It's a Good TV Day Among Other Things

I started my Saturday Morning by watching the NBA Playoffs between Phoenix Suns and LA Lakers. LA Lakers won but not with big margin, Steve Nash wasn't playing his usual A game. I was waiting for CNN to air Quest, this week's topic was about making music, Richard Quest interviewed Snoop Dogg weeks before he got (with some of his crew) arrested in Heathrow Airport in London for disrupting peace and mauling two Airport Security Men. I had a blast watching the show it was both entertaining and informative, Richard Quest even graced/disgraced (either way you look at it) the show with a rendition of "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"

And because it was a Saturday Studio 23 showed, after a long hiatus, Seventh Heaven in its 9th Season. I miss the Camdens and it touched my heart when snippets of the Camden kids, when the show was starting, were shown. The kids have grown, I felt really connected with the show because I learned a lot from their episodes and I feel that I am part of the Camden kids' growing and learning process.

Then I saw in CNN, Lorraine Hahn's interview with F4. Yes, thats Jerry, Vanness, Ken and Vic. It brought a lot of Meteor Garden memories. How I cried when Dao found Chan Cai when she was evicted from her apartment because Dao's evil mother bought the place where she was staying. The image was so poignant that I remember the color of the shirts the actors wore that time. I'd love to see Meteor Garden once again. And Jerry is so gwapo, I am really fascinated with chiseled, well defined and structured faces.

It was good day of TV viewing for me, nostalgic, informative and entertaining.

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Despite my busy TV schedule, I still had the time to run a few errands for my parents. I went to the grocery to pick up a few things for the store. While in the vicinity I bought Jolibee burgers for the people at home. I was waiting in qeue when I started obeserving other people's behavior at the store and from my observations people can get really crazy when their "hungry" and when they are holding money. For example, the lady before me wouldn't leave the counter because she cannot wait three minutes for her order. The person at the counter asked her quite courteously to wait for her food in the dining area but the lady wouldn't heed the clerk's request. He's obviously in a dilemma because the lady was oblivious of the people behind her, waiting to get their food. The person behind me started saying "ang tagal naman" really loud, as if the world would run out of cheeseburger. Actually I don't mind waiting, it's not a matter of life and death. It's just peculiar that people would act this way just to get what they want and because they have the money you would have to grant their every request. People think that when you have money, you can dictate the world. It's very funny, I wanted to smile at the person in the counter because I can feel that he was really tense about it. And what's the deal with people not wanting to carry their tray? It's just burger and fries and you wanted to be assisted?, it's not like your old or crippled. (I saw this with other customers) Maybe these are the reason why God doesn't want Filipinos to get rich because when they have money they can really act quite incosiderately. And nobody says thank you except those who were paid to say it. It's sad that Filipinos don't know how to treat others with kindness specially people of their own kind. And don't even get me started with the way the DOJ Secretary is handling the Subic Rape case.

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You may have notice the One banner attached to this page. I got that from the One Campaign website. Everytime I see people from Darfur in Sudan it gives me a certain degree of sadness because the people there are so destitute. It would have been at least bearable if they are only dealing with poverty but they are not. Aside from extreme hunger they would still have to fight for their mere survival. The Janjaweed militias rape, steal, kill and inflict atrocities to their own people and mind you the Sudanese Governemnt condone these atrocities. It's really sad that we humans would allow this kind of actions to perpetuate. How can the world let this happen? It's an irony for me that celebrities would spearhead the One campaign when they are in fact one of the contributors of extreme poverty, of course not directly. Rich people hoard and abuse resources even if they don't need them. In turn poor people doesn't get their share of the resources because the rich people has already monopolized them. It's a futile attempt to give or donate money, people shouldn't be receiving donations if in the first place the resources were distributed fairly. Earth's resources should have been enough for every person in the planet but because of man's utter greed, it seem as if the world doesn't have enough resources.

I don't care about the politics of helping, I just wanted to help. No one deserves to suffer like this.

If you want to help, think of this, everytime you reach for an item in a counter or shelf in a grocery, ask your self, do i really need this? if the answer is no, return the item in the shelf, if yes buy it but make sure what you have is just enough. At least we can eradicate greed one person at a time, the root of poverty.

Think of these people when you start complaining about waiting in line to get your cheeseburger, some people have to wait in line just to have a chance in life.

Pray that the killing and mindless death stops in Darfur, Sudan and the rest of the African nations.

Maria Francia Posted At 12:57:00 AM

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