Dark Fuss

Have you ever tried waking up and feels like it is part (still) of a dream? Waking up thinking that you are not yet supposed to wake up? Opening your eyes and the darkness embraces you and the surrounding feels so angrily cold? There is a certain force scattering above you and you feel the need for warmth. Crazy the words used. It’s just waking up in the morning knowing you are awakened with the loud rainfall and the swashing of the typhoon wind and most fussing part–brownout .

The day started fine, waking up early as 7am just to find out that the supposed-to-be plan is canceled due to strong typhoon signal. Before I knew it, I am back to bed having penetrated the REM process. When my sleep is disturbed by the unusual coldness, my body felt so heavy and my eyes hated the fact that I’m using them. Looking at my cellphone to ask for the time, it ticks 2:00pm. So I decided to rouse and tried to live a normal life. Haha.

People are getting more and more wearisome of the unwanted phenomena called–brownout. You will not just see the sudden dismay but hear it as well after a sudden dim out of power current. More agitated if it happens during the post dinner time whereas people’s eyes are sticked on that electric powered frames watching that soapy telenovelas. People are abruptly dispirited and after the candles has been lit, several sigh’s are on the air.

It seems that the other leg is cut off or the other hand has been paralyzed. No distinct movement for a moment thinking how desperate life has been. After that, it’s the start of the longest hours of our lives. Seconds seems to long and hours appears to be days. We just all find ourselves looking into nowhere.

In such a rare case, you can even draw inspiration in this fussing time. Watching time pass by, watching rainfall and thinking of someone. Corny at it’s highest level. If hours seems years, how about a day long? Millenia indeed.

That’s what I hate in storms. Can’t they be more careful not to tread those tall trees and electricity post? Well, I know I could find sympathy with all the students over there that once in a while we are in favor of storm for class cancellation but it’s just unworthy of having no class and having no TV’s, Internet’s Game Console’s at all. It’s like being barred in fox river having a nice chat with the fishes ( fox river is the jail house of prison break and the prisons are called fishes ).

All this happening only shows us how we are all consumed with the modernity of our lives. In which time is being executed with things to do. Sir Isaac Newton’s kite has flown so far that we can’t live a day without electricity. No question, we woke up facing the laundry, watching the TV, listening to the radio, lighting up our dining area and sleeping with air condition and fans. Electricity accompany us with everything we do, so the moment we are deprived by it. We feel paralyzed.

This need has been one of the basic necessities of post-modern human, and because it has grown into a much needed necessity people really need to thrive for it even for such a HIGH COST. Because of the fact that we are indeed barred without choices of power company in Manila, we are leaved without alternative. We are stranded in this monopolistic economy that lead us into adversity.

It is indeed that Meralco upholds the only authority and potential of providing us with electricity in the Capital Region and the most part of the Greater Manila Area, thus, giving them the full authority to exert a significant and total control to the supply of electricity. We are only apt to accept the service and/or leave it.

They have the full power to alter the demand curve, thus, playing it to their own advantage of increasing the possible marginal revenues. As long as people feel the need for electricity and it is not in the peak of it’s absolute value, people have no choice but to carry the burden, however, this is advantageous to the firm, thus making more money with lesser quality of goods.

Have I reach the point of Epistaxis? Ok, Enough of that feeling-good-of-myself-having-written-a-statement-a-laymen-can’t-understand thing. It is just basic as this. Give us our money’s worth and we’re fine!

People need no more Dark Fuss.

~ by Dyepri Budoy on July 15, 2008.