...uaap, sensitivity, and gremlins ...

ever watched a uaap game live? if not, you were like my aunt who never did. then when ust had a chance for a championship last year, she watched it from the first game against ue til the last game when we ate the eagles alive... and now, she watches it with much gusto, live or on tv..

what it will give you:
animation.my aunt shouts like hell now even if she's just watching on tv.

school spirit.the atmosphere around you makes you feel the whole school community is cheering for one concrete goal.and even if you don't know the cheers, you could always make a circle with your outstrectched arm and shout "go uste!"... every school has a cheer that's easy to remember.. "get that ball" "u-nibersidad ng pilipinas" "go la salle" "go fight tamaraws go fight" "go u-e go go u-e"... alright. you got me. not all schools. a cheer for nu & adamson escapes me...

stress relief.after a week's work with all the drama and frustrations, screaming your heart out should help easing out stress...

camaraderie.you don't always know people around your seat, but a winning basket on an exciting game would make you hug them or give them a high five as if you've been friends for a long time...

just some of the great things you experience in a game..

one of the bad things in uaap now? freakin sensitivity. its a f*ckin basketball game, not a free throw shooting contest... refs are turning games into one... a player doesn't go up to try to block a shot, rather just put his hands straight up. NORMALLY, that's not a foul, as long as that player is stationary and has hands straight up. BUT THEN, he gets called for a foul. star players get called for their 3rd fouls in just the 1st quarter, and that's not good because you're allowed only 5 fouls. the coach has to sit star player down until late in the 3rd quarter to avoid those fouls. games turn ugly once it becomes a free throw shooting contest... you lose the excitement, you lose the fast breaks, the steals, the dunks, the monster rebounds, everything you came to see...

hope they get younger, richer refs. younger to see better, richer so as they won't be bribed. dirty little f*ckers.

and finally, don't you notice, everytime it rains it gets more and more traffic? and later on you'd notice its not because there are so many cars, but rather because there are so many people waiting for rides that they occupy half of the road... and remember that people always tell you  jokingly "ingat sa ulan, baka dumami ka" referring to you as a "gremlin" which is a creature popularized by a movie with the same title back late 80's or early 90's...?

now, putting the two together, i could only end up with a single conclusion:



there are gremlins among us. and that's the reason why traffic is hell everytime it rains. people multiply.


God help us...help those who commute that they may be able to get home despite the number of gremlins around...