Tuesday, August 22, 2006

two degrees of papi gael


chatted with my sister yesterday, who sent me a photo of gael garcia bernal at some anti-WTO NGO forum in hongkong last december. the lucky bastard who actually met papi gael (superstar na, activist pa!) said they bumped into each other at the anti-water privatization tent.

so my sister said gael looks like a hobo here. i say he looks like a rich and elegant hobo. bet i can't afford those shades he's wearing. bet he has more money now than i'll ever make in my lifetime. haha. ha. idle thought: maybe i should work for an international NGO too?

2 comments:

Ani Degirmencioglu said...

What's more important: He is CUTE! These alternative people they totally develop this air around themselves. But too much of it, is again HOBO, i guess. Although, i don't know what that is. Does it mean something what it sounds like? I know BOBO, but what is HOBO?

sairo said...

hi ani! it's great to hear from you again!

BOBO means bourgeois bohemian, right? well, hobo isn't really an acronym like BOBO. a hobo is an old-fashioned slang word for a homeless person or a beggar.

more specifically, the way i understand it, hoboes are unemployed men who wander all over the countryside begging ofr food or coins. synonyms for hobo include "vagrant" and "tramp" and "bum".

all of this information i got from dictionary.com. very useful for work! :)