Friday, November 25, 2005

Enlightenment

Finally got my hands on the 4-disc Infernal Affairs trilogy boxed set courtesy of my kumpareng balikbayan.

I've seen all three movies before (I own pirated DVDs of the two sequels) but now I can finally understand what the hell they're saying in the first movie. Infernal Affairs 1 I saw a couple of times in the Japanese Wowow channel without english subtitles. Hopefully, the characters' dialogues in the film will be way better than the, uh, dialogue that ran through my mind while watching the un-translated version. Certainly, it'll be less retarded than my dialogue.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Natural Selection at Work

Found this in Noel Vera's blog:

"After I asked the nurse to leave us, the patient permitted me to remove his trousers, shorts, and two or three yards of foul-smelling, stained gauze wrapped about his scrotum, which was swollen to twice the size of a grapefruit and extremely tender. A jagged zig-zag laceration, oozing pus and blood, extended down the left scrotum.

Amid the matted hair, edematous skin, and various exudates, I saw some half-buried dark linear objects and asked the patient what they were. Several days earlier, he replied, he had injured himself in the machine shop where he worked, and had closed the laceration himself with a heavy-duty stapling gun. The dark objects were one-inch staples of the type used in putting up wallboard...

An unmarried loner, he usually didn't leave the machine shop at lunchtime with his co-workers. Finding himself alone, he had begun the regular practice of masturbating by holding his penis against the canvas drive-belt of a large floor-based piece of running machinery. One day, as he approached orgasm, he lost his concentration and leaned too close to the belt. When his scrotum suddenly became caught between the pulley-wheel and the drive-belt, he was thrown into the air and landed a few feet away. Unaware that he had lost his left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound closed and resumed work.

I can only assume he abandoned this method of self-gratification."