Take two Strepsils and call me in the morning...

Pardon me, for I can't hear out of my left ear.
I'm currently in an echo-reverberator room, and there are a legion of screaming "walkouters" behind me. I'm not that annoyed, since, it's basically the same thing that happens on the TV. I'm pissed off since people have been screaming [fecal matter] at me for about a fortnight now.

My neighbors in my humble barrio have a habit of screaming at a telephone. I would have told her to pipe down, if I got a word in, but I think my ears were bleeding at that time.

After bandaging what's left of my auditory canal, the freshmen in my class (Okay, ALL of my classmates) were talking to each other... Let me clarify talking. Screaming gossip while being earshot of each other, like two feet. I'm not that annoyed usually but in this case I was between the two talkers.

I think my ear bandages were loose since my grey matter was sloshing around my skull, making the characteristic "shower water must have stuck in my ear" noise, and most of my organs were suffering from internal bleeding.

After listening to a boombox stuck to vol10 at PE, I was suffering from a severe case of tinnitus. Then the rallyists with megaphones...

Granted the voice of the people was loud enough to hear, but c'mon! Megaphones? That's just a pitiful attempt of ONE voice to be heard. As if the guy playing the triangle in an orchestra was given a solo piece.

I'm sort of groggy now, so if you don't mind, I'll just lie down and get an ear transplant.

Something Different again

Time to get selfish people! Ever get tired of an "opposition" nagging you to come and dispose this, rally against that, people are killing poor defenseless baby seals. Frankly I for one am getting tired of the noise barrages, mobilization rallies, "petitions" and...um... garbage strikes? As seen on TV, the primary reason of people joining in this ridiculous display of corporate slacking-off is the obligatory cash grant for shouting "sort-of-in-unison" with the other jerkoffs that fell for the same marketing trap.

The people who organize these fiascos are

1. The people who give a crap and know what they are talking about, but have no political clout to spread the word. Rarely do you find such majestic complexes of intellect.
2. The people who "sound" like they want it, but are really just megaphone wielding rich kids in a small pond... or something. Control freaks that want to do just to be seen on TV.
3. The people who I affectionately call "traffic stoppers". People hired by 2 to pork over the dough to opposing drivers so they can "play through"
4. The "coffee and sandwich" people. The poor saps either have nothing to do during their long weekend/coffee break or those who are enticed by the aroma of convenience store goodies parked at the back of the mobilization group with written instructions of what to shout to avail of these goodies.

One of these days, I would like to stand in front of this mass of irritants and tell them to MYOB. They have enough personal problems to deal with, and adding national insurrection to their buffet table isn't going to help.

That's why we elected a government (albeit a corrupt one) to deal with these problems so we won't have to. I mean they don't tell us how to wash our dishes and clothes, and oddly enough how to do our taxes, since they really don't know jack schitt about it. Same goes for us. What kind of example does frequent and directionless revolutions show our kids?

After that uncharacteristic banter caused by my ears ringing during a noise barrage by UPians during an exam, I'm going back to what I really like. 24 hour watch on space shuttle Discovery's "back to the saddle" flight. I'll probably videotape the launch and see if any windows or tiles break off.