HOPES AND FEARS

 

QUESTION & ANSWER (fast & short answers)

 

Q&A

1.       The most expensive thing you bought for yourself?

A gold necklace (material)

2.       Mga lugar na ayaw mong pinupuntahan.

Hospitals, clinic, public toilet

3.       Tatlong websites na una mong binubuksan kapag nagbukas ka ng browser mo.

FaceBook, YouTube and Blogger

4.       Anong favorite local film mo?

Himala

5.       Nasubukan mo nabang mahuli ng pulis o ng kahit sinong government official dahil sa paglabag sa kahit anong batas?

Yes. Jaywalking J

6.       Limang sikat na lugar sa Maynila na hindi mo pa napupuntahan kung meron..

GBC, Divisoria, Tondo, Venice Grand Canal Mall at Taguig, Mall of Asia

7.       Most favorite place in the Philippines.

Batanes

8.       Next most favorite place in the Philippines.

Siquijor

9.       Ano ang mga bagay na hindi mo tinitipid?

Wala. Kuripot ako eh J

10.   Mga bagay na kinaiinisan mo sa sarili mo na hindi mo maalis alis.

Forgetful. Can’t say ‘No”

11.   Brand ng damit na lagi mong binibili.

Hindi palagi, pero madalas Bench.

12.   Mga bagay na kinaiingitan mo sa ibang tao.

Financially stable

13.   Pinaka hate mong subject noong nag-aaral ka pa.

Math

14.   Pabor ka ba sa death penalty?

No

15.   Are you in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in the Philippines?

No.

16.   Bagay na meron sa loob ng bag mo na sa tingin mo wala sa bag ng ibang tao..

Pen and pad???

17.   Kelan ang huling beses na nagpunta ka ng Starbucks?

Last February (2022)

18.   Mga pagkain na nakakapagpatakam sa ‘yo at mga pagkain na ayaw mong kinakain.

Gourmets foods at Foods sa hotel.  Exotic foods.

19.   Takot ka ba sa ipis o sa kahit na anong insekto?

Nandidiri, not takot.

20.   What is your early morning ritual?

Short prayer, making bed and toilet time.

21.   Kung ulam ka, ano ka?

Pinakbet.  Marami kasing gulay.  Or Sinigang.  Makakarami ka ng kain.

22.   Naniniwala kaba sa multo?

Yes.

23.   Your type of music.

Soulful, R&B

24.   Are you into any kind of sports?

Nope. I don’t play any kind of sport.

25.   Kailan ang huling beses na nagsimba at nagdasal ka?

Last March, during my vacation

26.   Kung grumaduate ka ng college, relevant ba ang trabaho mo ngayon sa tinapos mo?

Yes. I’m into office work.

27.   Humihilik ka ba pag natutulog?

Oo.

28.   Sinong favorite basketball player mo?

Wala. Haha

  FAST TALK

29.   Lights on or lights off?

off

30.   Laba o plantsa?

Laba

31.   Dogs or cats?

Dogs

32.   Hold on or give up?

Hold on. Para keep going.

33.   Indoor or outdoor?

Indoor

34.   Sense of humor or common sense?

Common sense. Yung sense of humor kaya takpan ng common sense.

35.   Tall or short?

Tall. Mas madalas kasi may advantage ang mataas

36.   Umasa o masaktan?

Umasa, at least may motiviation ka

37.   Nang-umit ka na ba?

Oo

38.   Nagsisinungalin?

Oo

39.   Halo-halo o mais on yelo?

Halo-halo.  Mas marami kasi ang nakahalo

40.   Jollibee or McDonalds?

Jollibee

41.   Siomai o siopao?

Siomai. Pwede iulam

42.   Spaghetti o carbonara?

Spag

43.   Sinigang o adobo?

Sinigang

44.   Sunrise o sunset?

Sunrise. It’s another day.

45.   Mabait o matalino?

Mabait. At the end of the day, mas masarap kasama kapag walang away.

46.   GMA or ABS-CBN?

ABS

47.   Local or imported?

Local

48.   Araw o gabi?

Araw.  You can do a lot of things at day

49.   Sigaw o bulong?

Sigaw

50.   Land, air or water?

Air

DEALING WITH FAILURE

As an absentee voter, I have exercised my freedom to suffrage when I casted my vote a month earlier for May 9, 2022 election.  This is for Philippines national election that is crucial because it will define the current situation in the country.  Will it continue the six years of Filipino divisiveness and the prevailing political climate or will it change into a 360 degree turnaround?

I have been in several elections but this is my most painful election lost.  Just hours after the canvassing, a clear result has figured out by a landslide victory of the other candidates.  I have lost two presidentiables since 1992 when I voted Miriam Defensor-Santiago and now 2022 Leni Robredo.  Since 2016, I have already invested so much emotion in raising my stand. With extensive massive disinformation and misinformation, harassment on the oppositions, and exaltation of those in power, I dedicated myself siding with the values and truth that taught to us.  And for this election, I am just practically hungry of a clean government.  I am just fed up getting tired for another six years of conceit, vanity, lies, and morality disparity of the people.

It’s a painful defeat because this is an opportunity to have a once in a generation candidate.  Here is an ideal candidate that is clean, pro-active, with a fine record of public service, no taint of corruption, and no political dynasty.  Despite those mockeries in political campaign by opponent, are they still that kind to be blessed to win?  Despite the clear blasphemy and ridicules to the words of God, will they still succeed?  Painful because people are not yet ready to have this kind of leader, painful because people are not smart and matured when it comes to politics and painful because people have really forgotten history.  I wanted to convince myself that maybe they were the majority and maybe we were just a few. I hope we’re wrong and maybe they’re the right.  Maybe it may really have to happen, but it is tiring.  It’s very difficult to love the Philippines.

Little knowledge is dangerous. With the turnout of the election as a result of rampant disinformation, it is really alarming.  I am praying that Filipinos will go up from study made on 2017 as lowest among South-East Asian countries when it comes to IQ, reading comprehension and social awareness, which obviously translated as propaganda brainwashed voters.  My hope for the Philippines is that the presumptive winner makes the country great in return of the mistakes that the family did in the past.  I am hoping that this is a different Marcos.  But my fear for the country is that they might change the facts to clean their name and strengthen themselves to stay in power.  And with the people backing him up, what I fear for the country might be a more graft and more corrupt government.

I failed but I am glad that I fought what is right.  I am proud of myself that I stood for the good and decency.  My sense of right and wrong is clean.  I did the right thing.  To deal with the failure, I just need to live with respect of opinion byword.  It’s hard to be unconcerned to what around you but in order to move on, I have to clear my space by keeping away from the toxic social media and semi-hibernate from politics.  Right now, I am in the process of detoxing.  I have to jump into the bandwagon of cancel culture.  For me, this is the kind of cancel culture that nothing wrong because if it is becoming toxic, you need cure by breathing fresh air away from unhealthy environment.  But never stop here, never give up and soon stand as needed.