The D Spot

First of all, please help me translate LAKWATSA to English. I cannot find any English term close to it.

Anyway, tell me, tell me, who is not guilty of virtual or cyber lakwatsa?

With today’s technology, when one can work from any work station, from a virtual office, from home, from a coffee shop or literally anywhere in cyberspace, chances are your supervisor or manager may not be looking at you and watching what you are doing.

Or even if you were your own boss, tell me, tell me, who is not guilty of virtual or cyber lakwatsa? Take me as an example. For my freelance writing work, I had 50×180-word articles to produce in three days—it was my commitment to a principal in the US. Two days have gone, with 6 hours remaining before the deadline, I found myself cramming. I only had 15 articles done in 2 days, when it would have been very easy to churn at least 15 of those SEO articles in 2 days. Why? Because I indulged myself in a virtual or cyber lakwatsa for 2 days.

• I plurked. I twittered.


• I looked at my blog statistics.


• I chatted.


• I blog hopped, downloaded some music, watched some You Tube videos, and so forth and so on.


• I have virtually gone from Quezon City to Bicol to the USA to Canada to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and so forth and so on through chats—Skype, YM, even tested GMail’s video talk, and could even have gone to Timbuktu if I had contacts there in the hours when I should have been doing my articles during the day.

Note, please, not during the night (my young boss I am sure is reading this, LOL), as my official working hours are from midnight to early morning. Mind you, I do not mix my personal projects and stuff with the official. True, true.

Now during office hours, tell me, tell me, who is not guilty of virtual or cyber lakwatsa? We are all social beings, humans that we are.

• while writing official emails, who has not written an email to a friend, or to a relative, or to a new acquaintance for that matter? who has not opened the personal GMail, YahooMail, Friendster, Multiply, Facebook, etc.


• while sipping a cup of coffee, or tea, or drinking Coke or Royal Tru Orange, who has not surfed the Internet, and took a glimpse of the latest in showbiz, or the latest in socio-political issues, like Joc-Joc Bolante in the Senate Hearing, or looked at the news?


• while chatting with a colleage on official matters, who has not on the side chatted about their frenemies, or had small talk, or tsismis?


• while talking via Skype or the VOIP on official matters, who has not talked about the weather up there or down there, depending on the country talked about, or what’s new here or there?


• while doing some research work, who has not in between opened his or her favorite blogsite or peeked at some digital pictures, or even uploaded them on flickr, multiply, photobucket, or whatever medium?


• while talking with the boss, who has not tried multi-tasking by chatting on the other end (gosh, this I cannot do, coz I might end up saying the wrong things}?


• while working on websites, or graphics, or fancy tweakings, who has not done the same with their personal websites or blogsites?


• and who has not plurked or twittered or sent greetings or personal messages across the skies, the deep blue seas, the mountains and maybe even the universe?

Well, some offices have created firewalls for certain applications and programs. But still, the Internet is available—and there are endless possibilities in the world wide web. And man has a way of dealing with the world wide web, secretly and openly.

Now, Questions, questions, TELL ME MORE, TELL ME MORE!

Happy weekend, folks!

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