PROMO (At Dahil Minsan, Torpe Lang Talaga Ako)

Bukas, may event kasama ang Matanglawin, The Assembly at Sanggunian ATF 2010, ang AUTOMAYHEM. Bilang hosted ito ng mga kaibigan natin sa Political Science classes na PoS 100 under Mr. Arjan Aguirre, sa ika-4:00 ng hapon, inaanyayahan ang lahat magtungo sa Leong Hall Auditorium. Kung interesado ka malaman kung talagang "iba na ngayon" ang konsepto ng halalan sa Pilipinas, pumunta ka na.

AUTOMAYHEM?
ATENEO STUDENTS’ FORUM ON THE AUTOMATED ELECTION

May 17, 2010, Monday
4:00-6:00pm
Leong Hall Auditorium
Ricardo & Dr. Rosita Leong Hall
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City

KUKUMBINSHIN KA NAMING HINDI.

Special feature dito ang mga kaibigan nating sina Gerald Pascua at Leiron Martija, kasama ang ginagalang na Atty. Carlos Medina ng ating pinagtatrabahuhang Legal Network for Truthful Elections. SAMA NA, MAGSALITA!

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Obviously, alam ng marami na hindi gumagana ang utak ko the way it used to be. At siguro matatapos lang ito kapag nabili ko na ang libro ni Alan Navarra na GIRL TROUBLE. Quoting from pp. 100-101:

GIRL TROUBLE: Required Reading Para sa Lahat ng NGSB, Mga Basted, at Mga Binigo

I can’t marry a rich girl because she only cleans up because she has issues.
I can’t marry a poor girl. She doesn’t need to clean because she don’t got stuff; I’ll have to buy it for her.
I can’t love a military or a rebel girl because they grown old killing a lot of people or die young fighting a war she does not understand.
I can’t love a free spirit, because she’ll leave.
Can’t marry a homebody because she’ll never leave.
Can’t love a health buff because she won’t stop buffing.
Can’t marry the fat one because she’ll never stop eating.
Can’t love the artist because she loves her art.
Can’t marry the university girl because she wants a university boy.
Can’t get down with the butcher because she stinks.
Can’t be with an achiever because she’s too square to try anything new.
The overachiever doesn’t have the time.
The underachiever just doesn’t.
The failure gets left behind.
The loyal one is a bore.
The honest ones are stone cold bitches.

Bonnie. Len. Dane. Gara. Berry. Shale. French. Melen. She. Che. Fe. Je. Me-Ann. Ness. Cora. Anch. Vita. Dita…

Mga putangina ninyong lahat, iniwan niyo ako.

(insert the song "Lost Without Your Love" Here)

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Yeah, I have to admit it, masyadong naging cathartic ang nakaraang 2 buwan. Masyadong maraming perspektibang lumipad mula sa aking kaisipan. Masyadong maraming pagkakamaling nagawa at mga tamang pinaplanong pamplantsa ng gusot. Masyadong malungkot, masyadong halakhakan. Masyadong matamis, masyadong simpait ng dugong lumabas mula sa sinaksak na atay. Masyadong nakakawalang gana. Masyadong nagbibigay pag-asa.

Ika nga ni Joey Ayala, magkabilaan ang mundo. Hindi nga naman nawawala ang tunggalian sa loob ng mundo sabi ni Lolo Pepe. Isipin mo nga naman, kung natatapos ang tunggalian, kung talagang puwedeng lutasin ang mga suliranin nating lahat ng iisang tao pa lamang, ano pa ang silbi ng mabuhay? Ano pa ang silbi ng utak na ibinigay sa iyo kung sasayangin mo sa pagkatanga lamang? Aanhin mo pa ang bisig na binigay sa yo kung hindi ka rin naman kikilos. Para sa'n pang mga galos mo kung titiklop ka lang?

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You focus on the trivial and lose sight of what's most important. Change is impossible in this fog of ignorance. How can we evolve when regulation is all we know? - Uchiha Itachi (うちはイタチ).

Oo na, promise, magsusulat na ulit ako ng mas matino. Marami kasi akong iniipon. O baka naman rin kasi wala nang maiipon. Sino ba puwedeng pumiga sakin?

Fourteen Reflections

(Premise: It's been damn long since I have written down something. I do probably have to rethink and reformulate a few of my thought processes [and my lifestyle in general] to finally start writing that first 2 chapters of a thesis I was thinking. Here were a few things I learned after mulling over the past 4 weeks of working outside the academic setting.)

1: Yes, I can live without the internet. For a day. You should try it too.
2: Karma down? Fuck it. Mobilizations down? Fuck me. Public participation should be the end-product of our private processes. Our motto should be LET US BE SEEN.
3: There's a lot of room for fixing public transportation sectors, and the first step is discouraging private transportation.
4: The obsession to work in solely non-partisan action is highly detrimental to more healthy politicization. Nonetheless, the watchman mentality, vigilance, should remain for accountability to be set. The term "watchdog" reeks of disciplinary non-thinking.
5: Citizens should not solely look at processes but in issues and ideas, and must mold civil societies into making them so.
6: The presumption of the law that everyone is innocent until proven guilty is prone to maintaining a liberal setting that permits injustices to normalize. Sovereign power and confrontations should be restored. Justice delayed is justice denied.
7: Growing trends within civil society institutions that acknowledge their ultimate incapacity to effect change outside public institutions should be sustained.
8: The claim that politics is dirty should not be abhorred but is actually the intrinsic nature of interest consolidation. Mudslinging, however, is not, and mudslingers should be eliminated.
9: The use of progress and efficiency in political campaigns and rhetoric is anti-political: that is the province of bureaucratic processes. The fetish for modernization has screwed developing countries: it should be abandoned.
10: Bureaucracies are concerned with national housekeeping. Bureaucracies are for fast and efficiencies that are not open to argumentation. Our elective offices are designed to make these offices accountable to public interest.
11: Political maturity is about troubleshooting and thinking coupled with tempered guts. Therefore, BUREAUCRATIC ACUMEN ≠ POLITICAL MATURITY. To use bureuacratic acumen, track records and past merits as your criteria for electing a political office is stupid, anti-political, and anti-democratic (ERGO, SHUT UP, "COMPETENT CAMPS" and "THINKING CAMPS." Your elitist bearings are stinking.)
12: A healthy practice of politics does not concern itself with personalities, but persons. Not parties of convenience, but communes of ideologies and communities. Authoritarianism and totalitarianism should not be welcome if democracy is to be maintained. Ergo, what we should have is a STRONG LEGISLATURE. Any campaigns with NO STRONG LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, THEREFORE, SHOULD BE REJECTED.
13: Marxism is still the more exciting perspective, hands down. But a healthy dose of postmodernism is never bad.
14: If only education is not bound by bureaucratic requirements and thinking not a monopoly of leaders, perhaps our societies would be thinking better and more loving of their freedom to be willing to be bound by it.