Nang Hani (our editor) and I were supposed to meet our adviser to update her about the plans for our Christmas party. We ended up sending her an SMS instead. Then wer hopped onto a jeepney and headed to the mall to buy the gifts for our secret partners.
The secret partner type of gift giving is predominant among older (and by that I mean high school and college and post college people) people and has the thrill of guessing who picked you or who did you pick. The silly part is that almost everyone tells everyone who they picked.
Not me. I got it all covered. I'm a neat secret keeper you know.
Nang Hani first helped me what to buy. I said I would buy my partner a sign shirt knowing that she loves reading one. Okay, I let it slip that my 'SP' is a girl. No matter, it's still vague enough. I bought two shirts a hundred a piece. Solved!
Then it was Nang Hani's time to be troubled. She hasn't picked anything to give yet to our adviser.
Yes, Nang Hani's 'SP' is the adviser we would've contacted that morning. How did I know? I made my trap questions that I learned from our debate, put them in my small handy notebook and in one afternoon before we bought sundae cones, I tricked her into saying it. No, that was a lie. She just told me. I don't need to ask, silly.
Our adviser has indicated a few things in the wish list.
1. something about relaxing
2. something about crafts
3. something about vacation
4. something about peace
Whew. How could she fit that in a few hundred pesos. First we fought with our stomach (my stomach that is) to find a pair of comfy slippers. The weird fluffy ones. Yes if you need comfort, sometimes you just have to shun the fashion trend away. step on them with fluffy slippers.
But let's forget the fluffy slippers. They're too way off the price marker. At 600 pesos a pair, you can have them. I'll buy cotton balls and stick them with glue to a 56-pesos pair of slippers from downtown, thank you very much.
Next stop, the two books stores to find something to read. Daily Bread? No, I think ma'am has them. A crossword and Sudoku book? Is that what you call relaxing? Finally, Nang Hani found a book on origami. I agree that is relaxing. But is it relaxing for the pocket?
The book costs a whooping 700 pesos. Next option please.
We move onto a cd store because I was looking at the price of a Guetta cd. I was dying to get a copy and hear my own ear thump on its won eyt I was still lacking funds. Then I saw a Glee compilation cd and at the exact moment, Glee's version of "Gold Digger" was playing. Damn was I tempted. But I didn't give in. Sorry, your advertisement won't do its trick today.
Then I had an idea. Why won't we give ma'am a cd for relaxation. A sort of background lounge music for her office. Hani agreed and we proceeded in picking the right one and after that we scanned a selection of happy-feel-good movies. That's option number to when we encountered something funny. The cd store was now apparently a hub for x rated material.
I asked myself, would anyone buy this publicly? And in a mall? I think one should save porn watching to their private selves. And if the people who made these films say these are art. Please tell them their funny because their covering up for soft porn. You can easily tell the difference of these films form the real films.
Note: They don't have nude people in the cover. Plus their titles wouldn't suck. Who wouldn't think it's a porn film if your selling it by the act itself. SEX Reels: Ang Babae sa Isla na Asul. Sort of. After that we enjoyed the liberty of having to inspect every x-rated ish material of their titles. If you come to watch at the titles for a long time, you can't help but to suppress a laugh. Call it being malicious but these titles make sex sell.
However, I am totally depressed as to what some movie makers think as a breakthrough. Independent films (indies) are hot on the market today. And if it's not sex their selling, it's prostitution. And movie goers still think that some of it is still art-able when in fact their just eager to get some money by making someone bear flesh. Some indies are indeed worthy every penny. But some are just plain nasty.
After buying the cd, we head of to heaven. Unlimited Rice! Yeah!
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