Crazy Days

I was surprised to find an online news about HIV cases soaring among Filipino yuppies specially call center workers. Not that I'm surprised why it had to be the call center agents but rather it is getting air time now when it should have gotten it's publicity a long, long time ago.

Some years back, we had an Admin Manager here at work who moonlights with his own Building Management Agency. One time over a couple of shots (Tequila I miss yah!), he shared among us about this job order he had for toilet-sucking-ala-Malabanan-sucking in one call center company in Makati City.

Employees and building occupants were complaining of a clogged toilet drainage so they reported it and called our admin guy and his company for the job. It was another day's work but what came out of the suck tubes surprised his men: Condoms!

So it's not surprising to know that men and women from the call center agencies do it with their co-workers at the best time they see fit. They don't need privacy, in fact they love doing it in groups. Crazy, crazy days!

Doc Edsel Salvana warns us of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Philippines.

I was a child of the 80's and if you sum it right, I now belong to the middle aged population. I might even say to you that I grew up in a time when narcotics was taboo nor shabu in any family conversation. Movies and TV programs showed song and dance numbers, singing contests with Pilita Corales and Apeng Daldal but girls wearing God-Only-Knows-What dancing in the afternoon and lunchtime shows weren't allowed. And even if there were times these almost naked dancers show off, we were asked to look away or cover our eyes so we won't see.

Nowadays, it's crazy, crazy days!

People say it is a hidden but growing problem but this issue can easily be addressed with proper public information campaign which even a first grader can do. It will only be a problem if we allow it to become as such.

Even the people behind the solution (if there's any) are living in a crazy, crazy kind of life.

Another story that caught my atten tion and forced me to laugh out loud is about a Man caught at airport with 44 lizards. This German wasn't thinking at all, crazy, crazy kind of thinking!

I bet he was inspired by the story of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man famous for hiding explosives under his pants. Same style, same result! Crazy!

Life is so crazy without a rain, that's how I feel really!



Thank God it's Enya!