Obstreperous George

I will never understand why my neighbors named her "George." 

Not because George is a masculine name, but because she doesn't look like a George at all. Not by a long shot.

In my mind, "George" is either Brendan Fraser's George of the Jungle... 

George of the Jungle and Friend

Does this really need a caption?

Or George Romero, the director who popularized the Zombie genre in Hollywood and gave rise (lol) to several copycat movies and some improved versions on the genre, as in games that became movies or vice-versa. One good example would be the Resident Evil franchise.

She, on the other hand, neither looks like Brendan Fraser mugging it out with a gorilla, nor a rotting, putrid corpse.

In fact, she's so cute and lovable. I see her kin plastered all over the Net and people go "oooh" and "aaah" or "loool!" at them.

But George, this George, just makes me smile... 

This George looks more like a Melinda.

And makes me think of how God must really love cats, because they were made so terribly cute. Especially this one.

No matter that she caterwauls at night... or runs on corrugated rooftops during the daytime, raising a racket...

Being her raw, obstreperous self, totally oblivious that one of her masters' neighbors  (me) has mysteriously gotten over his initial annoyance with her...

And is slowly falling in love with her cuteness.

 

Mishmash

My friend, Edward (he of the "stanza! not paragraph!" fame) had a heart-to-heart talk with me yesterday (if such things actually happen between guys. I think describing it as "heart-to-heart" is about as accurate as saying that an elephant would look good in pink ballet shoes. Anyway...)

He told me that he had just read my blog. This blog.

I said whatever for?

He said because Albert's wife (Albert works with me, and he and his wife are mutual friends of ours) had come across this blog and told her husband, who told Edward.

I said, and...?

And he said, "David, you suck."

I didn't know whether he meant it as a compliment or not. See, Albert is an American, he grew up in California. That should be enough to give you an idea why I was having misgivings about how to interpret his comment. 

Still, I was curious, so I asked him pointblank.

"By suck, do you mean I am awful, or just an awfully inferior blogger?"

"There's a difference?"

"Well, yes. The first definition disparages me. The second, my writing style."

He shook his head violently. So violently that I thought it would fall off.

"Neither! Are you crazy? Why would I insult you or the way you write? You're one of my closest, dearest friends!"

"Oh-kay..."

"It's just that, there's no rhyme or reason to what you write in your blog! It's just a mishmash of this and that! You have no theme!"

Theme?

"Don't you know that the most successful bloggers write for a particular niche, have a specific theme? That's what I read on the Net!"

Nope, obviously I didn't know. But then again, what would be the point of having a theme of my own?

"You could make money with your blog, you fool! You could put ads on it and so on and so forth! But you would only make money if your blog were popular! And the way you write about just any blasted thing you think of, well..."

I opened my laptop and went to my blog. This blog.

Then I pointed to the very top, directly at where it says "Opinions by David Garcia" and asked Edward to read it with me. Word for word. 

David Garcia, that's me, and these are my opinions on anything that grabs my attention and motivates me to write. Technology is primarily what I'm into. Being in places such as Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Rome is what keeps me sane and happy.

I asked him what part of "these are my opinions on anything that grabs my attention and motivates me to write" did he not understand.

Edward stared at me for a good minute or so, then gave me a lopsided grin, yawned and stretched and asked me to go out with him for a couple of beers or maybe four.

So, there, Edward. 

Now that you have been mentioned twice already in my blog, you are now immortalized and part of this lovely mishmash.

Serves you right. hahahaha

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