..the truth is out there..

this same poster adorned my cork board while i was in college. it has been the sole witness of my struggle as a college student, justifying my teenage rebellion. my father wanted me to take up business ad so naturally, i enrolled in accountancy. (sigh)

anyway, i was in high school when i started watching this TV series (yeah, i'm that old). it started when i told my big brother to change the TV channel. what's so interesting in RPN-9 on monday nights at 9? not wanting to change the channel, he patted the cushion beside him and told me to watch this weird show w/ him. seeing that determined look on his face, i knew i lost the battle even before it began. so i watched F. Emasculata/ Season 2.

after an hour, my brother was laughing at me after i told him that the boil on the mens' faces reminded me of a cola drink w/ ice floating on it. yeah, he understood what i was referring to as we constantly drink semi-frozen Coca-cola. i got hooked on xfiles, for good! naturally, i blamed it on my devotion to Coca-Cola.

what is this about anyway?

The X Files is a division of the FBI devoted to unsolved cases that appear to have some unexplained, paranormal element. This became a dumping ground for reportings of UFOs, alien abductions, and other arcana that the FBI didn't want to investigate, or didn't believe in. At least, that was the case until Fox Mulder, a high flying serial-killer specialist, requested transfer to the forgotten basement. Eventually, Dana Scully was assigned as his partner. She wasn't just there to help him - she was expected to report back in order to discredit the wild-card Mulder.
Slowly convinced by the mounting evidence, Scully became Mulder's staunch ally. Over years of investigating cases no-one else would touch, the pair have come across paranoia inducing gas, vampire fetishists, plagues of grasshoppers and Luke Skywalker's love children...(and of course boil on mens' faces that reminded me of semi-frozen Coca-cola) - www.bbc.co.uk/cult/xfiles-

for a while then, i would suddenly stop listening to the teacher as she was discussing and gaze dreamily at the sky, looking for space crafts and little green men in parachutes. i used to think that the government knows more than what they're telling us. i would wake up in the middle of the night, drenched w/ sweat as i look under the bed for any sign of a Black oil infiltrating my room. of course, i also thought David Duchovny would come to the Philippines in his red, skimpy Speedo trunks and ask me to marry him. Oh mY!


i live w/ the saying "the truth is out there", not really understanding what it meant even until now. i've watched the x-files movie a million times, still thinking it was the greatest movie ever made. although there are some parts of the movie i still could not comprehend, but what the heck, i memorized that intent look on mulder's face as he was about to kiss scully before the damned bee stung her.

even though the x-files ended years ago, i still find myself scouting through some Book Sales for some x-files literature. i still surf the net hoping to find news on the xfiles return. this is not a healthy obsession. i should move on and start on 'alias'? 'csi'? 'smallville'? or maybe 'that's so raven' and 'phil of the future'?

being my natural self, i blame everything on David Duchovny and his ability to look unruffled and stressless after hours of chasing after those little green men. he's simply the perfect man.. (sigh)..