Post of Rage 4: The Headache Sequel

Currently, I am recovering from a terrible bells palsy, probably due to enduring stress for back to back events that happened for the past few months. I still get minor headache behind my head even if I overslept for both weekend days. My head is like being jack hammered and it is the perfect ingredient for another entry of the post of rage.

Novelty Radios
Again, the proverbial different folks for different strokes, but come on, we need to have good music, not ear wrenching novelty music which compose of horrible old love song ballads, one hit wonders from local talents that loves mashing the sampler machine like there is no tomorrow, combine with terrible, self labeled awesome novelty DJs.

Ahhh! sound of novelty radio station! Ahhh! tugstugstugs!

I fondly remembered Rein was an avid listener of a popular DJ.  Later and rightfully she regretted being a fan after seeing the real DJ on TV, a very complete opposite of what the listeners usually engraved to their minds due to his “witty” one-liners that probably taken from a nearby tabloid newspaper, and they tend to think he is one of God’s greatest contributions to handsomeness but you will shake your fist in disappointment. I don’t mind not so popular songs be played on radio because for one, I love every kind of music but please, advertisers, ditch the novelty radios and  go with the stations that plays good songs accompanied by not headache inducing DJs, and lastly, the listeners has the buying power to buy whatever you are selling.

Filthy Public Comfort Rooms
One of the worst things that can happen to you while you are out around the metro is when the Gods of bowel movement suddenly crumpled your stomach and tells you need to unload your feces, like now. Unfortunately in our dear country, especially in our polluted power capital, finding a decent comfort room in public is quite hard.

The correct “Public comfort room usage  preparation mode”

A lot of public rest rooms are filthy and full of crap  smacked all over the place, figuratively and literally, yes I did saw a comfort room with splattered feces in the wall once. Of course, the blame will fall to the ones assigned to make the room squeaky clean and worthy to put our butts on, but everyone knows that maintaining such task with consistency is a sort of allergy to some of our countrymen.

Showbiz  Talkshows and Gossip Suckers
I despise showbiz talk shows, especially the local ones packed with showbiz “journalists” that jerks off backstage when he sees his favorite actor on set. Gossip addicts and being gullible is one of the most popular traits of our nationality. They know more about other persons lives than their selves. Always hungry for scoop and over excited when a revelation is about to broadcast on national TV, complete with epic yet hilarious score and sound effects. Some people actually fight over some gossip and sometimes a kitchen knife is involve.

Gossip, gossip, babble, babble, bullshit, bullshit

Instead of talking about the private lives of our actors and actresses, why don’t we talk about on what they are doing in the first place, which is acting to entertain their fans. Talk more about the movies, TV shows and other miscellaneous projects, that’s good TV. Imagine a world without any gossip addicts, that would be awesome.

Well, at least I felt a little better and I usually say, I hope some of my post here in a way impart the world to make it a better place.

Post of Rage 3: With A Vengeance

For the past few days I met a lot of this pain generating idiots and trends that currently invading our dear country. Some of them is usually seen in frequent basis and others are just the flavor of the week and wishing the fad disappear immediately. Time to wear my rage cap and welcome you to another installment of “Post of Rage”, where I can write things I despise and only thing missing is to throw an old broken down toilet to the things I want to crap on.

Drivers who does not know how to use directional signal lights
It is one of those minor things that you can do to decrease road accidents but no, a lot of idiots on the road, especially with the public utility vehicles, for some reason does not know how to use those signal lights and just swerve drastically on each lanes. They jump from one lane to another, racing to their desired destination and high-fiving with the smiling Grim Reaper.

Jejemons Phenomenon
The language molesters and their counterparts the jejebusters should end to exist immediately. They are just  wasting precious internet time and cellphone load, spreading their idiocy. I hope TV news shows stop meddling with this crap and show something relevant or something that can actually help this country. Lastly, this phenomenon is simply annoying.

Filipino Time on Filipino Channels
The Filipino time is a very notorious habit of local countrymen. Filipino time is basically at least 30 minutes to an hour delay from the original time. For example, if the meeting was originally set at  1:00pm, expect the attendees will arrive at around 1:30 and the meeting will begin at 1:45. This also applies to local television network, especially on prime time schedules. The shows starts and ends on different times everyday. Is it hard to come up with a practical schedule and just follow it? when they show the line up of shows, 90% of time there are no specific time on each program and they just, eff it and play the show in a sequence without relying to a non-confusing method of setting schedules properly.

Novelty Radio DJs
I opened the radio and I hear  nice music, just the right soothing alternative rock while driving somewhere in Manila, but all of a sudden, an ear shattering spiel of the DJ blasts to the speakers accompanied with a little jejespeak and other nonsense, later realizing the station is a god damn novelty radio station, home of the most annoying DJs on the planet, not locally, but as whole freaking planet. They are annoying and borderline sleazefest and I wonder our local radio commission does not impose any penalties on this particular stations where the DJs obscenity is quite obvious, vocal and very unnecessary. Yet a lot of our local countrymen enjoy listening to this stations which can destroy more brain cells than drinking a bottle of rugby.

Coffee shop WiFi Hoggers and Time wasting histrionic idiots
Bunch of them are social climbers and thinking hanging out in internet café will raise their popularity or whatever these kids call it today. Since coffee shop is a good place to stay, they can waste time and trying to look more socialite as possible, its like reverse jejemon or something. They will choose the cheapest food from the menu just to declare to the world he is eating and drinking something from the shop,and indulging it in the most pathetic attempt to duplicate on how a typical blue blood snob eat his dishes. While waiting for someone they now to take notice that they are in a posh coffee shop, they will use their cellphones with crappy browser to take advantage of the free WiFi service offered by the coffee shop and posting Facebook status or twits sharing to their friends that they are in this café and sips more from the glass of ice-cold water, of course also free from the shop. Lovely, isn’t it.

Time to remove my rage cap, dusting all the remaining raging steam inside of me, smile a little since in few minutes I’ll be driving home, hooray for me.

Post of Rage 2

Welcome to the new edition of Post of Rage, my very own complementary complain topic of some things I want to hit with a baseball bat hard, not literally, but in written form.

Popular K, J, C-Pop acts with absolutely not understandable lyrics
They are popular among teens who loves to dress like their foreign idols, wearing fur and huge jackets in a tropical country where El-Niño is currentlly laying a smackdown.  They sing, dance and embrace their culture even if they have no absolutely idea what they are singing.

Creation of P-Pop genre
Following the footsteps of Korean, Chinese, Japanese and other asian Pop that involves music that makes cat jump in happiness, some local music industry executive has audacity to create what they called as P-Pop or Pinoy Pop. It introduced some refreshing but manufactured talents that sounds like their foreign counterpart, but this time we can understand them because its PINOY. They are covered with tons of make-up, making them as more oriental looking as possible and forced to wear colorful and heavy clothes that would be probably get themselves in trouble on some parts of Manila, Wait, P-Pop? pinoy pop? they call this the Pinoy Pop? so how about all the other Philippine Pop artists that emerged from the 80s up to 2000s? they are not Pinoy pop artists? oh I forgot, the majority of Pinoy Pop artists are labeled as Original Philippine Music… artists, my bad.

Not using proper lighting on live TV shows
You can’t see crap on this shows, because the floor person does not know how to set up stage lights properly. One of the most obvious factors to a presentation, like a TV show, is that the audience and the target market, should see clearly on what you present. In a local variety show here, the technical stuff has insane fetish of using sub standard and not so bright lights. If you see them on TV they look like being lit by a flash light.

Useless news
Do we care if a dog knows how to use a surf board? backwards? Do I care if a certain celebrity gained weight? I need real news that has sense and in some way useful with our daily lives. Real news meant to inform, not blast with craps that should be shown in early morning shows.

Horrible hosts in big shows
Never, ever place bad hosts in big shows that sounds monotonous, by the book and does not know how to ad-libbed in certain situations. They may have the good looks and charisma but you should know how to entice the audience and deliver an impact while hosting, especially the with big shows and events. Sadly, this horrible hosts still get paid handsomely even if their performances is worse than watching Plan 9 from Outer Space… yup, a very old but considered the worst film of all time.. of all time.

I let off some steam, but I hope the following were treated with proper head butting because it is for the benefit of all mankind.

The Post of Rage 1

I call this series, THE POST OF RAGE, the complementary complain topic. I just want to talk about things, common things you usually see and hear everyday that is in need of proper ass kicking or plain ignore like what I always do. It may have a slice of angst but if I manage to impart these little comments to the public, and for some reason, everything I will mention here was immediately removed from the world in entirety, well, I congratulate the world for making itself a better place.

People who throw used cigarette butts in the grassy area of Ayala Avenue.
Every morning, not only their kill themselves with cigarettes as well attempting to share their plight to other people through a process called “passive smoking”, they also desecrate Gods green earth by throwing their used cigarettes in grassy areas, particularly the ones on the side of the Ayala avenue. I am not an OC type of guy because my room is always a mess when I left home for work, but I thought people who work in Makati, particularly in the Ayala area, who are all educated, should know the basic concept of throwing garbage in a trash can. Is throwing your own garbage, particularly used cigarettes, in a trash can a hard thing to do? It’s only a mere few feet, even inches from your place? Are you in a hurry and have no time to throw your cigarette properly Also, you are making the work of the street sweeper a lot harder, finding creative ways to find and retrieve thrown cigarettes scattered in said areas, even in the hard to reach areas like the drainage. You, as a well-educated person, should still know the proper way of throwing trash like cigarettes in a trash can.

Kapamilya / Kapuso online war.
Ah yes, the online war between the hardcore and rabid fans of Channel 2 and 7. They brought the term fanboyism (or 90% of the case, fangirlism) in a whole new level. They go bonkers when their favorite star got bad mouthed by rival networks fan or personalities. You can see these people wasting their lives, battling each other through “flamewars” in various local message boards, even in various video sharing sites Youtube and Daily Motion. There are dozens of channel 2 and 7 shows uploaded in this kind of sites, using different title names to mask themselves from the ongoing purge of copyright infringement materials. Whenever you view the text comments, at least one of them will have an “OMG ANG PANGIT NG SHOW NA YAN!!!!111 ZOMG ITS SUXXORS!” kind of post and someone will reply, usually in minutes, “HINDI, MAGANDA ITO!! SA INYO!! PANGET!!!! WALANG KWENTA!!!”, and some other guy will reply, and before you know it, another person will respond, and this will go on and on for a very long time. This always happens to videos which focus more on with a single actor/actress. Someone will post a tribute video of actor A, and in few hours, even minutes, another flame war will begin.

Smokers in Public Utility Vehicles, the open ones
Angst time ahead. I don’t mind people smoking in public, as long as they properly dispose the rolled tube of death properly, but I just can’t stand people who smoke in public utility vehicles, like the jeepney and tricycle. Can they just wait to get to their destination and load their lungs with 4000 kinds of chemicals afterward? That habit is frustrating  walking around the city, tired, trying to reach your destination via an open air vehicle, like the jeepney, and some dude or dudette shares his plight with you through smoking. Passive smoking is deadlier than self smoking, since the real smoke is an irritant, and allergy sufferers can experience stuffy or runny noses, watery or burning eyes, sneezing, coughing, wheezing, and a feeling of suffocation within minutes of exposure. There was an actual incident around last year, when I am inside of an air-conditioned bus, heading home from work, a guy ascended the vehicle, seats in the front, and attempts to light a cigarette, inside a smoke free bus, talk about the level of nicotine dependency of this guy. Good thing the conductor immediately stopped the man from smoking before he mixed the air from a dying air-condition with his 4000 chemicals.

Havaianas
They are just a bunch of expensive slippers, with designs. Why stay in the line outside of the store, waiting for your turn then fork out your cash when you can buy 5 even 10 reliable and cheaper slippers instead from other stores? I remember seeing a line, with stanchions between people, waiting for their turn to enter the shop at the Mall of Asia. I thought it was a line for a restaurant instead bunch of guys and gals looking directly towards the glass panel of the store, waiting for their turn. They enter and 90% of time they will not buy anything and leave the store. Good for them.

Metro Manila Film Festival
I don’t mind watching local films, I love them and it is clear on my habit of watching Cinema One at the wee hours of the day. But please, do not put the Film Festival candidates around Christmas time, especially if most of the films are downright horrible. Good holidays films, both foreign and local, is obviously the main attraction of the cinemas, during of course the holiday season. Most of the films look, was like produced in a week and does not look like it even used a single storyboard, I doubt if they even know whats a storyboard is. The bad thing is most of the candidates are crappy, really crappy. We had to wait till January to watch Avatar and other films that  internationally hit back in December. They can place the festival on other date, like in October, after the onslaught of popular foreign summer movies. The film festival committee should know the deserving films, the ones included in the festival. Garbage films with popular actors are very popular. These garbage should rolled and ditched somewhere immediately, it’s all about the story and overall presentation of the film. The actors are just the tool of the film, not the main reason to watch the film. Still, even how obviously crappy the film are, the loyal fans will still buy tickets just to see this guy with same facial expressions even if he is happy, sad or about to deliver a killer line.

That’s it, so far, still a lot of things that deserves a proper written spankings, and I hope I made the world a better place.