Boredom, Typhoon, and Work Over the Weekend

The title almost sums it up. Since last Wednesday, it's been raining here because of a typhoon. Too bad that I had to still work while I hear other people rejoicing -- especially the kids -- because they didn't have to go to school. In addition to the envy that I felt, the typhoon decided to pour so much water that it flooded my street up to the knees with brown, rushing water. Stuck and imprisoned inside my own house, I felt so bored, and so, the Devil's workshop started ticking, bringing me these wonderful Facebook status messages:

Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:24 AM:
It takes an iron will to just sit still, confident in your own righteousness.

Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:39 PM: 
The last five steps of the journey cannot be rushed. A traveller still needs to ignore the blisters on his feet, and he still needs to overcome the fear of cramping up when he is so close to the destination. Can anyone lend the traveller a hand and cook some bacon, waft the smell of honey-cured meat so that the weary traveller can look forward to a hearty meal after a long, tiring journey?

Friday, September 25, 2009, 12:12 PM: 
When the lonely traveller is gets stabbed by a thorn, he walks faster because he knows that the rose he is looking for tells him that he is on the right track.

Saturday, September 26, 2009, 3:52 PM: 
The flood, oh, the flood! The overabundance of water makes deep, burried feelings bob on the surface.

It was a good thing that the flood subsided early Sunday morning. Otherwise, I would have flooded my Facebook account with nonsensical sentiments. How are you all doing, Philippines?

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Introducing the Memapost

In all my years of blogging, I have encountered strange things. I've found a blog that features Post-it drawings. I also found other blogs that post random things like funny conversations that they overhear. A few months back, I was flipping through another blog, which was just about normal life events of a girl, when I read about this curious term: memapost. As I was reading through her blog, the writer explained that the memapost is actually a shortened version of a Tagalog phrase. Literally, it means "para lang me ma-post." Roughly, it can be translated as "just so that I can post something." The term was so fascinating that I immediately latched on to it.

As such, I was wondering what to post for today, so for inspiration, I went on to my Facebook account and clicked on the Pandora's Box application. It generates random pictures submitted by the people who has that application in their Facebook accounts, too. After a few worthless pictures, I found this:

Richard open the Pandora's Box and found Jessica Alba

the cuttest girl ever :>

Usually, I would put comments about the things that I'd find from that application, and here's what I wrote:

I don't know but she looks like God's failed attempt when He was creating Angelina Jolie.

Would anybody dare to compare? And as such, this blog post is now, officially a memapost. Until next time. Cheers!

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Happy Birthday, FLIP / still!

September 14, 2009. FLIP / still, the umpteenth blog of Richard is born at exactly 3:00 AM, Manila Time.

I flip through blogs. Hence, part of this blog's name is FLIP. Still, I keep on making new blogs every now and then over a period of almost 15 years now. Hence, part of this blog's name is still.

Kate would laugh out loud when she finally sees this blog. As a long-time friend, we've been through several blogs in each of our own lives. I think she is on her fourth one. I think I am on my 15th. On the other hand, I can't trust my own counting because I have already lost track of how many I have. "You know, Chad, you're a serial blogger," Kate said to me one day. I said, "No! I sure am not." She'd laugh in triumph for being so accurate in labeling me as a serial blogger.

Before, I had themes for my blog. I seem to make one when a new phase in my life comes up. For example, I once had "Orange Fantasies" to mark out the time when my favorite color was orange. Now, it's green so that blog is already dead. I also had a cheesy blog, "Just Look Back," to mark a melancholic and pensive mood, which almost was a death warrant to that blog since it was only done on a whim. When the wind wafted the whim away, the blog was blown away with it.

I still have other blogs that are still active. For now, I am keeping my stories flowing in "The Ivory Tower" but the stories are running short, and gaps between posts have been longer. I also keep "Ang Pinoy Aquarium," which is in Filipino; I've been interested in keeping fish for a long time now, so I guess that blog might stay a while. To ensure its survival, I got a friend to help me update it, although he's not the most prolific writer. Hopefully, I could keep this blog alive as well.

In this blog, expect to read about flip ideas. Hopefully, I could keep myself still long enough to make this blog the last blog I will ever make.

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