Only in the Philipppines

Developments in the political arena can make anyone tremble. Looking at the development in the last few hours, it becomes apparent that, indeed, GMA will not escape this turbulent crises that the country is facing. According to an Inquirer columnist, GMA will be able to stay in power if and only if she is supported by the three most important sectors: the Church, the business sector and the military. Yesterday, it seems she had the support of all three. The developments today will surely hit GMA hard.

The Makati Business Club (I interned here last summer!) declared this morning at Manila Pen. that they are asking GMA to resign. While it may not represent the entire business community, the MBC is the premier business group in the country and their position will greatly boost the GMA Resign movement. After the MBC supported the Erap Resign movement in 2001, EDSA 2 happened.

The Church will issue their position this weekend. I hope that the good bishops will be guided by the Holy Spirit in making and in discerning for the right move. BTW, Fr. Huang told us at the forum last wednesday that the Jesuit stand and thus, the Ateneo stand, will be the same as the CBCP stand. The Jesuits believes in the collective wisdom of the princes of the Church.

While the military leadership may still be supportive of GMA, im not sure if that is so with the ordinary soldiers. but i pray that they don't take matters into their hands.

The Church position, i think, will be a crucial one. It will tip the balance of power in the current situation. If the Church asks her to resign, i think she will be forced to do so.

But in the face of all of this, whats scary is the warnings issued by leaders in the South. Davao's Duterte is already warning that if Imperial Manila ousts GMA through another People Power, Davao and other provinces in the south will secede. From the looks of it, we cannot take this lightly. He is boasting that they already have a flag, an anthem and $500 million in dollar reserves. While im not sure if our brothers in the south will support secession from the Republic, the possibility of a civil war should not be overlooked and be taken lightly.

Im hoping this will not happen. The next few weeks will be crucial for our country. Lets hope we survive this test of time.

Yesterday!

• Left my black jacket in the second floor phone area.... I'm so fucking stupid! haha!

Today!

• Woke up to study for the quiz in History and then realized that my jacket was missing... Freaked out 'coz if i lost this one, this is going to be the second time this year, damn where the hell is my other mossimo jacket?!?!..... Anyways, as i started panicking and seeing everyoneas the potential thief, the lady guard here in Cervini told me that she found a black jacket and that she gave it to the dorm office... then it hit me... i fucking left the thing when i went to the second floor to use the phone.... The lesson i learned from this incident: nothing :)
• To the potential thieves in Cervini: please don't take my stuff..

Tomorrow!

• Quiz in IE, free cut in theo. class so i guess im staying at the dorm for 3 hours, and then the spirited philo class at 3... I just hope Fr. Rasiah doesnt get shocked by our "appalling ignorance" again... Now i know what's empiricism and logical positivism... :)

Quote of the Day! "History will be kind to me for i intend to write it" - Churchill

Song of the Day! Blue and Yellow - The Used

Pick of the Day! The lesbo girls we always see in the lib. and all around campus... :) does anyone here know them?

BTW, tomorrow will be the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. The leaders of the 8th most powerful country in this earth will be meeting to discuss a lot of things, most notably - debt relief and global warming. The Live 8 concert last Saturday really rocked the world. Lets hope that they felt the sympathy of the citizens of this earth and they do the right, just thing.

Also, talking about debt relief, i hope the Philippines qualify for it. Just take a look at our country, its going down the drain...

My take on the current crisis: I prophesize that GMA will step down in the next few weeks...

 

 

I'm Back! Back from Summer vacation! Back from Makati! And back from Tarlac!

anyways, updates! :)

This semester sucks!

• Withdrawed from Historical Methodology class..... That class SUCKS seriously.. Good bye minor in history?! ha, ill try again next sem... one last chance...
• Thesis work has been keeping me up late for the past few weeks..... Can't wait for the more than one month survey period... No meetings, no FGDs, no SUBMISSIONS!!!
• History 166 is great... im the fucking beadle haha.... man, what got into me?!?!?
• SA class is okay... im a senior lost in a sophomore block class......
• 151 is boring... in my opinion, anyone who knows how to make bola will be able to pass this class...
• Ph 103 of Fr. Resaiah is one of the 2 classes i really enjoy...
• Trade is ok at this time...... also, this is the only class that im with block....

and i guess it'll continue to suck... 4 more months till sem. break! :)

Ok, its now official.. I'm being exiled to Malaysia for two months this summer... Maybe they're punishing me for not going home to Tarlac for two months now... what can i do? Have nothing to do there, all my friends are either in Manila or abroad....

It's weird, but im actually kinda excited to be exiled to Sarawak (hopefully, near Kuching). Although i won't be able to tour the place during weekdays, i still have the weekends... Good though coz i dont want to spend that much, coz im saving for the Sarawak-Singapore-KL-Bangkok trip that im planning after the end of 2 months of internship.. hopefully, i would have saved enough for that trip... i checked out the websites and i was relieved that i only needed to take one plane ride (Kuching to Singapore). All the other places can be reached by train and according to the site, and hopefully, , its pretty cheap... :) Hopefully, this plan of mine pushes through...

Neil's Birthday (Guys Night Out). Neil treated 14 of us last night to dinner. The Chinese resto was called Spring Deer and its in Tomas Morato.. The food was actually okay, especially the Chinese Beef Steak... after the dinner and the bonding (actually bashing) session, we went back to the dorm(around 12 midnight)... but since people still wanted to go out and bash each, we went to Eastwood... original plan was starbucks but we went to Jack's Loft instead.. recommended deserts : I Declair and Jack's Cheesecake...

Anyways, we arrived at the dorm at around 3 am.... the ateneo guard even gave us a warming "You should follow the curfew, i dont care if you have an ateneo car sticker!" hahaha.. but since im already sleepy at that time, i dont care.. haha..

still no classes tomorrow! but i need to start my philo synthesis paper tonight already... crap!

im sleepy now.. and need to wake up later at 7 pm.. so gotta go, later!

Well, what can i say? this is a special day coz its my buddy Neil's birthday... so, Happy 19th Birthday Neil! One more year and unfortunately, you're not going to be a teen anymore... :)

IT'S NOT A SAFE WORLD. After econometrics class, Gerald told us that his car (Honda City I think) was carnapped. In our screwed up world, the battleground for terrorists and counterterrorists, maybe its not you know news. But the thing was his car was stolen when it was parked right outside their house! What the hell is happening to this world? Anyways, they didnt notice it got stolen coz he didnt have a car alarm.. so to those who dont have one, have one installed coz u never know, i might steal, i meant carnappers might steal your car..... even when it is in your own backyard.

HISTORY LT2. This is the only time i'll brag about my score coz im really feeling UP right now.. I've already forgotten about the "incident" during last weeks test. And i guess she already forgot it too.. no more uncomfortable moments with her.. TG! She even praised me in class coz i got the highest score in all her classes =). Anyways, although its good for me, i pity my other classmates since many of them got a low score this LT... 1 point curve... too bad i was their classmate.... maybe they might kill me... hopefully, since i performed pretty well in all the LTs, papers and requirement, im already assured of exemption but i dont want to put my hope too high.. there's still the presentation.....

LUNCH. I was going to have lunch with Lau and Chino this afternoon but i wasnt able to.... Needed to fix some stuff in the dorm eh... Sorry lau and chino, i know sobrang "badtrip" na kayo coz parang always no ako sa mga lakad natin.. dont worry, i think that'd be the last one... hehehe..

HELL DAY Thursday! Today is 7.5 hours class day. After enduring 4.5 hours of lectures and that awfully super boring philo class, i started to walk toward CTC for another 3 boring hours discussing about the economics of mining and water... really, its true.... anyways, as i was buying "turon" (lol) i saw Jonas and Kriselle in the "mini caf" in CTC, and to my suprise, free cut daw eco 185.14.... supposedly, the seniors are taking their final exams so there is no space for us undergrads.... my take on this, go ahead, the classroom is yours....

Anyways, speaking of those who will graduate, good luck to all of you, last day of college today right?! good for you.. for us juniors, one more year of hell....

CALM BEFORE THE STORM. Since its EDSA day tom, no class... and since i have no classes during mondays, i have in my hand a four day weekend... So what to do with it? well, since HELL MONTH starts next week, i guess id just finish the requirements due next month (specifically, philo and env. eco synthesis).. and also, have time to go to wack-wack and fix the internship thingy! yihee!

PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE. Dont praise me for being studious (though id appreciate it) coz this is just a pre-emptive strike.... i have so many requirements to finish and stuff to study that if i dont "strike" at it this weekend, the hell month will, in substance, be a double-hell month...

ON THE NEWS: Yes, i read the newspaper.... actually, i always make it a point that i read the newspaper everyday coz i think one should be aware of what is happening in one's country.... and in a country like the philippines, the news tend to get really interesting.. haha... thanks to trapos everywhere...

Anyways, the Pope was returned back to the hospital according to CNN... hmmmm, i hope he'd be okay.. since he's the only pope i knew, im voting him the best pope of the century.... let's pray for his recovery..

Since i dont have anything to say na and i really want to watch the Simpsons already, I think i'd end with this..

just a thought: We all know that the British was able to conquer the Philippines and that they stayed here for one and a half years right.. anyways, what if the British didnt give us back to the Spaniards after the war ended? What would the Philippines be like if now it was the British who colonized us? Maybe we'd be like Hong Kong... hmmm..... damn Brits, you shouldnt have given us back to the friars.... I could have been a British citizen by now....

Signing out, mArc {",)

Freakin' Internet!!! I really can't understand why the hell ateneo won't allow us to use the internet until 6 am in the morning... We are paying millions for this service yet no one in the freaking Ateneo gets to use the net from 1 am to 6 am... isn't this a waste of money?! Trying to reason with us, they say that we dormers might not be able to study if they let us have it till 6 am... but isnt that the personal decision of every freaking internet user?! if he fails in a test becoz he stays up late, its his fault! Let him be damned, not all of us..

CONSTANTINE. To pacify my anger and anxiety coz of the mystery of the missing jacket, we decided to watch a movie last night. Its either Metroeast or Gateway.. Since metroeast is so mundane already, we watched in Gateway... The movie was good, and i'd give it a 4/5... I really didnt expect the villain to be that person... I guess not only us humans can concoct such evil schemes... Bravo! i guess i'd be checking out Constantine comics... now, who has some?

WEDNESDAY:

i woke up late again this morning ("the wednesday routine") and i was again late for econometrics class (thank god Aaron was absent). As usual, i was not able to understand anything that was being discussed in econometrics (Stationary shit, etc.). I tasked myself last night to study before class but since the lost jacket incident happened, screw it!... Anyways, during class discussion (since i can't understand anything) , i fell into this deep state of reflection... I wondered whether the reason i was going to econometrics class was to be able to study and learn or to just be able use the internet... when i turned on my computer and realized the internet wasnt working, I knew... I was going to the class for the internet. Poor Marc... What the hell is happening to me? Oh well, the test is still in March... fuck it! Im so gonna be regretting this in the future..

After class, i went to the library to get the sample synthesis paper for philo class in one of the xerox machines there... I'd write what happened here, but i won't, its in the top ten most stupid things i've done in my life and im afraid your impression of me might go further down the drain... if you want to know, talk to me personally....

Going back to the dorm, i realized that it is so freakin' hot! I already took a bath again but it is still so damn hot... Since the only room thats airconditioned here in the dorm is the study room, i just went there to study... and i think id be spending the rest of the night there after i write this thing...

The Malaysia Internship. I'm still not sure if this gig would push thru.. I havent talkd with Ahia Paul yet since i submitted my documents and he's still in malaysia... Anyways, the past few weeks, i've been weighing the pros and cons of going there... Right now:

PROS:

1. I get to buy a new laptop
2. I get to experience being alone in a foreign land
3. I get to meet new interesting people (hopefully)
4. I get paid

*I'm out... If you think of another one, tell me...

CONS:

1. If its hot in this country, then i'd be much hotter there... I'd be living in hell for the summer...
2. I have to find a place to stay, ship my things there, and all that bull crap
3. I wont be here during my birthday
4. technically, i'd not be able to have a vacation

Anyways, its still February and things can still change so hopefully this gig will be settled in March..

it's 6:08 pm, and i think i need to go back to study already... have to write the synthesis paper for environmental eco pa later so.. im signing out early... maybe id write another one later before midnight.. bye guys!


P.S. SONG OF THE MONTH : The Scientist - Coldplay

Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry
You don’t know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions
Oh lets go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a silence apart

Nobody said it was easy
Oh it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said that it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I’m going back to the start


**Since i watched wicker park, i can't stop playing this song.. it gets through me, what can i say... anyways, enough of this... need to study.. bye again!

I started the day right today - I woke up on time, 8:00 am... My first class, Asian History, is still at 1030 but i needed to burn the cultural video about Hong Kong pa and it up on the laptop... Showed the video (which I made) to my groupmates and they loved it! (I thought it was great!) Wasn't able to show it to my two French groupmates though... but i guess that's ok..

Anyways, Dev. Econ was ok... The lecture finished early and we decided that our group would report on the NFA.. kinda boring but all of the other topics were boring too (rural-urban migration, unemployment, etc)....

Philo class sucked! we had a quiz and then he finished our discussion on Philosophy and the Idea of the Infinite... I totally wasnt able to relate or contribute coz first of all, the reading sucks! 20 sumthing pages and more than half of each page are footnotes....

When I finally was able to go back to the dorm, i thought id be able to relax and forget all the crap that happened today.. but then, another stupid crap happened.. My roommate VC blurted out that he lost his 2 jackets, i became curious coz i havent worn my fave red/blue mossimo jacket in a while... I checked my stuff and guess what, the FREAKING JACKET WAS GONE!!!!

I went all over the dorm looking for it to no avail... I called my mom if i left it at home but she said no... I remembered i wore it when we watched a ver, long engagement last last week... So since i can't find it in the freaking room, i checkdd with the laundry guys, and it wasnt there! they told me they'd check their place... Hopefully, tomorrow they'd find it there coz if they cant find it, thats 2500 bucks lost...

Need to sleep.. econometrics tomorrow... :)