[] KaLaYaaN !? []

Something dramatic is cooking in Manila Peninsula right this very moment. The country is back into turmoil as the speeding economy is infected by another mutiny lead by the same group who attacked the Oakwood Hotel in the past. The "Magdalo", whose name popularized by the same party of the late great hero Emilio Aguinaldo, has come back maybe to regain the freedom they have never won.

I actually don't know if I am in any side. The blabbering of both opposites have created this very event. Who are we to blame? Do we point at the government whose legitimacy as the administration is legal or the mutineers whose only request is the freedom and the good of all Filipinos? What has happened to our country? Countrymen against countrymen; brothers against brothers; comrades against comrades. We all came from the same ancestral roots but these differences coveted by our culture has timidly destroyed our way to bridge all gaps. How sad could it have been that the same blood cannot combine as one, but rather clog the very vein of the country's future?

Tomorrow, November 30, is the Bonifacio day. Bonifacio is the leader of the KKK, main Filipino force that drove off all the invaders that tried to conquer the country. He and his comrades fought for the very reason we now call freedom. Kalayaan - Is it still the real translation of freedom or simply a high way somewhere in the metro? Do we really have freedom? As I watch and comic myself in the reality that is happening, I cannot stop and wonder, what could have Bonifacio said to the events as of the time being? Could he have congratulated the Magdalo for fighting the same reason they have fought for? Could he have supported the government and consider these mutiny a spoiler of peace, brought about by the freedom they have fought for?

I know I am not a man good enough as Bonifacio. I don't even know if my comment can make a big impact in our failing country. Nevertheless, I am up to the challenge of saying what i believe is the truth. I couldn't simply sit here and watch as blood shed might water our motherland - not just mine, nor the government nor the mutineers but OURS.

We are all here to live for the country, not to battle out who leads it. It might be essential to have a good leader but what could a leader be if it has no constituents? Just like what an org-mate of mine once said: " If your are the captain of the ship, what is the use if you've got no boat to lead?" as she comics a popular saying. But isn't it true? As they gun each other off inside that building, what is the use if they die? Where is Kalayaan? What freedom do we really have? Has Bonifacio won these freedom simply to start a war within the country? What is the use of all their deaths?

I might not know how to do it, but I know that the only way to patch up all the wounds is to learn to be one. We need to stand up with each other, not as a part of the administration nor as an opposition. We stand for our country. I blame them all! If only they could have thought of the country and not their own selfish intuitions, I believe that these internal infestation could not have grown in our culture. Could anyone, whose only dedication is the country, be at peace during this period? No, because guns aren't shot at brothers, comrades nor countrymen rather enemies that would want to take away our "Filipino-ness". What more guns can we shoot when that enemies would ever come, if all our ammunitions has been waisted struck in each others breast?

Ang Kalayaan at ang Pilipinas ay para sa mga Pinoy at hindi lamang sa iilan. Kaya't wag nating sayangin ang pinaghirapan ni Bonifacio at lahat ng mga ninuno natin. Wag natin silang bigyan ng kahihiyan sa mundo. Kalayaan at Katarungann para sa lahat. Itigil natin ang kabaliwan. Alam nating hindi ito matatapos sa isang upuan, subalit wag naman nating hayaan na putok ng baril at sabog ng mga bomba ang magsilbing pangusapan.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~Charles Kingsley

[] BuSy MoNTH of NoVeMBeR []

I have been at lost and busy this ending month of November. Which is why I have not posted for sometime. I had many times in front of the computer but because nothing pops out of my mind and I had papers and stuffs to do, I wasn't able to put attention on my blog. But past is past, what is important is the present and the future. I am now back ~again...

It is during this month that classes resume after the mid-sem break. And because our university's administration is so intelligent and would want to level with other IT schools, a new method of enrollment was done. They told students that it was a better way so as not to make the enrollment a hassle for everyone. But, after undergoing grueling hours in line and being dismayed by rejected schedules, I realized that our administration cannot do any better than put burden to its students.I've got 18 units for this semester. I actually love the roster of subjects I have chosen and the teachers who mentored on them. My schedule isn't really that crowded. I even consider it as a very ideal one because, just like my 1st semester schedule, I get to go home early and free myself from all these academic ambiance.

I don't know if the typhoons have already passed. I forgot to see the news for any updates. But I just want to say how cool that we were able to experience such a strange phenomena. 3 typhoons (Lando, Mina and Nonoy) appears to have directed to our country and devastated the nation all at the same time. Well, sorry for those that were affected by the typhoon but I don't get to make sorrows on such events that comes least from our expectations. Though having the 3 typhoons, classes weren't canceled and that makes the bad news of a very cool event. An earthquake also struck Manila. I was at class during that time and it was when I realized how evil i was. i actually thought that the person at the back kicked my sit and I was about to react when we realized it was actually the earth that interrupted us. After the earthquake, our classes in the morning were canceled but resumed during the afternoon, so much for environmental intervention.

If you have already visited my blog it must be that you noticed that something new was up. It was one during one night, after playing my ever beloved game, that I took initiative and view my blog page. It is then that I realize that my template is kind of small and need an overhaul. So here is the result of 1 night of creative intercession. Have fun and thank you for visiting my nonsensical blog. Feel free to hear the music I listen, to read the posts that I wrote and to be amazed by a very stupid template.