![]() ![]() Not all geniuses can be able executors of their ideas. Walt Disney said, “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” He should know-it is said that his dream of creating Disney World was rejected 302 times before it came to fruition.īut just a caveat for the young dreamer who fancies himself as the next Walt Disney. Only the other day, from out of the blue, a long-time friend wondered, “with your knack for creating good ideas and concepts, how come you’re not rich and famous?” Surprised by that frank remark, I just shrugged my shoulders and managed to reply with a poorly crafted bon mot: “Blessed are the idea makers but they will be rich only in spirit.” I confess there was a slight prick in the heart. Why not also banana peelings? Or other fruit peelings we just throw in the garbage? Just the other day, I saw a write-up about this new invention that can convert orange peelings into bio-cups. We also have malunggay, pandesal, malunggay chips, garlic chips, mushroom chips and other products that are all in the vein of my recycling or conversion idea. Little did I know that those why-not-ideas have now been turned into moneymaking food items: kangkong leaves are being sold as snacks. I jotted down some possibilities: fermented kangkong, similar to burong mustasa, atsarang kangkong, or kangkong tempura along the same idea of the Japanese camote tempura. Being a believer of the saying “waste not, want not,” I then wondered if the stalks of kangkong leaves could be converted into something useful or beneficial. LOL.Īt home, I used to observe that my wife would throw the stalks of kangkong leaves after selecting the young leaves for the sinigang or adobo. When I see these developments, I just console myself with the useless illusion that my thinking is ahead of my time, like the great Leonardo da Vinci. The story had essentially the same idea as mine: combining history with horror fantasy. Then, later on, a book entitled “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer” came out and became a bestselling book and a hit movie. It certainly was a startling concept for a Filipino film at that time but I was never able to come up with the script. I thought it was a good allegorical narrative depicting Rizal fighting the abusive colonial authorities and native traitors preying on the indios on a symbolic level. For the main protagonist I wanted a historical figure, the revered hero Jose Rizal has a shadow life as nemesis of local demons such as mangkukulam, kapre, and manananggal in Binan and other parts of Laguna, using the knowledge he learned about vampires and underworld demons from Dr. As I watched those films, an idea for a gothic horror film set in the Philippines in the late 1800s was hatched in my mind. I watched all kinds of films, even the Dracula films of Hammer Productions. In my young days I wanted to be a film scriptwriter. Over the years, I had out-of-the-box ideas for ads that were shot down by narrow-minded clients, only to see practically the same concepts played out in highly acclaimed commercials created by today’s Gen Z talents. Now, with the Internet and digital technology, an ad layout or storyboard can be created, presented, revised and approved on the spot through a tele-conference without leaving your desk or table. That dream became true in just a few decades. I even remember coining it as “tele-meeting.” Everyone laughed. It was draining for me and in exasperation I broached my seemingly far-fetched dream of a TV and a phone directly connected to the client’s office so we could just present our work by remote communication. In the ’70s, I was working in advertising and in those days, we had to go to the client’s office to present to him every single ad for approval prior to release to the publication.
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