No escaping reality
Gad, what a depressing weekend, what with the newsreports of the dead and wounded of Friday's Glorietta 2 bombing, It's too much, way more than enough to suck all the happiness out of the air and it feels so difficult to breathe.
Mabuti na lang at patuloy din ang paglabas ng mga kasinungalingan at pagtanggi ng iba-ibang opisyales ng bulok at tiwalang gobyernong ito ni Gloria. All their lies and attempts to deceive served to make me feel less sad for the families of the victims and to make me angry.
This government is buying time for itself and it's using the blood of innocent civilians to do it. What's a few more dead Filipinos to save Gloria? She's already sanctioned the brutal extrajudicial killing of almost 900 political activists and the abduction of 200 others, so what's a few more mangled and bloodied bodies?
Cold and ruthless. This government has sold itself to the devil, but the deal is backfiring so it's going to take the rest of the nation down with it to hell.
We mourn for the victims and deeply sympathize with their families. The best way to secure justice for all of them is to go after the perpetrators and the masterminds, and one doesn't need to look very far to find them -- they're in Malacanang.
I have yet to talk to someone who doesn't think that the government is not behind Friday's brutality. The taxi driver in whose cab we rode last night was outraged that the Muslims are being blamed again. He was adamant in saying that it's Gloria Good For Nothing President ("Walang kwentang presidente!") who ordered the attack to distract the public's attention from the bribery scandal and the calls for her resignation.
Kung gustong makamit ang katarungan, labanan ang diktadurya ni Gloria! Prepare to join the rallies against this corrupt, morally bankrupt, killer administration and demand her removal from office.
I hope that the families of those killed and wounded will not allow themselves to be swayed by Malacanang's expressions of sympathy and solidarity. Arroyo is using this bereavement to project her and her administration's supposed humanity and compassion, their commitment to peace and justice. The victims were all collateral damage in Malacanang's desperate ploy to divert attention from itself, and to allow Gloria to milk the tragedy for all its worth and in the bargain justify heightened military and police deployment as well as the arrest of more civilians false accused of terrorism would make their deaths all the more tragic.
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Paano pa ba pupunta sa Ayala without ever thinking of the bomb blast that killed 11 people and injured 120 others? Gad, hindi na talaga matatakasan ang riyalidad. Whenever I want to escape for a little while, I go to Ayala Center and walk around Greenbelt park, drink tea, eat cake, read. It's like Neverneverland there, and everyone looks happy and cheerful, and for a few hours I forget how sad and desperate so many, many Filipinos are because of poverty, malnutrition, homelessness and disease. I always, always look forward to the Christmas season because I love looking at Makati dressed up in bright, twinkly lights and there are giant parols and belens everywhere and even the manongs manning their squidball carts and the lolas selling newspapers and yosi are smiling more than usual and everyone, in general, seems to be in a better humor because of the twinkly lights and the massive holly wreathes and the brilliantly-decorated Christmas trees.
But now the military has bombed Glorietta 2 and there is no more escape.
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Right now I just want to listen to Ben Lee and try to be less sad. I don't know why I'm so affected by what happened last Friday. I guess it's because, well, wala lang talagang kwenta ang buhay sa ilalim ng ganitong klaseng gobyerno, sa ilalim ng ganitong sistemang pampulitika at pang-ekonomya. Deaths are so senseless, the innocent are killed, youth and children are not spared. Everyday there are reminders of this, and sometimes, like now, it's just so overwhelming. You take care of your children, you raise them the best way you can, you love them so much it hurts, and then they go a mall and in split seconds they're gone, their laughter abruptly, sharply cut short and then silence except for the wailing and cries for help of others who survived.
Araw-araw na lang.
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Love Me Like the World is Ending
Ben Lee
and all I want is you.
I wear a pair of socks you left here
but I know, I know, I know nobody could ever fill your
shoes.
I can't see so clearly when your smoke gets in my eyes.
Please me with your promises and hurt me with your lies.
Baby can you hear the message I am sending?
Love me like the world is ending.
This is the last day of existence
and all I want is you.
And there's a certain sadness
But I know, I know, I know the sky is what makes the ocean
blue.
I know, I know, I know the sky is what makes the ocean blue.
I can't see so clearly when your smoke gets in my eyes.
Please me with your promises and hurt me with your lies.
Baby can you hear the message I am sending?
Love me like the world is ending.
Love me like the world is ending.
And they all say to pour it has to rain.
So don't complain if we get wet
In the deep end.
I can't see so clearly when your smoke gets in my eyes.
Please me with your promises and hurt me with your lies.
Baby can you hear the message I am sending?
Love me like the world is ending.
Love me like the world is ending.
Come on and love me like the world is ending.
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5pm
Drank coffee and now my heart is like a Mexican jumping bean. I had no choice but to drink coffee because I was suddenly so sleepy and I need to finish something.
In the news, the PNP is now bicycling backwards -- away from its previous revelation that the Glorietta bombing was courtesy of the Rajah Solaiman Movement. Also, now they're saying that maybe it wasn't a bomb.
Hmm, make up your freakin' minds and pick a theory and stick with it. Kahit ano namang sabihin ng PNP, what's clear is that the attack was brutal, that it's connected to Malacanang's attempts to divert attention, and that public opinion is strongly leaning towards accusing the government for what happened. RSM daw, o.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes III is not budging - he will not retract from his statement that the military did the bombing. He knows what he's talking about, so why should he take back what he said? He doesn't stand to lose anything by standing firm on his accusation, and for the most part the public agrees with him kasi there have been previous similar incidents wherein the military did orchestrate bombings and this latest attack fits the profile very comfortably.
Iggy Arroyo offers P1M reward to anyone who can find the perpetrators. Asus! He's so confident kasi he knows no one will claim the money -- may magsusuplong ba sa Malacanang?
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