Right. Now that I have an iPhone. One of the first things I do is make sure it could help me organize my life. Cuz it should. To be organized was one of the gazzilion reasons I bought the device. So here’s what I did the soonest I had the chance. I went online on the iTunes store and had a app-downloading binge. Don’t worry! I was on a free-app only diet. And still I was surprised to find a lot on my plate. And a lot of organizer-apps is something you don’t wanna have. From no help, I now have a hand-full which means I am in a bigger mess than to begin with. From simply looking for a place to start organizing my messy schedules and piled up to-do lists I am now faced with he dilema of finding the best app to do this for me. If someone could help me, I’d be most appreciative.

To make matters worse, as I try out app after app with no results, my colleagues who view the iPhone as a “white elephant” think I was simply playing. It doesn’t matter that I was copying schedules of the classes I’m teaching on the device or fixing notes or organizing everyones contact profiles, pioneering devices like the iphone has yet to earn the respect of the office culture just as the blackberry has had in the past. And it’s not much because of what it lacks in function, and more because of what advantage it has over it. Having games like EA’s Spores or Galcon (a personal fab), games one would choose to show off over less interesting to-do lists or scheduler apps, discredit the sensitive image of the masterpiece.

But hey! What else can we do? We can’t holdback all that capability just because we are afraid of what people may think. The iPhone will simply remain a device from the future brought home today.

There is always a first for all things. This blog though is not my first. It might even be my fifth if my count is correct. The others ceased from existance because I did not have the time nor energy nor luxury to sit down in front of a computer and put my thoughts down. Dont worry. No major heart-ache loosing them. Cuz half the time, all I write about are apologies for not being able to post and promises to post some more.

This time should be different. I got myself an iPhone. Installed an app that makes blogging convenient. Imagine blogging while on the bus or on the train going home or work whenever and whereever inspirations catches you? Now, I’m not saying I’ll be posting things religiously. I promise never to promise. All I’m saying is if this new technique works out right, I won’t need to promise anything at all.

I am a boy who grew up in a family who stressed national piety more than household chores. My dad taught us during dinner that if you are blessed, if you get financial success so that your life is better and easier than your countrymen, it is your moral obligation to alleviate the situation and give back to your country. Sadly, we are one of a few families that understand this concept and hopefully I hope to become a prime mover in my time.

In my country, the apex of the pyramid describing the social classes is excruciatingly sharp. It is so sharp, in fact, that I am sure Heaven will get pierced if ever it sits down to rest. Those who have the power to change systems, do nothing to help my people. In fact, their creativity seems to do no more than develop ingenious ways to further the bleeding of my country-men, sucking on it like a dry bone.

Our local entertainment industry is nothing but a farce, used only to generate more income for those and by those who are already on top. They exalt stupidity so that the poor of today will not think and not see the better life which heroes have paid for with their deaths in the past. Rizal was right when he saw the inhumanity employed by the Spaniards when they kept us ‘indios’ by reserving education only for those who could afford it, and he acted upon it. What Rizal failed to prepare for is the inhumanity that we Filipinos will commit to ourselves, making stupidity an ‘in’ thing by use of the most prevalent means of communication, the television. But who could have prepared for such a tragedy? These imbeciles do not see that by allowing their programs to be seen in our homes, we show our trust in their convictions. Unknowingly, we allow them to pollute our children and corrupt the next and coming generations.

While movies like ‘Enteng Kabisote’ and television programs like ‘Battle of the Brainless’ promote stupidity, noon time shows like ‘Eat Bulaga’, ‘Wowowee’ and many others inculcate a sense of luck instead of hard-work in our youth. Most-painfully our prime time news shows are dominated by tabloid programs that further deepen the stupor of my fellow Filipinos (showing nothing but sensationalized news, of rape and rumbles that are nothing new and therefore not news). The networks and their advocates insist that the reason the entertainment industry is the way it is in our country is because that that is what Filipinos want. But let me ask, when our children is fond of candies and other sweets, do we give them candies and sweets for dinner? No! ‘Lest we want them to live unhealthy, unfulfilled lives.

The stupid keep themselves stupid because they are stupid. The intelligent keep the stupid stupid because they are evil. They will fall. The wise help the stupid become wise because they are wise. They will rise!