EDSA @ 20

After twenty years, the image of EDSA was again tarnished by the ever horrendous and illigitimate administration of Arroyo. It seems that Arroyo was so desperate that passing an unscrupulous PP1017 which directly and arrogantly trample upon the people's duly constituted rights to freedom of speech and public assembly was her last ditch to maintain a stolen seat in Malacañang. Truly Arroyo has established a "de facto" martial law. Unwarranted arrests, prior restraint to free speech by raiding newspaper publication, intimidating the media, barring public assembly and prohibiting people to publicly announce their dissent to the present administration was only some of the manifestations that clearly send the message that Arroyo is trying to defeat democracy with despotism. It is very unfortunate. Unusual. To think that political and social dignitaries were never excusedbut rather was victimized by the same rotten leadership of Arroyo. Take for example the case of Prof. Randy David. What does he have to do with rebellion or sedition? When does the commemoration of EDSA became seditious or rebellious in nature. Granting for the sake of argument, that what he did was punishable under the law, why was Gen Danny Lim not charged when he was said to be identified with a much grave act to constitute rebellion? It clearly shows the way how Arroyo tries to pacify the military and wanted to turn the AFP into her private army. On the other hand, private citizens like David and the other 30 persons charged by the government will suffer the full weight of Arroyo's abhorrence towards democracy. I am very tired of this government who deosn't know anything but to protect its existence and justify its illigitimacy by fraudulent and beguling measures. A sham government that it can only rule through force. This is more than enough. Our people has seen and experienced more than enough. If to protect and stand by our rights is seditious or rebellious, I plead to the Arroyo government to arrest me - and make it quick.

This Ruined Puzzle

This ruined puzzle is beige with the pieces all face down so the placing goes slowly. The pictures of anything other than it's meant to be. But the hours they creep, the patterns repeat. Don't be concerned, you know I'll be fine on my own. I never said "don't go". I've written a note, it's pressed between pages that you've marked to find your way back. It says "Does he ever get the girl?" But what if the pages stay pressed, the chapters unfinished, the stories too dull to unfold? Does he ever get the girl? This basement's a coffin I'm buried alive. I'll die in here just to be safe. I'll die in here just to be safe. 'Cause you're gone I get nothing and you're off with barely a sigh. I never said "Good-bye" Does he ever get the girl?

LANDSLIDE

contemplating bout the landslide which happened recently, I found a very bright and enlightening post from chris... and always when tragedy strikes us and confronts us face to face, why do people always find someone to blame? why don't they pause for a while, think beyond his most rational excuses and muse over - for everything has a reason we just have to open our eyes and see...

The Brilliant Dance

So this is odd, the painful realization that has all gone wrong. And nobody cares at all, and nobody cares at all. So you buried all your lover's clothes and burned the letters lover wrote, but it doesn't make it any better. Does it make it any better? And the plaster dented from your fist in the hall where you had your first kiss reminds you that the memories will fade. So this is strange, our sidestepping has come to be a brilliant dance where nobody leads at all, where nobody leads at all. And the picture frames are facing down and the ringing from this empty sound is deafening and keeping you from sleep. And breathing is a foreign task and thinking's just too much to ask and you're measuring your minutes by a clock that's blinking eights. This is incredible. Starving, insatiable, yes, this is love for the first time. Well you'd like to think that you were invincible. Yeah, well weren't we all once before we felt loss for the first time? Well this is the last time. Well this is the last time. Well this is the last time. Well this is the last time. Well this is the last time.