fighting evil

february 15^th, i went to ayala to join my first protest action in five years.  last weekend, i joined my friends in an early morning jog for truth in UP. and the other day, i joined the huge rally in mendiola.   I was so looking forward to going to the rally in ayala today but i have so much to attend as I am leaving tomorrow for india.

so what made me finally get off the couch and go out and join rallies again?

for some months now, i’ve been glued in front of the televison screen watching the senate hearing on the zte deal.  from the time joey de venecia testified until jun lozada. i can only imagine the fear Lozada felt when he was picked up at the airport.  the police, of course, are denying that he was kidnapped. but even if he wasn’t, the fact that they are so willing to help him hide from the senate (and “hide” him for good, most probably) is enough reason to believe him.

it is no secret that gma is probably the most corrupt president the philippines ever had. and her husband? imelda would be a petty thief compared to him.  and son mikey is not far behind.  but to actually hear how much they have stolen and that’s just for one project! i can’t even imagine how much they have amassed from all the projects for all these years. there is no other word for it.  they are all evil.

how else can you stand earning millions of millions of dollars while millions of children cannot go to school and are dying of hunger. while people,even children, are killing themselves because of poverty. when people die from common diseases because they do not have access to medicine and health care. last week, i was watching the news and there was a story about old people being turned away from a public hospital because they cannot be accomodated anymore.  to see all that happen around them and yet continue stealing,  they have got to be evil.

in fact, GMA is worse than evil.  evil does not even begin to define her.  i am against death penalty, but i really wish to see her and her evil husband on the electric chair.  a painless death would be too good for her.  my nanay always told me never to wish other people ill, but really is GMA even human? she is a heartless, shameless… and well, yes, she is a lucky bitch. but her luck is going to run out real soon.

i’m leaving the country on the weekend and i’ll be gone for a little more than two weeks.  i wish i can come back to a corruption free philippines. but that’s asking for too much right now. (it will happen one day) in the meantime, i’ll settle for a gma-free philippines. if not, i will continue to join every rally, every protest action until we are free from that evil woman.

oust gma!

a new home

Welcome to my latest (and hopefully last) blog. And welcome to my world–sometimes crazy, many times boring and most probably corny (sorry!) and maybe a lot ungrammatical. but hey nobody’s perfect. and nobody’s reading, probably. except you. 

i have been blogging for sometime now.  i think i’ve got four or five blogs out there. the first two (or maybe three) are so empty. and i mean that literally.  i’m one of those people who keeps forgetting their passwords.  then there’s my friendster blog (http://queen_fisher.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/) where i’ve been quite active  ( at least in the beginning.)  i just wasn’t too comfortable with more than a hundred people getting an email every time i write an entry.  i’m sure only a handful of them wanted to read my thoughts on anything anyways.  still, i’m sending out an email to all my friends to announce this new blog.  just the one email, though.  (the handful who read my old blog would appreciate it, i’m sure.) 

and there was my secret blog where i unleashed all my angsts and issues. well, technically it wasn’t really a secret blog.  a few people have read it judging  by some hits and comments i’ve received. no one knew who i was though,  i hope!  it was really only a secret to those who knew me.  it was nothing exciting really.  just the usual petit bourgeois angsts and frustrations  which i’ll probably be venting here from now on.  no more secret blogs!  honestly, my secrets were not really that juicy anyways.   

only one friend knew about it and she has been asking for ages to read it, but i refused.  she gave up when i said i’ll tell her only when i’m dying (specially since i refused to knock on wood after i said the word “dying.” ) 

but guess what: i forgot the password to that one, too. typical.  so it’s really goodbye secret blog now.

hopefully, i won’t forget my password this time.  if that happens…i’ll be back on my friendster blog.  ugh!

 i won’t forget it this time.

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 my close friend mao gave me a wondeful gift last month.  she had my gadgets (laptop and cellphone) G-masked.  i initially wanted to cover it with either sunflowers or fishes  but i fell in love with the cherry design.  now they look so delicious all covered with cherries. makes me kinda hungry all the time. or i’m just cooking up an excuse to indulge in gluttony. again. as if i need an excuse for that.hahaha.   but i so love my gadgets now.  i was thinking of changing phones for quite sometime now but  i think my phone’s staying with me for maybe a year more. or longer.  suddenly, i’m in love with my phone again and even more in love with my laptop.  my husband should be jealous. 

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i’ve been trying to lose weight for some time now (since forever really!). i was quite successful in the first three months (i started october) then of course the holidays came and the annual barangay fiesta (in my husband’s home barangay in Isabela) on the first week of february then my father-in-law’s first death anniversary. i bought every magazine that promised i can avoid weight gain  during the holidays but i didn’t really have the discipline required.  and while i haven’t gained back everything i’ve lost, my new clothes (mostly  bought just before christmas) are telling me that the pounds are coming back really fast.  which really sucks!  it’s really hard to get back on track after all cardiac delights i’ve consumed in the last three months.  thankfully, i have good friends who just started jogging and invited me to join them.  it’s really more fun to exercise with friends.   so fun that on our first day we found ourselves laughing just all the time. i don’t think we really did much exercise that day. plus we kept encountering the hot monay man that we had to buy some from him and we managed to rest beside the siomai manang while we were eating the monay and you know what happened next. We now do it twice a week –the running and the eating (it used to be just once) and we’ve grown from a group of three to a group of five now.  and i heard, two more friends are joining us next week.  we were even asked if we wanted to join a marathon.  hahaha. good luck! our only problem now is how not to get distracted by all the hot monay, taho and siomai we see everytime we jog.   oh, well…

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be happy, everyone!