Entries from May 2009

May 12, 2009

What is Rent?

A word somehow loses its meaning if you hear it often enough. It becomes alien to you again. At the start of the movie while the cast was singing “Rent”, I lost it. Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent, rent. If you repeat it often enough, it’ll take a second for you to think what it [...]

May 8, 2009

Death Statistics Bullshit

It’s like the matrix is unfolding right before my eyes. As usual, another thought struck me early this morning when I heard something on TV. It was Arnold Clavio, saying very solemnly about the death statistics of mothers giving birth. He said that 10 mothers die of childbirth every day. And he said it like [...]