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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Untitled Rain Piece

Days of rain are here.
A drop of realization, stirs a pond of thoughts.
Maybe I would ask you to wash away the cold,
and the doubts that trickle down my soul.
But you have your own downpour of sorrows
to flood away my form.
Maybe this season is not for rainbows after all.
But for reflections on puddles of ourselves,
to mend leaks brought about by past storms,
and to make blue skies wait a little longer...

Karate vs Zombies vs Labor Cost vs Economic Problem

With a katana, my weapon of choice, in hand... I had to slice, dice, kick, and punch my way through a group of zombies. They're the kind you see in low budget horror films during the 80's, or the kind you see in the resident evil game/movie series... The sluggish and dumb type.

Honestly, I can't see how they can catch up to anyone and eat them with the way that they are... I mean, you have to be pretty stupid to get chowed down by them! Unless of course, you managed to get yourself surrounded and have nowhere to go. Which is seldom the case for the victims in these movies... Actually, the way that they get eaten are pretty laughable. Is there no room for common sense in these gore films?

Now, if these zombies were the kind in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, we can talk about terrifying. Man, these things can run, jump and lunge at you. Pit one of you against three or more of them (or one if you don't know how to fight or have no weapon), and boy, you're in trouble.

Thank God they were not the ones I dreamed of! That would be very stressful!

One funny thing, though, is that since I started learning karate, I don't easily get afraid when I dream of weird creatures and stuff. There's something about the budo (Japanese term for martial art) that bores courage deep enough into you, that you may draw from it even in dreams. Hahaha! Also, you get a certain confidence in knowing that you can kick ass!

When I woke up, I got myself thinking... "What if there really were these zombies in real life?" or "What if the Philippines was overrun with them?"

My suggested solution is that, we can learn to domesticate them, and put them in factories to do routine mindless jobs for us. We don't even have to deal with their benefits or salaries! We just give them meat everyday to feed on. Maybe, the cheaper double dead alternative would do... They can't die of diseases. They're already dead!

Maybe we can even throw them one particular short former lady president with her fattened husband for dessert. Hahaha! But then again, it may not be such a good idea, since they may corrupt whatever piece of humanity these things have left.

With these zombies behind our work force, the country could even end up having cheaper labor than China! It may just be the answer to rise above our country's economic status! And think of it this way... if we die and turn into one of them... At least, we haven't outlived our usefulness...