BABEL TOWER'S CONFUSIONS

BABEL TOWER'S CONFUSION

One day in Paradise while Adam was busy naming the animals, Eve suddenly inquired: “Why did you call that one hippopotamus?” Adam quickly replied: “Because in every way it looks like a hippopotamus, don’t you see?”

Since then aside from animals, things and all that they saw around were given names. There was a term for everything. People learned to understand one another but up to now the hippopotamus is still called as such but the new technology and the new generation are forcing the terms to be very confusing.

It seems as if both the new technology and the new generation are so mad at those who lived earlier like the senior citizens that even those considered intellectuals are suddenly considered illiterate. I was somehow hurt when my son told me I was computer illiterate.

Of course I was and who senior citizen won’t be illiterate? He told me to see the Menu, so I thought he wanted to eat as it was only in eating places where I saw Menus. He laughed as if I was the funniest joke.

Hardware to me was the corner store for construction materials and I thought software referred to plastic wares. I used to prescribe drugs during my halcyon days but now drugs are confiscated and people using drugs are imprisoned. I realized a bit too late that drugs now mean another thing and are always associated with addicts.
While my mother used pot for cooking, now they have pot sessions without my old mother’s soothed pot.

PC to me was Philippines Constabulary but they borrowed it to own a Personal Computer. So, fluffy disc, flash disc and other discs are not discs after all.

There used to be a time when OK meant all right and all right meant correct. This day ask a boy who failed the exams how he feels and will proudly say “OK lang”. Ask a girl left by his boyfriend how she is and with bright smile she will respond “Ok lang”. So OK now means it is all right t o fail or it is correct to be abandoned.

It was not too long ago when only women wear earrings but now take a good look at our young men. They decorate not only their ears but also their noses and their tongues. Never mind the maze of tattoos all over their bodies.

Rock then describes a kind of stone, not the kind of “noisy music” we now have. Trip then was when we go outing, unlike now when it means drugging.
This time a good father could be lecturing to a son about entering a relationship while the son is already bragging coming out again from his latest relationship simply because they didn’t like the same soup or the same drink.

I wonder what else are coming to town other than Santa Clause. There are already too many beauty creams and hair shampoos to make women beautiful. Every popular star is endorsing her favorite. Plastic surgeons are left and right but wrinkles are still common and so are forcibly stretched skin making the “lady” look like a wax statuette with a permanent smile. Boobs are now like inverted buttocks planted on a woman’s chest… and they are proud of them or else they won’t keep on protruding them more and more

Drug supplements are all over all kinds of counters and shelves claiming no approved therapeutic use, yet, they sell like hotcakes. Giant Tarpaulins are exhibiting so many exhibitionists endorsing this and that along highways and avenues and ‘callejons’. I first thought that Tarpaulin was a pretty girl’s name.

Cremation is not only ordinary practice now for ashes are now converted to pendants and other forms of jewelries to be divided among the heirs of the diseased.
Cancer is fast becoming a status symbol, so much so that everybody who is somebody has a diagnosed cancer in some parts of the body and who cares about the cost of treatment? While anybody who is nobody died of malnutrition if not victim of calamities after selling their organs for transplantation to the rich and famous.

If you are old and well-to-do you will soon be afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease because they cannot afford to be “uliyanin” or be back to their childhood.
Worst of all the new cell phone lingo and text grammar could be a modern Tower of Babel confusing language that will eventually break nations when different nationals can no longer LOL or ROFL coz dey smply cnt w8t a bit l8tr or hv 4g10 to say muwah n BTW I wl TTYL-