learn never seem to stick. I'm not sure what it's going to take to jump start people's ability to REALLY learn from the errors of the past, but we need to figure it out soon. We can't keep blaming other people and the world around us for the stupidity that we contribute to today.
Sigh. It's Saturday. I definitely need to shift gears.
I got half of my 13th month pay this week along with my usual paycheck - a measure the company implemented to assist with those severely affected by Ondoy. Given that I haven't been affected as much, I'm left with the conundrum of what to do with the money. It seems inherently dangerous, especially given that I'm still relatively new in this apartment and the Sietch definitely needs furniture. I swear, home improvement is probably a more addicting spending venture than shopping for silly things like clothes or shoes or something, at least for me. I keep seeing how much potential this place has and my mind runs wild with ideas of what I might be able to fill up the white spaces with. Plus there's the matter of all the boxes and stacks of books that really deserve some decent shelves.
Plus there's my ongoing obsession with getting a good camera again. I don't need some fancy DSLR that will ultimately require all those additional lenses and other accessories. I just want a good bridge camera with an insane amount of optical zoom, decent HD video handling features and fairly easy-to-use menus, dials and whatnot. I no longer have a decent camera for my side passion of photography but I know I can be patient a bit more so I can find the right camera and not just the first one that catches my fancy. Hopefully I'll get it at some Christmas sale too so I can save a few.
I just read most of the Joss Whedon run of Astonishing X-Men. Wow. Too bad I can't seem to find the scan for the story that closes out the entire arc. Speaking of missing comic books. I can never seem to catch a break in my search for a scan of Transformers: All Hail Megatron #14 either. Why has no one uploaded it almost 2 months after it was released?
Oh, and I watched The Happening for the hell of it. I now realize that the natural speaking voice of Mark Wahlberg is incredibly irritating. No wonder he mostly grunts or tries to make his voice all husky in most movies that he appears in.
I need to get the laundry today. That, and probably clean the bathroom, too.
Ah, randomness. Hello weekend.
xkcd has such a firm pulse on the geekdom of the world, haha!
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