the mungo conspiracy

Push texts are illegal -- that is text promos should not be sent to your phone, says so the NTC. But because the NTC is useless, we have to push back ourselves. Whenever Smart (or Globe) sends you a push text, make it cost them. How? Call their free toll help line. Clog those lines a bit. I made one such call this afternoon after I received the third push text of the day from Smart. I got to a Smart tech support. I told him that their push text woke my baby up (true, not even made up). I told him that push texts are ILLEGAL, so why are they continuing with this practice? Is Smart a criminal enterprise that they would brazenly continue committing illegal acts? Yeah, I talked to that guy for around 10 minutes. It is not a lot I know, but I resolve to do this every time I get sent a push text. And I am asking you to do the same. They push us, we push back. Make it COST them. ----------------- UPDATE: Three days after making that call to the Smart help line, I have not received one...

I am the first man that my daughter, now all of 9 months old, will ever love. Whatever kind of man I am, will be the standard by which all other men shall be measured. Right here, right now, it is I, who decides the kind of man my daughter shall seek in her future husband.

If you are wondering why the RP space program is limited to joining contests of body spray companies, wonder no more. Apparently, the Court of Appeals has decided that Filipinos are not qualified to study and experiment with talong ( story here ). Scientific guarantee. No such thing when the Americans decided to launch the Apollo missions. Astronauts could have died. This is a fact. Those mercury rockets? Those are basically fuel tanks. Picture those huge Petron tankers you see in the highway, now multiply that 10 fold. Stick an inverse funnel on its ass then light it. That's basically what a rocket is. Had that fallen into a major city, thousands could have died. Did that stop the Americans from being the first to land on the moon? Well, we'll never get there. The CA do not even trust Filipino with talong. And our NDCC leaders are telling us to run for cover whenever North Korea decides to try to launch a rocket into space.

After the lackluster one night Manila performance by Rihanna, the young diva announced that she does not like adobo or any Filipino food for that matter. What?! Declare that singer persona non grata! But wait. This "news" is not really true. Except from the way entertainment writers/reporters put an emphasis on that question you would think we would riot if  it were true. Just how thin-skinned do these entertainment news writers think we are? Why this obsession with adobo? Why ask "You like adobo?", each and every freaking time a foreign act would dare perform in the country? Stop it! A plague! A plague on the house of the next lazy uninspired dumb-ass who asks the stupid question ... or a tsinelas to the face ... on both cheeks.

At sa daang matuwid ni PNoy, na akala ko ba'y katapusan na ng wang-wang,  ito ang larawan mula sa inquirer.net .

If anything, what the recent news tell me is that I am in the wrong business. But no worries. If nothing else, I can adapt to what present circumstances require. So I have decided to create my own NGO. And to protect myself from lawsuits, my NGO will have senators and congressmen as beneficiaries. No hypocrisy, right? Now give me some of that pork!

I was having dinner last night. And as usual, I had the news on. GMA's 24 Oras. A foolish habit I now think. Midway through the newscast, there was this report about a woman who murdered her own baby by burying her alive. Come on GMA, that is not even news! Gore is not news. That report has nothing to do with me nor 99.9999%. of the Filipino people. It affects her family. And maybe, in lesser degree, the immediate community. But to make it a national news item on prime time TV -- and you bring that to my dinner table? Oil price hike, news. Gory details of how a madwoman murdered her child, not news. Aljur's latest love interest, not news. Stock market index, news. Marian Rivera's Valentine's plan with Dingdong, not news. Live blow by blow account of how the brother of  the hostage taker is being arrested, not news (not yet -- the public can wait). Shall I go on? Here's a hint, do I (the general public) really need to know that? Is there value in it? Would I be se...