I know, I know, I should really be in my working vacation in a secret hide-away but I got an email this morning from Stockholm saying the Norwegians have awarded a Peace Prize to Bill Clinton's Boy Wonder....(akala ko joke email lang. Ten minutes later nasa news na.)
I'm struggling to write two chapters due on Monday but recent events give me hope:
1. It's possible to win a Nobel Prize for converting a PowerPoint presentation into a movie. Here's a slightly inconvenient truth: A study has shown that around three quarters of the audience think about sex during powerpoint presentations.
2. It's also possible for someone WITHOUT a diploma to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
So don't be so desperate about those diplomas. At the end of the day, there is a reason why Bill Gates is worth gazillions while we are out here using Windows XP to write petitions.
Don't ya just want Doris Lessing to be your granny? Instead of the Prime Minister calling her to say she won the Nobel, it was a frigging reporter who stalked and informed her as she got out of the cab, holding the day's groceries (May bawang pa). And the cute thing was that she turned her back to the reporter to get the sukli from the cab driver. (Oh ha, sa Baguio, nagbabalik rin ng sukli ang mga tsuper ng taksi...ewan kung ganun pa rin ngayon...)
I like Doris' bio too. She was born in Persia and grew up in Rhodesia. Ask Ms. South Carolina to point those out in the map if ya don't know where they are. (Actually, ganyan rin katanda great grandmother ko. Pagkiniki-kilan ko sya pambili kendi noon, binibigyan nya ako ng Pesetas, we had to defibrillate her just to bring her back to the 20th century. Kaya naman we kept her alive for so long because she wouldn't say where she hid the Yamashita treasure. She died without telling us, the selfish old hag. Anyways, we mummified her just in case she had a change of heart. Mahirap naman yatang magsalita ang patay na na-cremate. Talaga naman, kahit nung pinapausukan na my great granny in preparation for the traditional burial, iyak ng iyak ang lola ko...Where!!!! Kad-an na nan balitok!!!!Man kali ka!!!!)