Riotous hoot
Given the state of ho-humness I have been in recently, I thought I'd only post an entry in my blog when inspiration hits. And it did, today of all days. On a Wednesday night half way through a toiling week. How so?
I was dragging my feet home, and en route, went to the newstand near my office to grab a copy of the weekly entertainment rag, 8 Days. I was just flipping through the contents absent-mindedly, and came across this commentary. Why absent-minded? Trust me, you would too if you had been staring at acts, statutes and regulations the whole darn day trying to get work done on a broken-down PC that should have been made redundant eons ago. Somehow it irks me a lot although I tell myself not to sweat the small stuff. I find my work performance being compromised by that lousy machine, and as much as my boss has been telling me mine will be changed, I don't see it happening anytime soon. I find it ludicrous that a bank cannot afford to have an ancient PC system junked out and replaced with a new one...the amount of red tape involved...budgeting for 2006 blah blah....yah dah whatever...oops sorry I digressed.
Anyway, there is this columnist who chronicles his life. He paints a stark and vivid picture of his room-mates, parents and siblings and assorted number of friends. I wonder if these people are real, as in are they caricatures and exaggerated profiles of people in real life? They have such larger-than-life personalities, and seem to spout witty lines as if they do it the whole time. I mean I have friends who are dramatic and flamboyant, but they are not like that every day.....
Take this week's issue, for example. It talked about a local celebrity and whether his gym-toned body had been air-brushed. Peppered in between the article were snippets of conversations the columnist had with a friend (who veers towards an alternative orientation, partner-wise) and his room-mates. They say the darnedest things, and it was such a hoot reading the article. Fine, it's not exactly material that's thought-provoking or extols on some deep philosophical line of thought. But the light hilarity and scathing remarks were downright funny. The columnist totally rocks man....
I was dragging my feet home, and en route, went to the newstand near my office to grab a copy of the weekly entertainment rag, 8 Days. I was just flipping through the contents absent-mindedly, and came across this commentary. Why absent-minded? Trust me, you would too if you had been staring at acts, statutes and regulations the whole darn day trying to get work done on a broken-down PC that should have been made redundant eons ago. Somehow it irks me a lot although I tell myself not to sweat the small stuff. I find my work performance being compromised by that lousy machine, and as much as my boss has been telling me mine will be changed, I don't see it happening anytime soon. I find it ludicrous that a bank cannot afford to have an ancient PC system junked out and replaced with a new one...the amount of red tape involved...budgeting for 2006 blah blah....yah dah whatever...oops sorry I digressed.
Anyway, there is this columnist who chronicles his life. He paints a stark and vivid picture of his room-mates, parents and siblings and assorted number of friends. I wonder if these people are real, as in are they caricatures and exaggerated profiles of people in real life? They have such larger-than-life personalities, and seem to spout witty lines as if they do it the whole time. I mean I have friends who are dramatic and flamboyant, but they are not like that every day.....
Take this week's issue, for example. It talked about a local celebrity and whether his gym-toned body had been air-brushed. Peppered in between the article were snippets of conversations the columnist had with a friend (who veers towards an alternative orientation, partner-wise) and his room-mates. They say the darnedest things, and it was such a hoot reading the article. Fine, it's not exactly material that's thought-provoking or extols on some deep philosophical line of thought. But the light hilarity and scathing remarks were downright funny. The columnist totally rocks man....
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