What's your favorite Joker's Line

I think this will be one of the most fun things I have ever posted in blogs.

If you haven't watched The Dark Knight then I recommend you watching it for it's artistic value. Heath Ledger delivered a whopping performance that will be hard to forget. I bet no one would think that the character he portrayed, Joker, Batman's arch-enemy, would be playing a bigger role in the movie. I personally feel that Joker upstaged Batman in this second Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan film.

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bOILing mad

Take a long hard look at this receipt I got before midnight. It may be the last time you will see oil this "low." By midnight tonight, this piece of thermal paper becomes a thing of the past. A dream, a souvenir, or worse - it's a work of fiction. The receipt says (in red box) Php54.570/liter and that's Php2.00 lower than the regular unleaded gasoline available in the market today. Why? It's Shell's Super Unleaded E10 or it's bio-ethanol version of unleaded gasoline. A really rare type of gasoline here in the Philippines. Whoopee... good for Filipino consumers. :)

The price of oil today compared to months earlier is high - really high . And the madness will not stop, not even nights toward weeks from now. Midnight is dread night in the Philippines and according to the radio media I heard this evening, the hardship of Filipinos across the globe will not stop. In fact, this is the 16th time the price of oil will go up. Oil prices will rise again by Php1.50 by midnight. That's about 39 minutes to the time I made this sentence of this blog entry. Signs of the times you say? It is. When will it stop? I don't know. It makes me think about the life my unborn child will live after he is born this year. Sigh. I wonder what the price of oil will be by the end of this year. Php65/liter? I dread that day. But who cares. I speak faith. I speak hope to what tomorrow may say otherwise. I don't pin my hopes on prices of oil. Yes, it's tough to live today compared to yesterday but why would I worry about tomorrow? Why would I worry on something I have no control of? It will be really silly of me to think about the future when the future can take care of itself. I guess, as men, we should battle daily on what will hinder our family's future. I'm thinking about what I can do today to take care of tomorrow. Hmmm...one option is to move back to my parents house to weather the effects of this crazy oil crisis. Should I push the panic button now? I should stand on my own as it should be a testimony to my children's life. Hmmm... I'll think about it but for sure what I should decide to do tomorrow should be able to honor God. Period.

Now, that I've said my gripe. It's now time to go back to work.

Simple, Money-Earning Contraptions in Malls

Whoever put up this contraption in the malls of SM is really smart. I've seen this "science project" in the United States back in the 90's inside theme parks. The idea is to see how fast coins you use for this experiment rolls down the convex-shaped-type of funnel. The answer? Who cares? I just think people are so entertained by this that they don't even know they've been had. Well, not really. You put in the coins and you're not forced to do it.

These things are placed in high traffic areas like cinemas and fastfood areas and the fun doesn't seem to stop for the people. The ones who are really entertained are the kids who are so intrigued by the cause and effect of coins rolling down in a spiral path and into the tube. It's amazing how something like this could earn you big money and the best thing about it is - it works!

Whoever thought about putting this money-earning thing in malls is a genius and I wonder how much they earn from this. For those of us who continue to put money in it - it's literally saying, "It's money down the drain."