Lair of Indolence

"I did not fight for a political position for myself but for an idea. Winning or losing is secondary. We fight for an idea—an idea of competence. Basic education reform, college graduate opportunities for every family, food security, genuine sustainable agrarian reform, localized peace processes, strong foreign relations, and several others." (Teodoro, G., 2010.)

I gave Gilbert "Gibo" Teodoro my support last May 10 not because of his proficient academic attainments or his resourcefulness in speaking to the Filipino masses about his realistic and doable platforms but because of the political savvy he has as a leader. That savvy is not taught in any government position or in those well-known graduate schools, but I saw it with this man.  Too bad, he will be the president we never had. Even though he did not win this election, I can still proudly say that I am one of the approximately 3.6 million  people who intelligently chose who they think is fit to run for six years as the president of our country and my unwavering support is still with him until he runs again for public office. If you will still further ask, "Why Gibo?  Why not Erap?" My answer will still be: "For I believe in him."

Mr. Teodoro had both the character and competence to run for the presidency. He did not play the that-survey-is-statistically-incorrect or the blame-the-media game for instead of wasting his time seeking for publicity, he went to provinces and got to know more people. He stood away from the limelight unlike those who threw mud on national television for reasons to clear their name of the allegations that they claim to be false but drew most of their attention to it.

But the campaign ends here with more than twelve (12) million people having to comfortably cast their vote for presidential front-runner Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III. After all, he's an Aquino and the child of the late democratic icon President Corazon Aquino so, that gave him all the support he needs to make a landslide victory.

Southeast Asia including United States of America, Australia and Canada have their eyes on the incoming president and the issues that need to be addressed that of first, the issue on Hacienda Luisita which came to be the perfect example of a failure in agrarian reform. They are watching what can another Aquino do and can he eliminate the elitism in our country with his mother, along with the previous presidents that had failed to do so. He has lots of matters to tackle on and appearing on national television every now and then will not be much of help.

You may now be irritated with how I am judging Mr. Aquino despite him not yet being instilled in office and me being an ordinary person. Well, at the first place no one forced you to read several paragraphs and conclude that I am wrong just because your thoughts are not in conjunction with mine. This blog site is not a space for kids to run around and whine like I took their candy. Though I would appreciate your comment. as long as it does not provide a novel-like opinion. For your novel-like opinion, you can create your own blog site here. Come on, entertain me.

Anyhow, every story must come to an end. It took me awhile to convince myself to type the content of this blog as I have promised not to write political articles as they provide a storyline that has an infinite loop programmed. In other words, it translates the same stories, same political agenda and whatever trash that loops for publicity. And with Mr. Aquino soon being the next president, it's like going back to 1898 wherein we'll have again the historical People Power. Well, it would be quite ironic to see another people power wherein the agenda of those joining is to oust the son of a democratic icon. That is a must see.

To end this, may Gilbert "Gibo" Teodoro do well with all his endeavors in life and Godbless the Philippines.

 Kalat na kalat na ang mga tungkol sa tinatawag nilang "Jejemon". Click HERE for more info. Paano ko nasabing kalat na? Sa kadahilanan na nakuha na neto ang atensyon ng di lang ng mga tao sa Facebook pero pati na rin ang media na dapat mas tinututukan ang mas di hamak na importanteng bagay tulad na lamang ng  kaso ng Maguindanao massacre.

Jejemon dito, jejebusters doon. Three points para sa mga jejemon sa kadahilanan na nagawa nilang maibaba ang lebel ng isang tao para patulan at pansinin sila na parang isang sikat sa Hollywood.

Marami na ring jejebusters o yung mga anti-jejemons kuno ngunit three-fourths sa kanila ay mas mababa pa sa mga kinukutya nila sa dahilanan na para lang silang mga tanga at wala ring pinag-aralan na tumutuligsa sa mga jejemon na kung saan feeling nila ay mas mataas sila sa nabanggit dahil normal sila mag-type ng mga salita o kung anuman. Normal nga ang inyong pagta-type ng mga letra pero paano nyo ba ito ginagamit? Para sa pangungutya ng iba.

Tigilan nyo na lang sila dahil sa kakaiba ang pagta-type nila at dahil na din sa di naman nila kayo pinakikielaman kpag ngttyp kyo ng  prng gnito. Sa mga aksyong nakikita ko galing sa inyo, ginagawa nyong limang beses na katawa-tawa ang mga jejemons pero sampung beses naman na pinagmumukha nyong tanga at tila walang pinag-aralan ang mga sarili nyo.

May narinig nga ako sa balita dati, tinanong ang isang ralihista kung para saan daw ba ang rally na sinalihan nya at ang sagot - hindi daw nya alam basta nandun daw sya para sa kanyang personal na rason. Lahat na siguro ng susunod pang mga EDSA revolution ay pawang trip na lang. Lahat ng kasali ay may personal na intensyon o di kaya'y gusto lang nila makisali dahil nandun ang mga barkada nila.

Sa huli, kakainin lang tayo ng realidad na wala ng makakagawa ng isa pang tunay na People Power na pinamunuan ni dating Pangulong Corazon Aquino. Yun lang ang tanging maisusulat sa kasaysayan at hahangaan ng iba. Kung meron mang sumulpot na gaya nya at mamumuno ng walang takot, siguro sa EDSA Sesenta Nueve pa.

First blog for the year. My indolence ate me when I was bound to express my ideas in this blog of mine. Anyhow, let's proceed with what I have in mind before laziness strikes me again.

Another academic year is over so as the thought of being a junior. Everything went well, managed to pass all my enrolled courses with grades I am satisfied of. Indeed, last semester might be one of the semesters to remember aside from the perspective of having to graduate. We had our thesis writing class in that semester and to cut it short for the lazy people like me out there, we did not only managed to pass but pass as the top two (2) thesis defenders of the computer science department.

What really happened before that defense day was all history and few did know what me and my other groupmate had to endure. We were four in the group. You might be asking what the other two did, yes, they did something but not to the extent of what we did that of sleeping at around 3AM everyday to have that thesis constructed. You might also say that I have a personal grudge, and I will be very blunt to say a yes to that and this is my way to relieve that grudge and forget everything. A big gap in communication, as said by a friend, was the factor to why only two of us did most, if not all, of the documentation processes.

I have to say that I lost my patience back then and sent them a somewhat blunt message to have their minds open. One replied and told what she had in her mind and retorted with an answer that me and group member A are the only ones able to understand what should be done and that I never assign such specific tasks to them. I am not a dictator to tell you what to do and have it done in a span of time. I am more of a democrat wherein we must do this as a whole, as a group that of you approaching to me and ask what else can be done than me having to give you a set of what-to-do and only to find out that you cannot handle it. Anyhow, I wanted to respond to her claim but being an educated person and having to know that this will only lead to irrelevant arguments, I opted to accept the opinion. I could care less if ever they read this. Seriously.

Enough of the crap and let's get rolling with what is essential. We managed to literally rush the documentation. Rush in the sense of having to complete it one month prior to the deadline. How we did it? Try sleeping at three o'clock everyday in the morning and you'll see. Defense date came and I managed to be calm all the way. We answered the necessary questions although there were several dead air moments and just smiled. But to sum it up, we did a satisfactory performance. It ended and we still have to wait for the results in the next coming days.

After a few days of the defense for all those who took it and passed, there was this recognition event to honor the top five defenders from the Information Technology and Computer Science department. Only group member A was able to attend the said event. Personally and not being hypocritical about it, I was expecting to be at any rank of the top five but did not expect landing second. Well, it was all theoretical due to the fact that there were few computer science students who took their thesis, most were friends of ours as well.

I am now cutting the bragging rights portion. Our group consisted of ordinary students and ordinary in the sense of not being scholars, having an exceeding beyond expectation grades, an excellent intellectual capacity and the what-not of an ordinary student. What I want to say is that, not because you're the ordinary type who sits and sleeps in classroom discussions is that it will be a reason for you not to go beyond what is essential and ride the same boats that of those outstanding students. Not because you're not known in your college as an individual is that you will just sit there and remain so.

I can proudly say and end this blog with imparting to all of you that we are the living examples that you too can attain what you dream of despite whatever academic background you have. You might not be the top student of your time or one of them who has straight-A's, but with proper determination, you too can fly and manage your own plane and who knows, you might fly higher than them and exceed other people's expectations.