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.