1x01 - Pilot

"All I can be is me...whoever that is." --- Bob Dylan.


NO, my blog won't take the form of a serialized TV show (well, maybe not literally). But part of the reason I titled this inaugural one "1x01 - pilot" is simply because, like any good pilot of any good tv show, a couple of things have to happen:

• You gotta set the protagonist's background:

And with that....Hello, my full name is Jan Nil Andres Bonifacio.....and I'm an addict (lol j/k). I'm a 26 year old banana (*cough* yellow on the outside and white on the inside *cough*) and I spend an unusually (well, unusual for anyone not used to responsibility....lol j/k...i'll stop now) large portion of my day-to-day activity employed as an Associate Civil Engineer for the Seattle Branch of Parsons Transportation Group.

• you gotta establish the protagonist's supporting characters:

I live in Northgate with college roommate Denis Ha, who, along with myself & his brother Tom, have made "arrested development" not just a way of life...but a survival trick (shhhhhhh.....thats fancy prose for "bachelor life" ....end quote). You can find any or all of us on XBox Live playing Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3 under the clan names, "CAMP" or "CTU Northgate" on almost any given day of the week. And just so we make this clear, we aren't shy about letting loose ethnic slurs / making punk bitches suck it down during a session of gameplay.

• you gotta establish the protagonist's dilemma / motive / hubris:

In the simplest terms....in the most convenient definition....I find interesting things....interesting. I can't help but SEE stories....no no no....tales.....no no no.....parables in anything and everything in my immediate surroundings. And for some inexplicable reason, I feel that it needs to documented in blog-form, at least in the short-term. I can only hope that in the end, my posts are more "blog" and less "rant."

• and finally, introduce the MacGuffin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin):

To what end is this blog hoping to reach? Just what is my MacGuffin? Well, at the risk of sounding overtly abstract, I'm hoping to find "where the streets have no name." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_The_Streets_Have_No_Name)

Note: this whole Pop Culture reference motif is gonna be a recurring thing with me.