alone and flying

Bermido: The Scourge of Sikatuna Bliss I

2010-01-28T05:53:00.000-08:00

This woman calling herself Elsie Bermido who is known by another name or alias "Ligaya" owes a lot of people money in Bldg. IV Sikatuna Bliss Phase I. She has done a lot of people harm in our part of Bliss Housing.

Who is her protector and close connection in the UP Barangay that she is always given topmost priority and people are summoned to the Barangay Hall everytime she makes a simple telephone call?

In the previous month of December, a female Bliss resident called the attention of Elsie Bermido's daughter Jenny to please close the gate after she went inside. Instead of closing the gate, Jenny Bermido and later supported by her mother, shouted foul words at the Bliss resident and berated the resident down to size. Only for asking for the daughter Jenny to close the gate.

Does the Barangay Operations Center of DILG sanction this kind of act by the Barangay UP people? Does the DILG Secretary look happily upon these kinds of acts by the Barangay UP?

Calling on Sec. Ronaldo Puno. There is apparently a grave abuse of authority being done by the Barangay UP people in relation to Elsie (Ligaya) Bermido!

Kindly caution these people before anything harsh and untoward happens in the near future!

Peepo Pawah!!! and War in Mindanao...

2008-08-13T05:52:00.001-07:00

War is supposedly raging in Mindanao. Many lives are lost, bodies returning home in body bags. Mistakes are happening. All because certain people don't like us ordinary humans being happy, smiling, laughing, enjoying...

Someone said, soon it will be party time for the evil ones, once more. Mr. Shoolee might say, Peepoh Pawah! Peepoh Pawah! Peepoh Pawah! Alwes Peepoh Pawah! What can the Pleepeeno do but Peepoh Pawah! Emen!!! Emen!!!

There will be the left, the New Civil Society of Lesbians NCSL (with a superfashionistavacla now, Tita Fing), the political opposers, FPJ peeps, ERAP peeps, all strong and hale to create a full pack Peepo Pawah! Emen!!! Emen!!! Emen!!!

This time, the senator whose name sounds like pepper, or pimientos in Spanish, is saying that mommy Glo will want to stay in cozy Malacañang beyond the end of her term. Agree? In the meantime, there is haste in receiving and giving instructions to those who will partake of the Peepo Pawah! Emen!!! Emen!!! Emen!!!

Rounds and rounds of meetings will be held. Then the initial small, going to big mobilizations for the Peepo Pawah! Emen!!! Emen!!! Emen!!!

The rebel military might even join! What? The Peepo Pawah! Emen!!! Emen!!! Emen!!!

North Cotabato Vice Gov. Emmanuel Piñol is coming to town with his coterie of hangers: Ms. Isabel Climaco, M. Celso Lobregat, M. Eric Fabian, Gov. Jesus, Ama! Sta. Maria! Ina ng Diyos! Sacdalan, and will be heard at SC on their petition to stop the GRP-MILF peace pact. Isn't abortion a crime? Then Piñol of course is going to talk with the group that wants to hold, softly, now: Peepo Pawah! Emen!!! Emen!!! Emen!!!

Our good vice governor or governor of vice, will go back to Mindanao. But hey, Eid Kabalu is also a target as a true-blue loyal man of the movie King. He will also be talked by those that want, softer still, now: Peepo Pawah! Emen!!! Emen!!! Emen!!!

But forgive me really for saying, but nothing will come out of these idiocy. More will succumb in Mindanao to their deaths. But unless a miracle takes place in Manila all the Peepo Pawah in the world cannot make the opposition sit in Malacañang alongside their friends in the CPP and the Right but not Righteous, New Civil Society of Lesbos, rebellious Horus-inspired Church leaders, along with their immoral drug dealers, money launderers, kidnappers, bank robber friends.

In the end, Mr. Shoolee is right. Let us stop this maniacal Peepo Pawah! and War in Mindanao! Let us give our tired country and people some respite from the soaring high prices of oil, food and all other commodities! If you the lot can't be patriotic, at least be decent enough to commit hara kiri. Shit! Emen!!! Emen!!! Emen!!!

intimacy with God, devotion to man

2008-01-22T22:58:00.000-08:00

for a long time, i was a catholic. now i know not what my religion is, but as far back as i can tell, i enjoyed calling myself Christian. it made me proud. perchance, it must have been my formation. i was brought up a roman catholic and knew no other faith besides.

still and all, one remains God fearing and at the same time, adoring, loving, constantly inspired by a Supreme Being who is the Maker of all things, God.

long ago, i wanted to write a monograph entitled: intimacy with God.

i know that i have had severely serious battles with unpleasant and undesirable, short of alien, people in this world. these are the people who take drugs and do not wish to better their life. the merchants of drugs, weapons of destruction, and those that enjoy the life of other sorts of crime instead of that of gainful employment. these people are excluded from the subject of the missives i wrote below and they shall be the subject of another blog. in the same league as these people -- if it is right to call them that, are the high hats and hyfalutins of society that condescend upon all of us day in and day out.

what i wanted to write about, is our image of Christ, Jesus, God, etc. vis-a-vis the very person seated next to us in the bus, FX, train or standing beside us on the street, walking past us in the mall, along sidewalks, or wherever at whatever time.

it was about, short of being an obssession, one's desire to portray Jesus as someone different from those that paint him, sculpt him, editorialize him, etcetera, etcetera in a manner that is not truly what he is.

we all know that picasso had sought out an italian model for his Jesus. and since catholicism sprouted out of rome's belly, the image we have of Jesus is italian. roman.

far from the truth therefore are the real features of Jesus. so are the real features of the God who is his father. even the anti-thesis of God, is still inspired by the same images romans have taught us all.

Jesus is jewish, his features that of an israelite. surely, he cannot look like a roman as his images show, paintings of him depict him to be and all that. Jesus, as far as we all know, was the son of a carpenter. therefore he was poor. and since as a poor man, he travelled a lot, mud caked upon his feet. sandals, in those days, were poor cousins of the italian closed shoes of today. and even then, if he wore the italian closed shoe pairs in his sojourns, they would not last him that long because he never stopped walking, or so i am made to understand by the bible.

Jesus would be closer to woody allen who looks like the stereotypical jew. or his arab cousins. sunog ang balat, matigas ang balat, buhok, ilalim ng mga kuko, kagitna ng mga daliri, sa nagputik nang buhangin, and his appearance would be closer to our hobos, or taong grasa.

what will it take then, for us to have intimacy with God?

when we are beside our less fortunate brothers who look like shit, we squirm everytime? when someone stinks and smells real foul, we make hideous faces? when we are beside someone with ketong, all the hairs on our body go berserk?

that kind of instant reaction shows our real level of intimacy with God.

it is not the mere tolerance of our less fortunate brethren that we are able to literally hold them in our hands, brush our bodies against theirs, inhale their stink.

imagine, when we say, we love Jesus. what have we been loving him for, all those years? or in which and in whose image did we love him for, anyway? in that italian, fair skinned, handsome, very gentle-looking face, etcetera, etcetera?

let me call that mestiso intimacy. it's half and half. a portion of this and a portion of that. but never whole, never pure, never ever reliable, credible.

at the end of it, it will never be intimacy. mas mabuti pa ang hindi nakakita, o ang nananampalataya nang walang nakikita (tulad ng bulag sa pagkabata) at mas payak at dalisay ang kanyang pag ibig sa Diyos.

perhaps, if i were born blind, and that up to now i cannot see, i wouldn't care if i sit beside a thousand people all looking like hobos. or if i were swept into the middle of the land of the most wretched looking people in the universe. there is where i will find Jesus.

that, is true intimacy.

with Jesus Christ, with God.

(To be continued)

In memoriam, Adrian

2007-12-23T07:47:00.000-08:00

months ago, i wrote a tribute to a great man, adrian cristobal a contemporary of my elders. something about adrian that my elders -- most of them gone now --- used to say became firmly imprinted on my brain, he was a damn good writer. like the late blas ople, jolly benitez and their ilk, even to an extent kit tatad, adrian's writing surprised you. they used to say.

it made you think about how someone could write that good. a fellow writer of mine, belen, wherever she may be now did not have good words for adrian the way my elders do. she reads adrian cristobal, she reads about him, she probably hears of him alright but there's a mountain of difference if you saw the man and knew him and then you get to read what he has written.

that is the case with my elders. they rode with adrian in the lowly jeepneys, they ate lugaw, goto, arroz caldo, mami and other cheap dishes to stave off hunder with him in the poor man's carinderia / turo-turo, in small restaurants in quiapo, drank liquor with him, walked for tens of kilometers when they had no fare money. still that did not stop the man from rising above his stations.

that, most of all is what i admire deeply about the man. i knew adrian only from my elders, my father and his associates; saw him only from very far and wrote silly letters to him and his daugther who i got to meet once and only once. i got to meet jolly benitez more often, even chat with him in small talk on one or two occasions. not more than that.

but adrian, jolly and their ilk, to me will never die. like ninoy aquino, whose death to my mind is still in a suspended state, they will live forever.

surely i care that many will remember and honor their memory when all of them are gone. but as for me, it is enough and just fitting that knowing them, however superficially in person, albeit deeply from their fine repute and larger than life contributions, as well as their positive and benign effect upon other humans, gives me the chance to nurture the living imprint of their persona, their intellect and works.

in that sense, adrian, blas ople, ninoy and hopefully alive for a much longer while jolly benitez, in both the innermost recesses and conscious parts of my brain will always be animated imprints. always alive. always vibrant, oozing with life and their ideas, challenging the world and rocking the wretched, lazy dogs in their sloth and sleep. like me, and a few others besides...

so to you, an icon that i look up to, adrian cristobal, i shall not mourn. i shall not weep. i shall not feel the loss. for there shall always be in my mind, in my heart perchance too, in my soul, that ever stirring icon and a living and breathing script that is the quintessential epitome of the gift that you bequeathed on me though not on purpose but happily received after all.

pouvez vous long de phase mon cher idole!

begone apostles of the order of thule!

2007-12-22T22:56:00.000-08:00

----- that next year, the year of the [ 鼠 ] rat, will be a peaceful year for the philippines.
----- that any ill wind that the jinn and the bearers of the jinn or their multitude, by ones, tens, hundreds and by the thousands, will be repelled by good karma of the peace loving and deeply spiritual filipinos.
----- the twin siblings of hitler of recent times that worship horus and his ilk under the order of thule or the dark kingdom of satan be struck by the fearsome lightning of god's fury.

How many souls more?

2007-01-30T06:31:00.000-08:00

Mayor Benito Astorga. Another soul they taketh...

The first soul they taketh

2006-12-16T00:21:00.000-08:00

Congressman Bersamin, Dec 16, 2006. Today.

Cry for help

2006-12-13T23:59:00.000-08:00

someone said, a lot of souls will be sacrificed. i ponder what it will eventually mean, since i don't know what that friend of mine was talking about.

can anybody help me please?!?

Ewwww! Someone dipped into my brain

2006-08-05T10:35:00.000-07:00

what is your brain pattern?

Your Brain's Pattern

Your brain is always looking for the connections in life.
You always amaze your friends by figuring out things first.
You're also good at connecting people - and often play match maker.
You see the world in fluid, flexible terms. Nothing is black or white.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

yes it is

2006-06-26T07:25:00.000-07:00

i'm fascinated by intelligent design. but i have a lot on my mind right now. keeps coming back all over and over.

n dimensional circuit
energy regeneration
etcetera
etcetera

i bet that lousy phys prof will be opposing again if i rewrite it all down once more. what can he do? we live in a free market of ideas, right? he'd be too chauvinist to just enjoy picking on others. even ancient badong enriqx likes people who have creative spunk, perhaps because he likes to think he's too creative by chance. eh he eh he eh he eh he.

good thing running across that ses with a penchant for ID. nice. blogs well too. hmmm. what a day, getting to the basics once more. sbeen a long, long time. feels good!!!

i know

2006-05-31T13:25:00.000-07:00

i know. i knew then as i kept looking at you. you doubted that it was me after all, or hadn't you? the hair, the hair was offkey. the height was fine. and then later the talk. was fine. and it's all ended now. what do i do? write missives to myself, pretend as if nothing ever transpired...

peace be to me

2006-03-01T02:53:00.000-08:00

hmmm... i'm at peace with my soul, as desiderata admonishes. am i? hope so. it's been a bad year, 2005. suddenly, 2006 is a better one, so what can i say? kudos! maybe it's the pi yaos and the dzis having their effect. and chi lieng (dat it?) working with his kitchen knife.

haaay! i love this year, really! it's a beaut. never been like this year since i opened my eyes on the first day after turning really old and 30. its been centuries since then. and now this 2006 this, eh he eh he eh he! it beats all of the other years put together!!! yeeeey!!!

i wish it were for you all out there fellow bloggers! so i say every night, peace be to me (and prosperity and love and all the kindness and gentleness and tenderness in the world!) you say that's selfish? ya bet it is. eh he eh he eh he!!! heeek!!!!

the good thing about yesterday, today, tomorrow

2005-12-03T13:56:00.000-08:00

it has been a lifting experience all in all. first manny pacquiao; then precious lara quigaman; then the sea games!

a lot will be coming next! whew!!! so much to absorb, so much inpuuut!!!

of course there's the Big One above who's always looking upon us. showering us nearly everyday with more and more blessings, thank you so very much.

as for me, my little project (book), is going on and will not so long become the full length story i had dreamt it would be.

to all those who are helping this beautiful country move forward, kudos to all of you! may God bless you a million times!!! and more power to you!!!

Bereft of Soul and Reason

2005-10-25T01:53:00.000-07:00

The enemies of this government have lost their reason for existence. They have run out of fabrications, canards, lies, half-truths, stupid and idiotic rhetorics, and all their inane excuses for "protest".

All they have left, is their overarching ambition to grab power, to be at the top of the heap, to control the country by whim.

These sorry excuses for humans, compleat nincompoops and mindless animals are now resorting to violent means. They plot to kill once and for all, President Arroyo whom they had wanted dead since day 1.

For some some time now, they have been resorting to extreme, radical measures. The CPP side of their forces engage the government troops in violent attacks almost every day in the provinces.

Their so-called "protesters", mostly recruits of the communists either the lumpen proletariat --- the poorest of the poor --- or the small workers in farms in the country sides, are battling the keepers of the peace in the cities --- most especially in the City of Manila.

Their deep frustration will soon manifest in more and more violence that at a certain point, the people themselves will grow tired of their mindlessness and take them out of the picture.

Let us all hope and pray that they stop. While it is true we have nowhere to go but up, these people are pulling us all down.

Shrinking peso vis the price of oil

2005-09-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

The price of crude oil has been mercilessly fluctuating. It is good that the Philippines is not a major oil producer. The danger of having natural calamities and / or man-made disasters like the raging destabilization of the country could have made us a more pitiable sight were we part of the OPEC.

Like Venezuela, we would have run short of our national production level. And OPEC will declare us quota deficient for what, perhaps hundreds of thousands of barrel per day. Nevertheless, U.S. predicts that crude oil price will reach U.S.$65.00 per barrel by 2006. In the United States, gasoline will be sold at the peso equivalent of Php128.8 per liter by that time. We are still fortunate that at a time when gasoline price in the U.S. went up to as high as our peso equivalent of Php100+++ per liter, our present gasoline pump price is still Php30+ per liter, one-fourths of prices in the U.S. and nearby countries. While Russian crude is in the stages of being further perfected in purity and moisture and other content, its role in the current global oil crisis has been significant. At least, it has been able to bring down the prices in its sphere of influence over certain selected periods in the past months of 2005. Before we even raise our pump prices to more than Php 50.00 per liter of gasoline, let us all pray and do our small share of individual or group lobbying and influencing --- or in whatever else minor or the least manner we can to help. And let us just all hope for positive developments to hit the world market between now and 2006. So that by stroke of divine or human intervention oil prices around the world would not necessarily strike the $65 mark and instead, fall into the $40 or below level if at all that were possible. While this is wishful thinking, there's no fee for dreaming...

I can only wonder what effect to our economy will be if the implementation of the directives to transfer to CNG will finally push through. This is one of the best positive developments that can happen to our country, outside of the international arena.

The CEO in the UN

2005-09-12T19:51:00.000-07:00

The CEO will sit as Chair of the UN Security Council!

It’s a good thing. The CEO being in the UN. I just hope I was the one commissioned to do her speech, eh he eh he eh he. Who knows, that just might happen?

Good luck, Madame CEO!!!

God be with you!!!

Katrina

2005-09-11T21:01:00.000-07:00

I remember in 1992, we gathered a lot of people involved in disaster in this country. Only 19 agencies out of at least 24 came. We fed them lunch and gave them our view about the need for public warning systems. They appreciated the idea but they could not work on it then.

Six years thereafter, a community type of public warning "human network" was experimented in the vicinity of Mayon Volcano. They claimed that when an explosion occurred at Mayon Volcano, there were 0 percent casualties.

This kind of network might not work for another killer earthquake accompanied by a tsunami - the proportions of which would be in the likes of Indonesia et al. Or Hurricane Katrina in the U.S.

A public warning system is effective. It works in tandem with a precision system for disaster detection.

The Philippines is within the earthquake belt. It had already suffered several killer earthquakes in the past. Volcanic eruptions. Mini tsunamis - like the one in Quezon Province.

Definitely, we need a warning system.

Personally, I don't think it has less value than what our prized bright minds are propagandizing all the time, that they need to have people support so they can take over a little office by the River.

What's so special about that office by the River if when there is no warning system, the moment they sit on that office, the River overflows and kills them all without nary an advance sign or aviso? The heck with these idiots.

It is hoped that we can set our priorities right and do away with things stupid, reckless and utterly mediocre. Let's pray that we will not have a disaster in the magnitude of Indonesia-Sri Lanka's tsunami and U.S.' Katrina, for now.

after the storm

2005-09-05T04:46:00.000-07:00

isang has passed and the new storm that developed was in batasan. a lady with multi-colored head gave a press conference and joined cory aquino, jesusa sonora poe aka susan roces, bishop antoni tobiyas as well as the herd of hostile representahives and all became pacific, calm, sober, solemn, meek, humble, loving, joyful, full of temperance, long-suffering, gentle, good and most of all, very devout and faithful to God, before the media cameras.

then the storm began outside batasan where these people's followers were shouting oust the CEO, oust the CEO. and the herd proceeded like sheep full of quietitude, peace and love in their hearts to the congress.

after sitting in their chairs, everyone of the herd transformed into monsters. they caused caustic attacks against the government to be overplayed with media on their lovely faces. their team players initiated violent skirmishes inside and at the door of the house of representatives. then their body language told everyone, they were no longer calm, peaceable, joyful... in a gesture of utter vehemence, they flung documents on the impeachment case against the CEO into the air, the floor, into their own faces and bodies and walked out of the session hall of congress. presidents cory and jesusa poe and little president troll of makati, stood up and joined the walk-out. seeing that their script needed a little caterwauling, the lieutenants of poe, cory aquino, corazon soliman of the multi-colored head and multi-billion ngo bonds skim fame, hooted and shouted at the administration congressmen.

i seem to have a terrible inspiration for new book. some of it relates to the scene described above. i am now selecting a title from my strongest potentials:

24 (PLUS MONTHS) OF CONGRESSIONAL INACTION

DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE OF MONGOLOID POLITICS

REIGN OF INUTILITY IN RP POLITICS

OPPOSITION’S POWER MARATHON

THE HEROISM OF THE TURDS

VAUNTED WAR FOR TROOT

GARCILLANO “TIP” CONTROVERSY

CRISIS IN SANITY

CRISIS OF THE INSANE

KITSCH ON CENTER STAGE

SAGA OF MISSPENT HOUSE BUDGET

NINCOMPOOP CREATURES ON THE LOOSE

IDIOTS LORDING OVER MEDIA

CORY AND SUSAN’S LOVE TALE

EWAN KO BA SA INYO! PWEH!!!

MISDIRECTED LEGISLATIVE TIME

REIGN OF MENTAL INSTABILITIES

horrible!!! terrible!!!

2005-09-05T04:34:00.000-07:00

someone sent me a picture. but i do not pity the subject of the portrait. i think she deserves it and rightly so.

hero

2005-08-21T11:58:00.000-07:00

on august 20 the chief of a humungous religious group who kept praying over national television for peace. peace. peace. unity. a former CEO spoke during the event that coincided with the birthday celebration of chief. i was waiting for any untoward language. thank the Lord there was none. really none. there were even citations of verses from the bible. (he did come with the main villains of ayala, the man with a milk-product sounding name and the dark troll of makati.)

meanwhile, on the following day, villainesses cory a. and daughter of her capataz ms. denky j.s. joined the incumbent CEO at the edsa shrine. they did not speak awful language during the edsa event but denky j.s. fired her mouth off again after the program commemorating the death of a hero senator.

i guess, ex-ceo big fat shRajah is more my hero for the day. i only wish and pray he will stay that way for a long, long time to come.

haay! salamat

2005-08-09T10:47:00.000-07:00

hmmm.... all's quiet on the political front. good. it's very tiring all in all, having to suffer all those people yakking about the sins of others, massing in the streets like they have nowhere to go and nothing else better to do. it's been several years. all those exposéings do not appear to have a stop though. as if that maricon, that homme du troisième genre is too inspired to make her witness academy a star for all seasons, for ever more.it's been more than three years of crying by the friend of movie king's people that they shouldn't have been stripped of power.it's been more than one year of nuisance by these wonderful estupidos about supposed election fraud. after they deliberately forgot to field watchers due to the costs, and they didn't have the money, mind you, they determined to make it hard for all of us to breathe. they will pollute the air with all that bulls_t that they were cheated and they deserve to sit in power instead of the CEO.i remember distinctly that it was plastered all over the papers that signore manuel portesiti who was one of movie king's closest campaign leaders was accused of kidnapping in june last year by muslim comelec local official hadja rashma hali from Basilan. ms. hali said movie king's lawyers tried to force-coerce-blackmail-threaten her with things they would do to her so that she will testify against the CEO and her government of supposed cheating in the elections.ms. hali filed the charges with the nbi and unfortunately for movie king's lawyers in the then ongoing congressional canvassing they were included in the charges. the lawyers walked out of the canvassing proceedings as a result of ms. hali's case against them. those lawyers denounced ms. hali and government to be engaged in "harassment" against them.--- so they were posturing as if they were supposed to be the good guys. how quaint!signore manuel portesiti is the big boss of that spoiled ex red face who, seven months later, claimed that they were the ones that fire bombed that television studio's ob van in mandaluyong. ¡ese bárbaro! remember how that TV station's ob van burned like hell in january this year? no one was arrested for being the perp of that sad happenstance.aaay! at least having to suffer all those noisy brats and unwell people in the streets of ayala will no longer be a problem.if only i had magic powers by the time they will do it again, i'd make the earth underneath the street open up into a wide gaping chasm and swallow all of them up, including that dark skinned troll of makati and the wife of movie king as well as all those red faced idiots who keep blaming imperialism for how they got sick in the head because of the illness of their moms.haaay!

Is this Love? Is this truly Love?

2005-08-03T12:16:00.000-07:00

You will envy this guy. Before all these happened, his mom was always seen by his side for she went with him (or he went with her) wherever. As in wherever. Where there was a little money to scrape and scrounge. Then mama and son team became somewhat a tiddy biddy greedy, they wanted millions. And so did they get their millions but they ran afoul of some people.

So now, mama and son, taking millions anew, are in the limelight. The son in front, and mama at the back. But look Minimi, son has two other mamas!

Scoundrel of the first order and a former lady chief who took bribes from a cigarette company she filed a case against

Scoundrel and his other 'mama' a renegade church official

in fairness

2005-07-18T09:07:00.000-07:00

in all fairness to the big, fat blob of a person who sits at the High Council of Elders (Read: Senate), he was bruited about in 1999 or thereabouts, or was it later (?) by his own bro, then an Under Minister of Estrada in Farming, that he "might just become PREZ / CEO" by the operation of an accident. hmm...

so, God forbid, we may have edsa III that will essentially be an accident, just to make Kuya Fat Blob the CEO / PREZ. but why should he become that, anyway? well, accidentally, it would be the ideal situation because then, the former Estrada Under Minister, who wanted to undertake oodles and oodles of money making projects for him and Kuya FB at Farming, could now take on the entire country for his money making purposes. and Kuya FB can build more airports, more seaports, more roads and highways, bridges and buildings so that they can have more skimming operations. well and good.

in fairness to the old woman with an almost reverent penchant for the long staff of Abraham, perhaps it is not becoming PREZ / CEO but being a statesperson that is her true reason for asking the sitting one go down. perhaps because she is such a heroine of admirable qualities, a role model as the behavior of her own daughter attests to, no one should be able to fault her for whatever it was that she had recently uttered. it was sincere. there was no gold bullion behind it; it was uncomplicated, she will not share her commissions from the Marcos wealth needlessly and make the situation untenable.

on the other hand, in true fairness to dinky, butch, et al, they do not necessarily want to install Kuya FB but to reinstall themselves one of these days... they do not really want to turn their back on government service: where government is the only way a disowned "ngo" expert can siphon off money from since the bigger and more reliable funders from europe have already rejected them for engaging in the embezzlement of funds intended for the poor beneficiaries they are supposed to be serving.

in fairness to the recent resignees, they merely want to be in the limelight again. they mean no harm to the people, to PGMA, neither do they want to have her killed just lke Estreada.

in fairness to manoy kit, to allien p - the atterney of manoy, they merely wanted the entire country, the entire planet, to hear a tape made by manay ... the most famous chismosa in the High Council of Elders. manay really likes this job, and she has elevated it into a High Art, thus befitting its place in the High Council.

well, in fairness to manay, she did not really want to be presidentita; she just wants to be the reason for a little rock and roll and if people bleed, die and rot in the country, well that is penultimately one fault that she will not want to own. as far as she is concerned, her cases are hounding her left and right that she even had to strike a deal with the devil. well, now that the devil supposedly affixed the signature to their pact, she might just be able to get away with her youthful, girlish misdeeds. and so she would not want to be party to another series of faux pas. let them do their thing, she will only start the music, light the fire and get thee rock and rolling...

in fairness to that troll the dark hoodlum of makati, there is every reason to hold a picnic in his town that is made boring by the impersonal buildings, the intimidating structures and silent streets (on working hours) in his troll domain. its not just because trolls want to poke fun at people, no sir. its precisely because he, the troll, the dark gangland character, simply wants some fellows to have a little talent fee for rice and viands, free styro-packed meals, and of course, the enviable ride to the picnic site -- his troll domain.

in fairness to all the others who are being derogated to for attending picnics, and doing other things besides with the help of a stage, a megaphone or a sound system, they don't really have no grudge against the PREZ / CEO. all they want is gaeity in the streets, the little money from the organizers, the packed meals, the joy ride and the chance to cleanse their lungs by participating in shouting during the event.

in fairness to my friend who says, mapulitika daw ako, hay naku! ewan ko nga ba kung bakit tama siya! hindi ko naman talaga sadyang inibig ang ganitong maging palaisip ukol sa mga piknik, mga matatabang naghahangad ng kapangyarihan sa pamamagitan ng biglaang mga sakuna, mga later na nagpapakababa upang makasilo lamang ng bare-baretang pilak, ginto at iba pang yaman upang masunod lamang ang kanilang mga luhong magpiknik din, mga binabaeng mahilig sa kadramahan at bayolenteng pagwawala, at iba-iba pang samu't-saring mga bagay na hindi naman natatangi kundi sa karamihan sa ating mga pilipino ay naging pangkaraniwan na lamang.

in fairness to all these people who are now ruining the country, perhaps it is their birth right not to let us all sleep in peace...

perhaps, it is their God given gift to be the purveyors, of .... destab....ation.

not to be

2005-07-16T07:21:00.000-07:00

i know now that God had other plans for making me decide not to become president someday. look at what they are doing to the CEO. it's a damn shame that these people without any credibility at all are shouting at the top of their voices: down with the CEO, resign CEO, oust the CEO!

it has become a period of melodrama too. an old woman's daughter crying, her mother --- the old woman --- also stepping into the fray and asking CEO : resign you!!! a "commissioner" in that old woman's contract with a foreign government to transfer billions-worth of riches supposedly coming form europe shipped to the country before the war, is harping on the CEO's allies at the High Council.

they are forever cajoling the young and the soldiers to hasten the eruption of chaos and disorder. meanwhile, crime and its denizens are becoming bolder and bolder. one of these days, the London and Madrid bombings will make a repeat performance (again) here in manila. that will further incense the people and drive frustration and despair into the hearts of many.

why have all these people succumbed to the devil? thank God i am not becoming president.

one day, they will stop

2005-07-15T09:28:00.000-07:00

one of these days, those wonderful persons who keep creating all that noise and hoopla in makati, at mendiola, welcome rotunda, liwasang bonifacio, mehan gardens, plaza miranda, and asking the ceo to leave the post, will stop.

i don't really know how it will happen, but i have a very strong hunch it will happen. maybe God will strike hard at the hearts of these people, if they still have hearts. maybe they will be blinded by a bright light and thereafter see things differently. i really don't know. i am sure though, it will be just short of a miracle. but it is bound to happen.

for one, the cost is so intimidating. at 500 per person, inclusive of food, transport and "attendance fee", streamers, and the lot, the expenses could run to billions. even if dinky soliman, ging deles, mely nicolas-lewis, danny songco, their co-conspirators have 1.7 billion between them, some of it certainly have been spent or posted in time deposit accounts or invested. even if they use the london-based aid ngo that used to help with funds for erap's ouster, all of these will not be enough --- the money of the entire makati business club's group of 11 thrown in and willy parayno's hundreds of millions of skim from customs and bir as well as purisima's own earnings included.

erap's money and ping's chinese connections just won't make the funds unlimited.

that hoodlum in makati, however rich he is now, will certainly want to hold on to his "hard-earned" loot. so what he will dish out will merely be a pittance. plus, it is hard to let others know you've got so much skim, the anti-graft people will run after you. further, he has so many families to feed...

the infamous gangster of makati

neither the money of tita and cousin put together will turn the tide. it was bruited about that U.S.$200M advances (only) was deposited in tita's account created solely for the purpose of the deposit, in australia when she became presidentita. i don't know if this is confirmed. but as a fact, all the treasures in cousin's name that were previously Marcos', were not sequestered by PCGG. plus, all that skim that tita and especially her children got. i remember the malaya printed an item about tita's dyslexia, which was so advanced that Malaya said sometimes when her lungs collapsed, her brain stopped working although her involuntary actions still continue.

i wonder how much skim was derived from those moments of tita's dyslexic attack when those close to her would just shove a piece of paper in front of her and she would thoughtlessly just sign, whatever the cost to the country of her signing that document. how lowly our country had become during tita's reign. it is not a wonder why the palace people even might have encouraged her to just play play play mah jong all day and until the wee hours in the morning. otherwise, others might have discovered her dreaded disease and lose faith in government altogether. (of course miss renee saguingsing says, that she is the heroine of edsa. hmmm... hoy, you should just go on with your wheelings and dealings at heritage hotel and wherever your whims take you. stop meddling with the nation's affairs.)

true enough, tita became filthy rich. but i doubt she will want to spend all her money in just making one simple, teacherly ceo to resign or be ousted. no sir!

perhaps, that is what is providential in all of these. at least some people are happy that they are always paid to attend the rallies, even if the compensation is not something to brag about. although there are some who are not given their due, at least they had a free ride to the rally site and perhaps if they were lucky, would be served packed lunches or dinners or at least, merienda.

the enemies of this government somehow will develop that canny and highly extraordinary expertise of organizing picnics. well, at least dinky says that she possesses that quality already. maybe, she will enhance her party organizing savvy.

one day, i know all of them will run out of steam, cry in the rain, or even land in jail. in that case, they might even become heroes! wow, that is good. some who like to show off by doing hunger strikes, will have something that others have only been seeing in their dreams: weight loss! hmmm... i think that i should join them, ei?

and so, when all the noise and the brouhaha stops, let's all rejoice and pray to God. at least, those people have come to their senses after losing other people's money and their own on occasion.

what is making apprehensive however is this: what if suddenly everyone gets tired of these rally organizers, picnic organizers, party organizers making their Panawagans, creating all that ruckus and racket in the country's prime financial center yet? what if suddenly everyone did not snub them but simply abandoned the entire country and went to any other available place in the planet except here?

well, in that case, the rabble rousers will now be the leaders that they want to be and have feverishly been eager to obtain to. now they will rule over all the land! hep hep, hurray! well, good for them. good for them.