Recovered Docs

My blog has inspired me to tinker with my old files, and lo and behold! I have found some treasures which could otherwise have been left to eat some space in my CPU. Now, I have the reason to paste them in my site. Some are poems – mushy, angst, anything I could think of. Funny my wife was filled with envy trying to interrogate me who was my object of my affection in one of my mushy poems. When I answered none – the poem just came to my mind like a flash of lightning cutting the darkness – she won’t believe it. Good heavens that after a thousand and one words and seven objections, she relented to my thesis – which is honestly the truth. Another one is a reaction from a YOU article on Barbie, me being a big fun of her. Long before Kitchie Nadal stole the fancy of the youth there was – and still is – Barbie making magic through her music. I have other treasures – some of which were penned in scraps of paper which I will try to input to this site. I just need some time to collate them all. These will be my first contributions, as my work has been eating most of my creativity – and time – so as to enable me write a thing as great as Catcher in the Rye, or God of Small Things perhaps – hey, we both have “Roy” in our name so it must be (il)logical that I also have to write one as well. On weekends, I can’t resist the idea of playing maj-hong – my escape to reality and the leveler of things. At least in maj-hong, I find myself in total command as to what decision I have to make. Talk about power, or the lack of it. But my vow is to tinker with status quo, a confessed non-conformist that I am and make contributing to this site my first priority. So hopefully I get inspired and words will get naturally out of mouth – or computer – to tell stories, lambaste poor quality of works, expressed sensitivities through my poetry, do reviews, play critique and stop being a bystander! Pete Lacaba once said – it is not possible not to get involved, to be a spectator forever ( I still remember my UP days, how the exuberance in youth in me has become anachronistic in my corporate jungle!, but this is another story). So these recovered docs will measure my (lack of) creativity in 5 years of my drab existence here, plus my vow to raise my kid and wife to their standards (their standards and society’s I guess are not that distinguishable). I remember Jim Carrey said in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that his life is not that interesting – work, home, work. I hope this site douse warmth, not wrath, to the cold water!