Day Three, No Cell Phone/ The Meg

It's been three days.

I think I'm doing fine.

I usually go to bed between 8-9 pm and it's been a habit to read or watch videos on my phone for a few minutes and my eye lids start to get heavy and the phone falls off my hand. Repeated often enough, the act itself became a soporific ritual that no matter what the content of the article or the video I'm reading or watching, it almost always put me to sleep. 

A sudden disruption in my sleeping rituals and sleep avoids me. I have to find a way to fill that vacuum the lost of my phone created. (Yeah, this is an exaggeration, but then again, it may be an understatement because there are people who literally go crazy when they lose their phone and the information in it, like they lost a part of their body or something.)

One of the things that I have resorted to is to get back to reading paper backs. I picked up an old sci-fi short stories collection which I have read maybe two decades ago and the stories made me realize how much fun and intellectual stimulation (hhmmm...maybe imagination is the better description) I have been missing since my reading habit has been replaced by the social media addiction.

It's been a long time since I opened one of my books which has been in the shelves for years. The pages have turned brown since most of these books were published in the 60's -80's. What was overpowering was the accumulated dust and the smell of aging paper. I had to air and dust it by opening the pages in front of the electric fan. Finding old notes or doodles on old used books is also one of the joys of buying in book sale.

It was a habit to buy one or two volumes every pay day. Sci-fi and fantasy were the cheapest books sold on Book Sale and I and I have collected an eclectic selection of classic sci-fi from the days when I used to work in Makati.

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I saw the movie The Meg, bootleg version of course, but the video quality was good. There has been a lot of shark movies but it all started from Spielberg's Jaws. If you have seen jaws you have seen all shark movies with the exception of Sharknado, I guess, because the plot and the CGI effects of Sharknado was so bad it was good. It was an anti-shark movie shark movie, really.

The synopsis:

A billionaire funded a research station in the Marianas trench where they theorized that the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean was not solid. it was really a foamy layer of cold water and other stuffs. They sent a submarine and probes below the icy-foamy barrier to verify the theory which proved to be true and there they discovered a prehistoric ecosystem below the Marianas trench. The organisms  some leviathans have adapted to the ultra deep environment unchanged.

The research subs and drones were attacked and damaged by the Megalodon, which has survived extinction at this depth. When the rescue vessel piloted by Jason Statham saved the damaged subs, the quick ascent opened up a doorway that allowed the Megs to escape to the surface and attacks whales, ships, people, the research station....mayhem.

The movie was so predictable that it's unnecessary to watch the whole thing after the first few minutes. It's a movie made for television, really,

Anyway, one of the worst scene, if not the worst scene, was when Li Bingbing saw Jason Statham half naked and she gave him that "Wow, your so hot" look that it made Li Bingbing look like a porno starlet in the pre-pumping scene. It was not sexy, it was bad.

There, I have said enough.

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