Mini-Internet Hiatus

I never realized how much I missed on the internet until I went to Jessica Zafra's Site and saw that there were two pages of posts that I haven't read. It's not even helping that my cp~pc net connection is slow--slower-- than usual and I have to squeeze into a net cafe full of hollering teenagers just to get my internet fix.

Haven't played Perfect World in a while too~ I hope my clan doesn't kick me out. Aryashiki~ gambatte ne!! ^ ^

Anyway, since I'm already here...

My Arashi fix~~

Ohno getting whipped~



~So cool, so cool!!



Chibi Sakurai-kun~



Scary Jun, adorable Ohno~



Pic credit goes to MegamaLovesSatoshi, Pnudang, (photobucket)

~~I'll steal more pics next time, and maybe some new news... heh!!

Meet Friday

There are four of us in my family, not counting my mom who God called away years ago and my dad’s children with his mistress. So, there’s my dad, Grrr, me, and our other sister Friday.

Friday lives in Manila, we live in Pampanga. Due to certain similarities in character, my dad and Friday could not live with each other. They like two north poles of magnets, doomed to perpetually push each other away. That’s why Friday is in Manila and not with us. It’s not like we didn’t try but there’s really nothing we can do.

We sent Friday to our aunt’s house in Manila after she pulled a stunt that had added to my countless sleepless nights. But now apparently, she’s done it again. She moved out of our aunt's house to God knows where.

Grrr told me Friday is in some boarding house somewhere near her school. Grrr speaks with Friday all the time, as they’re clanmates (celphone clan… don’t ask me to explain) so I think she’s fine. I suppose I should make sure, except that I already know what Friday is going to tell me—she needs money, which I don’t have and can’t give her.

If only Friday lived with us, it would be easy. Free rent, I split the electric bill with dad, our water bill is almost nothing, and food is easy to get. The only problem is that Dad-Sama and Friday cannot possibly co-exist in one small area. If Friday moved back, only two things may happen (1) they kill each other, or (2) I go nuts-o and poison everyone in the house. Tethering in the precipice of my sanity as I am, I don’t really need anymore aggravation. The problems that I cause on my own are destructive enough.

Selfish, aren’t I? But it’s not like we haven’t tried. Friday went home last Christmas vacation and I almost hung myself from the stairs. That day I wanted to grab a knife from the kitchen and kill everyone and the fear I felt for feeling that way was worse. I don’t need the same feeling again.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to find a way to tell dad. I haven’t told him, he’s kind of sick. So first, I’ll need cash for Friday. So the ‘Back to School’ plans I had have come to nothing. I may need a part-time job.

Happily Ever After (Part 2)

My two Bosses, Atty. Edwin M. Calica and Divina Jane C. Valbuena, were married last May 31, 2008. I didn't get to go, unfortunately, but my dad did and he made this video.



If the video won't play, try this link: Calica-Valbuena Nuptials it'll lead you to YouTube.

My Bosses are very fun people. You won't get bored when you're with them, I assure you. Anyway, I heard they wanted the video uploaded for their relatives abroad or something, so I hope this works.

Congrats Big Boss and Mrs. Big Boss!!

Poor Prince Monogatari

I planned to post my Boss' wedding today but it's taking a loooong time for YouTube to upload the freaking video so now I'm topicless. What have I been doing since last time... I'm currently addicted to Yamada Tarou Monogatari (is the title right?) where Kazunari Nino of Arashi is the lead with Sho Sakurai starring as Yamada's best friend.

The only reason I watched Yamada Tarou is because of Nino and Sakurai. I completely ignored the fact that the cover made it seem that the series is a tear jerker and I don't watch dramas (I tried to watch Gong Yoo's One Fine day and ended up giving myself a headache.) But after the first episode I realized that Yamada Tarou is the Japanese version of Taiwan's Poor Prince, the one with Vic Zhou in it. The only difference between the two is that Yamada Tarou Monogatari is more logical than Poor Prince. He makes you think that even though he's poor at present, with his abilities, he'll someday end up being rich so it really doesn't matter while Vic Zhou's character (for teh life of me I can't remember his name) is just funny. *Picture of yamada tarou cast credit goes to vampyr_tenshiko of Flickr.com

I'm not going to launch into a complete review of Yamada because my head is tired. I'll just say that I liked the series so much my sister Grr is probably mad at me already because I've watched the whole thing probably seven times already.

Arashi is my new favorite band... I don't know if I've already said that already. I like Ohno but I don't think he has a tv series that I could watch so I content myself by watching uploads from YouTube and Crunchyroll. I don't even want to think of his new series Maou (spelling correct?) because I don't know if I'll be able to find a copy here in the Phils. (sigh)

Oh, here's for Maou(?) I love Ohno... and Toma... *found these pictures here: dw9lives Weblog

Aaaaargh!! I have to watch this series!! I have to!! Aaargh!!

Happily Ever After

I work in an office of 3. There's my boss, our messenger, and me. Dude, our messenger, has only been in the office for six months. Before him was my boss' girlfriend, lady boss, who was our legal researcher, and before her was my Sempai, The Flash. Lady Boss and The Flash both left for greener pastures but lady boss still has lunch in our office.

Yesterday, Lady Boss told Dude and me to come to the office on Saturday. 'We're eating out' she said. After our boss and LadyBoss left, Dude asked me what was happening on Saturday but we were equally oblivious to the situation. It is not normal for them to be asking us out to eat, 'just because' so that's out of the question. And then Dude forwarded a strange idea, 'Are they getting married?'

I didn't know what to say to this because they weren't really saying anything about it and we certainly didn't know anything about their opinion about the topic. But apparently, they are.

Dude isn't at work today because he was sent to an errand. This afternoon, my Boss suddenly said to a 'customer', I can't buy that today I'm getting married on Saturday. My eyebrows shot in the air but I didn't say anything. What do you say to people who get married? Congratulations? Isn't that word a bit worn out? Hmm...

Anyway, so the wedding and reception is on Saturday. I wonder if something interesting will happen...

Eye Candies

While I was looking for sites about Ikuta Toma, which are not that many, I sort of stumbled upon a boyband from Japan that had taken more than the usual amount of interest that I care to grant for by bands these days. The name: Arashi.

Honestly, I thought boybands were musically dead. There’s just too much of R&B and Emo music going around for them to squeeze in and the former boybands that I know had already disbanded so imagine my surprise when I found out that Arashi is actually still alive in Japan.

Arashi consists of five members: Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai, Mazaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Matsumoto Jun.

I’m too tired to describe them one by one. I’ll only say that they’re ‘interesting’. Usually when you come across boy bands, all they do is look cute and sing. Arashi, or I think all the boybands in Japan, does that and more… much, much more.

All of them have starred in a lot of movies, tv series, and stage plays. Matsumoto Jun is famous here in the Phils for his portrayal of Domyouji Tsukasa of Hana Yori Dango. Sho Sakurai actually graduated with an Economics Degree from Keio University (an Ivy League University in Japan) and is hosting a news program at night. Kazunari Ninomiya starred in Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima; and their Leader (Riidaa) has recently held an Art exhibit called “Freestyle” featuring his countless sculpted figures, artwork, and photographs.

It’s weird, isn’t it? To have boy band members be that accomplished in their field. Maybe if the Backstreet Boys did more than just look cute they’d still be alive today.


BTW: I like Satoshi Ohno (top left of the pic above) coz he’s weird. If you have new news about him, let me know.

Meet Yukina

None of my family can drive including me; we can’t afford gas, we hardly have enough money to buy rice (barring NFA rice, the lowest price is at around P35 per kilo) but for some strange reason my dad suddenly had an urge to buy me a car (My dad had one of the neighbors test drive it before he bought it.)

I name almost everything I own so Grrr and I named the car Yukina, after the ice princess, Hiei’s sister, in Yu Yu Hakusho. It looks like a boy but because of the color and I think the rule is that every vehicle is naturally female we gave it a girl name.

Anyway, I can’t drive it and for days I have failed to find anyone who could teach me to drive and I’m afraid to learn by myself because our street isn’t exactly wide and I would most likely crash. So there it sits in front of our house like a dead carabao gathering flies. My dad treats it like a toy. He gets people to drive it for him to wherever he wants to go.

Last night though was different. Being Labor Day and having nothing to do Grrr and I went to the computer shop so Grrr could go internet surfing and so I could play Perfect World (Hello to Dragon’s Aryashiki Clan) and then we went to the mall because we didn’t want to go home. When I got back, the car was about five houses down parked in front of a neighbor’s house.

I didn’t mind it and I didn’t say anything when dad came home and the car was still there because I could still see it from the house. At about 11:00 or 12:00 in the evening I heard the car revving from the outside. I opened the door and I saw some dude driving it to and fro in front of the house. I could hear the car start and then stop and then start and then stop and some crunching sounds so it was either the driver was dead drunk or he doesn’t know how to drive. I hate drunks; it’s a trauma from my childhood; so I stayed inside the house and said nothing.

This morning when I got out of the house the crushed part of Yukina’s rear bumper greeted me. The light at the right (or is it left?) hand side was partly broken and the bumper below it was slightly crushed. I didn’t have the time to inspect Yukina because I was late but my dad said the front bumper had fallen down as well as the right side mirror and the right side was also crushed.

Apparently one of the drunken drunks outside had a brain blast deep into the night, ‘Hey! Why don’t we take the car to a beer house?’ So they took it into a beer house and promptly crashed into some resort’s flower box on the way back.

I was irritated when I saw the rear bumper but now I’m angry. This has been one of the most infuriatingly surreal weeks I’ve ever had and the last thing I need is a damaged property. I haven’t even sat inside the freaking car let alone drive it and it’s already damaged. It’s partly my dad’s fault he gave the dude the keys to the car but if he knew he was drunk why did he have to drive it? Why couldn’t he have just left it there?

Last week one of the stupid neighbors wanted to borrow it for his business. I think he wanted to load some stuff in it and use it a service car. What the hell is with my neighbors?

So now Yukina’s wounded. It’s bad enough that she doesn’t get to go anywhere, now she’s got scratches on her everywhere. My car’s social life is getting to be as horrible as mine.

Will put Yukina's pictures some other time...

Merging Genders

My addiction to television series', be it cartoons or real live humans, started with Meteor Garden and my aunt's DVD copy of the series. TV series, reduces life matters into the simplest things, and as I am constantly being thrown in the middle of complex issues of life and such, I welcome the addiction with arms wide open. I don't watch tagalog tv series. Sorry for being "unpatrionistic" but I'm surrounded by Filipinos everyday seeing them in television when I want to rest is just a bit too much. Besides, most series from this country are Drama, if I want to cry I would only need to contemplate the direction of my life.

Anyway, I've noticed that lately there've been a number of series' (cartoons and live humans) with girls pretending to be boys. One is Korea's "Coffee Prince" where a girl, Go Eun Chan (Yoon Eun Hye), pretended to be a boy to get a job and ended up seducing and falling in love with her boss, Choi Han Kyul (Gong Yoo who is currently serving his two year mandatory military service).

The "girl getting away with pretending to be a boy" concept was a hit in Korea and also here in the Phils which is probably the reason why there's another one of them being aired on Primetime TV: "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e" of Japan and "Hana Kimi" of Taiwan (sorry, not sure whether the Taiwanese title really is "Hana Kimi").

I haven't watched the Taiwanese version but I was hooked on "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e," which is based on a Manga called Hana Kimi, mainly because the guy playing Nakatsu Shuichi (Ikuta Toma) is cute. Horikita Maki plays the lead Ashiya Mizuki, a girl who went to an all boys school just to see her crush Sano Izumi played by Oguri Shun. Ikuta Toma plays the Nakatsu Shuichi, the dude who also fell for Ashiya even though he knew she was a boy. If you've watched Hanayori Dango Season 2 (Episode 1), you'll remember him playing Oribe Junpei, the guy who used Makino Tsukushi to get to Doumyouji Tsukasa. The series is slightly different from the Manga but it was 'cute' as well.

What is it with these stories with girls pretending to be boys? Does this have anything to do with the number of gay people coming out of the closet? I mean, technically, these boys who fall in love with the girl who is only "pretending" to be a boy is gay right?. But then again, maybe it's can serve us more than just entertainment. Years ago, if shows like these turned up it probably wouldn't be this much of a hit but now that people are finally accepting gays... maybe it'll help more people adjust to the fact that gays are a part of our society too.

Anyway, as long as they're making show like this here's another one with a girl pretending to be a boy: the cartoon series Ouran Academy by Bisco Hatori. Haruhi Fujioka was mistaken for a boy when she entered the school's "Host Club." She accidentally knocks over an 8 million yen worth vase and was immediately put to work as their 'errand boy' by the Host club president or "King," Tamaki (sorry, I forgot his full name). When Tamaki found out that Haruhi actually looked good under her messy hair, he promotes her to host. Her real gender was eventually found out by the whole club but because of her debt, she stayed as a host and hid her gender from the customers and the rest of the school. I bet this one will be a hit too. Producers, what do you say?

** pic for Hanazakari no Kimitachi e was from http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa228/scizor_star/HanazakarinoKimitachie.jpg

**pic for Coffee Prince was from

http://www.coffee-prince.com/
** pic for Ouran High was from

http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s114/deviant_14/?action=view&current=ouran.png

Meet GRRR

I don’t get celphone clans. I think the concept is that you you’re your own chatroom and sign all your friends in it so that when you send a message to one person, everyone receives it and has the chance to respond. My sister, Grrr (when she's mad she literally says "GRRR"), is addicted to it. She said her clanmates are working together in some company or something in Makati so when one of them calls her she can hear the others in the background. My other sister, Friday, is also in her clan. So they speak to each other frequently.

Grrr’s last clan broke up because of her. She had apparently triggered a fight between the members and they ended up abolishing the thing all together. Her new clan is with the ones who sided with her in her argument. Now Grrr stays up until four in the morning talking to her clan. What do they talk about? Nothing really or at least I don’t really hear them talking about anything that’s worth discussing. It’s more like they’re all flirting with each other on the celphone; like having tons of textmates all at once. It’s so adolescent.

Grrr wants me to switch to suncel so I could join them. I would be receiving text messages from her clanmates on a regular basis… and then what? At least give me a goal, like a free celphone if I send out one thousand text messages. Give me that and even if I have to squeeze my brain for something to say to these people I don’t give a bleep to, I’ll participate.

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You are now reading the work of a proud owner of a brand new Student Driver’s License! Tat-ta-dada!!

I got it two days ago after falling in line and waiting for my name to be broadcasted repeatedly world wide in humongous speakers for three hours. I would’ve applied for a license but I think you need a student’s license first before you get a real license then there’s that one month waiting for you to get a Non-Professional Driver’s License.

Now, do I know how to drive? No. Do I own a car? No. Then why in the hell would I apply for a driver’s license?! Well, that is a very good question and someday I will get to answer it but right now I still have to wait 28 days before I get a real License and the clock is ticking very slowly.

Late news...

I had a look at the PW site. So the 'banning' of Accounts is actually caused by 'technical difficulties'. The Account Advisory was dated yesterday, March 31, 2008 so that means my account is safe from being suspended?

Where is everybody?

I had a hard time logging into 'Perfect World' yesterday. Apparently, the new server ‘Serpent’ is up and patches need to be updated. Unfortunately, the computers I was using won’t update properly so it took almost an hour before I could log in.

Oh, to Filipino non-geeks out there, ‘Perfect World’ is an MMORPG (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game) by Level Up Games (Philippines). I used to play Ragnarok but it costs too much and the graphics for Perfect World is nice. There were two Servers (now three including the new Serpent): Dragon and Tiger. I used to play Tiger but GIR had one character in Dragon and she gave it to me now I use that one. If you ever get to play in Dragon, look me up “Ootoro” is my handle.

Anyway, when I finally got to log into the Dragon server almost no one was there (most had moved to Serpent) and those who were there were ‘loud-speaking’ themselves hoarse, complaining about the GM’s banning their characters from entering PW without any apparent reason.

There have been a lot of complaints with PW especially about the events and I never paid no-never mind to it but the ‘banning’ issue sort of concerned me. PW is my new therapy, the reason why I haven’t been suicidal for more than a month now, and if I get banned for no apparent reason (not that I’m doing anything illegal in PW) what’ll I do? What’s going to be my new therapist?

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On the lighter note…

I ran into my Sempai, The Flash, this morning. The Flash used to be my topic in my previous blog, the one I erased before I started this one. I know him like the back of my hand but this morning I noticed something I know should’ve noticed before… his ears sort of stick out from his head.

Da Heat!! Da Heat!!

I hate weekends. It's two days without anything to do but sleep, but lately because of the heat I couldn't even sleep. My room feels like it's on fire; the two electric fans in my room doesn't even help because the air it blasts onto me could lift a hot air balloon into the stratosphere. I've run out of movies to watch and I almost never watch television so I resorted to playing Red Alert all weekend and I am telling you, that game is addictive. If you haven't heard about it, Red Alert lets you play either the Soviet side or the Allied side. Simply put, it's a strategy game where you get to bomb each other off. Greatest game ever. Now I understand why kids always played them in Net Cafe's.

So, I haven't slept properly in two days and I still couldn't finish "Red Revolution" in the Soviet Campaign. They kept attacking me when I'm not ready. I guess I'm just not fast enough or my strategies just suck.

Friendster!

I had a blog before with Friendster but the posts there were just too damn depressing even for my taste. I thought the hell with it, it's time for a new one. So, I opened this blog.

But then I thought it would be easier to promote this one so through friendster, so I re-opened the account. All the posts you'll see there are also here. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing with two blogs...

Visit me at http://rhymer.blogs.friendster.com/wyrd/ and while you're at it, invite me as a friend too; I'm not totally anti-social, you know.

Training Doggies!

Our doggie, Piglet, crying in pain as the stupid crippled neighbor trainer hit him over and over again for not sitting at his command. It makes my head boil just thinking about it. Found this site among my comments in my friendster page this morning: "Dog Training Tips" (http://best-dog-ever.blogspot.com/) by some dude called Nervin. One of the posts enumerates the different way to train a dog. A portion of it says:

"Finally fear training methods should also be considered. This typically involves scaring a dog through shouting, loud noises, throwing objects or other actions which will invoke fear in the dog. This method is not as effective as the other methods and can be more problematic. While there are some trainers who believe in this type of training, many would recommend reward and praise training instead. Fear training may produce the desired result of having a dog perform a desired behavior but the dog will be responding out of fear as opposed to in an effort to please the trainer."

I should print a copy of this post and show it to my dad. And then I'd shove the paper down my stupid neighbor's throat for torturing my doggie.

Idolizing the Insane

I’ve always thought in due time a comic book immortalizing the works of a mass murderer/serial killer would be made. Apparently, someone already did.

I was surfing the net yesterday looking for Invader Zim pictures when I ran across this comic book: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. It was created by the Jhonen Vasquez, the same dude who created Invader Zim.

Johnny C., the main character, is an insane mass murderer who kills people and paints a section of a wall in his house with their blood to "keep the thing from behind the wall from getting out". The only "friends" he has are "Nailbunny" a pet rabbit he "fed once and then nailed to the wall", and two doughboys "Mr. Fuck" or "Mr. Eff" and "Psycho doughboy"; all of which are voices inside his head. And the only girl who came close to stirring his feelngs, he tried to kill.

Although he kills innocent people for as simple as not turning the smoothie machine on, or using a word he didn’t like, most of his victims are actually assholes. He has a wierd sense of right and wrong. At one time, after being resurrected from hell, he met a rapist who idolized him and killed in his name. He ended up killing him saying "Though this gets me no absolution, I would never do what you did to that girl!!"

Even if brutal in most scenes, most of his murders are actually funny and a little sad at the same time. He constantly tries to kills himself and the only time he actually succeeded (convinced by one of the voices in his head, Mr. Eff) Satan brought him back to life, minus most of his hair. There are also other characters that eventually had their own strips, like Squee, the bullied little boy who lives next door to NNy; and Happy Noodle Boy, the comics created by NNy making it a comic within a comic.

Johnny C.'s charm lies on the fact that he does only what most of us want to do, as gruesome, utterly morbid, and totally insane as it may be, and he gets away with it. He feels what most people feel and is not afraid to do something about it, although killing and torturing people may be a little over the top. Jhonen Vasquez describes NNy in "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut" as:

"Not much is known about Johnny's story. All we do know is that his parents were killed by an evil man, thus setting the course for NNy's life as a masked crime fighter. Or, perhaps not. At present, NNY is more his own enemy than any external mind could be, what with the decomposure of what may have been, at one time, a fine, intelligent mind. Johnny is, possibly, more hideously mentally malformed than the people he seems to think have ruined his world. He's not a loser, he's simply lost."

Ah, a comic book featuring a human with a real human mindset. A hero who murders annoying people and gets away with. If anyone here in the Phils have the comic book series, I’d like them please… leave a message.

*All images are copyrighted to Jhonen Vasquez

Meet Piglet

For some reason, my dad agreed to adopt a new dog. He's part Doberman, I think. And because my sister GIR was late to come home, I got to name him: Piglet... i thought it suited him, sue me.

Piglet's a bit too energetic for my taste; he keeps on playfully biting my leg whenever I pass his dog house which is kind of annoying when you're tired and you just want to sit down. And when we unchain him, he runs around the house and tears all the fabrics he can lay his fangs on.

My dad tortured Piglet last night. He had him trained by our neighbor to follow the "sit" order. Apparently, in order for the dog to learn you have to cause him great pain by hitting him repeatedly whenever he got it wrong. Now the poor dog's traumatized, he won't come near anyone walking on hind legs. I'll give Piglet a year, then he'll either haul us to court for assault and battery, run away and find new humans, or maul us to death.

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I've been trying to set up a web page with Tripod.Lycos. I didn't realize it would be so hard. How do you set up links and folders for it? Like for example, in blogs when you click a title of a post, it shows the whole post along with the comments attached to it. How do I do that? On top of my ignorance in webpage creation, my internet connection keeps getting cut off; plus I'm doing this in office hours so...

If someone knows a website where I could learn how to make a nice webpage without making my nose bleed, please send the link to me.

Puppy Love

My family is extremely unlucky with pets. In total we’ve had four pets, and excluding fishes: three dogs and one family of cats and all pets have had horrible ends.

The cats were from a long time ago when my sisters and I were young; they chose our garage as their house and we couldn’t lose them. But there was a fire in our neighborhood, it reached our house so it pretty much got drenched and the cats disappeared.

Our first dog we named Warren (long story). He was a handsome little thing who terrorized the entire subdivision. Everyone hated him. Because we all went to school and none of us really wanted to take care of him, we didn’t put a leash on him and let him go around on his own. So, as unguided children often do when left unsupervised, he rebelled against us. He became the gang leader of the un-leashed dogs in our subdivision. Along with his friends, he wrestled garbage cans down, chased little children, pooped on other people’s yard, he probably got a lot of girlfriends pregnant too.

One day my sisters found him weezing on the living room floor. He was pooping blood and whimpering like it hurt. We still don’t know what happened to him. One of his gang members probably got jealous and slipped him some MSG in his food so he could take over their gang.

Our next dog was given by my cousin which we named Paris Nicole, after Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. She was half Japanese Spitz and half Labrador so she had a Spitz’ fluffy fur and a Labrador’s size. Paris was pretty but she was also too energetic and stubborn. She refused to eat anything but fish which was causing her to loose hair, and ran around the house like she was possessed; she also almost bit a small child who went too near the gate. So one day I got home she was gone. My sister Grrr told me that our dad had a huge arguement with Paris that morning and the next thing she knew, Paris was gone. My sisters and I surmised that she found a handsome boy dog, got married and is now living in a little hut in the middle of a prairie; in short, she’s probably dead.

~more next time...

Jose Rizal's Rival

Manny Pacquiao won by split decision against Juan Manuel Marquez yesterday in Las Vegas vying for the WBC 130-pound title.

No, I didn't watch. The moment my dad opened the television and tuned into the fight, I went in my room and slept until 6 in the evening. I don't get boxing: two men in gloves hitting each other trying to know who can knock the other first. If I wanted to watch boys trying to kill each other, I'd just go to any school and watch the fraternities throw molotov cocktails at each other.

But anyway, Manny's victory was on the news early in the morning along with the ZTE-NBN witness Jun Lozada moaning on television saying how his life is so miserable and how his wife is having counseling (Well then, the next time you decide to snitch on the government, predict and deal with the consequences. You don't honestly believe you can do that and live normally, do you? I don't condone corruption but please, if you decide to reveal what you know, don't whine when the government gives you a hard time. Honestly, I don't know how he's managed to still be alive. If this happened in other countries, he'd be dead by now. It's either the powers that be are trying to take on the humanitarian point of view and decided they can battle it out with him or they're just slow on the uptake.) so I couldn't really help but hear what happened.

There's something I'm confused about though. Manny Pacquiao is being dubbed as a "Bagong Bayani", why? What did he do? Did he save the nation from corrupting influences? Did he open the eyes of the masses to the corruption of the government? Did he write an emotionally and intellectually moving novel in order to fight colonials? President Arroyo says in light of this confusing time, Manny Pacquiao had managed to unite the people of our country. You mean it only takes a boxing match to unite the nation?

Maybe we should abolish the government and build boxing rings in place of court rooms; let the complainants and defendants box each other and the winner will get what he wants and Manny Pacquiao can be the referee. There would be monuments, his face will be engraved in paper money reminding us of the brilliance of his idea, the courage it took for him to go out there and fight those foreigners so he could get millions of pesos, oh wait, that's not it, so he could get uh... peace in our country... with boxing! Manny Pacquiao can be the new Jose Rizal, Jose Rizal with boxing gloves.