Huggybear's Stories
June 7-13 Edition
April 16, 2014
Wednesday
Dream Journal
I gazed up. I was standing under a complex geometrical
structure that looked like a Lego train set. The sky above it was gray and it
was getting dark. The hive-like thing was being built by my foster father who
had died in my waking life almost five years ago. It's supposed to be a series
of living quarters like condominium units connected by roller coaster walkways.
I warned him it's dangerous because
a strong earthquake is about to hit. I also pointed out to him that the exposed
floors of these hanging rooms were made of thin wood. I sensed that the workers
doesn't care about the stability. I knew it was doomed to collapse. I even
acknowledged, in that dream state, how solid and reliable my intuition is. Even more significant, I wasn't afraid of the
coming earthquake because I even declared what I've always known in my waking
life: that no harm would ever come to me.
Suddenly there was a commotion.
I began to sense people coming out
of the gathering darkness. They were in a panic. A bat-like creature was at one
of the steel beams overhead. I chased the vampire without hesitation. I
remember I was glad because I could practice my parkour skills which is my
newest sport. I leaped up using the railings. The people were shouting that the
vampire was about to fly away. As I felt I was about to teleport to a different
scene, the ground started to shake.
April 13, 2014
Sunday
This is my text to my friend CB
I thank you, my esteemed friend, for the book you gave last
Friday night. I like historical mysteries, having lived for untold centuries
through perhaps of thousands of lives. I have to admit though, for honor
compels honesty, that my interest in romantic fiction needs polishing like a
sword buried in a ruined cathedral.
I was therefore surprised and
gratified that one of the principle protagonists, apart from Alaïs, the
sister of King Philippe of France and at one time the betrothed of the
legendary Richard The Lion Heart, is Sir Owain of Caedwyd. "Tom," as
Anaïs fondly calls him, is one of the leaders of the Knights Templar. Here is a
man I deeply identify with, for reasons I share not with others, but which
resonates to the innermost depths of my being.
"Tom was a perfect king's
man," writes Judith Koll Healey. "Neither obsequious nor lacking in
respect, he simply stood, tall as a lance and just as quiet..."
I'm now in my present lodgings
after a good day. I was in the gym in the morning. I bought some needed items
from Gaisano Main in Colon District in the afternoon, grateful that the live telecast
of the championship fight between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley kept the
usual downtown crowd away. I passed a lot of people congregated around TV sets
in the streets and cheering their hearts out. It's part of this country's
culture to idealize the masses, with their simple wants and innocent pleasures.
Then you see that what is politically correct is but a hypocritical lip service
once you get to actually live in their midst.
I'm settling down for a quiet night
of reading and traveling back in time, hoping that a noisy and inconsiderate
neighbor will stay away. If there's one good thing about the Middle Ages, it's
that people know their place. Today the low-breeds have taken over with their
big speakers, transforming quiet neighborhoods into slum areas. One may find it
tempting to think that people in the past are less barbaric. That, to frame it
with elegance, is wishful thinking.
Judith Koll Healey's "The Canterbury Papers"
(Finished Reading April 15, 2014)
Sir Owain of Caedwyd: Huggybear
Princess Alaïs Capet of France: Gemma Arterton
Sir William of Caen: James McAvoy
Sir Roland: Daniel Radcliffe
Sir Francois: Skandar Keynes
Earl Graham of Chester: Robert Pattinson
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine: Judy Dench
Earl William Marshal: Anthony Hopkins
Abbess Charlotte of Fontrevault: Meryl Streep
King Philippe of France: Joseph Gordon Levitt
King John of England: Jim Sturgess
Queen Isabelle of England: Anne Hathaway
Duke Roberts of Orleans: Jeremy Irons
Brother Dermott of Canterbury: David Strathairn
Sir Étienne: Ron Pearlman
Sir Robert of Warwick: Gerald Butler
Sir Richard Glanville: Paul Bettany
Sir Jacques Destriers: Julian Sands
Lady Petronella of Montjoie: Imelda Staunton
Master Averroës of Córdoba: Ben Kingsley
Father Alcuin of Canterbury: Patrick Stewart
Signeur Carlo of Lyons: Jim Broadbent
King Henry of Anjou: Ralph Fiennes
Eleanor of Aquitaine, who had
married Henry of Anjou after leaving Louis VII, has blackmailed Alaïs to go on
a dangerous quest to myth-laden Canterbury Abbey. Events have been set in
motion. There are unknown forces that will stop at nothing to prevent the
discovery of those mysterious documents, hidden where Thomas à Becket has been
murdered, that will destroy the Royal House of England. Once again I travel
back in time, in the Year of Our Lord 1200...
April 14, 2014
Monday
Spotlights beamed up the ground like airport runway markers.
A brilliant grand staircase appeared out of the darkness.
The Pirate Captain waltzed up like
a broadway musical star. At the top is his the most sought-after Pirate of The
Year Award, a trophy of a dagger across a skull.
The Captain was dancing with
Cutlass, the female pirate presenting the shining trophy like a game show master. In a flash, they were struggling with
the award. The Captain realized it was a
dream. He woke up with a start, and saw that a thief was running off with
Polly, his pet bird and the last remaining dodo in the world. The Captain
chased him up the fireplace chute. He struck his head through the roof, the chimney
on his head like a large hat.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
The roof gave in. He fell in a
bathtub. Under it, the floor splintered. The tub fell in the stairs. It began
to slide down, going faster. The tub toppled one of the giant stone monuments
from Easter Island in the landing. The large ro The large rock face rolled down
behind it, catching up fast.Charles Darwin was downstairs. He was shocked to
see the strange sight zooming towards him.
April 17, 2014
Thursday
I learned a very important lesson about money today. The
bank used by the company where I presently work is the unbelievably
bureaucratic HSBC Cebu. It's actually worse than BDO. I saw last night how a
couple of my coworkers got dismayed when they learned that HSBC will be offline
in the Lenten season, just when people need money the most because that's a
long legal holiday. That's Maundy Thursday today and Good Friday tomorrow and
the weekend. It means four days without available funds. They tried to withdraw
from the ATMs of other banks but they couldn't. It's a good thing they have
families.
I believe that our minds pull in
everything that happens to us. That's the Law of Attraction. Ironically, of all
people, it affected me too. I was supposed to withdraw yesterday because my
cash on hand was running low, but I put it off. What I couldn't fathom is why I
manifested this situation in my life. My thoughts must have filtered through
filtered through some deep-seated trauma that still lurks in the dark corners
of my psyche.
I was in one of my deepest periods
of contemplation during the last few hours of my shift earlier this morning.
What could have brought this on, I wondered. I realized that I've been too
dependent on my ATM. This stops right now. It wouldn't be my first time to be
broke alone in a big city. I'm happy that the possibility of going without
money didn't faze me. I still have enough loose change and groceries to tide me
over. I don't even actually need money because all the office canteens would be
closed anyway. If it comes to a critical point, then God will send angels in
the form of people and coincidences. He always does. I'm a stranger in a strange
land. But I'm never alone.
4 comments:
Pirate Captain: "Behind every captain, there's a crew. Sure, some of you are as ugly as a sea cucumber, some of you are closer to being a chair or coat rack than a pirate, and some of you are fish I've just dressed up in a hat..."
"Study history, study history," says Winston Churchill. "In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."
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I was in one of my deepest periods of contemplation...
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