PARADOXICAL

In July, there were too many viral things going on at a fast clip that I could hardly keep up. What I managed to catch were of paltry amount, but they caught my attention because they were the most unusual. July appeared to be a month infested with unusual crime incidents. 

Two girls died in a motorcycle accident, and their male driver killed himself after being blamed for it.

Ibajay, Aklan vice-mayor was shot dead by a councilor right inside the Sangguniang Bayan Hall. This is the second time this month, I think, that a local official would be shot to death at gunpoint. (I forgot to take note of an earlier incident.)

A very much married policeman residing in San Carlos City, Pangasinan, shot dead woman who was from Mindanao but a rad tech in Taguig, and dumped her body in Sitio Pocdol, Brgy. Bani, our town. Police investigation revealed that the two had a romantic relationship (even though the latter had a boyfriend, a seaman) and the man owed the woman money and had a spat while traveling from Manila to the north.

An18-year-old boy shot a 15-year-old high school girl in Nueva Ecija right inside her classroom and shot himself as well. The girl was reportedly his ex.

San Simon, Pampanga mayor was reportedly caught red-handed accepting a bribe of P80 million. 

Senator Erwin Tulfo was loudly berated by Greenhills, San Juan matrons after he allegedly made false claims about the encroachment of a nearby development. The scene smacked of schadenfreude, and I thought I was the only one ending up thinking, "Erwin Tulfo lives in Wack-Wack?!?" But apparently not! 

In Lanao del Sur, a student killed his teacher over a failing grade.

My worst fear while walking alongside Makati's high-rises because it happened to other unfortunate pedestrians before: Falling concrete debris from a condo in Tomas Morato, QC, left two young students critically injured.

Word Watch

Two colloquial words seem to have become common lately -- daks and juts -- apparently from the Visayan words dako for big and dyutay for small, and often used in a vulgar manner to refer to the size of a man's phallus. So, of all the Visayan words that would diffuse naturally into the Tagalog language, it would have to be these two.

 A residential CCTV footage showed how the top part of a wooden double decker bed collapsed, bringing two men crashing on top of the another man. The two crashing men turned out to be brothers, quashing wide suspicion of 

In a concert, Vice Ganda poked fun at ex-President Duterte and at Sen. Marcoleta's mug. The latter were visibly irked.

Meanwhile, in local showbiz, apparently, Vice Ganda had been having a word war with Cristy Fermin for quite some time now. And even if I wasn't keeping track of, er, these developments, my feeds kept on showing posts about the supposed spat between Vice Ganda and fellow comics MC and Lassy, and between Heart Evangelista and Pia Wurtzbach. 

A post about an orca (killer whale) scarfing down its female trainer alive because she had menstruation went viral, but it turned out to be a hoax. 

Soc-med is no longer fun with all these AI contents ('deepfakes' and fake videos, ChatGPT content). AI might even kill the platform, with the deep distrust that comes with heavy usage of AI.

posted by Resty Odon  # 2:38 PM