uncle tom babauta's cabin

he is one of those people who has made me feel like an 80's child failure.

i've only come across him through conversations with jvp friends about the 80's, of which most of my stock knowledge are on bagets, hot shots and ninja kids. even dear heart and ps i love you are hazy memories. except for the fact that i clearly remember most sharon cuneta movies are shot in baguio.

pia, zaza, teacher mike and good old randle discuss about tom's (uy, close!) sarsi with egg commercial. and i have no memory of such but heard about the ad. i asked if tom babauta was his screen name. apparently, it's not.

so when jan and i spent time with his friends v-day eve, i made mention of tom babauta. to which mytch and andoy, both older than me, replied with blank faces (same response to randle's name. that is queer! i thought every ateneo high dude would know him. anyway...). i suddenly had doubts that he (tom, not randle) is merely a mass hallucination by people older than 27.

i completely forgot about that awkward moment of being the only one knowing something of the world. until i came across nostalgia manila's entry on 70's quotes. and lo! a mention on tom babauta.

and to completely verify his existence, i googled him (yes, wahaha! "i am in google, therefore i am. the new movement of philosophical thought has come!) and aha! a mention here and here. (but it could be that one plagiarized the other, or they are the same people who wrote about dear tom.)

still. HE IS REAL! HE EXISTS! Tom Babauta is not in the same league of the Tooth Fairy.

And what good does this knowledge have to do with my life? Absolutely nothing. Except for the satisfaction that my 80's Jologs Trivia has upped a notch. ;p