The Spirit of Ninoy is Dead
Because we don't know who the enemy is anymore.
And the best we can do is throw some yellow confetti off our windows
Have a few dozen people wave some flags
Have some washed out politicians shake some hands
and snarl up traffic in Makati
(took me almost 2 hours to take a 15 minute trip)
And because his 20th anniversary is just another three-day weekend
and because, like the Christ, the ransom paid by his death
has devalued along with the peso.
And because most of us don't really give a rat's ass anymore.
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happy, you've become jaded! :(
i know you've lived in a foreign land, and i don't know about you, but for me, i have a strong urge to keep defending the filipino in singapore every chance i get. when we pinoys do pinoy-bashing, parang okay lang. but when you hear it from a foreigner, putang ina gusto mong basagan ng bote sa ulo (although i have to admit, there are some points where i can't do anything but agree with them). but no, i refuse to lose my faith in the filipino.
waaaaah!!!! what can we do???
It's not about losing faith in the Filipino -- it's losing track of the ideals that powered the groundswell and upheaval of 1986. People Power is now disgruntled civil disobedience; the true spirit of Ninoy has long left us, for without martial law, without the Jose Velarde, the enemy is invisible. And we seem to know very little about choosing good government officials.
If FPJ or Lacson becomes the next president, I will surely rethink coming back to the Philippines.
huwaaaaaa... if that happens, i wouldn't know what to do. liberia sounds promising, though. pero i'm still crossing my fingers that we won't make such a stupid mistake again. ano ba ha. katangahan na talaga.
hey happy, all i could do was take a couple of drags and take deep breath as i read this post.tis tragic but true. we filipinos are such forgiving people, we'd gladly shake the same hands that murdered our people... it's hard not to be jaded man. blog on.
The only heroes I have left right now are the OFWs, which I do a lot of work for (some pro bono, some not) through some clients. To show you that I'm not all *that* jaded, I choose my clients well by working with wholly-Filipino owned companies that work (charity and otherwise) with OFWs. They're the ones shoring up the economy.
If you're ever back here in Manila, just drive around. Lawlessness, indiscipline and poverty persists. And, whoa, there goes that government official escorted by motorcycles in his gas-guzzling Ford Tahoe.
oooh! ofw! that's me! mwahaha!
Diane, Meron pa bang mga blog nang OFW? Yung tunay na OFW ha (nurse, caregiver, seafarer). Di tulad mo na writer chuva. :-D
uy, related to that... nung nasa naia ako, ayaw ako bigyan ng discount ek-ek for ofws dahil hindi daw ako ofw. ano daaaw?
anyway, sige maghahanap ako ng ofw blog for you. :)