the morning show astrologer said we should engage in creative pursuits today because these would prove to be  fruitful (but… everything is a creative pursuit! whether they’re household chores or professional “errands”, there’s always a different way of arranging objects around you and every motion, because it involves mental energy, is a creative endeavour; therefore, everyday involves “creative pursuits”  and a fortuneteller does not really give us any information when the “predictions” are always general  — oh, that’s just me, i’m blabbering this morning, maybe it is a day of “creative pursuits”, which caused me to blabber in an otherwise everyday routinary lucky color post — take your pick: which do you want to believe. She was kinda poetic about it though when she said something like, “tumaya sa lotto ng buhay…” (roughly: wager, or place a bet, in the lottery of life, or the lotto of life, or, if you want to be more poetic in the translation, in the lottery that is life…) blabbering. She’s probably right, and this probably means at the end of office work, we have to choreograph our dance number  for the Christmas party.

and the morning show astrologer said the lucky color of the day was olive green (and she was wearing olive green too;  she wears the same cut every time but of different colors — which probably makes sense, if you’re a busy person and don’t want to bother yourself with what to wear, you can have all clothes in the same comfy cut.)

the video below is a trailer of an indie (independent) film shown last year at the U.P. Film Institute, entitled “Manghuhula” or fortune-teller. Judging from the trailer, it seems to be a suspense-thriller,  and shows the “creepy” side of “clairvoyants” (if you believe in literal clairvoyance). We don’t really see fortune-tellers as creepy. (But indie filmmakers as they are always give us a different way of looking at reality etc…) We watch  card-readers/ star-chart- readers,  tea-leaves- readers because they’re entertaining. In terms of media content, we put them under lifestyle and entertainment or “fluff”, although Prof. Georgie does not want me to use the word “fluff” journalism in describing one of the courses, she says that the task is to “defluff” fluff journalism. So, we just use “soft journalism”. We include them (food, travel, home, health and wellness, fashion, etc.) because they are matters of  public interest, when you define public interest in a broad way, in Legazpi vs. Civil Service Commission as footnoted in Valmonte vs. Belmonte, as:  those that affect the lives of a large number of people or those that arouse the curiosity of the community in general… Although  we don’t present astrological predictions and supernatural claims as fact, therefore, we don’t present them in hard news; and when we do, the story there is, for example,  how  an entire community believed it/ them, and this changed the way  they lived, etc. i blabbered this morning.

credits: video uploaded in YouTube by “sikatupdiliman” used here non-commercially.