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So what's new, miraculously DA's CSS fixed itself for some reason. Haha.

Anyway what's new, I am currently super duper active in Multiply and Facebook. I find Gemma Atkinson of Red Alert 3 and Olivia Munn of G4TV really really hot. Whew. Haha, now I'm distracted researching about them.

So I just want to update this part of my DA, submissions to come really really soon.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/22036639/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/22036639/ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:07:53 PST
I can't use my DA account in our PC, crap! >_<

The CSS code is all whacked up! Can anyone help me with it?

Merry Christmas by the way, and do wish me luck on this philosophical paper I am working at and will present on February as a lecture in the University of the Philippines. Yehey. The title of my work is: "Emos and Squidward: Issues on Happiness". Fun right?

Please do give me some nuggets of wisdom, however mundane, I will deeply appreciate it. :3

Oh well, I enjoyed the Lantern Parade and will go to Paskuhan tomorrow.

Pictures at my Multiply site: [link]

Enjoy!

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/21652893/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/21652893/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:06:06 PST
Oh well what's new?

I am addicted with Survivor: Philippines, seen myself in local TV.

Have already a mind-map on how to write the paper I'll submit for Cofphi (Council of Filipino Philosophers) on "Philosophizing on Vices: Temptations Beyond Reason" and I think I will use Nietzsche on discussing it. Woozah. That's way advance don't you think?

I need to do designs for this T-shirt business I am planning. :3

My thoughts and moments of mental masturbation can be found in my blog at: [link] feel free to share your thoughts.

I think I am really falling for my old love, a friend of mine. @-)

Will meet up with Kiko Rustia from Survivor on Thursday.

Will go to Miriam on the Friday.

To La Salle I think on a Saturday.

And UPd today.

I need to read Hobbes.

I already unlocked Badlands without using cheats. Booyeah.


Oh well, I am new with CS3 I hope I get the hang of it so I can start submitting stuffs here.

So what's new with you???

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/19902836/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/19902836/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:10:11 PDT
I find myself gettin addicted to YM (iosepus_magus) and blogging ([link]) and the DVD-ROM is still whacked, there is still no Adobe in this PC and I find myself depresed because I offended a friend, and can't afford the book I need for my future thesis (Summa Theologiae: Amazon.com: $159.**) Crap.

Good day

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/17247444/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/17247444/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:45:02 PST
Sorry.

Myspace: [link]

Friendster: [link]

Multiply: [link]

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15991633/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15991633/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:51:14 PST
My computer is dead and I can never really work my 'art' outside in a computer shop. Well no contribution to the DA for the time being.

I am mildly upset that the decision of the Israeli embassy here in the Philippines is taking super-long. I mean its okay if I don't get to go to Jerusalem, even though I badly want to, but please spare me the sleepless nights and nervous wait. The vice-consul looks freakishly like Ilmas Bektas, the husband of Ruffa and I was distracted by his nose, its so pointy and big. But overall I don't know if I did great with the interview, I blabber a lot while inside and said too many "uhms". Damn it.

Anyways, Christmas is coming!!!

P.S. I am getting the hang on my terror prof's moods his kinda cool if you get to reach his level.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15786576/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15786576/ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:10:56 PST
Or I am just feeling Stockholm Syndrome... hmmmm...

Well my proffesor on Contemporary World Geography is such an...hmmmm... an a-hole I guess is the mild and shortest description of him. He speaks like an encyclopedia or from wikipedia and then blurts and curse in Korean out of the blue. His Filipino by the way.

Gah... my head hurts and his period is the time in the middle of a rainy and cold afternoon, just a good time to eat a hot sabaw and tinola. Gah if I am not that academically ambituous I would have given up.

Well beware of terror proffesors and try to appease them in any way, they hold you by the neck because of your grades, damn it.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15350836/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15350836/ Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:00:46 PDT
I mean just look at its observances, International day of non-violence, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month, World Blindness Awareness Month, and National Infertility Awareness Month.

This is also the month of finals and where all students have the vacation mode on.

In this month I was kicked out of the seminary just to tire myself looking for a school that is still open and offers course in philosophy. Just to find out I can still transfer at UST. This technicality is so bothersome because all of my credentials are at San Beda and I have to sign some paper works and answer some exams, gah. That formator is soooo incompetent.

This month also features the Glorietta explosion... God rest their souls... and the great political saga that like all Erap movies ends in triumph.

This month ends where all the wackos and demented people dress up too bad that it starts to be considered as a costume. I also traveled 790 km for the Halloween's .

Good thing it ended with my brain intact... or is it?

BTW Kannazuki is Japanese for "godless month"

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15296005/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15296005/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:13:52 PDT
I realized I am nothing without God and sometimes what we plan will not work because God has stored for us something far more grander and beautiful. Hope I know it sometime soon. Sigh.

Now I am officially a driftwood. I am not even sure if I will be at UST for this semester. Tsk Tsk. I will just know the results on the 5th of November.

On the brighter side I am learning to do vector on Adobe, haha. My ignorance shows, because I trained myself on Fireworks.

Well confess your sins to God. Pray for Courage to change what you can change. Humility to accept what you cannot. And Wisdom to know the difference.

Walk on faith, speak by reason!

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15211113/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15211113/ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:40:37 PDT
Dropping names do work wonders and voila I override the no transferee policy of the University in just three hours and with no virtual resistance. Except for those security guards, hehe. They can be so irritating, but I do understand that it is their job and everything.

Haggard nga lang and it feels like a weird mixture of the Amazing Race and Tour de Manila because from UST I went aboard a PUJ to Raon and then to Recto and then to Mendiola just to get my credentials from San Beda...with my mom.

Well in light of this, I learned that connections are needed. Just look at Erap, a mockery of the judicial system, was pardoned because of connections. Tsk Tsk. I also learned that my godfather blames the UP people in the government on ruining the country, haha, but this will not hinder me from taking my masteral there, which ironically he did took his masteral there. And in the dinner table I just learned that I am related to the late Ferdinand Marcos...creepy.

Boys and Girls do enjoy your life I never enjoyed my sem break (TT_TT), well it is better not to have a vacation than no school for next sem. This is my life FOREVER: Non Scholae sed Vitae Discimus, sigh.



Vita vita est.

P.S.
Hmmm... I want some spaghetti, lasagna and a glock 9.

P.S.S.
I think I also want the decapitated head of the favorite racing horse of my rival.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15167274/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15167274/ Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:11:54 PDT ========
Subject: Joseph aka Iosepusmagus
Time: 6 am-8pm

Sineguelas...

Anonas...

Aurora Blvd....

Anonas Station...

LRT Train...

Legarda...

Mendiola...

San Beda...

A chair facing a ridiculously easy aptitude test with an empty stomach...

Jollibee Mendiola...

Recto...

Morayta...

Public Utility Jeepney with a Chicken Joy and gravy...

España...

Welcome Rotonda...

Quezon Avenue...

Sto. Domingo Church...

KFC...

Sto. Domingo Church...

Quezon Avenue...

Timog...

Tomas Morato...

Kamuning...

Anonas...

Pajo...

Sineguelas...

Anonas...

Aurora Bld....

Araneta...

Aurora Blvd....

Anonas...

Pajo...

Sineguelas...

END

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15123925/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15123925/ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:55:43 PDT
From the Franciscans in High School, to the Dominicans in my Seminary life and now the Benedictines in my formal College life. Damn, this is an interesting story...haha.

Now all I need are the Augustinians and the Jesuits and I would finish my touring among the popular religious congregations, haha.

Well good luck to me and good luck to all!!!

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15032564/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/15032564/ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:59:37 PDT
Our formator did advice me to do such. He said that I might be rushing things to quickly. That maybe I might have some regrets if ever I get ordained. You see it shows on my part that I have a lot of things I want to do with my life, haha.

So there, I will finish my Philosophy course I hope and gravely wish to finish it in Diliman and teach the beauty of Sophia after my graduation. But I guess the OUR of Diliman will have their decision around May so maybe Letran-Intramuros for the time being.

Hmmm... I guess all I can do for now is listen. I will listen if I am called to get married, teach philosophy forever (mind you majority of philosophers are notorious for being single haha O_O), re-enter the Dominican Order or apply for the Jesuits at Ateneo.

Whatever God calls me I hope you pray for me to listen well and be strong on walking such paths.

And whatever God calls me I still believe that Magic, our art, and little moments of laughter destroys the masks of people and reveal their hidden and forgotten innocence that was lost because of the cruelties of life.

What the heck, Vita vita est.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14947941/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14947941/ Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:21:47 PDT
1...

2...

3...

...there I let go.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! Dang it I am so clumsy.

But on the brighter note: we will go home for the sem break this 18th. Woohoo!!! Good bye Sacraments and Latin and Cleaning and thanks for ruining my sleeping habit, haha, but in fairness to the course I learned a lot and it is a very bloody business to get married or be ordained. So kids please consult your friendly Canon Lawyers, haha.

Now I am really go on with my philsophical life on searching God. Metaphysics maybe, haha. Well all searching will reach its end which is God.

So there, wooh, Albertine is being rushed and everything, I am trying not to get pissed and praying for the well being of an obese and obnoxious know-it-all. Hmmm... that is the price you have to pay for being mature. Dang it why do I need to see the world always in a different angle. Well it is better than be opiated by society's standards and conformity.

I am in a very hard dilemma I am in love with this wonderful wonderful woman and yet I still believe that I am still being called for the priesthood. Hmmmm... need your prayers though.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14527203/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14527203/ Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:49:08 PDT Our formator priest (the one in charge of us inside the seminary) was pissed with our skyrocket price of electric bill, haha, I am partly to blame, I DA a lot inside.

Ergo, we are kind of banned to use the DA, *heavy sigh*, so all messages, love letters, creepy letters, cursed letters, humorous letters, death threats, fan notes, chain letters please do send on my email. Thanks.

I can only be online during Sunday afternoon, Philippine time, sigh again.

Email: bongbong777777@yahoo.com

Thanks again.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14451178/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14451178/ Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:50:50 PDT
A man walks the street under the summer moon. This city is quite lively, as all major cities in the Empire are, but this one is quite different. Especially the bishop of this place, that particular Ambrose is quite something.

The jeering harlots and the singing drunks filled the nighttime sky, as the smell of burning pork and the murky sewers pollutes the air. But amidst this chaotic night a voice, a soothing and innocent one, a sing-song of a child not aware of the debauchery and corruption reached his confused ear.

‘Tolle lege…Tolle lege’ says the voice of the child. He looks for the owner of such an innocent sound and found none. He became restless, he became really unsatisfied and this compels him to bring out one of his Christian books.

He brought out the Epistles to the Romans and he opened it at random.

The light of the moon revealed Romans 13:13, and he read it, he opened his heart to its message.

After reading it he got this nagging feeling that he is for a grand and wild ride.


===

Just thought I ought to do something different on my monthly Gospel reflection. Haha. More to come, this must be made special because Father-Master from Rome would do his visit to us. Dang it.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14378168/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14378168/ Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:50:44 PDT
2. Take photo of self (damn I am so narcisstic, sigh.)

3. Flood Deviant account with photos of the things I succesfully reinterpreted from my dreams or blank moments of consciousness.

4. Do Narrative works.

5. Do Vocation promotion posters. (We are really in dire need of priests)

6. Shoot scenes with religious, philosophical, political, post-modern, pop themes with models ranging from old women, street children, beggars, squatters, street and wet market vendors, or just some random people on the streets.

7. Brag.

8. Brag again by hanging it on my neck and going around Quiapo or Tondo with a very false and stupid sense of security.

9. Hide it from my sister and Janerry.

10. Do nude photos of trees, stray cats and rocks, wait they do not have clothes to begin with, tsk.

Note:

Sigh, I am daydreaming (wait I am writing this on the wee hours of Wednesday, strictly speaking it is not day, haha), coffee and cramming for the prelims really does wonders.

I badly want a DSLR, hmmmmm, I am accepting any donations from filthy rich deviants here, haha. Would do magic for a camera.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14376308/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14376308/ Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:50:14 PDT
Well the question of the ultimate good and justice are the main issue that attracts my philosophical side and I can relate to "L" so much.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14341724/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14341724/ Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:12:55 PDT
It is an illusion that reveals the truth of the children inside all of us. It paralyzed our consciousness and we get loss into our unconsciousness, our true selves, and it reveal this innocent part of us not ravaged, I hope never will be ravaged, by biases.

This innocence is always wondering. And this wondering leads to seeking, and this seeking leads to faith.

Sorry about that philosophical blaberring, too much books I guess. haha. But no, I did my magic to many individuals, clouded by status, schools of philosophies, religions, biases, and politics.

But no Korean tourist, self-proclaimed atheist, colegiala (female college student), proffesor, friar, jeepney driver, priest, painter, film director, actress, nun, school bully, mute, deaf, pissed employee, heart broken lass, drunk, punk, old people, stupid person, young crowd who holds their biases very long when I do magic. They reveal their true beautiful selves. Their innocence. And for this beautiful beautiful thing no amount of money or material thing that can match this rewarding TRUTH.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14284666/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14284666/ Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:16:47 PDT
1. Philosophical reflection, wait everthing is philosophical.

2. Theological contemplation with a Catholic and Buddhistic tone. (blame Rev. Nilo OP for brainwashing me into Buddhism, haha)

3. It is Socio-political, too much De Quiros and Inconvenient Truth I guess.

4. A product of bad sense of poetry, a mouse and 12' o clock midnight Internet curfew.

5. Anti-Paris Hilton culture, note to self: must do hate art,

6. The idle mind is the devil's playground, I always work on an idle mind, therefore the devil plays ground... WTF???

7. I am never trapped in a single genre, if I can send my angst or views thru any work or media as if to stick a finger to this apathetic and stupid world, then so be it.

8. Progress thru Virtues, Virtues thru Education, Education thru the Arts.

9. There is many way to preach the Truth, but people convert not because of the Truth but because of the beauty of that Truth. I am here to share that beauty.

10. It is open to criticism. Yes my art is a part of me, I am my art but at the same time I am not. Weird huh, try listening to me when I pick my nose.


I tagged (mga nauto):








]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14216846/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14216846/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:04:03 PDT 1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You WILL update your dA journal with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

Question from ~fayt-of-the-darkness

1. What is your favorite banana? (lol)
2. Brownies taste like....
3. Do you know what "astig" mean?!
4. Why do people label other people?!
5. Do you like the colour "brown"?


Answers from me:
1. Something that walks and have a heart... no really there is a song "Saging lang ang may puso" (Translation: Only bananas have heart, ref. to the banana's inflorescence *whatever that means*) and it features a banana mascot, with a red heart in its middle like some demented care bear, saving a human girl it loves from big ugly goons with high powered guns... how cool is that!

Waaaaaaah... you dishono mha pamhele preper toh dhay, WAAaAaaAAtchAAAa... chop chop...blang blang... squirt squirt...

2. Flour, egg whites, chocolate, baking powder, brown sugar.

3. Astig: contemporary colloquial term of the Filipino society that pertains to something really cool, rare or beautifully different, quite commonly used in the contexts of rock concerts, modern art, or exciting events.

If it is used as a noun to a man, especially in a prison or by a group of drunks and in a threathening manner, prepare to be beaten up, killed or be someone else's beatch. *ouch*

4. People are governed by their intellect, and this intellect distinguish and discriminate stuff, if it does not that person is just stupid or there is something wrong with that muscle in that skull. Let me clarify: we can see what is round or square, what is pink or green, what is beneficial and bad for us, what is an apple or a icky-dicky shit, this discrimating power we have is done thru our intellect. That's normal, it's our nature.

This same intellect develops and is enriched as we gain more knowledge. Hence, we label person(s) only according on what we know of him/her, nothing more. It is never a problem to label, but it begins to be one if one chooses not to learn anything further.

If you feel that a person is stuck on such a little knowledge about another person (i.e. you) then make him/her gain more knowledge about yourself, I guarantee you in one way or another his/her label would change. For better or for worse, that I do not know.

But if after all is done and you had done your part and still an unjsutified labeling continues, just pump on the volume of My Chem. or Fall Out and smile at their stupidity. It's there lost not to know the real you, not yours.

5. It depends, if you pertain to my skin, why yes even if people find it fugly for some inane and stupid reason. If they are half as smart as children then they would realize that when global warming became worse and the sun's ray enters this rock more freely, only those with more melanin, those who are darker, would survive to rule the world. Bwahahahahahahaha...coughs...coughs...

But if it is my underwear that is originally white I want to invoke my right of attorney and fair trial and would not state anything self-incriminating, haha.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14192768/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14192768/ Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:43:24 PDT
I always disgust most people's sensitivities, I am different, well I am a lover of wisdom.

No one really wants to know their ignorance. No wonder they killed Socrates, Jesus and a heck lot of other thinkers and heroes.

Don't be like me, believe me it is quite crazeeee. Unless you are one to begin with.

Philosophers are really crazy people.

P.S.

I need to take a bath.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14175921/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14175921/ Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:47:00 PDT
The argument of the unmoved mover (ex motu).
Some things are moved.
Everything that is moved is moved by a mover.
An infinite regress of movers is impossible.
Therefore, there is an unmoved mover from whom all motion proceeds.
This mover is what we call God.
The argument of the first cause (ex causa).
Some things are caused.
Everything that is caused is caused by something else.
An infinite regress of causation is impossible.
Therefore, there must be an uncaused cause of all caused things.
This causer is what we call God.
The argument of contingency (ex contingentia).
Many things in the universe may either exist or not exist. Such things are called contingent beings.
It is impossible for everything in the universe to be contingent, as nothing can come of nothing, and if traced back eventually there must have been one thing from which all others have occurred.
Therefore, there must be a necessary being whose existence is not contingent on any other being(s).
This being is what we call God.
The argument of degree (ex gradu).
Various perfections may be found in varying degrees throughout the universe.
These degrees of perfections assume the existence of the perfections themselves.
The argument of "design" (ex fine).
All natural bodies in the world act for ends.
These objects are in themselves unintelligent.
To act for ends is characteristic of intelligence.
Therefore, there exists an intelligent being which guides all natural bodies to their ends.
This being we call God.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14157388/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14157388/ Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:49:49 PDT
To preach the Truth and convert people because of its beauty is my goal, I think I would live by that line of thinking.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14142098/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14142098/ Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:54:38 PDT
And too much travelling back and fro for + 4 hours is a big problem, but then again this is the life I choose, prayers are really a great help.

Lengua latina dura est. Sigh.

Vita vita est.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14101339/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14101339/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:53:11 PDT
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Good thing we still have internet connection, yipee.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14081107/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/14081107/ Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:34:50 PDT
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Woohoo!!!

Note to self... next time don't watch live UAAP games... bad for the heart... too exciting.

]]> ~Iosepusmagus http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/13948491/ http://Iosepusmagus.deviantart.com/journal/13948491/ Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:12:20 PDT Tago naman ang puwesto ko at so far, wala pa naman pumapansin sa akin. Nagbabasa ako kuno at kinakalikot ang selpon kahit walang namang load. Bakit kaya an tagal ng mga iyon.
Lumipas ang mga minuto at ang aking kinakatakot ay dumating, may lumapit sa aking lola, with gold, brilyantitos and everything, at nagtanong kung ginagamit ko yung puwesto. Nahalata pala ako. Wala akong baso nung berdeng babae. In short, wala akong pasaporte sa mundong iyon. Sawsaw kumbaga, baka pa nga mukhang social climber.
Kinausap niya ako, nag-iinterrogate kumbaga. Nasabi ko na lang na may kasama akong nakapila. Bumenta naman at umalis ang matanda. Walang hiya, mapapagastos ako nito, kung ayaw ko nang lantarang pagsisinungaling.
Prinsipyo na ang pinaguusapan, ayaw ko nang magsinungaling, dapat lunukin na ang pagiging kuripot ko. Bwiseet. “Magkano nga ba ulit ang kape, mga onse pesos lang ata?” wika ko sa sarili ko. Huminga ako ng malalim at nagpagka-conyong lumapit sa isang nakangiting barista.
“Good afternoon sir may I take your order?”
“Excuse me ma’am, how much is your brewed coffee? Yung large niyo po.”
“A hundred pesos, sir.”
“What the holy galunggong, tama ba ang rinig ko?”
“Yes sir, a hundred pesos po.”
“Gaano kalaki naman?”
“Uhhhmmmm…Ganito po…Sulit naman po eh.” Sabay labas sa isang basong medyo mas malaki sa baso ng regular softdrink ng Mcdo.
“Haha… nice one, hindi nga gaano kalaki?”
“Uh, sir, ganito na po talaga.”
“Magkano naman kung wala yung baso, kahit yung kape lang, may baon naman akong mug diyan?”
“Uhhhmmm…guard.” Sabay kaway sa isang sekyu.
“Joke lang ate, ito naman o, sige na nga yung medium na lang, mamaya sabihin ninyo kuripot ako kung small. Magkano po ba iyon?”
“Eighty-five po.”
“Jumping fishball. Hindi nga? Hmmmm…Sige na nga o, ito eighty pesos for the cup at limang piso para dun sa kape.”
“Thanks po sir, ano pong name nila?”
“ Para saan?”
“Ipreprepare po kasi yung coffee ninyo, para matawag po namin kayo after it is done.”
“Oh, okay, baka naman listahan ninyo iyan ng mga ioofer ninyo sa demonyo…” pabulong kong nasabi.
“Excuse me po… hindi ko po narinig yung name niyo clearly.”
“Magus na lang po.”
“Okay. Thank you po.”
Sa wakas some peace and quiet. But for that wretched price of these “brewed coffee” *with conyo accent*, asar naman. Pero in fairness kahit ganun ang presyo marami pa rin ang dumadagsa. Marami ang bumili ng kape especially nung baso, with their names, tapos uupo - God knows how long. Apocalypse pa siguro ang magpapaalis sa mga iyon.
Our neo-colonialism reeks in these places of commerce. Well you can never blame them; the zeitgeist of the consumer’s society compels him/her to bow down to its self-imposed imperialistic standards. BS. Spending wantonly a hundred fifty pesos for a venti made from coffee beans from some third world country that is as chaotic and poor as our own, and at the same time feels disgusted or worse, apathetic on helping our poor countrymen, give donations during a Mass or some benevolent humane cause with something even half of what they pay for their precious coffee is just so ironic. To tell you frankly, it makes you supportive of Simoun and his nitroglycerine-filled lamp.
But that would be too much, and killing the ogre, bathe oneself in the monster’s black blood, will corrupt even the noblest and purest of warriors. Believe me the end never justifies the means, because the means will catch up on you in the end.
Well returning on the issue, Starbucks is never the problem, it is good to pamper yourself one’s in a while, the rarity of such pampering will make it more beautiful. Masarap naman talaga ang kape sa Colombia or Java or kahit pa sa Buwan basta paminsan-minsan. All I am trying to say is balance. Virtue, you see, is in the middle.
Starbucks is good when it makes you appreciate life, Starbucks is good if it promotes the understanding of another culture, and Starbucks is good if it serves as a refuge once in a while.
At the same time, Starbucks is not good when it makes you feel you deserve these lifestyles, remember the reality of poverty is only possible because and only because luxury exist, Starbucks is also not good when it serves as a testament to our imagined inferiority, breeds insecurity on the line of Juan Dela Cruz and propagate that cursed brown-monkey theory and lastly, no one can ever deny that it is not good when people never leaves the premises for hours after they had finish their coffee.

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Dang, now I am blabbering... please help I think I have insomnia or maybe just a pressured-student complex due to those cursed prelims... damn you Constitution daaaaamn you!!!... I did it again... blabbering...haha... donations are being accepted. Seriously.

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English: Do Catholic Seminarians really have a greater charism... I am just wondering, base on my experience it is.

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