SONA and I

“Every step forward must be taken in the teeth of political pressures and economic constraints that could push you two steps back if you flinch and falter. I have no flinched, I have not faltered.”

It has been over 24 hours since the State of the Nation Address of the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. It was the last SONA of the president (except if she will not step down. Haha! Shiver till you die all you anti-Gloria!) and out of the last eight SONA's, I haven't seen it live almost all of them. Including this last one. But hey! I watched the replay at late night.

To review, the exiting-to-be president talked about the achievements of her administration, most especially the economic success (if you call it a success, if others would criticize), the added jobs, salvation from recession (it's really possible since Philippines is not a wealthy country and if there is we will hardly feel it), all her infrastructure projects made around the country, rebuilding of the damaged cities, the improvements in education including the about hundreds of scholarships given out, the importance of the taxes and how it helped us. She also bragged all the talks to other world leaders and the positive results out of the those talks. And a lot more...

My most favorite part in that speech, however, (even if her critics would say that she showed her arrogance there and that she was not clear on some things and that she is a liar) was when she began attacking people who for long were her archenemies and critics (even some were her allies before). Even if I am not a good follower of the current events, especially about what's going on in the government,but I can sense who are those people. Haha! Hope the people who were attacked are not too Numb And Dumb not too understand! Especially the one who threatened her to send her to jail, which according to Gloria, had also been there!

Anyways, I believe 3/4 of what GMA said. Meaning I'm a believer. If they say she lied, so what? Do you think these critics and antis can do what she has done for eight years. After two administrations who left an economy in turmoil and chaos, she was able to at least improve it a little, even just a little. Imagine what she had to go through after the "ex-convict" left her millions (or maybe billions) of debts? And to add that she is a lady. Gloria has done what she needs to do, though it is maybe not that satisfying. I hope the people who would replace her is better than her because they keep on criticizing her. (Let's wait and see.)

SONA is one proof of her activities. She may have lied on some parts but everything there was not a lie! Crazy are the people to call her a liar in all of what she said.

If I were there present right in front during the SONA, I would have applauded non-stop until the end of her speech. But, tsk tsk! I haven't even seen it live!

Trash Bin

I can't write anything. Or I thought so.

I was thinking for a long while what to put right here on my blog but nothing comes into my mind. Everything that pops out of my mind is about my new job, if you call that a job at these moments. It's been three weeks that I go under training, although we were promised it should only be two weeks. Ugh! I don't want to talk about it now. I want to stay positive and I chose this job so I need to treat this better.


Do I need to talk again my daily trips, Dueñas to City (vice versa)? Maybe. I'll try.


Or if I start facing my new students, I could talk about them. We'll try and see.


Just now, I can't come up with anything.

Just A Thought!

Stop criticizing our President. All our Presidents! If you could not discipline your own ONE self, how much more for the President who looks over 90 million Filipinos! Please be considerate!!

THE GOD OF VOLCANOES

The moment you first step into my town,
The volcano exploded.

It suddenly spewed out
hot, flaming lava -
your hands had crashed it.

The thick smoke came out
of its mouth
when you spoke soft soothing sentences.

The giant embers that flashes out
of the crater sparkling like fireworks
celebrate your coming to my land.

The explosion caused too much trembling
Like you were shaking the volcano;
But I can’t let you stop.

Let’s wait for them to die down
Like we’ve waited for a lifetime
to find each other.

Back to School with 5% Agony

I'm officially enrolled! Yes, I am! After more than two weeks managing my impatience I'm finally relieved to know that I could go back to school, but not as a teacher but as a student.

I am taking up a Master's degree at "some" university here in Iloilo. I enrolled in a major I thought I would enjoy but because of some reasons that I could not openly tell it here, to avoid such embarrassment (chos!). So, last AY 2008-09, I decided to shift to another major. I wrote a letter to the dean, talked to my adviser and asked permission from classmates. Everything was fine, the dean approved the request and I changed major successfully. However, I was absent without a leave (AWOL) for that whole year! Well, it served me not that quite difficult but annoying results a year later.

AY 2009-2010. Even without enough money and happily jobless, I decided to go back study. But since my status is AWOL, they gave a few but patience-testing (that's on my own opinion, I don't know you with you) things to do. First, I have to write a letter requesting for readmission. It might not be that difficult to write a letter but what's difficult is that you can't give any strong reasons except that I got lazy for the enrolment last year plus I was too afraid of frequent absences in my former school. Isn't it difficult. Anyways, I found good reasons and my request was approved - after waiting for one week when the enrolment would be on that week too.

Knowing that my request was approved, I went to school and started my enrolment. They gave me a Physical Exam request slip, had the P.E., (which after this enrolment would be a lot easier), returned to the office and filled up a contact information slip. I was hopeful I could finish the enrolment that day. But, @#$%^!, they forgot to tell me I have to pass another form. A request to credit my advanced subjects in triplicate. But there's nothing I can do but follow or else I'll be left AWOL forever. But the agony was just about to start.

After filling up, I let all the people sign who needs to sign in the request and then they would bring it to the campus far from the city. "Call after two days." They said. Well, I really called two days after then another two days and yet another two days, only to find out they forgot to bring it to the Dean's office. Another *&%$#@! The agony of waiting pumped my impatience to a level where I got nervous every time I think about it. I don't want to wait another year. But luckily before the deadline, the request was back and I continued my enrolment. Whew! After less than 2 hours, my printed RF was stamped with REGISTERED. Yahoo! I mean Google! No, really, Yahoo! Ok! Yehey!

Must Be Trapped in the Net or Else...

I had been lazy for a few days opening this blog and thinking what to write. I got bored. Plus, I get tired always because I keep on going back to the city. And the shitty plus is that the broadband was broken and I can't open both the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Grrrr! I felt like I'm not connected to the rest of the world those times.

I tried to find out what's wrong with both the programs. Every time I open the Firefox, it keeps telling me that "during the operation, Mozilla has crashed and needs to restart". So I kept on restarting it. Sending the error to the net (for Explorer) but to no avail. Waaaaah! What did I do next? I deleted/removed the Firefox hoping I could reinstall it. Then I checked the installer in the Program Files, and, tada! It was nowhere to be found. I panicked for awhile and felt cold. But whew! I remembered Explorer is still there.

Next step, I called the the Internet provider's office. I called the Manila Hotline and they gave me the Visayas number. OK! This could be it. In a day or two, if I get connected to the customer service, the Net would be reconnected ASAP. But darn! I called the whole day but the answers I got are Cebuano-speaking people who are also trying to call the customer service! What's happening? "Hilo? ***** ni? Gatawag man ako sa ****. Operator ini dong? "There even was one who told me she is calling from US. That time I had made a lot of "phone pals" but never reached the real customer service officer. I ended up hot headed.

I kept on checking the Net from time to time but the same thing and information keeps popping out. I did all changes in my Internet and Connection Settings, with all the fear that I will end up destroying the computer. But I'm becoming impatient. I have to check my mail! My blog! My facebook and friendster! (Wahaha!) I felt like my world stopped for five days. But on the other hand, without the Net we'll open the desktop for a few hours only and then we could save energy and our electric bill would at least moderate.

However, I began to wonder when the Yahoo Messenger began to operate and I can download from Limewire. So, I thought maybe, there was really something with both the programs. I kept online in YM and waited for somebody who knew about such things. I kept on asking these people to send me via YM an installer of both FireFox and Explorer. But still the programs they sent won't work.

After all those travails, I gave up and waited for a miracle.

After exactly a week, I tried to open again the Explorer. And wham! It opened with no sweat! Ugh! After that, I forgot all the madness and anger. I was so relieved that now, I'm back and won't be away from the world most people are enjoying. (Serious ba!)
And here am I. Alive and kicking!

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