Ended my two-month gig in a computer shop, so i have to lie low on posting.. got a summer accounting job, and was learning so much!
Going strong with udeng, despite our i hate you-i love you so much charades.. anyway, even if how much we try, we can never have too much of each other. He had amoebiasis (Crusaders forgive me if i spelled it wrong) and I was there the whole 3 days (udeng: no one ever tended me when I was sick, issa: well, you could say bye-bye to those times), even taking half-days in office.
Vacation's fast disappearing, and there's still so much i need to do. So little time..
I realized we are all growing up so fast. It seems that we had just enrolled and were enjoying chasing each other on rooftops and hanging out in the student lounge until the school guard will shoo us out.
My favorite cousins were all having their own jobs, just like me. Now I can treat all of them during payday, when years ago I would be the one treated.
And as much as it seems ages away for me, my parents started talking about being responsible and enjoying my single blessedness before getting maried/getting babies/getting separated. The funny thing is, it naturally occurs to me this days. Good thing we (Udeng and I) have been open about it and we agreed that we still both want our freedom--and our paychecks.
I guess we have come to love each other that way because we can be separated and have our own identities and at the same time be one--a single individual with dual personalities. A double spirit inhabiting one body.
And not everyone can find that one person who doesn't complement them, but completes their downfalls and shortcomings, just as much as they complete theirs.
I guess I'm really lucky, afterall.
Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants
President: Ros Dave Puyot
Vice President: Theresa Soberano
Secretary: Anna Salvador
Treasurer: Allan Robledo
Auditor: Mara Miranda
Business Manager: Jovelyn Franco (chuva ka!)
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Junior Financial Executives of the Philippines
President: Theresa Brabante
Vice President: BSBA
Secretary: Leonora delos Reyes
Treasurer: BSBA
Auditor: Eugene Esteban
Business Manager: BSBA
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umaaktibo.. ^_^
i always find it hard to quit--or to put it better, to tell people i' m quitting.. but then i continually find better choices and i know i have to move on. say it now or be stuck forever in something i shouldn't be in.
but i have to do it, or else i will be burned out all the time.
recognition ngaun!! but i'm more nervous sa finals next week, kelangang galingan ko kei caga, dahil kahit 1.1 gen ave ko, kung 2.1 ako sa knya, tanggal pa rin ako sa scholar..
*jitters*
mama and papi once again started their "i'm better than you" charade. now we are having second thoughts where to spend our vacation--mindoro (mama) or marinduque (papi)? hmm.. none of the above? (i'll just spend my vacation doing my ojt hours) ^_^
anyway, mama won't be able to attend my recog on wednesday(due to a conference in shanghai, china) so papi will go with me. udeng will be there! baka mag-inuman silang dalawa.
TAMA NA--ITAMA NA!! These were our words to the public as we walked amidst the rain from don bosco to paseo de roxas, getting encouragement from bystanders and motorists by cheering us and blowing their horns. Joining my very first rally (despite receiving a text mesage from boy etnad saying "wag kaung sasama sa rally ni karen") i was overwhelmed with how the Filipinos, particularly the students and church leaders, react to our present situation. (And i was starstrucked to see former VP Teofisto Guingona standing a few feet from me--Mama, ibili mo na ko ng camera!!) Our school president got tired of signature campaigns, and decided to take the next step and join the interfaith rally along with at most 80,000 people. Students from Basic Education Curriculum from all over Manila who were too young to join conducted a noise barrage at exactly 3 pm.
The night before, Coco Pimentel visited our school (Ma, ung camera!!) and talked about electoral fraud and corruption, informing us that because of the NBN-ZTE anomaly, our already burgeoning debt just increased by P400 per individual.
Really, would it hurt us not to have broadband connections in our government offices, when more than half of the youth can't afford to go to school? When we are always flooded, but we buy our drinking water? When school in remote places share a book, or doesn't even have one? Presently, our social pyramid experiences a volcanic effect. Just like what Pimentel explained, one is either very rich, or very poor--the number of middle-class people decreases. There are thousands of projects they can focus on. If the administration can really have $329 million (more than 16 billion pesos), then why put it on a project that can be considered a luxury? (Only one in ten Filipinos own a computer, and not all even have internet connection.)
Luigi Tabuena of the Black and White movement stressed that if you followed the senate hearings, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know who is telling the truth and who is not. They put war paints on their faces because "it is a war, we've come here to make a statement.. and i know that all over the country this is happening, in different sectors and different magnitude." (Watch his interview.)
Too bad i really admire GMA for being a great economist. And I realized she really is--to the extent of seeing the country as one great business. She invested money in order to win, and now she's getting it back--plus interest. In Pimentel's words, she wouldn't care about the people because "they didn't vote for me, they didn't put me here--i bought my way here!" (Remember the Garci scandal: "Hello Garci, would I still lead by a million votes?")
It is deeply saddening that Philippines could never have a great President for the lure of money and power is too much, but i just hope that our system could change.. even just a bit.. because Filipinos our getting sick of it all and are trying to find Utopia in foreign soils (as if there is one), and i don't want to be one of them. I love being a Filipino, and as much as i wanted to tour the Europe and the Disneyland, i feel proud that hundreds of thousands of tourists went to our country for our own natural treasures. I will always come back to the Philipines and experience them firsthand.
