Yesterday, 30 June 2011, my subscriber identity module (SIM) card was damaged. Partly from old age, as the SIM has been with me for over 8 years, and partly from carelessness on my part. I requested a replacement from Globe Telecoms (yes, that gleaming beacon of efficient customer service and after-sales support), and they obliged with speedy and swift action (two hours waiting time, and the actual replacement only took about 5 minutes tops).

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Is it just me, or has the celebration of Independence Day lost footing and relevance to the current generation? Considering that this year is also Jose Rizal’s 150th Birth Anniversary? Has the significance of independence or even the idea/ concept of it been lost in the masses, whose short attention span is currently being hoarded by the amoral volleys between a self-righteous proselytizing church and the smear campaign exploits against a legitimately elected president? Have we fallen prey to indifference and other various follies perpetrated by an encroaching global mindset, or do we simply do not care for it anymore? That the idea of democracy and independence, sovereignty and vox populi have been implored, invoked, used, and abused to the point of utter desensitizing?

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The following conversation occurred today between 11:47 AM and 12:38 PM. The book being discussed is Alex Garland's The Coma, released back in 2005. He is the same author of the critically-acclaimed novel-turned-Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer-slash-social commentary, The Beach, and The Tesseract, a gen-x dystopic reality set in Manila that was written when he was a mere 28-year old.

Spamwise Crunchy: the coma was great :)

although there's a feeling of inadequacy after i've read it. a thirst that spells a hollowness in the

ending.

it could've been because i read it too fast, and that it didn't had enough time to really transport

me into its reality.

voyeuristic and panoptic.

like a roller-coaster ride, done already when you've just started the adrenaline salivating.

sorry, did that sound too much like a critique?

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