Velez: Random lists on Lockdown week #6

Velez: Random lists on Lockdown week #6

BECAUSE making lists of favorite stuff has been our way of coping through this lockdown, which is now extended, here’s a list I’m sharing to you, readers.

The movie that describes our situation: Groundhog Day, a 1992 hit comedy about a weather reporter who wakes up to the same day and can’t move on to the next day. As he feels spooked living the same day he even tries killing himself, but he still wakes up on the same bed and the same day. His resolution was to learn the lessons and the sad news and tries to correct every one of them until finally, he wakes up...

I hope we wake up learning a lot about how the world is changing because we did not take care of the Earth. We need to right things to move forward.

Music for coping: Jazz and soul is soothing at any time of the day. Suzanne Vega. Paul Weller.

Movies through the pandemic: Mission Impossible series, because we love saving the world from evil and virus with far-out tech, stunts, and Ilsa Fisher’s leglock! Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with a touching story of Russian Jewish peasants learning beyond tradition and defending their dignity amidst a war. Contagion is a must-watch, it scares you because it’s accurate.

On Cluster Wars, what’s your choice? We say cluster 1 wins because it’s the Poblacion and all the malls and hospitals are there. But cluster 5 has the farms and the fresh air, but subdivisions are expanding there. Clustering exposes the unequal development in the city. Did someone say Life is Here? How tough is it lately? ChickenJoy won’t feed us, really.

Things you can live without: TV, even Facebook for most parts. We can connect in some other way.

Book you’re reading: The Best of Granta Travel, journals by writers and journalists.

The country that you like: Taiwan, Vietnam and New Zealand have fought the virus well. Cuba helping 58 countries, it’s the real-life Wakanda, sending doctors with their secret medicine.

News that gets you down: A frontliner dying. Frontliner getting fined for what? People getting arrested. Shouldn’t police be giving people face mask or help send food to the poor? The president’s weekly talks that get worrisome week by week. Threats of arrests, no funds for social amelioration. Then there’s martial law. Isn’t the virus and bureaucracy our enemies?

News that inspires: People sharing for the needy and the frontliners. Frontliners recovering from Covid-19. Articles on how to move on with the new normal.

Words to live by: From UP Chancellor Mike Tan: “The virus isn’t smart, but it’s winning because people can be dumb, or dumbed down.”

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