In your face!!!!! (Election Bitterness Post Number 5)

Ayan. Pilipino na ko ulit. No longer disenfranchised. hehe. :)

Dec.28, 2009. Pumila ko ng 715, nagbukas yung office ng 830, natapos ako ng mga 920. :)

So plus 2 hours sa pila hours ko na ginawa to be registered, it becomes 15 hours! Waha.

Kung binasa mo yung kwento ng pagpila namin para sa kapirasong papel na to, makakarelate ka kapag sinabi kong hindi ko mapigilang ngumiti ng sobra-sobra nung nandun na ko sa loob ng office at mga tatlong pilahan na lang matatapos na ko. (yes, bukod sa napakahabang pila sa labas, meron pa ulit sa loob. pero kung galing ka sa labas at pipila ka na lang sa loob, pramis kebs ka na. with all that hard work, alam mong matatapos ka an eh. :P) As in effort na talaga ang pagpigil ko sa bibig ko para hindi ngumiti ng todo kasi hello, ang weird kaya. magpapalagay ka lang ng precinct number, todo ngiti ka na parang may auditions. Hahahaha.

At di matatawarang euphoria ang naramdaman ko nung sinabi saking: "Ok na." at lumabas na ko sa exit nung office. I've never thought those two words could mean so much! LOL.

Sayang lang talaga mag-isa na lang ako kanina. Di kasi nagrereply si haliMAU. Tapos, nasa Cebu pa kasi si JB at 12 pa kanina yung balik niya. Si pito naman, usapan namin 4am. At least ako dumating ng 7. Siya magtu-12 na, papunta pa lang. HAHA. Di ko alam kung natapos sila kasi umuwi na ko eh. Sana. Para Pilipino na rin kayo ulit. Haha. :)


I would like to thank:
JB, Mau, my kuya and Pito for keeping me company the first time.
Rob, Jhing, and all else na hindi ako tinantanan ngayong break para magpareg ulit. Thank you for believing in me. LOL.
Kabataan party-list led by Raymond Palatino for filing the petition to extend the voters' registration
and Associate Justice Conchita Carpio Morales for granting the petition.
(sige na nga, salamat na rin sa COMELEC)

Isa to sa mga di ko malilimutang achievement para sa taong to. :)

Christmas Wishlist

1.) Sana po hindi na kami mamatayan ng daga sa research sa mga susunod na taon. Please. Para po sa ikapapasa namin. We will be good doctors, promise! (wahahaha. bargaining na eh noh.) :)

2.) Sana po magkaroon ng Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease o kahit Acute Lung Injury lang yung negative control namin.

3.) Sana magkaroon ng significant differences sa acute lung injury sa pagitan nung mga daga namin na may genistein at nung negative control (see, number 2 wish).

4.) Nahiling ko na ba na sana hindi na kami mamatayan ng daga? Sana po hindi na kami mamatayan ng daga. :)

5.) I wish the Copenhagen talks would not end with what happened this year.

Oo, member pa ko ng ygroup ng One Earth kahit hindi na ko nakapagactivate ng membership. Pramis, pag tinopak na ko one day at lumevel na naman ang pagiging proactive ko sa mga orgs, babalik na ko. wahahaha. Anyway, yun ang dahilan kung bakit alam ko na sadly, the Copenhagen talks are not doing so well.

(Kung hindi mo alam, ang Copenhagen ang venue ng UN Climate Change Conference kung saan sinusubukan nilang gumawa ng isang legally binding treaty for the whole world to follow para ma-curb ang effects ng climate change. Ako na ang conyotic.)

Sadly, however, the developed countries are still not giving it their all for a treaty that can probably save the world. The US and China, in particular. (Oo, anti-US forever ako. Pero seryoso ang point ko dito.) They came in late in the talks and now, Obama brokered a deal in closed doors na parang consolation prize lang kasi hindi mapagkasunduan yung key points. So they just created a deal that is not legally-binding anyway. Some see the deal as a stepping stone. I see it as stupid. Why should anyone settle for a consolation prize in issues that concern, say, the annihilation of mankind?

Pero sige na. Sha-shut up na ko. Kasi hindi ko pa masyadong napag-aaralan yung issue. At hidndi ko pa rin napagaaralan ng ganun ka-grabe ang provisions na dapat nasa treaty para maging effective iyon sa pag-curb ng climate change. One thing I'm sure about is, though, that the deal was not legally binding at any point and no concrete commitments were done by the developed countries which almost makes it powerless. But if some believes that it may just be a stepping stone, then I wish that it'd be a beacon of hope so that the next talks on climate change next year would produce something that may help preserve what the earth has. Sana.

5.) I wish US's national health care bill would be passed.

For someone who does not like US, I'm really sincere on this one. Partly because it's just sad that it's such a real country but capitalism prevails too much that even with all that money, they can't spend for their own health. Yet, i want it passed mostly because of the Philippines.

Oo, dahil sa Pilipinas. Aminin mo man kasi o hindi, medyo gaya-gaya pa rin tayo. Kung mapapasa ang national health care bill na to sa US at timing pa na elections din next year, meaning kung mapasa to around a time na may bagong presidente ang Pilipinas, kahit sino pa siya, posibleng konting ingay na lang din ang kailangan at magkaroon na rin tayo sa bansang ito ng mga matagal nang kinakailangang reporma sa mga batas ukol sa kalusugan. Malay mo, manggaya na naman tayo ulit sa US. At sa pagkakataong ito, susuportahan ko ang panggagaya natin.

The passage of that bill may bring an oppurtunity to change the health system of the Philippines. Kahit pa sabihin mong mahihirapan tayong baguhin ang ssistema at magsulong ng mga reporma dito sa Pilipinas (lalu pa't kung Cheap Medicines Act nga lang halos magkanda letse-letse eh), who wouldn't want an oppurtunity?

6.) Tapos, kung pwede pang mag-wish at magkatotoo ang number 5, hihilingin ko na rin na sana, kahit malabo (pero yun naman ang point ng pag-wish di ba?), magkaroon ng pagkakataon ang mga Pilipino na magkaroon ng Universal Health Care - yung toong tipo ng UHC at di yung mapagpanggap na uri.

Aaminin ko, naging teary-eyed ako nung isa sa mga segments nung UHC forum na impromptu nating inattend-an sa UP Diliman. Kung bakit exactly, hindi ko alam. Pero sure akong isa sa mga dahilan ay masaya akong malaman na may paraan naman talaga para sa isang UHC sa Pilipinas at na may mga taong gagamitin ang mga kakayahan upang maisulong ito.

Oo, ako na ang dramatic. Pero kasi naman, the concept of UHC in itself is very fantasy-like especially with the state of the Philippines now. Pero pramis, kung meron man akong wish bago ako mamatay, yun ay ang makitang natupad ang isang UHC para sa Pilipinas.

This is what you call college spirit.

Sa kulang-kulang isang libong tao sa college, sa mga sandaling iyon talaga na naglalakad kami sa kahabaan ng taft, tangan-tangan ang isang lantern na dugo't pawis ata ang ginugol ng mga kaklase mo para matapos, iisipin mo: di ba kulang-kulang 1000 ang estudyante ng med? Nasaan na kaya sila?

Ganito kasi talaga ang college spirit ng med. At siguro, kung hindi ako pagod na pagod nung araw na yun at may lakas pa ko para magblog, my words would be more harsh.

This is not even about being required to support your college at a lantern parade. Alam naman kasi natin na nandito tayo para maging doktor at hindi para magparade. This is about keeping up with your responsibilities.

Di ba part naman ng pagiging responsable ang pag-amin na hindi mo magagampanan ang isang bagay at na sa halip ay iiwan mo na lang ito? The responsible side of you would come in by letting everyone that would be affected know that you're not gonna do your part. People would understand anyway. They have to. Sure, they would frown, roll their eyes and shrug at you, but that's just about it. After that, you can tell them that at least you were responsible enough to let you job go and inform them that that you're doing so.

Kesa naman hindi.

Frustrating kayang mag parade kasama ang dean niyo habang ang mga katabi mong college ay may kung anu-anong gimik tapos kayo wala man lang kahit isa. Yung tipong mukhang (at hindi malayong) hindi man lang magawang maging proud yung dean niyo dahil nakikita niya yung effort nung ibang college tapos kayo halatang 10 seconds bago magparade niyo nadetermine kung anong gagawin. Yung tipong halatang walang college unity yung buong parade niyo dahil lang ang katabi niyong colleges ay nagawang makapagproduce ng pare-parehong t-shirt (na maganda) at mga gimik (kahit cheer man lang na bago) tapos kayo hindi. Sobrang nahiya ako para kay dean.

Oo, mababaw lang lahat ng to. This won't even affect anything that our college was able to achieve in its 104 years of existence. Pero kasi, yun nga yung point. Dapat mababaw lang to kaya dapat kayang-kaya na. Some upperclassman told me nung imed days that he/she (nakalimutan ko na kung sino eh!) believes that it is the students themselves that make this college really great. Hindi yung facilities, hindi lang faculty, at kung anu-ano pa. At that point, I believed him or her. Pero ngayon, medyo na lang.

We didn't need an altogether very elaborate gimik, like those of the other colleges, during those times. Hindi naman kelangan ng props, ng costumes, o ng kahit ano. All we needed were instructions on what to do. kahit sobrang simple lang. More so, all we needed were additional people who would cheer the kolehiyo ng medisina chant - and I'm not talking about the same people who made the lantern because it's a given that they would be there but those weren't really involved at the making.

Yun lang and it would have been fun shouting the same cheers we imed people shouted when we came to Diliman for the centennial parade. Yun lang and the whole parade would have been fun doing again.

Ok lang naman, then again. We still won third place! (at natalo natin ang PH at Pharm! :P)

(kuha ni marcus)

Congrats Jason at Marvie at Hopee! At sa lahat ng taong nagbuhos ng pagod sa lantern na to. It's still the most elegant lantern in that parade. Ang ganda ng execution! Woohoo!

Yey. (Election Bitterness Post Number 4)

Kami rin ang nagwagi. bwahahaha.

I've read comments from people emphasizing that no one should be pissed just because the deadline cut them off so they weren't able to register. Though they have a point and I would probably have the same comment if I were able to register, it's still worthwhile to note that it's so very easy to just blame the so-called Filipino trait of waiting for the last minute before doing anything instead of actually looking at the issue in a deeper perspective. Sure, the people who really exerted effort only when the deadline was near has so much to be blamed for ending up unregistered and disenfranchised. But looking at just that reason and not expanding your view to a wider perspective would make you blind at the flaws of the process of the registration, too.

Oo. Siguro yung ibang lugar naging madali lang at walang problema. Pero base sa mga narinig kong kwento, marami ring nakaranas ng problema na hindi naman kasi dapat nagexist in the first place. At kung yung ibang lugar may problema pero yung iba wala, isn't that a sign that something is wrong and something can be corrected? In the end, don't just blame everything on an individual when you haven't even made sure that he or she has a right to complain.

Hindi excuse na dahil matagal, hinid efficient, at magulo ang proseso ng pagpaparehistro kaya hahabaan mo na lang yung time frame para makapagparehistro ang mga tao. All the more, hindi kasi porke't mahaba yung binigay mong time frame, kung hindi naman kasi talaga rumerespeto sa oras ng isang tao yung proseso ng pagpaparehistro, eh feeling mo may dahilan ka na para sabihing ginawa mo na ang lahat para makapagparehistro ang lahat ng gusto magparehistro.

Buti na lang: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/12/15/09/supreme-court-extends-voters-registration

Yey. (Election Bitterness Post Number 4)

Kami rin ang nagwagi. bwahahaha.

I've read comments from people emphasizing that no one should be pissed just because the deadline cut them off so they weren't able to register. Though they have a point and I would probably have the same comment if I were able to register, it's still worthwhile to note that it's so very easy to just blame the so-called Filipino trait of waiting for the last minute before doing anything instead of actually looking at the issue in a deeper perspective. Sure, the people who really exerted effort only when the deadline was near has so much to be blamed for ending up unregistered and disenfranchised. But looking at just that reason and not expanding your view to a wider perspective would make you blind at the flaws of the process of the registration, too.

Oo. Siguro yung ibang lugar naging madali lang at walang problema. Pero base sa mga narinig kong kwento, marami ring nakaranas ng problema na hindi naman kasi dapat nagexist in the first place. At kung yung ibang lugar may problema pero yung iba wala, isn't that a sign that something is wrong and something can be corrected? In the end, don't just blame everything on an individual when you haven't even made sure that he or she has a right to complain.

Hindi excuse na dahil matagal, hinid efficient, at magulo ang proseso ng pagpaparehistro kaya hahabaan mo na lang yung time frame para makapagparehistro ang mga tao. All the more, hindi kasi porke't mahaba yung binigay mong time frame, kung hindi naman kasi talaga rumerespeto sa oras ng isang tao yung proseso ng pagpaparehistro, eh feeling mo may dahilan ka na para sabihing ginawa mo na ang lahat para makapagparehistro ang lahat ng gusto magparehistro.

Buti na lang: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/12/15/09/supreme-court-extends-voters-registration

44 :)

TRP 2009, Class 2014 song entry. :P




Salamat, 2014, sa pagkanta ng mga salitang ginawa sa MRT at Burger King, produkto ng stress at pressure ng isang deadline, habang ang tanging inspirasyon ay ang nagsasalitang babae sa MRT na nagsasabi kung nasaan ka na.

Sorry, but I would admit that during the performance itself, I stopped singing when we got to the "Konti na lang, hintayin mo..." part. I loved that part of the poem when I wrote it. Kaya yun nasa dulo eh, kasi yun talaga peyborits ko. Waha.

And listening to it be sung was exhilirating and unexplainable. Iba yung pakiramdam. :)

Kumanta na ko ulit nung padulo na, pramis. :P

Salamat 2014. Salamat din ng maraming marami kay na Ate Jana at Anne na pinagtiyagaan ang sinulat ko. Hindi lang ako ang gumawa ng kantang to, remember! Arrangement by Anne, at Melody by Ate Jana with the whole song com. :P

Many thumbs up to the talents na hindi matatawaran ng kahit sino! Go TRP Song Com! :)

Sabi ni Carlos Cuano sakin, it was ironic for an imed to have written the song - this song - about RSA. Eh hindi naman nga kami pumirma sa kahit ano. Natawa ako. Inalala kong muli kung ano yung mga pananaw ko na dati'y buong puso kong pinagmamalaki at na ngayo'y buong puso kong pinaglalaban para manatili. Tapos hindi na ko nagsalita. Bago ko pa isulat yung kanta, alam ko na kung bakit. Pramis may pinaghugutan yun kahit naghihingalo na. :)

To the laterals of 2014: hinintay ko kayo. pramis. kaya salamat. maraming salamat. :)

It was nice to offer lyrics to a song that has a message people will really uphold. Sabi ko dati ayoko nang magsulat ng mga bagay na patriotic kasi nakakafrustrate lang in the end dahil after so many years, pag binalikan mo yung sinulat mo, marerealize mong pareho lang din yung sitwasyon mo nun at ngayon. Thus, it was nice to create a song that speaks and promises to the Filipino people and is truthful at the same time. Wala masyadong writings na nakakagawa nun lalu na ngayon.

A heartfelt thank you for the privilege. Sobra. :)



"Hintayin mo..." - Isang Lagda, by UPCM 2014

Parang awards night lang rin pala ang elections next year eh. (Election Bitterness Post Number 3)

Mula sa The Proffesional Heckler:

ang mga kakandidatong artista sa iba't-ibang posisyon sa 2010:
Aiko Melendez
Roderick Paulate
Ara Mina
Alfred Vargas
Arnell Ignacio
Isko Moreno
Daisy Reyes
Lani Mercado
Rico J. Puno
Jestoni Alarcon
Cesar Montano
Richard Gomez
Anjo Yllana
Joey Marquez
Alma Moreno
Gian Sotto
Dan Fernandez
Marjorie Barretto
Jigo Garcia
Bong Revilla
Lito Lapid <-- for crying out loud!!

...at marami pa atang iba.

Alam mo naging pangarap ko rin kasi talagang maging presidente ng Pilipinas eh. Kung pag-aartista lang naman pala ang kailangan, shet, ano bang ginagawa ko sa med?! LOL.

I do not claim that they're not capable. (Well, si Aiko councilor sa QC pero wala naman ata siyang nagagawa - well, mukha namang walang nagagawa ang kahit sinong councilor dito but that's beside the point) It's just frustrating that the elections in a country so close to its doom still runs like American Idol.

In fairness, kung ganito lang rin, sana hindi na lang automated ang elections noh? Sana ginawa na lang nilang "TEXT your President_space_candidate of choice_etc. to 2366." E di sana mas mabilis. LOL

P.S. For crying out loud! Si Lito Lapid ulit!? Pag siya nanalo, I will lose 50% of my nationalism deliberately. :P

157. :(

bwisit. bwisit talaga.

sayang. :(