friggin' christmas!!!
if anything, it's just a reason for people to have less guilt in spending their hard-earned dinero throughout the year. yes my dear feathered friends, christmas is not a sacred religious event unlike what the sacred cows of the catholic church claim... it's just a marketing phenomena. a blitz that happens once a year, where all shops and enterprising individuals water down the prices (termed as a "sale") of their unsold goods for the past 11 months.. that'll show up good in their balance sheets at the end of the year.
what sickens me about christmas is the gift-giving part. they say it's better to give gifts on christmas. what the fuck does that mean? c'mon, it's someone else's "hypothetical" birthday and it's better to give gifts on that day? gifts are always nice to give anytime of the year. personally, i think it's better to give and/or receive one when there's no ocassion at all.. it's just more heart-warming that way... imagine someone giving you a gift for no apparent reason. awww... ok drop it!
but nonetheless, i must oblige to the gift-giving tradition of this friggin' tradition (originally was a paganic tradition by the way). so i pretty much settled the gifts i will give my kids and my wife (she's asking for a set of white gold jewelry or something.. i don't know). now time for indulgence, or also known as the gifts i would give myself.
hm.. let's see... ok... i plan to buy three bob ong books that would cost me less than 700 bucks total (relatively cheap eh? hey, what can i say.. i'm a scrooge), but as i was wandering in the bowels of national bookstore last night (around 9:30 pm), i happened to see the book that i was drooling for for the past month or so. the book is lennon legend. i saw it last night. i touched it even. opened it. saw the pullouts and the originally reproduced (hm.. that's ironic.. original-reproductions.. hahahaha) artworks of john almighty. and i have to say, i immediately fell in love with it. well, ok, it was more of an infatuation.. but a strong infatuation. the book is a bit pricey at 1,895 dineros.. but i think it's well worth it. so what do i do? do i buy bob ong.. or do i buy lennon? no contest really... i'll buy them both next week. i just can't let lennon slip away y'know... not this time. i won't let michael azzerad's nirvana happen twice.
john lennon is god. bob ong is a demi-god. i'd have them both for christmas.
before i leave, think about this for a moment... don't you think it seems a bit odd... the day the catholics commemorate jesus' "immacualte conception" falls exactly on the day lennon was shot? it's december 8. pretty freaky huh? makes you think whether lennon was a jesus incarnate or jesus was a lennon incarnate. oh well, nevermind that.. it's just one of my illogical concepts that wouldn't go anywhere anyway.
shoutout: hey hoseal!!! remember john kennon? hahahaha!!! i do. to all of you who doesn't know hoseal, well he's my best real-imaginary (another ironic concept.. like "original-reproductions") friend. in the philippines, he is known as the the national man of mystery (as opposed to austin powers' international man of mystery title.. but you already got the concept.. why do i need to explain further eh?).
i'm out. i leave you with this to imagine:
imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky, imagine all the people living for today...
imagine there's no countries, it isnt hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, no religion too, imagine all the people living life in peace...
imagine no possesions, i wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people sharing all the world...
you may say i'm a dreamer, but Im not the only one, i hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
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