Mindtrick

Dan Mott: The only chance that we will survive is to huddle together for warmth…
Jerry Conlaine: I, for one, choose death.
- Without A Paddle

One time, after not seeing everyone for quite long, my high school classmates and I took a night out. And it was great to discover how one had grown and how one had been doing. I was expecting that the night would all be about insecure people with thoughts like "I-am-doing-well-and-you-aren’t-belat**-good-for-you!"

But it was otherwise.

It was a night of good chat and jokes cracking over several bottles of beer coupled with lavish platefuls of calamares and pork sisig. We simply reach out to each one genuinely.

And when the inevitable moment of parting came, there was always that inclination to distance oneself from others so as not to jeopardize that standing of being the alpha male. No hugs and kisses. A fist pound, a cool handshake and a pat in the back were the ways of saying goodbye. And to infuse the moment with a little more machismo zest, the leave-taking was always a stream of chatter mainly consisting of "Pare (in which stress was usually placed on the word and bellowed out in a bass tone), ingat!"

Anyway to end this post, see the following video which I find amusing.

**courtesy of the Pepsi Girl.

Like a beer or two - intoxicating, without the hangover, as this image says.

Found thru the Adventures in Ethics and Science.

So maybe you know that sparkling wine
can only be called Champagne

if it is from the Champagne region in France
and if it undergoes a secondary fermentation in the bottle.
- The Green Grape

Even a graduating Filipino
Harvard Law student believes that beers and alcohol have something
good to offer - keeping people together and winning victories.

Ben Casnocha points us to the best and interesting sentences.

Meanwhile, Harsh Shah points us to the evolving phenomenon that Shrek exudes and the Hollywood in-jokes that proliferate it.

At noontime,
I prodded three of my officemates to take lunch at KFC. I usually have a packed
lunch, but today I figured I haven’t eaten at KFC for a long time so I set my
mind to dine there much as payday is still few days ahead.

As we were
getting in the fast food, some of our officemates were going out with food
to go. Then as we scoured for a table, some other officemates were
offering a table for us since they were just done eating. I was amused by the coincidence
I thought some people must not have been eating at KFC for a long time as well
that they set their minds to dine today at the fast food.

So we had
our table and we fell in line at the counter.

We were
deciding for a favorable queue, only to find ahead of us on our left side our
team leaders having similar lunch scheme with us. Moreover, we discovered
further ahead of us on our right side our data analysts lining up too! I was
quite overwhelmed by  the fortuitous encounter I thought today must be
KFC-chicken-day or KFC-gravy-day or KFC-french-fries-day! They could have
chosen the jolly jeeps or other adjacent fast foods like Jollibee and Tang City.

I mean why
KFC? Why and the perpetual why?

Anyway, i
just remembered today is Friday. Back at the seminary, we weren’t allowed to
eat meat on Fridays. Only fish, egg and vegetables were allowed. No chicken at
all. And more so
KFC chicken! And however much KFC chicken was allowed, there
wasn’t any KFC to buy from at my place.

[Update: I was able to manipulate the paragraph spacing by using mac. The html editor is displayed. Now my next problem would be on how to tweak that KFC logo so that it aligns with the “so-we-had…” line.]