Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Noteworthy
I wish I was him
Jump starting the morning with your brother waking you up from a very very good dream (I was in the part where I was about to hold a girl's hand [you know who you are]) is not my idea of a perfect start. Why would a 14 year-old be so interested in rousing his demented older brother at 9:30 am? To tell him that he (the brother) needs to race to their store and tend it for a hefty three-hour period!
Oh well, I have been grumbling all summer long how I hate being a storekeeper, so I'll spare you from the gorey details and just go on with another session of senseless mental farting concocted into incoherent paragaraphs.
Politics. It's the dirtiest sport in the world. No rules. No laws. No nothing. This is where all hell beaks loose. Politics reminds me of something - a snakepit. Everybody's eating up anybody who is anybody.
Isn't it a big puzzle why would 5 individuals brave all odds just to inherit a whopping 4.063 trillion pesos worth of debts? Yup, that's how much a country with 84 million people and counting owes. I even overheard my grandfather say that each newly born baby already has a 54,000-peso bill in his/her credit card. That's one heck of a truckload of cash.
How in the world did we have such wads of monetary debts? Well, there are several reasons which most of the people already know but one interesting reason is because NAPOCOR is charging less for each kilowatt hour. You think your electric bill is high? Well, frankly, it's not high enough. NAPOCOR charges 2.22 pesos per KWH when the actual cost of power generation is 3.01 per KWH. NAPOCOR barely breaks even!!! That's why NAPOCOR is swimming in 100 billion pesos in cash needs, all thanks to the administration's "pro-poor" fantacism (as said by Max V. Soliven).
Man! Philippines isn't going down the drain, IT ALREADY IS!!! Please give me a reason to love being a Filipino...
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After seeing FPJ warding off the obvious issue that he doesn't know a scintilla about governing a country, it is quite unusual to see a prominent figure back out from the calling of being the top honcio of her country. I'm talking about India's Congress Party leader, Sonia Gandhi, the widow of ex-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Despite lacking political experience, she became the Congress Party's leader in 1998 by rescuing it from disintegration. Now, Gandhi is on the spotlight in being the next PM of India. But recently, after much protest and issues, she announced that she won't be running for PM.
Gandhi's decision in backing out is a very admirable one. She saw how the economy reacted when her plans for being PM was announced - and it wasn't good looking. Her backing out is a clear sign that she isn't in it for the power but for the good of the country. Though she is Italian-born, it is pretty obvious that she has one thing on her mind, the prosperity of India.
Gandhi is a worthy figure to be emulated by our presidential aspirants.
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Note to self 1: You hate it when your parents want to do something unexpectedly.
Note to self 2: You like Hey Arnold over Spongebob.
Note to self 3: Stop talking about politics.
Note to self 4: Stop fucking up.
Note to self 5: Start dreaming earlier.
Note to self 6: Whenever you get a chance, say how much you love her.
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