Homebound

I have 2 hours at most before departure. I've gone around terminal 2, thrice and filled my eyes with the designer labels and goods. Some of them are on sale but as usual, they only put the old stock on sale. Even though the prices look cheap, I'd still find myself gasping whenever I convert them to pesos.

I couldn't find my sister's magazines [except for Teens] and bought myself a new Charles and Keith strappies [sale! sale!]. It's cheaper here than in ATC and they have new models. I also indulged myself to a book, The Templar Legacy. It seems that our religion is certainly a hot topic right now. With the movie, The Da Vinci Code [but I honestly think Angels and Demons would have been a better thriller] and Dan Brown's court case against the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Roman Catholicism is now popular worldwide~ and I'm not referring to the number of devotees. The Vatican is now on spotlight.

Lots of documentaries have appeared on TV, NatGeo shows the Gospel of Judas, a very controversial document that defies our notion of history and Christianity's most hated character. You might want to keep an open mind on that theory. After all, I learned in my class in Philosophy of Religion that the Other, the Absolute Infinite is something that is uncanny, incomprehensible and can never be fully grasped by the finite human being. But despite that limitation, we still have that ontological thirst for the unknown, for the truth [whatever the truth is for us]. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. Who knows.

The Templar Knights are also becoming a hot item. With their appearance and sudden wealth during the crusades, they have become an icon related to the Holy Grail, another controversial item, which is seen in the latter parts of Arthurian Legends.

Jesus was married? Jesus married a prostitute? Jesus had an existing bloodline? All the while I thought the Merovingian was Neo's enemy [The Matrix: Reloaded].

All these things are making the people crave for more controversies, more conspiracies... all the while ignoring [subconsciously] things that matter most. By the end of 2010, most of Greenland's polar caps would have melted, making Polar Bears more endangered because of their diminishing habitat. Cities below sea level will be gone... the Danube River had started to overflow, submerging nearby European cities.

Our own climate's going bonkers. Summers are now filled with rainshowers and thunderstorms. I heard a typhoon is approaching the PAR [Phil. Area of Responsibility] in a few days. Mother nature is going haywire.

Oil prices are expected to rise to $100/barrel by the end of this year. Fuel-cell vehicles and hybrid cars are now entering the market.

And here I am, unemployed and exhausted from walking across the terminal. I'm smelling the espresso and chicken and Haagen Dazs... all mine for the taking. No diet for today! I'm making the best of this trip!