CATHastrophic Mediocrity

Trend and technology had taken a complete twirl of our lives - and even affect the most basic of us. As I was reading news on the Net lately, I came across the following interesting technology news item. For more tech-savvy updates, click here.

‘UNFRIEND’ - New Oxford American Word of the Year

On November 16, the New Oxford American Dictionary had named ‘unfriend’ as its new Word of the Year. It’s meaning is how you’ll expect it to be - "To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook". With the evident influence of technology,  even the dictionary makers are very much into creating buzz in social mediaby using tech-savvy terms. Other words considered were hashtag, sexting, freemium, paywall,netbook and et cetera. 

Christen Lindberg, a senior lexicographer for Oxford US Dictionary Program, says the term ‘unfriend‘ is easily adoptable as a modern verb form since in social networking, it’s meaning is easily understood. This makes the word interesting enough to be chosen as the 2009 Word of the Year.

Twitter, and Facebook had also received such treatment in Collins English Dictionary. Meriam Webster’s Dictionary had also topped the word ‘Blog’ way back 2004. 

Facebook Status frees Robbery Suspect

Charges to a 19-year old robbery suspect in New York was dismissed. He was arrested for 12 days after being suspected responsible of the October 17 robbery of two people in Brooklyn. 

He insisted he was not in Brooklyn at the time of the crime and then claimed he was in his father’s house in Manhattan. He used as an evidence the Facebook status update he posted using a computer in his father’s building. 

He was then dismissed of the charges.

I don’t need someone who wants a different ‘ME’

I need to be loved by someone for who I am.

Someone who knows how to embrace my lapses

To fill in the gaps of my imperfections.

Someone who looks forward to who I want to be..

Not to who he wants me to be.

I need someone who would forgive me,

Mistake after mistake..

And never ceases to see the true ‘ME’

I need someone who understands my silence

Silence that means beyond words can say

I don’t need someone giving lame promises of forever

I just need to be loved true while he’s still MINE

Someone who would tell me "I love you"

And really mean it..

I don’t need to be the most important,

I just want to be loved true.

This is the first ever short story I’ve written in my whole life. This was published in ROOTS - the official university folio of UIC. This was written at midnight when I was bored doing school stuff. hehehe.. Here goes…

Stranger in the Dark

(A Beginning to the Prologue, Part I)

The rain was falling heavily on my umbrella. I promised to be there by five in the afternoon. Whether I’ll get soaked or I’ll manage to keep dry, I just have to be there. You might be waiting for endless hours already. Our project is due tomorrow and we’ve got lots to finish before evening invades the light – or otherwise, I’ll let momma nag me for coming home late again.

You opened the door for me, and teased me for coming five minutes late. As you handed me a rag for my wet feet, I wondered what’s going on in your mind, behind those snickers and stares that seem to creep down into my soul. Before I could even take my seat in the edge of your bed, lights went out, and I had no choice but to wait until electricity comes back and we can do what I came for.

dancing in an intricate web of fantasies,,

 i do nothing but to survive the world of the unknown..

unknown sorrow, the savage of pain..

when darkness enveloped the very sense of me..

i try to struggle free from the suffocating thoughts..

and bury them six feet under the ground…

and soon a butterfly will soon emerge..

 a living glory of a rising phoenix..

with wings ready for flight..

priding itself in a high pedestal of power..

absolute reign over her destiny…