I Swear to God

In celebration of my blogname, I'm copying here GK Chesterton's oath administered to members of the British Detection Club. Chesterton was a British writer and a devout Catholic. So devout was he that he created Father Brown, the parish priest who doubles as a detective. Awwww.

"Do you promise that your detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them and not placing reliance on nor making use of Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence, or Act of God?"

Amen!

The Keeler Consequences

Last night, I had the worst migraine attack. I imagined the nerves behind right eye being squished and pinched. I couldn’t feel my left arm and my left peripheral vision was blurred. Anything that concerns my nerves and vision scare the hell out of me. I was ready to vomit and keel over but I stopped myself – I couldn’t do that in the middle of Makati Avenue. I called home and said I’m checking myself to a hospital. I must have sounded scared because the parent said, just go and take a taxi. And DONT panic.

Anyway, the doctor knew that I’m a migraine sufferer. He also said I looked stressed out so I only needed some rest. The blurred vision and the numbness are normal manifestations (it was the first time that it ever happened to me). My blood pressure was normal and so was my sugar level. He gave me a painkiller that also doubles as an anti-inflammatory – it’s my new painkiller of choice; I have become a painkiller connoisseur - and told me to take a rest. He also forbid me to eat chocolates and drink coffee, the two known migraine triggers. The chocolates, I could deal with; I have no desire for it in the first place anyway. But the coffee! I have been a coffee drinker since I was eleven! If I don’t drink my brewed coffee in the morning, I go into withdrawal, I become half-paralyzed. Come, on. Just one cup? In the morning? I pleaded. Okay, one cup. He sighed. But you know the consequences.

PS.
This morning, the migraine problem was replaced by new concerns: how to get hold of the new Camera Obscura single. They released their cover version of Sheena Easton’s Modern Girl. My laptop is shot and I can’t connect it to the net. Hmm. What to do, what to do?

It's 7:15 pm and I'm still in the office because of this:

Indie-mp3.co.uk has released the C06 to celebrate the 20th birthday of the seminal NME 1986 cassette compilation, later known as C86, which gave birth to what people now call indiepop music and its variants. The track listing:

01 - The Love Letter Band - This World Is Not My Home
02 - Mon Fio - Alexis
03 - Apple Orchard - A Hiding Smile
04 - Celestial - Dream On
05 - Santa Dog - Rosa
06 - Umlaut - Lea Green
07 - A Place To Bury Strangers - Dont Think Lover
08 - Chuzzlewit - Verga
09 - Loveninjas - Keep Your Love
10 - Rocket Punch - Pink Cashmere
11 - Shrugged - Tattooed Heart
12 - Crumb - Follow Me Home
13 - Pelle Carlberg - Clever Girls
14 - Compute - Every Chance
15 - Bib - I Wanna Be A Better
16 - Bobby Baby - Lucky Moments
17 - Goof - Dancing Shoes
18 - Sarandon - Meet Warren
19 - Bubblegum Lemonade - Tyler
20 - Michael Knight - Waves To The Shore
21 - The Sweethearts - Into The Woods
22 - The Factory Owners - Elephants Mean Death
23 - Cowboy X - Gabbi
24 - Math And Physics Club - Movie Ending Romance

Get the copy at www.indie-mp3.co.uk. Or if you're a friend of mine, just holler back and I'll burn a copy for you.

New Aches

For those wanting an update on my unhealthy lifestyle, the Back Pains are still here. They have a new companion, though, and it's called Toothache. And what doesn't hurt, doesn't work.

you had it in you

I have been having back problems lately. If I turn a certain way, pain shoots up my back. Sometimes, when I am just sitting, a stinging, electric pain would jolt me. My posture has always been shot and for the past eight months, I have been lugging a heavy backpack so the backaches are not really that surprising. (I don’t bring my laptop anymore, so that’s a relief.) I had it coming. Aisa had given me the name of a chiropractor in Makati but I don’t have the time to see him yet. I want to practice yoga or tai chi – been wanting to do tai chi since college - to correct the posture problem, but that too, demands time. And I right now, I don’t even have the time to brush my hair.