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Showing posts with label Notes to self. Show all posts
Monday, August 2, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Campaign
The starter gun to the Philippine elections was fired quietly more than 24 hours ago when the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) declared 09 February 2010 the commencement of the 90-day campaign period for those running for President, Vice President and 12 Senators of the land.
Sigh.
It's the actual campaign season once again. I am surprised at the abrupt end of what were the more sedate, more polite and proper forums the candidates were given the chance to attend which gave us, in turn, the occasion to listen so we can make informed choices.
Campaign sorties are nothing but empty rhetoric, of preaching (and ditching), mostly to the converted. Like any event related to politics, campaigns are an arena of mud and grime confined within thick, choking air. And thanks to modern-day amplification, one comes out of it near-deaf, too.
This is the culmination of years of politicians' yearning to rip one another apart; no matter how immoral, the campaign season makes it right and justified.
It's an insane season. It is costly, tiresome, and divisive.
It is contrary to what every politician and candidate have ever muttered in the days when they were wooing the public and they, in less subtle ways, wanted to be wooed into party inclusion: "peace and unity".
Sadly, there will be none of these in the next 3 months. And none in the days after election day.
Sigh.
It's the actual campaign season once again. I am surprised at the abrupt end of what were the more sedate, more polite and proper forums the candidates were given the chance to attend which gave us, in turn, the occasion to listen so we can make informed choices.
Campaign sorties are nothing but empty rhetoric, of preaching (and ditching), mostly to the converted. Like any event related to politics, campaigns are an arena of mud and grime confined within thick, choking air. And thanks to modern-day amplification, one comes out of it near-deaf, too.
This is the culmination of years of politicians' yearning to rip one another apart; no matter how immoral, the campaign season makes it right and justified.
It's an insane season. It is costly, tiresome, and divisive.
It is contrary to what every politician and candidate have ever muttered in the days when they were wooing the public and they, in less subtle ways, wanted to be wooed into party inclusion: "peace and unity".
Sadly, there will be none of these in the next 3 months. And none in the days after election day.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
weather weather
I am listening to all of Nature's collection of drum rolls in its arsenal right now.
~ 2:29 pm, Quezon City
Post scriptum
Really, when Nature puts on a show, everybody halts to listen, watch or do some inward reflection.
After all, what else can we do when caught in a light show in the mid-afternoon, with incessant rolling and barreling and banging of the skies above, and a burst, an unstoppable flow of the skies' mighty waters that rushes our negligence away.
And then, a deafening silence. And a sigh. And then the sound of every body's routine creeping back in, slowly breaking the hush, taking over what was, for a few minutes there, a reminder of our fragility.
~ 3:27pm
*cross-posted
~ 2:29 pm, Quezon City
Post scriptum
Really, when Nature puts on a show, everybody halts to listen, watch or do some inward reflection.
After all, what else can we do when caught in a light show in the mid-afternoon, with incessant rolling and barreling and banging of the skies above, and a burst, an unstoppable flow of the skies' mighty waters that rushes our negligence away.
And then, a deafening silence. And a sigh. And then the sound of every body's routine creeping back in, slowly breaking the hush, taking over what was, for a few minutes there, a reminder of our fragility.
~ 3:27pm
*cross-posted
Monday, November 17, 2008
look
(Note to self)
Retiring old template to this new one with custom header.(Nov 19)
Added Flickr slideshow to sidebar.
(Nov 20)
Revised header to include photo of my mug, notebook and pencil.
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