Just came back.

So much has happened in such a short time, and I couldn't keep up.

Conspiracy

Just this Tuesday (Feb 20), I finally got to read a poem publicly--at the Conspiracy, at Visayas Ave. It's a bar, and it holds Poetry nights. I read the poem i just posted, and I wrote it last year but revised it just last week to make it worth reading publicly. Thanks Mel, Ron, Moki, and April! They helped me in revising my poem.

Wash 'n Wear

He blinks, his eyes widen—surprised that he would see us here. She is just about to eat her dinner, and I’m still waiting for mine. It’s nine, and we’d just com from class; the class which he teaches.

She blinks, and then she sees him there, a table away—no longer in the pictures posted on a site. No longer would she wonder how he would be like wearing a t-shirt and jeans. She’s here with him—outside the classroom.

I see him then. He smiles, and she and I smile back. He then stands up, I blink and he’s at the door.

She touches the rim of the glass on her lips, and looks at me; I take a napkin to wipe the mayonnaise off my lip.

My current frustration

Memories may beautiful and yet what's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.

Majority Representatives of the Philippine Lower House=GARAPAL

Napakagarapal ng Administration Representatives. It is clear how desperate they try to cling to their power. They just changed the House rules to fit their interests. This is an attack to the very foundations of our Democracy.

Just so that everybody knows, binago ng Lower house ang house rules na nagsasabi na kahit anong bill na ipapasa ng Lower house, dapat dumaan sa Senate, at pagbotohan ng House of Representatives at Senate separately, needing at least ¾ of the Senate and the Lower House—of each House, for it to be passed.

Ang ginawa ng Lower House ngayon ay binago nila ang House rule na iyon. Meaning, the Bill for charter change need not go through a separate voting by the Senate. Meaning, even without the Senate’s approval, the bill, if approved by the Lower House, will push through.

Ano ang implication nito? Why doesn’t the Lower House want the Senate to vote on the bill separately? SIMPLE:

Senate is dominated by the OPPOSITION.

It is suicide for the house bill if it goes through voting in the Senate.

Why does the Administration want CHA CHA (Charter Change) badly to begin with?

Charter Change means prolonging the term of the incumbent public officers. A possibility of postponement of the coming elections is there too.

Administration is desperate because it knows fully well that after the Elections, a lot of the candidates that are pro-administration will not win. This means that the number of Administration Representatives in the Lower House and in the other key governmnet positions will almost surely be significantly cut. If the numbers tip in favor of the Opposition, GMA may very well be impeached.

Sad indifference.

It's really sad how people can be so indifferent in the face of a calamity. Typhoon reming didn't hit Manila, but it did Bicol. This is all i can say for now.

Waiting

'REMING' AS OF 4:00 AM, NOV. 30

http://www.inq7.net/index_network.htm

Typhoon Reming will arrive here in Manila tomorrow morning. As I write this entry, it is already pounding Bicol Region--with heavy rains and gusts reaching 225 kph. A week-long power-outage (yet again) is very possible.

I had to go out this morning to stock-up on food and get money from the ATM. Apparently, a lot of people thought of the same thing. There were long lines--kilometric long, at the store and at the bank.

I am desperate. I can't stand powerless nights anymore--i have papers to finish. I can't stand our phoneline going dead for almost a month. I am really fucking angry.

Trapo in a nutshell

This is an example of a classic trapo-speak:

“I almost lost my speakership when I was fighting for Chief Justice
Davide,” he said. He later added: “I did not expect that they would vote
this way now.”

-- Speaker Jose De Venecia

(Published on page A12 of the November 26, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Fucking typhoon!

i heard a typhoon--Reming--is set to hit Metro Manila. this is really shitty. I hate it. nakaka-inis! why does it have to come now? I have a lot of things to do! and i cant stand a week of powerless/currentless nights! My god! I have to stock-up on food pa, which also means a lot of gastos nanaman. I hate this. Why can't it just go away? let it hit nueva ecija or whatever, but not Manila! nakakainis talaga!

It's going to ruin my schedule pa! i am set to watch Hamlet on saturday, the day after the typhoon is expected to hit manila. shet. I have a lot of papers to finish pa. I can't write them without power. to hell with the typhoon!

Going out on a Monday night.

This is me at KFC tonight in Eastwood. A cam-whoring moment.hahaha

A friend managed to talk me into coming to Eastwood with him to watch a movie. Syempre obviously napapayag naman nya ako. Grabe on a Monday night!

This is me and my friend at Fuzion naman. Grabe takaw niya talaga. He ate a lot. haha Another Cam-whoring session.

By the way, friends lang kami.

This is a Cocktail!

Of men and Ironies

I have stumbled across some interesting things today:

1. The most accurate clock in the Philippines is found in a PAGASA Observatory in UP Diliman! Yes people, it's in UP! the one near CHE and Reg. Apparently, this clock is the most accurate in the whole of Philippines that it defines the PST-Philippine Standard Time. How ironic noh? Consider the fact that Palma Hall has its own time, PHAN has its own time, Math Building has its own time, and apparently, so does the EEE Building! Talk about Filipino Time.
2. While thousands of Metro Manila Residents wait for water rations, while thousands of Metro Manila residents stand in line for a bucket of water, apparently, some dam near Manila is always in danger of overflowing, that it releases water every now and then, causing floods in the Nueva Ecija area. Tapos, there have been offers to connect this dam to Anggat Dam, the official water source of Metro Manila, pero MWSS pala isn't taking action. It hasn't for like 13 years! Grabe naman sila. They should think of the residents who, until now, do not have water!

An update on a friend's plan of committing dog genocide

After feeding the dogs with food stuffed with msg-- it turned out to be a failure, My friend actually tried mothballs naman. Grabe noh! Uy don't get me wrong, she might seem like a bad person, but she really isn't . She's really good. Yun nga lang, she doesn't like getting charged at by big dogs. Anyway, she tried mothballs nga pero apparently, hindi daw kinain ng dogs.

Now she's telling me she's giving up her mala-cruela de-vil plan. Dog-lovers out there, rejoice! hindi na raw nya papatayin yung 9 dogs!

A foiled scam

Believe it or not, a friend was accused of stealing a mobile phone at an internet shop. Two guys approached him kanina, and asked for the moblile. Of course, my friend couldn't show them anything kasi nga he really didn't do it--what's there for him to give? Anyway, that afternoon, he went to the internet shop and asked around. It turned out that the two guys were lying. So now, we see two scenarios:

1. The guys made an honest mistake in accusing my classmate
2. The guys are scamming.

What is it to be kaya? Here's the catch pa, apparently, these two guys are UP students rin. So much for the mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan line.