Rational Insanity
The OC
Wait! This is not about the highly acclaimed TV series on Star World, but it definitely comes close to it.
Me and my friends have a running joke amongst ourselves.Every time anyone of us does something to the extremes we call that friend an OC or an obsessive compulsive.Yes, being a graduate of an allied medical course, which fortunately, has intensive focus on neurology and psychiatry, I definitely know that an obsessive compulsive is someone who is mentally unstable and could snap anytime leading to first stage psychosis.That isn't what we are referring to by the way, because if that is what we mean we might all be clients of Iloilo Provincial Hospital in Pototan by now.We simply find reason to call ourselves OCs, wala lang, just for the heck of it.So, if you would want to jump into our long running joke, here are ten things we usually see our friends doing that deserve them being called obsessive compulsive - OC ka dong!
1. When Marcel goes ballistic when he looks into the sugar bowl every time he orders coffee and finds little specks of white sugar mixed into the brown sugar (he always uses brown sugar in his coffee, by the way).OC ka dong!
2. When I sit in front of the PC for several hours classifying and reclassifying my MP3 collection into different folders and then finally realize it's four o' clock in the morning!OC ka to!
3. When a friend of ours tries to gloss over sticker paper with a four-inch roll of plastic transparent tape.OC ka Che!!!
4. When I spend hours in an internet cafe trying to download different versions of a single song.
5. When I go about painstakingly editing the properties of each of the songs in my MP3 collection (mind you, there are thousands), meticulously changing the file names so that it corresponds with the song title, typing an entry in the 'artist' and 'album' spaces when all these songs will play perfectly anyway even without the editing.
6. When Marcel tries to cut the frayed edges off my distressed shorts so that they are all equal in length looking like a perfectly cut bang.
7. I have six kinds of lip balm in my bag, but I use only one - OC ka gid ya doy!
8. When Dember combs his hair and ruffles it again, then combs it again, and repeats the process until he gets what he wants!
9. When a friend spends precious minutes staring at stacks of clothes, picks some, wears some, picks more, wears more, then ends up wearing the first one he/she tried on.
10. When I write a full column then I highlight everything and hit the 'delete' button then write the entire column again - the exact same topic.Then I realize - ka OC sa akun!
So, how about you? OC ka man?Have you ever tried figuring out what is in a particular dish by smelling and tasting it?OC ka man, most probably!
Be rational; be insane! every once in a while!!!TTFN!Happy New Year Everyone!
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