Where were you when Ondoy came?

Just this recent week, Ondoy landed in the Philippines. Along came floods in the metropolitan areas of Manila that swept away everything with it; including the kitchen sink. And I was surprised just this moment since I saw a picture of Hon. Mikey Arroyo circulating in a community site.

Hon. Arroyo is crouching on the floor. Apparently inside a liquor store. What bothered me greatly is the description of the picture. He was inside a liquor bar (apparently check out the merchandise) during the peak of Ondoy's wrath at the Metro.

Then came another issue after the picture circulated the web; the regulation of the community site where the picture was circulated. Honestly, I don't give a sh*t to what Mikey does in his private life. Nor to what brand of champagne he drinks.

So what if he is looking at the merchandise? Maybe he needs to have some sort of posh drink while he looks at the people frantically screaming around him.

So what if he's in a liquor store? Maybe he needs something to warm himself up for the cold weather when some families in Rizal are freezing cold in their rooftops.

So what if he wasn't helping? He has one thing that we don;t have ladies and gentlemen and that is SEAT OF POWER and the right to do whatever he pleases.

Plus he has lots and lots of cash.

So why are people disturbed about this? Because Mickey himself is also disturbed. He is disturbed that his private life is now being transparent. Remeber, politics in the Philippines is not about transparency, it is how to get things done. The picture depicts his actions in a very comprehensibly wrong time. If he was photographed during December people won't give a care. But this is Ondoy we are talking about. Ondoy.

When 6 months of rainfall fell in a day.

When state of emergency was in over 20 provinces.

Then I asked myself, where are those budding politicians? Are they also inside a wine house that time? Are they relaxing in a spa? Or sleeping soundly in their posh, first-class villages free of mud and waist-high water?

We cannot blame the politicians about the weather, but sadly they are the ones who should help the people in the immediate time possible. if I were Mickey, I'd give free Monet that time to save myself from scandals. And I would not sue or find a way to cover up (by limiting or guarding community sites, remember, they have rights too)what was seen in the photograph. I'd stand up, smile at the camera and say "Dadalhin ko to sa Pampanga mamaya para mainitan ang mga tao dun."/KP

*thank you Rep. Palatino sa ginawa mo sa kanya.

Guilt

To All Those Concerned on the issue in the university: you can show ur opposition through diff. ways i.e. Ribbon wearing, banner hanging, wearing blackshirts, etc.. you may also join the students' assembly on sept.21,9.30 am in front of the school.. Pls. pass. Maging makabuluhan sa ating paaralan.


That was the message that I received yesterday morning.

And I am currently pondering upon wether I would join on monday or not.

It's my intuition vs. my tuition.

Im still on the vs.. No sides taken, I will remain neutral muna.

Why now I know that Noynoy would win in 2010

Sympathy.

Hope-giver.

Those are the best things that Noynoy has. The former being what the people feel for him, the latter being what the people see in him.

Yes I know he would win and give me a kickin the ass for saying that he would not win before.

But the tides may change as it always has, who knows?

The standard bearer of the administration is nobody if you haven't googled him. And I am positive that people voting from far-flung barangays do not know him unless they have wi-fi.

Que sera sera./KP

Why I know Nonoy would not be President

Okay, this is a total affirmation that Sen. Nonoy Aquino would not be president of out country. And neither will Mar Roxas, or any Quezon, or any Osmeña or Imee Marcos for that matter.

Yes it is hard for us Filipinos to leave the past of our country to rest. We haunt past issues and past events, not the other way around. We cannot let go of this 'illusion' umbilical cord that is holding and clamping us to our present almost-deceased state of existence.

This is the predicament of Sen Noynoy, ladies and gentlemen. Although the former president is now one with the earth, we cannot leave the issue out that her son would continue to uphold the democracy that some die for. I am not saying that Noynoy is not a good person, neither will be a good president rather, I am what I am trying to say is that Cory and Noynoy and Benigno are yes related, but not the same person.

Yes we see him as the democrat the next leader of this country, the next hero, just like his father, his mother, his brother-in-law (for some basketball fanatics out there). But the fact is that Noynoy has not created a prototype of his own. We see him as 'alike' not a 'a'.

We see that he is like his father who is vocal and unafraid. We see him as his mother who upholds the democratic process. We see him as a showbiz personality just like Kris.

The likeness as an image of Noynoy is primarily not a good characteristic of a futre president. Surely we need someone who has established himself or herself outside society's definition of the company he or she keeps or the family he or she has.

Another thing is that what has Noynoy achieved? I rarely had not read anything about his works that are ginormously significant to the populace. The only fact I know and most of us know that he is Noynoy, son of Benigno, Cory, and brother to Kris, Viel and others. I believe that a future president of a country must serve dutifully and implement something that is visible, not only in his areas but in other parts of the nation as well.

Third, this would be a political dynasty, just like the current administration.

Fourth, they poeple who would ever vote him would not feel trust, they would just say, sige, he has a good background.

Point to clear ladies and gentlemen, I am not influencing, yes i am sadly, you to not vote him but i am not against him. I just do not want him to be president YET. Kung baga, pana-panahon lang. At kung sa mga mangga pa, hindi pa sya hinog.

Noynoy is a president in the making, but he should not be for sale on 2010