Holiday Rants

Christmas came, and went; along with my 13^th month pay (wala man lang ako nabili, tsk tsk…)

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I’m feasting for days now at the sonic delights of The Dawn’s 20^th anniversary album “Tulad ng Dati.” Re-recorded classics like Enveloped Ideas, Salamat, and Iisang Bangka were refreshing, made me think it would be easier to cover them now sans the k-boards (hehe!).

And kudos too to Valley of Chrome. Their latest album “Never the Lifeless” sounds different from their previous release “Love and Devotion.” My favourite track at the moment though is “Dasal.” The album sounds cleaner and crisper and thankfully, I can hear the basslines of Goodtime Jordy (ayos name brad!!!)

My dream however (still) as I discussed with Pepe Smear is to make a CD recording of all the popsmear songs. I don’t know if that can be fulfilled, all seemed busy at the moment, with Juday busy on VoC and Gelots on whatever he’s doing (boi rockstar ka daw sa Festi!). I still hope we can record those songs, a la greatest hits live; a sort of posterity record for posterity sake (so enteng will have something to listen and laugh about when he’s old, har-har!)

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Ang gatas ng aso

Ay para sa tuta

Ang gatas ng baboy

Ay para sa biik

Eh ang gatas ng baka?

Para sa anak ko?

The worst government advertisement ever, Hands down. Very insulting and insensitive.

So ano gusto ng gobyerno ngayon? So kung walang gatas talaga at imposible mag breastfeed? Hahayaan na lang na magutom si baby? Tanga talaga nakaisip ng Ad na ‘yan.

Buti pa Baka may silbi. Ang gobyerno wala. Buwiset kayo talaga, tsk tsk tsk…

You Better Keep Your Sanity

A simple communication process I learned in college has the following components:

1 sender

1 receiver

Message or Response

Between them is the channel from which the message and response flows. It could be a telephone, the email, or even a radio. In the olden times it’s the air between them, example is Person A shouting to Person B. Reverse it freely if you wish.

A simple representation could be this:

Person A ß———– message/response ———-à Person B

This is a very straightforward representation of a simple communication process. Even a college imbecile will understand this.

Now

Suppose Person A sends a message or instruction to Person B. Person B replied affirmatively, meaning he concurs positively with the instructions. Person B then executes the instruction coming from Person A.

This is the instruction:

Paint all green eggs in all Baskets to red and tag them with individual numbers

Person A checked the end result of the whole instruction. What Person B did was to paint it all in red without tagging them with individual numbers. Person A then received a complaint stating that some red eggs have no numbers. Person A then told Person B that they need to tag it all with individual numbers. Person B then concurs that all is well and it has been all tagged properly.

Case solved.

After a few days more complaints were received of similar nature. Person A then asks Person B why this happened. Person B then responded that there were green eggs lost from Basket 1 and were placed in Basket 2. Person A asked Person B to repeat the procedure for Basket 2 the way they handled Basket 1. And to be doubly sure, he asked Person B if there are more green eggs in other Baskets. Person B replied there were none.

Person A is now satisfied that all green eggs are now painted red and tagged properly with individual numbers.

However more complaints came. Reports received were there were a lot of red eggs without numbers!

Person A then asked why this happened? The instructions were very clear, Person B just needs to paint all green eggs in all the Baskets with red paint and tag them afterwards with individual numbers. Person B then replied that there were really few small green eggs compared to a majority of green eggs and he’s uncertain if these small green eggs will be painted red too.

At this point Big Boss investigated the whole incident. He asked Person A what happened and Person A then replied that he instructed Person B to just paint all green eggs in all the Baskets to red, then tag them with individual numbers.

Big Boss scratches his head. “You should have instructed Person B to paint the small green eggs from the beginning!” he says.

“’But Big Boss’ Person A explained, ‘ I specifically told him to paint all green eggs to red!’”

“Well maybe you should have had asked if he eats sausage for breakfast everyday before handing him the instructions…” says Big Boss.

(At this point Person A slashes his wrists…)