how did you wear your jammies when you were a kid?

when i was a kid, nobody taught me that i am supposed to shoot my poop in the toilet bowl not on the toilet sink. when i was a kid, nobody taught me the reality that my "bird" does not have wings for it to fly! when i was a kid, nobody taught me that tito sotto can never be as good in politics as he is in making himself so good farcically.

when i was a kid, i was taught that MC Hammer is the greatest icon there is in his genre. too legit! too legit!

when i was a kid, i saw huey helicopters flying above quezon city in what was the country's first bloody coup de etat and i was still prepared to go to school to play open the basket in our PE class. when i was a kid, i taught to sing bayan ko few years after marcos was overthrown and few years after the filipino people had erected a new formidable enemy of the state - themselves.

when i was a kid, nobody told me not to play with matches and old newspapers inside the stock room where the water heater is up and running. when i was a kid, i was not taught that charcoal is for charbroiling not for writing on my grandmother’s white walls. When I was a kid, nobody told me that when I am to commit a wrong so grave to merit some scolding from my father, I should not leave traces of evidence to escape prosecution; and I was not taught that writing my name on a clean and white wall of lola loleng was the most stupid evidence I have left on my crime scene.

When I was a kid, I was taught to dream…

Don’t wake me up yet….zzzzzzzzzz