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my friends tell me that i have a weird sense of humor.  i won’t even attempt to deny it because it is one of the many things that make me like myself better (don’t get me wrong, i went through an episode of self-loathing before i truly became comfortable with myself!).  i will be the first one to admit that i am not a very smiling person, or as what my brother mildly put it, i have an expression that is perpetually "galit-sa-mundo."  despite that look, i laugh easily, and because of my ability to find humor in simple things, i have preserved my sanity all these years.  there have been countless times when my humor bailed me out of situations that would have caused my self-destruction.  take for instance last week.  i had not been very lonely like that in years.  i can’t really explain it, but my heart was so heavy, and it would have been very easy to wallow in self-pity or to succumb to the temptation of choking myself with heaven knows how many quarter-pounders. i was saved yet again by laughter and it didn’t take me long to rebound.  here are the things that almost made me roll in laughter - literally, if i hadn’t been too conscious of looking like a possessed boar in its pigsty.

1. the one with the torch song.  whenever i’m sad, i have this habit of playing melodramatic songs.  last thursday, i decided to listen to "a certain sadness" to achieve a full dramatic effect; however, i didn’t get that effect i was aiming for.  imagine this: i was staring into space, heart so heavy, when i played the torch song.  the intro of the song went

         look at the window at the rainstorm

         i let the wind blew up a brainstorm

        and now i’m wondering whether

       weather like this gets you too

i was about to emote when as if on cue, it actually started to drizzle.  i couldn’t help laughing and telling the supreme being, "give me a break!"  what can i say?  it was just so, so, so, so…cliche.

2.  the one with the public service announcement.  friday morning, i watched the news.  before the start of a new segment, there was a "panawagan."  normally, i would be very sympathetic to the plight of the person doing the panawagan, but last friday was a different case.  and i blame it all to the reporter.

in her very rehearsed spiel, the reporter said this:

nanawagan po kami sa mga nakakita kay baby june (not the name given in the show).  nawala po siya sa isang ospital kung saan ipinakunsulta ng kanyang mga magulang ang kanyang nakababatang kapatid. bulag ang kanyang mga magulang.  pauwi na sana ang mag-anak nang hindi na makita  ng kanyang mga magulang si baby june.

3.  the one with the call center agent.  i laughed so hard when my brother told me this story about his friend who worked in a call center in bacolod.  according to my brother, his friend has had it with verbally abusive clients who do not mince expletives on the phone.  one time, his friend received a call from a very irate american who punctuated his sentences with all the forms of the word "fuck."  agitated, the hapless call center agent cried, "will you please stop fucking me?"