Tuesday, January 5, 2010

i saw the sign, yet again

on the last day of last year, which, as usual, was a december 31, i found the inspiration for the blog post that will put an end to my 27-day zamboanga girl hiatus. on the bumper of a truck we met on the way to one of those last-minute errands that always, always crops up on new year's eve, was this treasure:

"PSST...bokas ang seper mo!"

haphazardly hand written in runny, drippy white paint, about 10 inches high.

it took me about a minute and a half to process what i just saw before i started giggling on the passenger seat. husband, being used to my abnormal ways, just said: "hmmm..." not really interested to know what it was i saw this time.

well, it just made me want to blog again. and isn't that great?

it made me remember two other lines i saw over the holidays, both names of local businesses.

the first one was of a glass and aluminum enterprise on magay. the spanking new signage read JAGGED EDGE Glass and Aluminum.

oh - kay.

i really wonder what the process was for coming up with that one.

and then a couple of days later i saw this delivery truck of what was apparently a distributorship. on the side, in what i remember as either blue or green paint, in thick block letters, the business name Dense Marketing.

Owh-khay.

3 comments:

  1. I have always wondered why we put words, phrases, images and blips of literature on the "tapa-lodo" of our PUVs or service vehicles like that truck. One time I rode a jeep along Buendia and it said on one side (and brace yourself!) "Gather ye roses while ye may" I was like..."uh-huh...odd"

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  2. that is so funny, ems. oh my goodness!

    why nga naman can't we be contented with the more comprehensible "katas saudi"?

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  3. hahahahaha "and brace yourself?" you serious? haha well, way better than writing your family tree on the tapa-lodo haha

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