HIGHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

I have been tweeting that the Ampatuans should be tortured to near

death every day, for the rest of their fucking lives and I’m adding GMA to that list. Everyone by now knows of the Ampatuan massacre already. Unless you’re living in your own asshole and being a dickhead like someone I know who doesn’t care one bit as to what happened to Maguindanao on that darkest day for journalists, women and children alike.

The Ampatuan assholes are crying foul because according to their airheadedness, they are being persecuted and being tried not by lady justice but by publicity and the hand behind all of these is their political enemies. They even went overboard as to thinking that we are dickheads like them by saying that they have no part in the massacre.

And they actually believe that we’ll swallow their whole gaddam alibi that it was the MILF’s doing.

Now that particular alibi for me is an insult to our common sense and I believe that an insult like that deserves nothing less than the Ampatuan assholes to be tortured to near death every day for the rest of their sorry excuse of a life.

You need not be pursuing graduate studies to know that the Ampatuan assholes are the ones responsible for the massacre. They have all to gain from it, the gaddam self-proclaimed gods of Maguindanao, who orders others to their dirty work for them. Well, I got news for them Ampatuan assholes, let go of your posse and let’s get down and dirty, I doubt that you can be faster on the draw against me. And if you Ampatuan assholes are too scardy pants to trigger duel with me we can always do it the old way with fists, still, give me five from your clan and I’ll kill myself if you Ampatuan assholes beat me.

The Ampatuan assholes want Mangudadatu dead because he’ll be contesting their incumbent Ampatuan asshole of a governor. By all means Ampatuans assholes, kill Mangudadatu but spare the women, children and journalists. Didn’t you Ampatuan assholes ever have a mother? A sister? Or even a grandmother? There is a silent rule in the law of the lawless that the firing ceases when women and children are present. What are you Ampatuan assholes trying to prove? That you can get away with it all? In this age of Twitter and Facebook, you Ampatuan assholes honestly believe you can bury the massacre under the backhoe that bears the Ampatuan asshole seal?

The Ampatuan assholes couldn’t be more brazen than the time when they delivered their unholy mother GMA the much needed votes when they cheated FPJ during the last presidential election. GMA thinks she’s numero uno as far as being shameless is concerned, well, think again, here we have your student surpassing your virtue of brashness—the Ampatuan assholes.

Now we got GMA declaring martial rule in Maguindanao over the weekend. And now we have those giving her the thumbs up or down for what her press secretary is saying as a ‘decisive decision’ I do not know how they flower their words, but a decision is already decisive once you make it. Ahhh, GMA’s past decisions may have not been decisions after all I’m sure it is with the exemption of cheating FPJ in Maguindanao.

“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” this may be GMA’s line after declaring martial law in Maguindanao. But then again GMA is not seeing the whole gaddam picture. It is not declaring martial law be it unconstitutional or not that is the problem. It is her leadership that is the problem. When your leadership is suspect in the first place, you have already lost the belief of the people that you lead. If it was not GMA declaring martial law in Maguindanao, if it was another president who the people had belief in, we would be seeing now an outpour of support for the martial law.

It has always been leadership. You cannot support a leader you have no respect to begin with in the first place. Leadership is not a right, it is a privilege to a given few that exudes the aura of being able to lead a platoon, a barkada or a country for this matter. It is destiny to be able to lead. There is a wide gap of leading a country thru cheating and leading a nation because you are destined to lead it in the first place. Respect is earned as much as leadership is. The Ampatuan assholes and their mother GMA should know that respect for a leader is the exact opposite of being terrified of the self-proclaimed leader so as their orders to be followed blindly.

If you ask me if I support martial law in Maguindanao, as a human being with animal instincts I would tell you that I’m all for it so that the Amapatuan assholes be made to answer for their crimes. I’ve been asking my friends since Andal Ampatuan Jr., the dickhead got ‘invited’ over the office of the NBI that we take in our own hands as to how to torture Ampatuan to near death every day for the rest of their lives. I am in the most extreme terms, aghast and outraged to the massacre that has happened to the women, children and journalists at Maguindanao. There is the demon in me that demanding that an eye from the Ampatuan assholes for the eye of the women, children and journalists.

If GMA and her sick excuse of an administration allowed Lady Justice to dispense verdicts with her blindfolds on, there is no need for the martial law. Keep in mind that a suspected snatcher or robber is handcuffed and manhandled by authorities in front of the cameras. We have the Ampatuan assholes being ‘invited’ for questioning without handcuffs.

GMA’s leadership in the root of this massacre, it is her political debt to the Ampatuan assholes that fueled their wisdom that they are gaddam demigods in the Maguindanao and probably the whole Philippines. Well as history has taught us, they are not. And we should prove them that. If we be like that someone I know who I asked what is his reaction to the Ampatuan massacre, and his reply is “alam na nila magulo sa Mindanao, bakit pa sila pupunta dun” then we have already served the Philippines to the warlords on a silver platter, if GMA hadn’t done so already.

Again, do I support martial law in Maguindanao? The demons and animal in my being a human being does. But that is why we as human beings are the highest level among living things. We live with norms. There are raging hormones that we have to keep in check for us to be humans. Just because we have the urge to steal or kill or maim and knowing that doing so would make us a lot happier than anyone else does not and will not authorize us to do so. If we allow ourselves to be like the Ampatuan assholes, if we stoop down to their level, we are not doing justice for the women, children and journalist of the massacre. So no matter how slow and inefficient our justice system is, we have to live within the rules, lest we try to rehabilitate our justice system for it to better dispense justice.

But I am no sacred cow and I have done things and lived some of my life most of you would be ashamed to tell anyone else, I have done inexplicable things. And it would be no surprise if I give in to the demons in me, let us all torture the Ampatuans to near death every day for the rest of their lives, never mind if I live outside the norms, for this case of the women, children and journalists massacred in Maguindanao, Iam denouncing myself as a human being. I am volunteering to be the one to give the animal instinct verdict everyone would like to happen but are living inside the norms and are afraid to ask. Again, torture the Ampatuans to near death every day for the rest of their lives.

Tags: ampatuan, maguindanao, massacre

It has been said something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. – Chaos theory

FACT: When we denude the mountains of forests and then rain falls in epic proportions, the end result-landslides and floods.

“The death toll from tropical depression “Pepeng” rose to 264 Saturday afternoon as rescue workers dug up more bodies of missing people, reports from police and relief agencies said.

Of the total, 222 were killed in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), mostly from landslides, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).” – GMANews.TV, October 11, 2009

FACT: When we do not segregate waste and those non-biodegradables clogs the sewers and waterways and then the rain falls in epic proportions, the end result-floods knee-deep to two-storeys high.

“Battered by ceaseless rain, San Jose and 17 others, including a two-year-old child, were trapped on a roof of a printing press by floodwaters just outside Provident Village for more than 17 hours from noontime on Saturday until early Sunday morning. “ – Philip Tubeza, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 30, 2009

FACT: When we feed the environment with heavy carbon footprints from our vehicle exhausts and the like, we get to experience erratic weather changes like stronger typhoons, the end result- floods.

“Warming of ocean surface waters because of climate change is likely to lead to an increase in the intensity of tropical storms, with higher peak wind speeds and heavier rainfall. Meaning, typhoons will be more damaging. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Institute of Technology have concluded that warmer sea surface temperatures and altered wind patterns associated with global warming are responsible for increases in the number of hurricanes/typhoons.” – www.ltscotland.org.uk

FACT:  Typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng that left the Philippines devastated and placed the entire country under a state of calamity is a product of climate change.

“The government on Friday placed the country under a state of national calamity in preparation for the expected onslaught on Saturday afternoon of typhoon ‘Pepeng’ (international name ‘Parma’). The expected landfall is in Cagayan province in northern Luzon.” – GMANews.TV, October 2, 2009

FACT: Most locations in the Philippines that went underwater during the said typhoons are still submerged in flood.

“Pepeng may have already left Philippine territory three days ago, but vast swaths in Northern and Central Luzon are still engulfed by flood, with nearly the whole of Nueva Ecija province still submerged in flood waters, and with Arayat town in Pampanga province surprisingly hit by up to seven-feet floods.” – GMANews.TV, October 14, 2009

FACT: Hundreds perished during the onslaught of the said typhoons and hundreds more are still waiting to perish due to outbreaks of flood-borne diseases.

“While in the thick of controlling dengue cases, health officials in the Cagayan Valley Region are now preparing for a possible outbreak of waterborne diseases due to flooding caused by typhoon Pepeng. Dr. Tita Callueng, the regional health director, said that waterborne diseases such as cholera and skin infections have been recorded in some municipalities, with already five deaths attributed to leptospirosis.” – GMANews.TV, October 15, 2009

These are the facts that we face today. When faced with the fact that your days are numbered, what do you do? The climate as we know now is on the terminal stage changing for the worst for us. 

As a species, we have to survive, and to survive we have to be responsible for every action we create and be knowledgeable of its effect to the environment and the climate. 

We WILL not survive another ice age. The earth as we know it will evolve and repair itself with or without us. It is what we feed the earth that will eventually be the recipe for our destruction as a whole or its rehabilitation. 

The fact remains, if we continue abusing the environment and the climate changes as rapid as it is changing now, the end result is simple –We all die.

Cory

“Hindi ko nga alam kung ano ang na-contribute ni Cory sa bansa natin eh” this was the exact phrase a younger office mate told me when I asked him if he was going to the wake or the funeral of Cory Aquino last Tuesday.   I was surprised then, and I immediately asked him if he is fond of watching Naruto or Dragonball Z, in turn, he promptly said that he does. I said that given the numerous accomplishments of Cory Aquino, one is that he wouldn’t be watching Naruto if it wasn’t for Cory or the EDSA revolution. During the time of the dictatorship, even Voltes V was banned from the television. If it wasn’t for Cory, all anime or cartoons that insinuates revolting for freedom or a noble cause wouldn’t reach our shores, take the example or Burma or South Korea where even the Internet is policed or monks are massacred.

Now that conversation has got me asking, how could a generation just eight years my junior would have not known who and what Cory represents? Has the daily grind finally taken its toll on the Filipinos love for country? Did the Department of Education remove Philippine History from its curriculum already? Have we already drowned in the GMA-era that there are no more good people amongst us?

 It is like what they always do whenever there is a rally for the betterment of our government; they would rather go to work or school.

Now we have a prime example of Filipino who sacrificed for her country, for her love of God, country and family and in that exact same order. Cory Aquino braved everything to give a democracy that is our basic right in the first place. Be it in the streets or in churches or in rain. be it with Jun Lozada or against a former ally she helped install to power, realizing the mistake she has done years after and admitting that mistake and asking for forgiveness—a trait that is only reserved for the purest and noblest of hearts. Cory Aquino has gave life to the words that if a little economic instability and getting drenched wet is the sacrifice we should make for a better country then we should all make that sacrifice.

Cortege

The procession will pass along Quirino so we positioned ourselves on top of the island dividing the two lanes. It took over an hour for it to pass us and as we anxiously stood there waiting, the sun did shone and the rains subsided a little as the cortege was leaving Manila Cathedral, and if you believe in signs, that is one sign. Another is, according to our grandparents especially in the provinces, the heavens do weep when it rains on the day of the burial.

So there we were, and there were children and they were chanting CORY! CORY! CORY! And these were children, probably in the elementary level or should be in elementary but I guess their parents could not afford their education. They knew Cory, my officemate did not. These are kids; my officemate is an adult, so much for that. I was rubbing elbows with people of different races, age and smell. I told them this is history and we all are now part of one.

You go to the wake lining up for five hours or you wait or walk alongside the funeral procession for hours to give honor and show gratitude to the last great president of the Philippines.

If my grandchildren, if I were to live up to that age, were to ask me, where I was when Cory Aquino died, I could proudly tell them, that I wasn’t sleeping because it was a special non-working holiday; I wasn’t nursing a heavy hangover because a drank too much the evening before; I wasn’t allied with a fake president;  I did not just let it pass because that day I was with Cory Aquino in the streets, waited for hours just to have a glimpse or some black and white photos of her casket passing by while flashing the Laban sign and feeling proud that I am a Filipino.

Sign

Even in death Cory Aquino served her last sacrifice to those who would abuse or again take back the freedom that she helped restore, if it wasn’t already not taken from us again in the first place. With the elections months away and talk of cha-cha is murmured in every coffee shop or tambayan. Cory’s funeral will serve as a warning to those squatting in power that if they continue to defame us as one people and nation, these many people that showed their gratitude for Cory can always again gather in same or higher numbers to thwart whatever unholy concoction they are brewing for them to stay in power forever. There are signs and there are warning signs. If you do not heed to a roadblock, the road always and most of the time end violently.

Times

Up to now I still could not get over what my officemate said. I could brand him as one stupid idiot for saying so but I know the guy, being stupid is not what he is, but then again maybe he is one I may have been blinded by the fact that I look up to software engineers because I am also one, but maybe that is where the similarities end. You can be one very good programmer, but then you are just that. And in all honesty, not knowing what Cory did for our country is the height of one’s stupidity. For finality, it just now as I write this, that I am resigned to the fact that he truly is one stupid idiot.

It is what we do in this lifetime that will echo who we are in eternity. Cory Aquino’s echo is an eternity.

My generation or generations after me will tell that I live to see Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, Michael Jordan, the Eraserheads, Jim Cameron, Al Pacino, Ninoy Aquino, Neil Armstrong, Bill Gates, Francis Magalona, Steve Jobs, Manny Pacquiao and the like.

However, let me tell them more proudly that I lived during the lifetime of a great president and a national hero, St. Corazon Aquino.

Last time an Aquino that I know died, a revolution was sparked.

As much as I would like to write this post without political color, I cannot. Corazon Aquino is a political person and all she has done would be without appreciation if what she has done for politics is ignored. Almost all the good men  and women of this country has died already while those bad men and women with heart ailments, dirty mouths and silicon bursts have not. So this short post in honor of Corazon Aquino will start and end the same.

Death and taxes…

Heaven and hell…

So where is heaven? And where the hell is hell? I am a Catholic by heart, however, let me share what I presume of the gates of St. Peter is. It has been said that we live eternally in heaven or burn forever in hell depending on how we lived out our lifetime.  Now then, maybe St. Peter is the symbol of those we leave when we die. It is the very persons who know us during our lifetime who will judge us for eternal damnation or exalt us up the high pedestals in history for the following generations to look up to. 

Adolph Hitler’s  legacy is getting a child ‘confiscated’ from his very parents because his parents was dumb enough to name him Adolph Hitler while Jose Rizal got schools and institutions named after him with honor. Now you begin to wonder what legacy will the present squatter at Malacanang will extol on us.

We now all know even before 3:18 am of this first day of August what Corazon Aquino’s legacy is. She is the first woman president of this country. She was the one who showed the world that being just a house wife is not just being one. She has showed the world that a loving mother and an understanding wife can also be a great leader. She has showed that a woman can topple a dictatorship and that no matter how big everyone thinks Ninoy Aquino casted his shadow on her, she can also do the same as long as the premise of anyone actions is for the good of everyone.

Corazon Aquino dismantled a dictatorship. She has reinstalled democracy. She gave us back the freedom that should have been ours in the first place. The internet where we are free to blog now or the text messages that we forward to our entire phone book would have been foreign to us if not because of her. Her leadership has pre-packaged for the post-EDSA generation the liberties that we now take for granted.

Corazon Aquino in her own whispering ways has shouted to the world that, there is a country called the Republic of the Philippines. She has acted silently and peacefully the roar and thunder that there are Filipinos in this far side of the globe. She was already there before Manny Pacquiao, Charice Pempengco or the dancing inmates of Cebu.

 If I were to enumerate the collections of what Corazon Aquino has done for each and every one for us, it would take all my overtime hours for this Saturday. So given what she has done, how do you give thanks to someone like her? How does the earth thank the sun? How does the palay thank the rain? How do we thank our mothers who nurse us when we are sick? How do we as a nation thank a great leader? Probably the last great president we will ever know. I really cannot answer that, I know that my simple “THANK YOU, TITA CORY” would not suffice.

Last time an Aquino that I know died, a revolution was sparked. 

You have to pity Hayden and Katrina and the gossiped other 40 ladies Hayden took videos of. Since this scandal has dwarfed all other news these past few weeks including the A-H1N1 positive cases here in the Philippines, forgive me for jumping into the chismis bandwagon add the fact that everywhere I go this scandal is the topic of any Juan, Maria or Arnelita, for that, this merits a thorough review or analysis, what may have happened, who did what and why was it done, and for whom.

Now for my disclaimer: what you’re about to read is not a fact, this is my mere analysis or opinion, based on my own experiences and as to how I’ve dealt and profiled persons I’ve been with. This is also not to sow hate or to build praise for the purpose of maligning anyone or uplifting any personality. Bear in mind that each and everyone of us is entitled to our freedom of opinion, as much as some senators despise Hayden and has been very vocal about it and as much as some sectors pity Hayden for being a victim too, even before the senate “in aid of legislation” circus inquiry ends.

This is a blog and I consider myself a journalist as what I was before, only this time, my newspaper is this site and my opinion column is this page.

As news of this scandal blew wide open, we can establish, based from mass media that Hayden took the videos, some of them were taken with consent of the lady concerned, while most were taken without such. We can also establish the key persons in this case which are: Hayden, Katrina, Bistek, Erik and Vicky. I opted not to include the others since at the time of this writing they haven’t come out yet to dispute their videos.

Now, there are two rumours that have been circulating as to what stemmed this scandal. First, Hayden’s friend hacked his laptop and sold the videos for two or four million pesos. And now the videos are in the hands of a syndicate.

The second is that Hayden fucked the living daylights out of Bistek’s girl, girl had conscience and told Bistek, who in turn to get back at Hayden, told Vicky that Hayden has videos of her sexual encounters in a laptop, Vicky asks Erik to hack laptop and there it is.

The first rumour is possible. Money talks a lot, and since you can’t trust cell phone snatchers with a thousand peso Nokia, hell, you can’t trust someone with Vaio containing videos worth over a million. But then there’s a loophole, why just now? If the gossip is true that there are 40 other videos, why wait Katrina to be included for you to hack said laptop, the close friend could’ve hacked it a long time ago, then hack it again if ever Hayden brags that he’s included Katrina in his collection, anyway, Hayden is as much a celebrity as Katrina is and those other videos without Katrina could have sold as fast like those 10-peso reload bullets in a firing range.

Now the second rumour is a simple one with a reason as simple enough, it was all about revenge, Bistek’s and Vicky’s revenge. A shame is worth more than a million pesos or two or four for that matter. A million pesos comes and goes. Ten minutes is all you need in the baccarat table and you can kiss that much money goodbye, but what has befallen those in the videos will last a very long time whether be it in the corner tambayans, coffee shops, office breaks or sanmig light sessions.

Both rumours offer a dilemma, first is money and the other is revenge. As to what is simpler among the two, I leave that to you. If the friend sold it for money and that alone being the reason, I don’t buy it. You can profile the both Erik and Bistek and you could very well tell that since both are doctors, a gain of two or four million wouldn’t do that much gain for both. I know that a million is already a fortune for most Filipinos, but doctors? Nah, that’s just loose change for em docs. Now the second rumour has the entire factor for this to turn out to be a melodrama, like what most of my fellow countrymen have been doing with their TV. The reason so simple enough that you have to ask yourself, why resort to that tactic when you could’ve just severed the ties. Well, it ain’t enough. I know certain individuals who would resort to that second rumour instead of just letting go.

Now, the whys of the whos for the whoms given that any of the two rumours is true.

Erik is dragged into both rumours. He was the hacker. He may have been paid or may have not. His actions were the key as to why the videos was leaked or sold and what has now become a box-office hit among the pirates and pirate consumers. You can very well point the fucking fingers at Erik and say that’s the bad guy. But hell, no. in this world where the flapping of a fly’s wing in a far away continent can be also the very cause of a tsunami someplace else, Erik is not the only one in this web of not so intricate controversy.

Katrina is a prominent personality. The sin from her is that she is a celebrity, remove that star status and Hayden would be the prominent victim. She knew or may not that Hayden is Vicky’s dude, still, even elementary studes from my town knows the Vicky-Hayden tandem, and if they knew, who wouldn’t, yet still, she did it, which can be said is another fucking sin. That is what I have been warning some friends of mine all these years. Do not be unlucky with the one you choose to fuck. There are partees and there are men who are like that or more of that shit that Hayden did. You have to be very careful and not that I’m holier than thou, it’s just that I know this shit and some men who does this shit.

Bistek only figured in the second rumour. And what would a friend do to a friend who fucked his girl, well he can be a man and talk to Hayden about it man to man and dropped the bitch or he can pull the trigger and plead temporary insanity. Any of the two, a man would do, but no, he has to be less than that and resort to what no man would do, which is what is rumoured that he did. If the rumours turns out to be true, this dickhead is just what he(?) is no dick below just a head above like a fucking cock.

Vicky, Vicky, Vicky. Why the flight? If the second rumour is to be believed she has the much to be gained in this brouhaha. But then again if a woman is always behind a great man’s downfall, as much as our history tends to prove, it can always go the other way around. I have to agree with Vicky on what she said that if the guy already has a gal, careful, careful. What I disagree, in case the second rumour is true, is her taste of getting back at Hayden and Katrina. Coming from a woman, I can understand that, very slightly though. Still, it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth, a very bitter one.

Finally, Hayden, we have come a long way since the advent of diaries and voice recorders, he has argued that those videos he took were his version of a diary. Honestly, he has a point. As much as any written diary or blog, it is still our freedom of choice on the mode of how to document our lives. It’s pretty much like a diary, where you write your innermost secrets that you wouldn’t want anyone to know that you would rather take to your grave, he should have taken extra measure to secure his video diary. I encrypt my files 128 bits, he should’ve done that too. Technology as we now know it has leapt a thousand-fold. He should have foreseen that in the event that his laptop is hacked or stolen, those video diaries he took, in the wrong hands, can be a very powerful tool against him or those in it.

So now, how or where do we point our fucking fingers? Given that the ladies in those videos did not knew they were being videotaped, Hayden should take the fall. Given that Katrina knew that she’s fucking a dude already taken, well, that’s what fell on her. She could’ve saved herself this embarrassment had she learned how to keep her raging hormones in check. If Bistek’s non-manly hood is the reason then he should get his head examined, a girlfriend fucking your friend? Exact better revenge is that you fuck your friend’s girl too, in this case Vicky. But then again, who can stomach fucking a science project? Hayden perhaps, err only.Erik? Now what does he have to prove? That he can hack a laptop? Anyone with background in computers can do that. Or maybe Erik did wanna try fucking a science project like Hayden. We will never know.

Katrina and all the other ladies in the videos are victims and so is Hayden, so let’s not start pouring water over anyone heads for the time being. And Hayden can also stop with his counter non-sense that Katrina pushed his drugs. That is so “oh so long ago.” Given that what Hayden is saying true, still he took the drugs, he liked it, so deal with it dude.

This is a clear case of star-crossed lovers crossing boundaries over each other. This is a winning recipe for an afternoon or late-night soap. And seeing how the senate has once again is milking this scandal for all its publicity’s worth and the elections months away, expect the key persons in this scandal to be more scandalized. There is an executive session in the senate for this kind of special case. Do I have to lecture deym senators that a rape victim is even placed under an alias and her face covered from the cameras. Katrina’s fate is parallel to a rape victim. If the senate wants to help, do it behind closed doors. Do it outside the camera lights. But then again it wouldn’t profit deym politicians to help.

And for those men who are holier than thou, take off the fucking hypocrisy. There are fetishes and there are fetishes, this case fell on the wrong hands. Do not strut to be not like Hayden, you have your own style, they have they’re own. Do not be holier than me or them or he. You stink, like an overflowing septic tank. To each his own, muthafuckas

To the ladies, do not fuck a guy because of his damn dimples or Adam’s apple, fuck for character and learn how to find that character. You could spread em legs for those long curly locks without knowing that there’s a hidden cam behind the closet. And be very sorry later.

I was gonna post this last weekend but had other very pressing affairs. I would just like to add an argument to what that Boy said last Sunday. He said it was not his dear senator who is being inquired into by the senate in aid of legislation. So let’s not make this a case of his dear senator. But then again, if there is an investigation by any fact-finding body of a crime, say for example plunder, does it not make a lot of sense that you do not include Erap in the fact-finding body?

I was asked last Sunday who am I gonna blame for this scandal, I blame all of them, all of them should take the fall. There can be no vindication if the premise of your action is a already a mistake in the first place and taking all subjectivity aside, and this is a reiteration, the videos are like diary that got stolen or has fallen on the wrong hands. Whoever wrote the diary can turn state witness, like what Chavit did, well at least for this country. And even if the videos can be likened to a diary-a modern diary, Hayden is not yet off the hook. We live in a democracy and our liberties are not absolute, your freedom ends, when it begins to threaten my freedom.

Now this made my morning; at 1:46 reminds me of a lot of my friends saying not exactly those words but more like, “I hope this lasts forever.” Some of them did ask me “where did my feet and legs go?” But always all the time, I love to hear, “SYET! ANG SARAP! Those were the glory days! GV! Good Vibes! GV, This takes me back to the golden age err, multi-colored partees. I miss Pureza and UP!

you may not know it but some people in my friends list are sending out the “view my webcam testimonial” attached to an image of a woman in a very inviting pose.

if you haven’t received such testimonial, well lucky you, in the event that you do, do not click on the link; immediately delete the said testimonial so that the virus would not spread.

if in case you did, there’s a 100% chance you’re friendster account is infected. there’s two things you can do to remove the virus.

1. delete your friendster account, which you would not do, right?

2. since friendster is using CSS in profiles, i’m guessing that the virus script is within the CSS.

ahh, now you get it? not yet? here’s what you can try.

A. if your friendster site is already customized, edit the CSS file, then delete all code in your CSS.

B. SAVE and your friendster site will revert to the default format.

if your friendster site is not yet customized, customize it by by choosing one of the provided templates

SAVE then wait for 30 minutes or 1 day (the reason for the wait is sometimes friendster lags in updating the CSS)

after the wait, follow steps A-B.

You can confirm with you’re friends in your list if the virus has been removed

FINAL NOTE: i am not sure that this work-around will work, just an educated guess. guessing always has a 50/50 chance. but if you’re infected, there’s no harm in trying, unless you want to spread the virus.

for  those who will try these steps, let me know thru the comments if it worked or not, so i can suggest another way of removing the virus, but bear with me, if it takes a while before i reply; i’m loaded with work.

Think of this a a post Christmas gift or should I say ”HELL! TO THE STREETS Y’ALL!” 

Let me introduce to you a very close friend of mine, but for confidentiality purposes and some topics that would probably be blurted out here that would be damning to him or anyone around him, legally or illegally, I’ll keep him under the name, Eisenheim.

Eisenheim is a very close friend of mine and we’ve known each other since childhood, before the Atari or IBM PC XT was released for public consumption. We grew up sharing some secrets that most of my friends did not want to or would ever want to share. Now before I indulged myself into this writing frenzy which I know would reveal his or even my deepest and darkest secret. I asked Eisenheim’s permission first. He gladly agreed that I could tell it all as long as I keep him under an alias.

I could very well introduce him a-la biographical, chronological intro or I could forego of that boring part and just add bits and pieces of his history as I go along. Anyway so much of that, but let me first highlight his and my similarities. Eisenheim is the same age as me. He also works in a software company. And we’ve both been through the hellish hells and, I hope, the ‘heavenest’ of heavens. We both love San Mig Light and we both could down two liters each of Cuervo Gold when we were much younger than we are now.

Eisenheim also went to Singapore and like me he went back here and then worked here. He also blogs but his blogs went dormant when he landed his job a couple of months back. Again, so much of the effin similarities, however I could not determine any trait that differentiates us, well, I am Don and my friend’s name is Eisenheim and I’m going to write loads and loads of blog posts from what I remember of the stories I heard from Eisenheim.

[Next post: Eisenheim rants about his job]

This is in response to Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty. This was written on the fly during my 15 minute break because of a heavy work load and it was only now that I was informed thru email that it’s Blog Action Day, so forgive any errors in grammar or so. Bloggers of world, UNITE!

Most of us would agree that poverty equates to population explosion and both factors each other. The solution is quite simple yet as simple as it is, still, it is very hard to implement. Control population growth then you can drastically reduce poverty. Take the case of the Philippines for example, though I haven’t really undertook a formal study on poverty, it really does not require a thesis to understand that the poor only becomes poorer every time they conceive.

“Ang kayamanan ko ay ang aking mga anak” (my treasure are my children) now how many times have I heard those lines, mostly from the D sector of society?  How many times have you too? Do not confuse me as from the upper classes of Philippine society, I am not. It’s just that I hear those famous lines from, well, the poorest of the poor. So what is wisdom behind those lines? The irresponsible parents think and hope that one in as many children they have will most probably lift or save them from the dump where they so lovingly dig themselves into deeper every time they conceive.

Again, let me reiterate that  also come from the ‘not so rich’ sector and I’m not undermining the poor, it’s just that their thinking that one of their children would, some day, in the future, will turn them to wealthy senorita’s and senorito’s would have to stop. There are cases when that line of thinking do eventually materialize but, let’s say, in a million cases, only one or two occurrences of that dream do transpire. So what are you left with? I’m not going to lecture on means and medians; I’ll save that for your probabilities and statistics.

It is the responsibility of the parents to secure the future of their offspring, NOT the other way around. If you’re a responsible mother, you will not parade your child in your arms, half-naked, under the sun or pouring rain just to beg and hope that someone will sympathize in your fate. That is not responsibility. That is madness and should be a criminal act. It’s the same as with peddling your children to politicians or foreigners and hope for a better future after, madness, complete madness.

I’ve been to the most poverty-stricken areas in the Philippines and what do I see? Kids, kids and more kids everywhere, and then you begin to ask yourself, why? You have to take into consideration the environment they evolve in. The shanties are extensions of other shanties and the walls that divide them are only inches apart. So what happens in that kind of environment where most parents have time to idle as long as they want? They manufacture children. Add that to that famous line I said a few paragraphs before and what do you get? Population explosion that equates to poverty that equates to higher crime rate that equates to chaos that equates to anarchy and so on and so forth.

So how do you reduce poverty? Many studies have been undertaken and most of those that they try to implement do fail. So the answer that population control IS the solution is really not that simple. I am a Catholic and my church is very clear on their stand on artificial birth control, though I’m somewhere in between when it comes to church and state, still, artificial birth control may be an answer, that is if it eventually becomes available for free. But then again, it’s like shifting to low tar cigarettes, you did not kick the habit, you just reduced it or so that is what they would like you to think.

Another solution is the legislation of a law that requires any couple to have something like a trust fund or proof that they can really support their offspring, but then again that has got to be one of the harshest solutions and I would only support that as a last resort when all else fails.

My choice as a weapon to control population to reduce poverty is education. Well, education from the government and responsibility on the people’s end. You see the poor having so many children, you see the rich having just one or two. The poor has no direct access to education. The rich can pay for it. It’s quite obvious that education equates to being responsible enough to know that you will not try to conceive a child you cannot support.  Education is the key as it has always been the solution to almost everything. But in a country like the Philippines where the military gets the juiciest cut of the annual budget and the education sector is down the list, it might all be a dream. With that said, corruption will then also be a factor and this supposed to be quick and short post for blog action day 2008 which I’m writing on the fly will then evolve to be a case study.

But then again it might be the combination of all that I enumerated. Still, educate the people, educate them to be responsible and that will equate to a positive result. Because at the end of the day, regardless of how many legislation or solutions we offer it is still in the hands of parents the basic freedom to conceive or not to.