so, what have i been up to these past few days? i just finished reading the Da Vinci code. superb thriller. i couldn't put the book down. i even had to hold my pee many times so as not to disrupt the momentum.
FPJ was finally laid to his final rest. watching the tv coverage would certainly tug at one's heartstrings. he was a good man, no doubt. that's why i felt bad last sunday, when our pastor included FPJ in his sermon. it was just a passing comment, but insensitive nonetheless.
"sino bang makakamiss kay FPJ? Ako hindi...."
my reply to that: 3 million people (who attended his wake) lang naman. ok, some of them maybe would just like to be seen in television and 'nakikisawsaw' lang, but you also have to take into account the people in their respective provinces in every nook of this archipelago who didn't have the means to attend the wake of their idol.
maybe pastor just forgot about the maxim 'kung wala kang masabing mabuti, mag shut up ka na lang'..modified by me of course.
no, i didn't become an FPJ fanatic/loyalist overnight. my friends could attest that i am one of those against him running for, and most especially winning, the presidential race. and i am one of those who kept one eye (yeah even both eyes) closed as GMA blatantly cheated to win the elections.
maybe i deem him not fit to lead this country politically. but heck, he already found his niche in this country. he was 'Da King' of the Philippine movie industry, no less. i respect him for that. and again i say, he was a good man. and i respect him for that even more.
now back to my pastor. maybe just a teeny bit of respect for the deceased actor would have made my pastor not say what he said. i still couldn't understand why other people still had to belittle FPJ even now that he's already dead. why wouldn't they just let him rest in peace?
in fairness to my pastor, he acknowledged that FPJ had helped people (and i say MANY, MANY PEOPLE) in his lifetime. what pastor is trying to say is that in the end, it is what God has to say that would matter, not what mere mortals like us have to say. fine. but still, i hope he hadn't placed FPJ in bad light just to deliver his point.
FPJ was finally laid to his final rest. watching the tv coverage would certainly tug at one's heartstrings. he was a good man, no doubt. that's why i felt bad last sunday, when our pastor included FPJ in his sermon. it was just a passing comment, but insensitive nonetheless.
"sino bang makakamiss kay FPJ? Ako hindi...."
my reply to that: 3 million people (who attended his wake) lang naman. ok, some of them maybe would just like to be seen in television and 'nakikisawsaw' lang, but you also have to take into account the people in their respective provinces in every nook of this archipelago who didn't have the means to attend the wake of their idol.
maybe pastor just forgot about the maxim 'kung wala kang masabing mabuti, mag shut up ka na lang'..modified by me of course.
no, i didn't become an FPJ fanatic/loyalist overnight. my friends could attest that i am one of those against him running for, and most especially winning, the presidential race. and i am one of those who kept one eye (yeah even both eyes) closed as GMA blatantly cheated to win the elections.
maybe i deem him not fit to lead this country politically. but heck, he already found his niche in this country. he was 'Da King' of the Philippine movie industry, no less. i respect him for that. and again i say, he was a good man. and i respect him for that even more.
now back to my pastor. maybe just a teeny bit of respect for the deceased actor would have made my pastor not say what he said. i still couldn't understand why other people still had to belittle FPJ even now that he's already dead. why wouldn't they just let him rest in peace?
in fairness to my pastor, he acknowledged that FPJ had helped people (and i say MANY, MANY PEOPLE) in his lifetime. what pastor is trying to say is that in the end, it is what God has to say that would matter, not what mere mortals like us have to say. fine. but still, i hope he hadn't placed FPJ in bad light just to deliver his point.
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