pilipinas, february 2006

despair celebrates
in the stomachs of the hungry
apathy penetrates
those who were once angry

letting go of our patrimony
for the sake of the "economy"
economy, economy, economy

i say,
an economy of crumbs
for the hungry to feast on
while the pigs wallow
in a pen strewn with pearls and diamonds

but where is justice?
has she been forgotten?
or are all their crimes
so easily forgiven?

while the usurper sits on the throne
the voices of dissent
have been made silent
through exercise of fear and force
why do we choose
to stay in this course?
our history's endlessly repeating course?
this farce is too fierce
for mine ears

alas! alas!
is this nation's redemption
a heaven so far
from where we now are?
do we give up and flee
as so many of us have done?

i say,
if we only wake up
i say,
if we only open our eyes
i say,
if we only refuse to be bought

but still,
we choose to sleep
but still,
we choose to remain blind
but still,
we choose to be bought

it's a simple matter of choice
to raise a great and mighty voice
to ring righteous and resonant
in the halls of the palace

it's our palace
not hers
not theirs
ours

paranoia 2006

weird experience. i was riding a jeepney on the way home last night when a guy got on carrying a cardboard box sealed in packaging tape. guy looked quite normal, but suddenly, alarm bells started going off in my head crying, "suicide bomber! suicide bomber!". i think it can be proven that the terrorists are actually the most harmless and ordinary looking people, until they blow themselves and the city block they're in to pieces. this got me watching him nervously, detecting any signs of strange behavior. a few minutes later, he reaches into his pocket and grabs a cellphone. the same alarms bells go off again. this time, i was thinking, "holy crap! he's gonna detonate the bomb through his cellphone!" i spent the rest of the ride home confessing my sins before God. fortunately for me, and for you also my 2 loyal readers, the guy got off before I did without incident, which leaves me to blog about it.

note to self, must stop watching the evening news.

damn terrorists, their making me all paranoid. blast yourselves to bits you freaks.

infinite loop

in response to the clamor of my 2 loyal readers, here is my first post for the year. sorry for the delay, either i was too drunk or too depressed to write anything. and thank you also for letting me know that mine is not a voice in the desert.

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my infinite loop theory

watching the news of the events in the past weeks, i have come to the conclusion that the Philippines is a computer program stuck in an infinite loop. to the non-programmers out there, an infinite loop is basically a set of computer instructions that runs forever. if this nation's history in the past 40 years would be written in computer code, it would come out something like this:

People FilipinoPeople;
while ( true ) {
Government government = FilipinoPeople.EstablishDemocracy( );
while ( FilipinoPeople.Tolerance( ) < government.Corruption( ) ) {
FilipinoPeople.StopCaring( );
government.BecomesMoreCorrupt( );
}
FilipinoPeople.GoToEDSA( );
}

this nation needs to change its programming.

i'm back!

new post on my photoblog: http://imageryofkinit.blogspot.com/2006/03/cityscapes-1.html