We don’t buy newspapers. Honestly. And even though I write for a newspaper. We read the news online. It saves trees. But, seriously, it’s because no one delivers papers door to door in our subdivision. Not even in the old subdivision where we used to live. If we want the newspaper, we have to go to the center of the town to get it. With the price of gasoline, that would jack up the price of newspaper by more than 500%. So we read the news from the online version of newspapers. It’s a better deal really. And we get to read international papers too.
There are times, however, when we have to buy newspaper. Not for the news but for one project or another. Like yesterday. Alex was finishing her art project, a mask cast from her own face, and the “hair” was shaped with twisted pieces of newspaper.
There’s the mask…
… there’s the “hair” that still had to be painted. The back part was still bald when I took that photo last night and Alex was twisting and taping pages of the Philippine Daily Inquirer that she would glue to the back of the head. At 7.00 p.m., the PDI was the only newspaper left on the street stands.
So, Alex called me into her room and asked me to cut each spread of newspaper into four pieces.
When Speedy peeped in, Alex complained that I wasn’t helping because I was reading instead of cutting. What can I say? I saw a recipe for Pork Hardinera so, naturally, I read it and saved the page so it wouldn’t become a strand of the mask’s hair. But that wasn’t the only thing that I read in yesterday’s issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. I saw the horoscope and my, my, my… I was glued to the page.
I asked Alex what her astrology sign was and she said, “Aquarius.” And I read her horoscope out loud:
Are you happy with the friends you have? Do you hang out with quality people? The best way to get friends is to be friendly!
Then we both burst out laughing. That’s horoscope? That was a prediction of what was supposed to transpire yesterday to people born between January 20 and February 18? Oh, okay, perhaps it was my definition of “horoscope” that’s all screwed. I checked my Mac’s dictionary.
a forecast of a person’s future, typically including a delineation of character and circumstances, based on the relative positions of the stars and planets at the time of that person’s birth.
• a short forecast for people born under a particular sign, esp. as published in a newspaper or magazine
Nope, my definition of horoscope wasn’t wrong. That was exactly how I understood horoscope — a forecast of a person’s future based on the relative positions of the stars and planets at the time of that person’s birth. And I wondered, the person who write the horoscope for the PDI gets paid to come up with forecasts of people’s future like “The best way to get friends is to be friendly!”? Wow, that’s easy money! And I thought horoscopes were written by people who actually know something about astrology.
Connie, that’s why they put horoscopes in the entertainment section, for laughs!
The mask looks interesting, how did Alex make it? Hope you could show us how it looked like when it’s done.
I’ll post more photos when she gets home later. Forgot to take photos after the hair was painted. Inantok na ako hehehehe
Sassy, it’s a beautiful mask. Your daughter is very creative. And how your daughter has grown!
She’s going to be an artist, Bayi.
She’s as tall as I am (she’s turning 15 in January) and ten times prettier and smarter than I was at that age hehehehe
LOL!!! So funny Con. And the mask is so galing. Napaka taLENted (stress on 2nd syllable) ni Alex.
Re “taLENted (stress on 2nd syllable)”
Baka ma-discover kang artista ha. You know naman, that’s how they pronounce it. lalalalala
i dont read horoscopes dahil either im a Leo or a Virgo aba eh kung magkaoposisyon yong sinasabi, alin ang paniniwalaan ko? but my Mother do read those and she kept the ones that really happened afterwards. however, I do remember maybe 10 years ago, meron doon sa mga tabloids yong horoscopes where you call the 1-800- number, aba merong akong kakilala na naadik sa katatawag, ayon libo ang binayaran niya sa PLDT
lcm, bakit Leo or Virgo?
Marami pa rin naniniwala sa horoscope. I know some people who don’t go out of the house without first reading their horoscope, then, they spend their day in accordance with whatever the prediction is.
eh kasi Agosto 23, iba iba minsan nasa hulihan ng Leo, minsan nasa unahan ng Virgo, I was watching Adobo Nation, meron na silang portion na merong mannnghuhula, talaga namang inaaliw tayo ng ABS-CBN
Dyan sila kumikita, sa kakasakay ng tao.
Alex’s mask is so beautiful! Parang pang party
Pang masquerade?
Cool mask! what a fun project.
But you have to be careful about using “saves trees” as an excuse for not reading the print version as newsprint is one of the few 100% recyclable materials and trees are one of the few truly self-regenerating resources, whereas most power comes from coal-fired power plants that dump tons of pollution into the air.