I LIKE engaging the Filipino youth — making them think, reflect, and plan to succeed in real life.
I enjoy engaging the arrogant Filipino youth — bringing them to tears, breaking their kneecaps, bursting their bubbles.
Most of all, I enjoy it because I speak for the many who want them begging and crying, but couldn’t do a thing.
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I have no qualms fighting fire with my dragon fire.
I am not a government employee.
No one can sack me from a job.
So, I toast everyone on my path!
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Why should I spare them arrogant youth?
If people want to fight online, let them fight me.
I like serving people their just desserts.
Oh, and yeah, that’s how I earned the hashtag #PSNLangMalakas.
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Today, whatever I post on Facebook gets circulated.
Sometimes, I do shitposts.
But my shitposts are gold.
People laugh at them.
They make the day for some people.
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I often post in a series of threes.
I almost always limit myself to the minimum words that could fit in a colored background, some kind of a character/space limitation like Twitter.
It makes for a succinct post.
The writerly challenge is to put so much power in a few words.
And I enjoy doing that.
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Friends tell me I should collect these.
Well, sometimes I do collect them, and put them together in this column.
Because why not?
I mean, I do not waste ideas.
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And if they’re good enough for a Peter Solis Nery Facebook post, they’re good enough for a Peter Solis Nery newspaper column.
I rather enjoy writing in English.
Living in America, I just read, write, and edit faster that way.
But since my Facebook demographic changed (many Filipino teenagers fans instead of friends who are professionals), I have worked with Filipino, too.
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Because again, we have made our students so poor in English reading comprehension.
In any case, true wisdom and wit is not in the choice of the language, but in the spirit they were said and written.
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Here now are some of my (shit)posts on Facebook that I think should be collected.
For fun. For a laugh.
Nothing cerebral, nothing too intellectual that a fourteen year old could not understand.
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So, why am I sharing these to my column readers who are probably intellectuals and professionals?
Well, because this is one man’s engagement with our future generation, and most people don’t care about this lost generation (likely generations, plural)!
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And because I had fun composing these.
And you know my rule: If you don’t like it, just move on with your life!
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Comments sa webinars ko: “No-nonsense!” “Very straightforward.” Parang gulat sila. Bakit, senseless ba ang ibang webinars nila?
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Kahit pangit ka, don’t worry. May isa talagang nakalaan para sa iyo. ‘Yon lang, either di rin s’ya guapo o kaya siya’y bulag.
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In this order: teeth, grammar, conversation skills. Kung maganda lahat ng iyan sa inyo, puede n’yo na akong bastusin.
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Pinakayuck: Online basher na pangit ang mga ipin. Either sungki-sungki or naninilaw. Mag toothbrush kasi!
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Minsan, pinangarap ko ring maging “Bad Boy of Philippine Literature.” Dios mio! Natupad naman.
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‘Wag n’yo po akong inaidolize, naiinggit ang ibang writers! Ayokong mamatay sila sa inggit.
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You can pity yourself and cry, or you can look at the flowers and smile.
(Posted with photos of flowers from a New Jersey flower farm.)
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You run into me once and wound your ego, that’s an accident. You run into my sharp knife three times hoping to win, that’s stupidity.
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Magkakasungay ka rin, Gago. Pero sa ngayon, mas mahaba at matulis ang mga sungay ko! Arangkada ang gustong magpatusok.
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In the middle of arguing with ThePSN, you realized you look and sound stupid; you can’t win. What do you do? — You deactivate your account. (To be continued)/PN
