This week, I had myself stuck at home, thanks to a tropical depression. During tumultuous times like these, I always feel like a kid--under mom's supervision and spending hazy afternoons with my three kid brothers We all spend quality time (where's the quality control team now?!) under one freaking roof. If you're thinking that my brothers are the typical computer-addict, violence-loving kids, well, they are--only worse.
They have upgraded their "annoying techniques" over the past few years. I am not complaining. My brothers and me share a number of common TV veiwing habits (and not to mention, a number of TV programs as well. ) We all eat infront of the tube, we all practice karate on each other in hot pursuit for the remote control and we reduce each other to destruction in making excuses not to answer the god damn phone (which is usually for my mom...) when we're watching TV. They regard the tube as something sacred--nobody even talks infront of it!
You see, there are only two things my brothers don't watch--news and the Miracle channel. Other than these mentioned, they love watching TV, even if sometimes they are just pretending to watch ( a perfect pretending-to-be-busy tactic which is almost always effective in averting household chores.) They love animes (Fruits Basket is my favorite!), Cartoon Network ( i watch Mucha Lucha and Billy&Mandy's Grim Reaper Adventures), WWF and WWE ( i just love watching women's wrestling..), telenovelas (they love mulawin and don't expect me to rave on this one..i hate series or anything that requires guessing and patience..) and commercials. Yup! They love spending time watching TV commercials and banter on which commercial is cheezy, or which one they can imitate. IF there is an endorser who's fat (especially a fat kid!) my two younger brothers will memorize the line,place these lines in their stack knowledge list in hope that they can someday use it to offend my youngest brother who is (you guessed it right!) PORKY. I just love my brothers!
And just as the flexible viewer that I am, I can also watch TV with mom. Well, I watch news, but not on a regular basis. Every time we watch news together, she makes it a point to orient me of the news updates so that I can comprehend the data better. Mama watches news compulsively--it's her telenovela. If it's 6 pm, you can see my 3 brothers storming out of the living room and shutting theirselves in their rooms. Actually, this is the perfect time to pray--if not for the very purpose why you're in the living room--to watch. You can expect our living room to be safe and sound once the news is on. I just love staying at home when there's a storm. But then, does it take a tropical depression to realize that your family's the best company there is?
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Note: The author was rummaging through her electronic files from the previous years. She found this and another article. ("Know Better")
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