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Truth, Justice And The American Aid

July 31st, 2006 by epoyz

Is it just me or is money running out too fast nowadays, like you’re trying to cup water with one hand?

of course you know i’m setting this up to hate on the government, right?

but fuck, man, what else can i do? parang kailan lang (actually two years ago, nung bago mag-eleksyon..), my most favorite activity is going to the supermarket to do my grocery. i just moved in my own place (dati roomies kami sa lumang office/apartment/hq..), and i just loved filling my new ref with food and drinks and other stuff that’s bad for your health.. meron pa kong stash ng junk food in a cool, dry place… i remember i used to go grocery shopping at least once a week, i spend an average of 1000 pesos for stuff that keep on piling in my ref (yung iba nari-raid ng mga kapatid ko..), and my single guy ref is just so pretty to look at.

fast forward to the present: nowadays i avoid going to the grocery that much because my thousand bucks for the week usually just covers my actual food consumption for, yes, one whole week. after all the cost-cutting i’ve made pa yun, dude. i actually catch myself quelling my hunger pangs in the middle of the night because i want to put off my grocery shopping until i actually need to buy stuff.

and i used to eat out a lot. ngayon sa bahay na lang, luto-luto para tipid. one big difference from two years ago saka ngayon? nowadays i actually look at the receipt and study it when i/we eat out. i look at the receipt and kick myself and piss and moan and curse under my breath the very assholes that reduced me to this state. bad trip magtipid sa pagkain, brod, but what can you do?

sino ba naman ang matutuwa? the whole family dined out a few weeks back and i was doing the computation of the bill in my head because, well you know, buffet price per head plus an estimate of the cost of bottomless drinks.. madali lang, di ba? i was absolutely mortified when the bill came: tama hula ko, the food and drinks came at 6500. plus service charge? okay, no problem, that’s cool..  E-VAT!?! 12 %?!! pootah!! not a fan of spending money needlessly, shelling out 780 to the government is just excruciating. especially if you watch the lame ads that they show in theaters, yung mga "from the office of the president".. alam mong inuuto ka lang, e. sample? sample?

PCSO’s "ang maong". huh?

e yung "magbayad tayo ng wastong buwis, para sa ikauunlad ng bayan ito.."? punyeta..

that radio ad for PAG-IBIG: "magkakasosyo tayo ditow, brow.. tulungan tayo ng gobyernow..". well, gudlak sa iyow, kapatid..

i once caught that ad about the E-VAT starting on my TV, i had to change the channel, lest i’d be compelled to throw my glass of iced tea (na dati e fresh orange juice pa, can afford pa tayo ‘nun..) at the TV screen. sayang naman.

saka, kung marami talagang natutulungan ang gobyerno, bakit dalawang taon na e si jolina magdangal pa rin ang pinapakita nila? ginamit pa nila yung mahirap na pamilya nung maysakit na bata. wala bang bagong natulungan? gumagawa na rin lang kayo ng commercial, e..

i almost had this rage in check, kita nyo naman i’ve mellowed down in ranting, kaso nagbasa na naman ako ng diyaryo. aba’y akala ko kasi, 728 million LANG yang fertilizer scam na yan. e anak ng puta e 3 billion pa pala, mantakin mo yown..sabi sa ‘yo, may mga bagay na mas masarap na di mo na lang nalalaman e. it became really painful when i learned about Marlene Esperat and her assasination. i’ve never known about her until i read this. here’s someone who tried to do something to stop this and she paid for it with her life. her children lost her.for trying to fucking do the fucking right thing.

she died for a cause and i don’t even know her. she risked her life and eventually lost it, but virtually no one is talking about her. when i was a kid i was always thinking of ways to go down a hero and be remembered. like the boy who stuck his arm in that leaking dike. or rizal, or at least those minor cast of heroes who did some minor shit or said some major things or wrote some serious shit against the oppressors. here’s a woman who did something heroic, and i didn’t even know about her. again, is it just me or a few years ago this would have raised a major furor? how about the kidnapped teacher during the elections and all other witnesses to this bullshit who are being kept quiet?

fact is, we don’t seem to care that much anymore. we just spread our butt cheeks and let them screw us over and over.

look at thailand: they went through the same shit, but they actually went ahead and filed criminal charges against their erring election officials. now they’re in jail, and rightly so. eh dito? harapan na ang dayaan, kurakutan at nakawan e para lang tayong naglalaro ng taguan at moro-moro.

the thais are probably looking at us with either disgust or dismay. tayo pa naman nagpauso ng people power, but now we’ve sunk so low we’ve taken indifference to another level. and you know that the opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference, right? love of country? what?

this dude gives his take on the state of the nation. that’s word. 16,000 soldiers and policemen deployed for the SONA? di naman ba masyadong halata yun?

is there light at the end of this? unless there’s an intervention or a more powerful force than this pinoy mafia that will join the fray, baka pa. so when i read this story, i thought, this could be really awesome, makikialam na ang US. see, involved na yung pera nila e, so i’m guessing they’re a tad pissed and want to get to the bottom of this. ikaw ba naman ang utangan, tapos gagamitin lang pala sa kampanya? sing, jocjoc, sing!

haaay, naku. i hate writing about this, but what can i do? sabi nga ni lewis black, it’s a great time for him to be a comedian, what with all that’s happening all around us. you just pick up the paper and there’s your material. for him practically the jokes just keep presenting themselves, di na niya kailangan mag-isip. if you report about stuff like this for a living, di ka mauubusan ng isusulat. but if you really love the place you’re living in right now, it must be really hard writing about it everyday. it’s the same shit with some new shit being piled on top of it every single damned day. buti na lang di ako journalist. i would hate to have to report on this. i’m happy to be perched on top of my branch in the tree, hurling insults and invective at passers-by like a mayna bird. with the occasional catcall for the la-diez, of course.

this is freaking way too much phobia to cram into a movie. i love it!

can somebody please confirm this for me? is sonny belmonte THIS good? is he all that and a bag of chips? ayun, bumaduy tuloy. seriously, when we lost raul roco i thought we’d be hard-pressed to find someone who is that good and that honest to give this country hope. paki naman, please.. i want to believe this. kasi naman si FVR yung isang nagsasabi, e, duda tuloy ako.

just found out that they’re going to include deleted scenes from superman returns in the dvd, but not an extended version the way they did the LOTR trilogy. i guess that’s good enough, i heard there are some awesome scenes there, but i would have loved it if they went on and filmed that one at ground zero. you can find that note here, along with a lot of other superman returns trivia.

so sabi nila, the superman returns storyline begins where superman 2 left off. di daw counted yung superman 3 and superman 4. you know i had many questions before, but this information just opened up a whole can of worms for me. saka ko na lang itatanong. for the meantime pag-aaralan ko muna itong Supermanica.

hey, haven’t cried for a while now but when i came across this man’s story i just lost it and sobbed.

not too comfortable about the postscript, but hey, at least the kids will be okay.

okeyokeyokey… nailabas ko rin ang aking distaste.. really hate this, but you stick with your team if you really love it. kaya di pa rin ako nawawalan ng pag-asa sa pilipinas. victory will be so much sweeter after all of this. sabi nga ni JT: "Hey, if you’re not with the team through tough times, you’re nothing but a bandwagon fan."

V for Vendetta na!

"Oh don’t talk of love" the shadows purr
Murmuring me away from you
"Don’t talk of worlds that never were
The end is all that’s ever true
There’s nothing you can ever say
Nothing you can ever do… "
Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name
Every night I burn
Every night the dream’s the same
Every night I burn
Waiting for my only friend
Every night I burn
Waiting for the world to end..

            - "Burn", The Cure from The Crow OST

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