Hermit Crab
I don’t feel too good today. Tired. I know it’s only Monday, but already its feels like Friday. Worked all weekend. Attending public functions and sosyalan gatherings (part of the territory, strange. Being an editor is almost akin to being a freakin’ public official. Barangay Pilipinas sa Hong Kong.) is so much work. It’s an effort to keep smiling and being pleasant, and you, dear reader if you are a real friend and know me, would know that it takes much effort for me to be sociable.
I am, by nature, a hermit. Or better, a hermit crab (because I’m often crabby. get it? The combination of hermit and crab? No? nevermind).
I’m reading Haruki Murakami’s ‘Kafka by the Shore,’ and as always, I am awed at how even the translation reads so poetic.
I haven’t seen The Da Vinci Code, but in truth I’m not excited by it. I’ve read the book two years back, and the hype that surrounded it has, for me, already passed.
Do I believe that Jesus is really an ordinary mortal and that he married Mary Magdalene?
Let’s put it this way– I wouldn’t mind if this were the actual, historical case.
I grew up listening to my dad the former seminarian and history/sociology teacher that there are no real, verified and incontestable historic documents on Jesus, which isn’t the case with Buddha or the prophet Mohammed. Why? Because the Catholic Church is suppressing the truth and went about twisting and manipulating documented history.
Oh well.
Kung ano man ang kaso, Jesus is and has always been an image, an idea, a concept that has never been anything but pure goodness and light to me. Mortal or supernatural deity, let the historians and the religious leaders decide. I comfort myself with the fact that I try to be good, period. This is mainly what Jesus preached, anyways. To be good is to care for other people’s welfare, and to stand up against injustice and cruelty. How banal that sounds, ano? Yet these things are so hard to do judging from the way things are in the world today.
There’s a report that DOJ secretary Siraulo Gonzales will be flying here on the 28th and be the guest speaker of the anniversary of regional organization of Ilonggos. It’s been confirmed that he has actually been invited, but it will still be verified if he will actually come.
Hmm. Mainit na salubong ang ihahatid dyan ng mga taga-United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL), tiyak yan. Maghahasik lang ng kasinungalingan ang lecheng Gonzales na yan. Kung wala nga lang siyang kasabay sa eroplano, I’d pray that it crashes. The man’s a lunatic, insisting that it’s okay to kill progressives because they’re quote unquote communists. Gago.Naniniwala siya sa summary execution sa mga kaso ng pampulitikang pagtutol.
Incidentally, it will also be UNIFIL’s 21st anniversary on May 28.
