LAST Wednesday, the Wordle word was “mommy.”
It so happened that right before trying to guess the correct word, I saw a Facebook reel titled “How Asian Names Work” posted by Jay & Sharon where a guy, who must be the HR manager, was trying to pronounce the new hire’s name, Zhang Xi Shih.
The new hire eventually told him, “Just call me Sharon.”
He: “No, you can’t be Sharon. We have two other Sharons in this office.”
She: “Then I will be Ellen.”
He: “There’s already an Ellen, too.”
And she continued to try other names: Helen, Jocelyn, Michelle, for which his reply was, “Taken.”
She: “Shaniqua?”
He: “Doesn’t really fit you.”
She: “You don’t know me!”
He: “You’re right. You’re right.”
She: “Okay. How about Natalie?”
He: “No, that’s my mom’s name.”
She: “You call your mom Natalie?”
He: “Yes, in fact I do.”
She: “You don’t call your mom, Mom or Mommy?”
He: “No, I do not.”
She: “Great. Then, I will be Mommy.”
He: “No. You are… Zh… Okay. You know what, Mommy…”
After watching that reel, I went to Wordle but wasn’t able to guess “mommy” as the correct word.
“Mommy” is the term of endearment at the gym. Anyone who’s old enough to be a mom probably qualifies. At least no one has called me Lola. Haha.
The men, though, are not called “Daddy” perhaps because that will make them sound like a sugar daddy. Oops.
Now, how many politicians are known to be sugar daddies?
See? We could discuss any topic and somehow make it morph into politics.
Let’s see if this next topic will also morph into politics. This happened on a Wednesday, too. I woke up earlier than usual, and started listening to Olivia Rodrigo’s songs.
A gym friend encountered challenges in buying tickets for her concert, I figured it’s about time to find out why all the ado about her. And listening to her music led to listening to other young artists like Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter.
By the time I finished listening to their “young” music, it was already 6:30 am. Wow. How time flies when I’m having fun.
When I say “young,” I mean, as young as those women who can call a man as their sugar daddy.
There are women who need a sugar daddy for punctuation, er, pang-tuition. Survival of the fittest and all that jazz. After all, even M. Scott Peck’s book “The Road Less Travelled” starts with this line: “Life is difficult.” Which could be one reason for political candidates to run: Life is difficult, therefore, they want to serve the madlang pehpohl.
But is that truly, madly, deeply the candidate’s hashtag goal, to serve? Or is it to become relevant? Or to have cold hard cash through campaign solicitations? And he won’t even apologize if ever he ends up serving himself instead of the madlang pehpohl.
At least Jen Barangan posted a sorry, complete with a “Best, Jen.” That’s after using her phone camera’s flash while taking videos of herself singing along with Olivia Rodrigo at the latter’s Philippine Arena concert.
