Godparenting: an education insurance policy

There should be an intervening law on making a person your godfather or god mother..

I’ve experienced having a godfather that doesn’t acknowledge my prescence whenever my father drags me to one of their family gatherings.  As sensitive  human being, I read his body language as a sign of unwantedness.

Unconsentedly having 5 godchildren, I understand the 58-year-old man. I too, don’t like to have a responsiblity that I am not even prepared for.

Filipinos, as close-knit people as they are, give to each other.  This applies to  shedding money during christmas to buy gifts for their godchildren, and escalates to taking responsibility for the tuition fees of the child in some cases.

It depends on the relatives, but ours are not necessarily the conscientuous and thoughtful types. It is an added burden when your relatives think of you as a bank.

Two years after graduating from college, I landed two reputable jobs consecutively. One, was from radio, the next, was a writing gig for a big UK company. But as my career started to grow, so did my godchild count.

Four months ago, our distant relative announced that she has already listed me as the main godparent of his sister’s new-born son… What the hell? I didn’t even get to see the mother of the child.

Soon, another was added to the list when my pregnant cousin announced that I was going to be her baby’s godparent.

I’m getting the feeling that my relatives have a hidden agenda behind making me their child’s god mother.

CONSENT.

My experience often lacks this. I don’t know about other people, but I don’t want to take on a responsibility out of “kaikog”,

I have a number of cebuano culture woes, and this is part of it.

Filipinos in general, take pride in the people they choose to become their godparents… I understand this, but what about the other party? do the ones taking responsibility have a say on this?

An interesting story

I have this crazy Idea:

Bagani, of the Amaya show on GMA, had turned to become a viscious killer, from a merciful and kind heir to the throne.  But what if he had an open-minded confidant, (which could be me) that came from the 21st century, who will teach him the modern lessons of emotion-management and self growth, garnered from the ideas of self-improvement doctors, like Dr. Phil? Will he regret to have become a killer? Will he start questioning the rules of his kingdom? and will the confidant, be a threat to his kingdom, once he or she empowers each slave to have the right to his or her life??? I think that would be an interesting point… and audiences will learn as well.

Sun Commercial (or any internet provider) Idea

Slow internet connection film idea

INT. COMPUTER ROOM. MIDNIGHT

Girl/Guy working inside his haunted computer room.  He wears his headphones enjoying the tune of his favorite music on youtube which is already almost at the end.  After his music stops, he returns to his word document and starts typing.

He then starts hearing weird noises.  He stops for a moment, and continues. But after a few moments, the noise starts again.  He starts to panic and frantically points the cursor to the website tab and clicks on his last visited youtube site.

His internet connection is slow.

FLASH : Connecting … (IP address)

Transferring….

His/Her panic heightens. Hand on mouse shaking.

Finally the youtube site starts to load…but still needed to buff.

Then Copy phrase.

Rebecca Mclanahan’s Word Painting

I’d like to refer a quote I just read from a really good book by Rebecca Maclanahan

p. 400

” …Because she is looking with wonder, expectantly, the view expands to fill her growing eye. Puget Sound moves out of the realm of common sense and into the realm of the imagination. It’s as if the writer is shining a flashlight from the inside of her subject, illuminating its inner workings”

If you read a book that talks about the workings of your imagination, recalling those moments where I see art, and I see something out of it, or an ordinary object that comes alive and given more meaning, it makes the world a whole lot sensible and makes you understand and learn more about your true imaginative and artistic nature.

p.445

“Unquestioned beauty can easily become boring.  It is the flawed subject that we are most likely to remember”

p.446