Sep. 7, 2008
I caught Groundhog Day for the Nth time today on HBO (N roughly around 50). My father claims it’s his favorite movie of all time; high praise considering he watches every movie that comes out EVER. I’m not actually going to talk about the movie; it’s awesome, if you haven’t seen it, you should. You’re missing half your life.
If you had one day of eternity, what would you do?
Too bad it’s not possible to train to be Batman (your body gets reset every morning); you need to focus on mastering mental disciplines first. Ideally you would have an internet connection available; it should take a few man-years or so to memorize Wikipedia. Probably at some point I would test the limits of what a human being could accomplish in the span of 24 hours. Is it possible to take over the world in 24 hours? Since you get infinite repeats, maybe.
I wonder if a remake of Groundhog Day would sell in this day and age.
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Jun. 3, 2008
Testtimonger (noun) - somene who gives testimonials
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My mother told me it’s so they don’t try to take home anything from their shoes. She said she heard it from someone who works at SM, supposed to be some kind of standard procedure in department stores. So yeah, I have no idea if it’s true.
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Nov. 6, 2006
I predict that eventually, “don’t”, “won’t”, “can’t” and the like will eventually become their own words, dropping that weird apostrophe they have.
A few decades after this happens, some people will wonder what “wan’t” used to stand for.
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Sep. 10, 2006
Google Trends: world domination, world peace
People need to take world domination more seriously. I’d guess that at most 10% of the population have even seriously considered world domination!
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Apr. 23, 2006
Usually, whenever a Catholic priest gives a homily during Mass, he stands behind a pulpit and generally act like they’re making a speech.
At the place where I go to Mass, the priests prefer to stand in front of the altar, closer to the audience, holding a microphone in their hands and pacing around a bit during the homily.
I remarked to my brother during the Easter Sunday mass: “I bet priests would make great stand-up comics.”
His response: “That would make an awesome sitcom.”
Imagine, if you will, a priest at a small parish, occasionally bored with what is surely his life’s calling. Every so often, he sneaks out to his local comedy club and performs as a stand-up comic. Hilarity ensues.
Too bad it wouldn’t work in a Philippine setting. (No comedy clubs here…)
Remember, you read it here first! If it comes out on any network, they’re surely ripping me off.
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Apr. 14, 2006
I wonder if the Catholic Church considers piracy as a sin…at least one that I should be confessing to a priest during er…confession. If so, I suppose I have more than ten years’ worth of piracy-related sins to confess.
Yeah, I go to confession. Once a year, around the Holy Week period usually. Once a year is the minimum frequency required by the Catholic Church, but I wonder how many observe it?
Many parishes in busy Metro Manila hold a “Kumpisalang Bayan” (er…I’d say “Mass Confessional”, Mass as in lots of people, would be a reasonable translation) around the Holy Week period, where several priests receive confessions from any and all comers. Problem is that there’s always a queue for each priest. Here’s a tip: Choose the queue with the least number of old people, especially old women. Old women seem to take the longest time for some reason.
If I were writing a webcomic, one of the characters would go to confession, and the priest would give him an unreasonable penance, something like “Recite the Our Father ten thousand times”, and the guy would go like
<% for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { %>
Our Father who art in heaven…”
<% } %>
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Apr. 2, 2006
I’ve always been suspicious of radio station top ten lists, assuming they are predetermined marketing scams and not really based on actual listener requests.
When I was in high school I wanted to put this theory to the test by having a whole lot of people call one station and request a really old song - my choice at the time was “Hey Jude” by the Beatles. Unfortunately, my plan fell through because I could not gather the critical mass needed to accomplish it. And it was really hard to call into those radio stations.