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Kitikiti-Text Dangers
Rico Abibas
Date presented: September 6, 2001

Who knows kitikiti-text here? This is an ad by Sprite in which a young beautiful lady is busy making text messages on her cellphone while walking and don't mind her surroundings. Opps, she was able to avoid hitting baby's crib and the woman's umbrella but not the guy she bumped. Both the cellphone and softdrink were tossed up into the air. The handsome guy was able to hold catch her falling cellphone and when he turned over it to her, she just said: "Di kasi tumitingin!" and walked away. Then suddenly, turned back and asked: "Ano kayang number niya?"

No, no…this did not happen to me. I wish it did one of these days. But the kitikiti-text behavior is a common scenario today. All walks of life seem to be afflicted with this kitikiti-text virus. These people are texting addicts. Heavy texters! They get high and can consume their loaded accounts in just one day of kitikiti-text.

Technology really changed the way people work and play. The mobile phone is an amazing invention of our modern times. We loved our cellphone. We even pamper it with different types of casing, make up it with anti-radiation kit, and many more paraphanelias that will look good the cellphone's appearance. We are too much attached to it that it becomes our friend -- our soulmates. Just recently, the plan of Globe and Smart to cut off the free text messages by about 40% got uproar protests from the kitikiti-text people power. They succeeded in getting a TRO (temporary restrain order) from the Supreme Court. Lo and Behold, the kitikiti-text dangers are more increasing!

I saw a woman in a street of Pasay rotonda while waiting for a ride home, she was busy doing her kitikiti-text. Then without provocation, a street boy snatched her Nokia 8250 in bewildered eyes of so many people. The girl has just cried, cries almost to death…huh, huh, my cellphone, my cellphone. The snatcher went lost among the crowd and fled off like little Ben in the iskinitas of Pasay. A student is also seen busy doing kitikiti-text inside a passenger jeep that when it came to traffic stop, a male passenger just grabbed her Nokia 3310 and jumped off outside the jeep and ran quickly towards the other street. The girl has panted and lost consciousness. Our neighbor was unlucky because he was knifed to death when he tried to defend his cellphone from the snatcher. We also heard the story of one who like to get a clear signal, went to his house's rooftop but then fall-off to his death. Tsk..Tsk..

Whether you're doing a kitikiti-text in public places, in your room, in the office, whether it is safely placed inside your bag or somebody happen to call you up while you're inside the iskinitas of Pasay rotonda, the cellphone itself become a present danger to your health and life. If you still recall my second speech before you, I emphasize the survival of the fittest syndrome because of technology. Snatchers who are motivated by survival instinct target cellphone because it is very easy to sell the stolen ones in a much cheaper price. GSM yan! Yeah, Galing sa Magnanakaw. But despite of all of these dangers, people still buy and keep on changing their cellphone's appearance. Kitikiti-text is forever.

Now going back to the commercials, if this will happen to me, magpakatotoo ka rico baby, forget about her cellphone, grab the Sprite and drink it and don't forget to kiss the girl.

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