It's My Blog, I Rant If I Want To! from the guest lounge at the pigg casino in the fabulous las vegas, nevada, here's quesito with this very special episode of the adventures of quesito the pigg.hello there! here i am tinkling the ivories while thinking to myself, what should i write about today?. write whatever's on my mind right now, you say? i don't know if i should... i'd hate for this blog to be a downer... alllright. you've twisted my arm. just don't say i didn't warn you. let me start off by asking you something.how many pigu-tomos/buddies do you have on your list? 10? 50? more?let us say that you have... 20 buddies. out of those 20, how many do you actually communicate with on a regular basis? i do understand that many people are on pigg just to have fun without having to conform to what's considered normal in the real world. that's fine and dandy. i believe i have written about people living out their fantasies online. believe me, i am all for that. i know i have engaged in some really stupid exchanges with others. trading silly one-liners, speaking/typing in affected ways of speech, taking on a persona that is quite different from how i really am in real life... but i think i can say that i've always known when/where/with whom it is appropriate to act silly. i guess what i'm trying to say here is that i've been a bit bewildered by some of my buddies' behaviors. i am sure most of you have similar experiences. you meet someone and it looks like the two of you have something in common, you have a nice, pleasant chat, and after this-was-fun-lets-do-it-agais, one of you ask the other if s/he wants to be buddies. yay! now you are pigg buddies! then! you start noticing something odd about your new buddy. i know that it is only natural for anyone to put up some sort of a facade when meeting someone for the first time. you choose your words carefully, try to portray yourself in the best light possible. soon, the speech pattern gets more casual, and the real you comes out more and more. i am not talking about that. like i said, that's only natural.what i am talking about is when your buddy becomes... a completely different person. we often hear/read about second dates that goes horribly wrong. this is when your date (or a new friend) who seemed so wonderful on your first date starts to display some disturbing behaviors. in magazines and novels, s/he turns out to be a psycho who's trying to collect enough used kleenex you've blown your nose with to stuff a pillow, or an axe-murderer. in pigg land, it is a little more subtle. s/he would follow you everywhere you go, appear at your doorstep the second you sign on, or even park themselves in your room waiting for you to sign on. ok, i guess you can forget subtle. loli wouldn't really mind that if that person was someone that i can have a normal conversation with. more often than not, though, s/he would just sits there. they can seldom hold up their end of the conversation. iameatingabananoooooookay. great. and you came to my room just to tell me that. i try to be nice and throw in a topic or two for a chit chat.soooo...what did you do last night? i know it's lame but the silence is so deafening i have to say something.flowershuh? flowers?yes. flowers.what about flowers? you planted some flowers? you ate flowers for dinner? what!?those flowers are pretty.it turns out s/he is talking about the pots of flowers i have by the sofa in my room....wtf is this!? is this the same person that i had met a few nights ago with whom i had a really nice time talking about music and books and movies and whatnot!? i am sorry but i did not ask this person in my room right now staring into space and typing one syllable at a time like s/he is reciting some bad poem to be my buddy! i know this person is not like this in real life (i pray to god that s/he isn't). i can let slide some fantasy role playing by some random piggs. it's only that i don't want to be their buddy! to me, quesito is an extention of my real self. i only use him to communicate with others in the pigg universe. he talks like i do when i am with friends. the opinions and views expressed by quesito are mine. when he talks about his life, it is my real life he is talking about. i would not want to share my real self through quesito with piggs who would not do so in return.i know that it is only an online game/community and i really don't take it so seriously, but i still have to ask for at aleast the lowest level of courtesy as it does involve real people even when they are hidden behind the keyboards.call me an old fart and see if i care! ha! and yes, those flowers are pretty. do you know how you can tell? because i put them there, that's how!ohhhhh, i'm sorry i got carried away... i guess i just want to talk to someone like two regular folks having a nice, friendly chat without all that posing/pretention. is that too much to ask? ok, some of you might argue about the possible pretentiousness of me writing this blog in english... i'd answer to that by saying that this, is really who i am (or a part of who i am) to a lot of people who've known me during my years living in an english speaking country where i'd spent all my adult life. and what quesito does on pigg is try to look at the whole thing objectively through the eyes of an outsider. his expressing his views here in english is a reflection of that stance in a way. so there! not that i owe anyone an explanation as to what i do on my own blog...that's all from me in las vegas. see you somewhere on pigg!! and when we do, i really hope you'll catch me in a better mood... lol
