By: Iris P. Concepcion
When I am absent from this page for two days, some kids on the playground thought I have already boarded a battleship bound for Saturn.
Actually, there is just much sleep that needs to be snoozed, for a better presentation of passages in this rite of thought-provoking "ideal" called Happiness.
Anyway, there are a lot of things to pass around and share and giggle about. A tot who could not string letters together to form difficult words (I insist on difficulty; them kids tackle them anyway with toothy grins) just because she is underage (only 5 years old), I had requested to write the word "rectangle".
She hated my constant nagging to do it well. After writing the letters "rec", she, instead drew a sticking-out tongue. I realized after, it is her "visual" letter representation of the word "tang" after the letters "rec".
How do you argue with that brilliance?
Let them be, I say. We have a Tom and Jerry gig presently honed to perfection over stuff using "salitang kalye" and not a few people had controlled their guffaws over this new semi-vaudeville act of ours. It is our way of thawing those who are "noisy" and "hot". To which a graceful lady said: "His job must be in hell."
You must pay attention though. When people not fit to chew beetlenut speak something like "nanginginig ako", over anger perhaps, there is comedy lurking in it.
On another note, there is much intellectual celebration over the lady appointee to the Supreme Court. Even the feisty, articulate Senator Miriam Santiago lauded the choice of the President. Expect better-written ponentias; there is much poesy in the world of law waiting to be scribbled.
I also saw an item where public officials, on their own accord, stopped the passing of telephone/cellular "loads" to private citizens via allotments given to them. I applaud that too.
To the guy who does not care whether or not you drive a Porche or a motorcycle and whose laugh could launch rockets, here's the message: the last time I spoke with your girlfriend, she still thinks the world of you. Like the round, earth, blue thing kind of affection.
She said, continue being correct and physically astounding. You are not jobless. You are jobmore.
That is her message.