Choose Your Own Adventure Book

A little over 10 years in the making. Worth it.

There was so much elation after finishing the book. It had to take a gallbladder to do so. The last time I opened the book was way back in high school. But for the lack of interest in reading such genre, the book ended up in the shelf, untouched. Ergo, unnoticed for almost more than a decade.

My eyes would next stop at Kalid Ashraff’s In The Desert. Set in Middle East, this charming inter-racial love story, as I was told by a friend, mentioned about how Filipinas as wives. It was on a positive note though. There were 3 Filipinas who took a cameo role in the novel. How they were described, I have yet to find out. Read!

Meanwhile, Mama is watching Wow Wowee. I so despise the show [as how Jayna describes the feeling, despise]. It’s like broadcasting “kahirapan sa buhay”, moreover sensationalizing and making fun of, both; the mahirap at ang kahirapan.

I have nothing against them, pero naman, you’ll learn that these people have what? 7-10 children. Kung ikaw mayaman, maiisip mo bang tulungan ang mga taong mahirap na nga, anak pa ng anak?

Tapos, pagbibigyan ang mga matatanda kasi nakakaawa naman – sabi ni Willie. “E, kung hindi ba naman sira ang tuktok mo, nagpa-contest ka pa! E ba’t hindi mo na lang kaagad ibigay ang premyo? – Pinahirapan mo pa. Nakakainis.”

Ma, ilipat mo na nga sa Eat Bulaga. Sabi ni Joey, hangga’t may batang pinapanganak, may Eat Bulaga.