more conspiracy theories

All these accidents in the news involving air force aircraft and civilian planes, me smells something fishy. Some theories:

Theory No. 1. The owners of the planes are tax evaders. The BIR seems to have found new energy to start running after everybody for their correct taxes, from business men and corrupt army generals to movie stars and basketball players. So to avoid getting sued, maybe they had to sell some parts. I could imagine this scenario with the plane already in the air:

Pilot: Air traffic control, this is flight xyz123 requesting for landing, over.
Air Traffic Control: Flight xyz123, please begin landing procedure, over.
Pilot: Roger.
Air Traffic Control: Flight xyz123, I repeat, please begin landing procedure, over.
Pilot: Air traffic control, we have already begun landing procedure, over...
Air Traffic Control: Flight xyz123, please release your landing gear immediately. The runway is now a few hundred meters away, over.
Copilot: (To the pilot) Uh... sir... i forgot to mention this, the boss had to borrow the emergency landing gear...
Pilot: What?! Air traffic control, we have no landing gear! Mayday! Mayday!

CRAAASH...

Theory No. 2. This could be an evil plot by some super secretive terrorist organization. They could be testing a new form of weapons system that could be used on any aircraft and make it look as if the crash was due to pilot error. Or maybe I'm just watching too many episodes of Alias. Sidney Bristow, where are you?

Theory No. 3. This is a variation of the previous thoery. It could be a part of an alien conspiracy to take over the planet. They're targeting aircarft as part of their effort to undermine the earth's defenses before they could start their invasion. But better leave this to Agents Mulder and Scully, this is an X-File.

Theory No. 4. How about... if... the Air Transportation Office isn't doing its job and the Philippine Air Force doesn't have money for spare parts? 'nuf sed.

a most unusual predicament

a friend of mine seems to have put himself in a most unusual predicament. he's currently in a relationship, or should i say "relationship", with this girl who seems to be absolutely head over heels in love with him (i think it's safe to say that). unfortunately for the girl, he doesn't share the same degree of enthusiasm. and it has come to the point that because of my friend's... uh... disinterest, she's become so unnaturally aggressive that he's finding her to be rather... how to put this lightly... annoying.

this has been going on for some time now, but still, he hasn't dumped her. as far as i know, he hasn't found the courage. well, according to him at least. and to spice the story up, he just found out that the girl is afflicted with this heart condition. so she's already in a pretty delicate condition, and his dumping her could leave her heart broken, i mean literally. and so, the dillema.

but what i've been wondering is, before he found out about her heart condition, if he didn't really like her, why didn't he just dump her in the first place?

i can think of three alternate possibilities.

possibility one.
he's lying. he really does like her. case in point, last saturday. we went to play some basketball in another friend's house, the girl also came with him. after the game, the two seemed so sweet to each other that you could literally have ants swarming over the both of them. but as to why... i don't know... i don't think he really has any incentive in lying, which brings us to the next possibility.

possibility two
this is a variation of possibility one, denial. maybe he really does like her, but he just can't admit it to himself yet (and to everybody else too, for that matter). this one's pretty understandable. getting into a new relationship can be a bit scary.

possibility three
contingency measure. maybe, he really doesn't like her as much as he would like to, but he's still open to the possibility of him liking her more in the future. so he's just taking a wait and see stance for the meanwhile. if nothing happens, then he dumps her. unfortunately for him, this is no longer as easy as it was.

i'm quite curious how all this'll end up. does he really like her or will he break up with her? if he does break up with her, considering her condition, how? abangan ang susunod na kabanata...

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