Getting Back on the Bike

This is my third blog, the first two of which died of neglect. I think I am incapable of raising Tamagotchi (remember that, kiddies? The electronic pet that demanded more time than your boyfriends did?). Happily, the plants in my house are still alive, and my one thumb-sized goldfish is still swimming happily in its glass pumpkin-shaped cookie jar.

Somehow my blogs were always started on a Holy Week. Here in Manila people either went to the beach or to the church on Holy Week. I just avoid either; there is much to be gained from contemplation while coccoooning. Ok, OK. Those were fancy words intended to disguise laziness. Oddly, I'm not too lazy to try blogging again. In the past work took up most of my time, but there's really nothing else better to do on a Holy Week than to keep your mind occupied lest it become the devil's playground (which is relative, hehehe).

This is thanks to Brian Gorrell, the HIV-positive Australian who wants $70k of his life savings back after being allegedly swindled by his former boyfriend, Pinoy "socialite" DJ Montano. His blog, The Talented Mr. Montano tells the whole story. I feel for him, I would wear a Team Brian or a "$70k NOW" shirt all around Metro Manila if someone actually made one and sold it at the Salcedo Saturday Market. [The only thing that bothers me about that idea is whether someone would be altruistic enough to donate the t-shirt proceeds to a charity once they've recovered production costs. ]

Oops, does the addiction to that blog mean my mind HAS become the devil's playground? Fortunately I'm not Roman Catholic, so idle thoughts of rage at the perceived injustice committed by a fellow Pinoy against someone who loved him does not count as sinful to me. It is deceit, greed and betrayal that are sinful, and they compound each other. And THAT, folks, is something to contemplate on today, Holy Thursday. Thou shalt treat people who love you the way you want to be treated.