Revenge is a dish best served cold. hehehe. I have a feeling that the recent offensive against the afp generals (notice the non capitalization FTS). I have a suspicion that these are the same generals that withdrew their support from the former president.
Corrupt VS Corrupt the people win??
I’ve always been conflicted about this, but if we have to wait for a white knight (CUE in Hans Zimmer) we would probably never be able to clean up the system. Cleaning up large messes such as our society has proven to be a game of inches (superbowl inspired sentence). We try to improve little by little, introduce systems of oversight , systems of transparency, till we finally have a place most people can be proud of.
We should view the Philippines as a young country, we do not have the foundations of a 1000, 2000 even 3000 year old culture for a cohesive and ready for success country. Philippine culture is probably less than 50 years and yet what we have already achieved when viewed in the proper context cannot be scoffed at.
BTW this is a rabbit hole we are entering. Who watches the watchmen?? (We are looking at you COA and Ombudsman)
PS: Both parents of a friend work for the COA, I have nothing against the Commission and my dealing with them have shown that the bad apples are concentrated on certain institutions(I’m looking at you DPWH, Customs, and BIR) and most people try their best and are honest people.
Community AWESOME!!!!
Fuck, Community just gets better by the episode It gets better by the season. Loved the Christmas episode. Loved the DND episode. You really should be watching Community!!!!!!!
Memory and Synecdoche NY
The more science learns about memory, the mind, our experiences , how we feel , how we remember our lives, how we understand our lives, how we form the narrative of our lives the more Synecdoche NY makes sense. Other films may be more well made more satisfying , more in the now, But Synecdoche New York hits you fron somewhere deep, somewhere you just have to think about, to feel, to understand , if you are part of the unfortunate people who deal with existential angst.
Happythankyoumoreplease
It seems like Ted Mosbey (Josh Radner) is s decent director. Enjoyed happythankyoumoreplease. New York stills seems awesome and I have to say that there is that part of me that dreams of that city.
EDIT:: I heart this film. very quotable, we personal. It feels like an inner monologue.
Praise:: :: Send-off money to AFP chiefs 'staggering': Trillanes | ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, Features
Always a silver lining. I salute Admiral Guillermo Wong. This shows how someone who is a party to corruption can be more damaging. By removing the person who should have been a beacon of hope towards reforms in the Armed Services, he dimmed the light of reform and even showed the younger officers how moral uprightness becomes a cross against keeping the position.
“When I was there..the programmed P40 million every month for PCDA was being controlled by the chief of staff. If we cannot come up with the amount, this is augmented by the major services – Navy, Air Force and the Army – and the key budgetary units, the PMA, the PSG and AFP Medical Center or V. Luna (Hospital) so that we could generate the P40 million a month which is equivalent to about P480 million a year and that is the so-called PCDA that is readily available to the disposal of the chief of staff,” Rabusa said.
For his part, Trillanes said the PCDA was given various names such as incentive pay or core command staff representation.
He added that while a representation allowance for the chief of staff is understandable, a P5 million monthly allowance is “staggering.”
“That’s a systemic form of corruption. The leader loses his moral authority to cleanse the system because [the corruption] is automatic,” he said in Pilipino.
He noted that only one military official, Admiral Guillermo Wong, had the guts to turn down the offer of discretionary funds from the military comptroller. He thus had a free hand to clean up the Philippine Navy.
However, he was later removed from his post by Reyes.
Garcia can still testify
via Send-off money to AFP chiefs ‘staggering’: Trillanes | ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, Features.
Rant on Koreanovela Endings
Why does a good ending have to always be one where the noble character dies. Fuck. I’m miffed after watching the ending of East of Eden, previously Queen Seon Dok and Money War. Fuck. Why are we so fixated with the Greek Tragedy. FUCK. Baker King seems very interesting but I don’t want to get pulled in.
On an interesting note, while in this demonic mood, What is the best revenge random people can do against the perpetrators of the a massacre (Watching GMA news; A victim of the Maguindanao Massacre was apparently raped before she was killed. The victim was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. She was bringing his husband to Cotabato City because his husband was very sick. Animals)? Top of my head is we could have syringes containing the blood of an AIDS infected person and while they are being brought to jail.
Inflationary Fears
I believe we are living in a deflationary world while here in our country the OFW remittances, the BPO industry and the Real Estate Boom are creating inflation pressures that aren’t easily handled by exchange rate movements. This is not going to end well.
rePost :: There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work – 37signals
A lot of people are scared. All that they can do is to tear people down because big people scare them.
Instead of considering what went into the design, we point at laugh at someone’s “terrible design”, retweet and reblog then go on with our superiour existence.
“Where the heck were you when the page was blank?”
via There is no place for just shitting all over other people’s work – 37signals.
Love And Other Drugs
There is that kind of lovestory that I don’t get to see that often. It’s the not a romantic comedy, the comedy that has romance tucked into sometimes seemingly by accident, the zero chemistry super star vehicle. We get to see these things but mostly on short episodic movies like Love Actually and Valentines Day and the like. I believe the problem has always been that moderation , balance is the harder thing to accomplish. They almost hit that note with this movie, alas I don’t know if they wanted a movie done by an ADD and depressed person. The film felt done by someone taking ritalin and/or prozac. If that was the messiness they wanted then they succeeded. I cant recommend this movie, but I’ve seen it twice to see two excellent performances and dream of what could have been if they were more focused.
Finding Hope
for june who loved this garden and joseph who always sat beside her + Notting Hill