killing time in a warm place

four days before the elections...

i intended to finish my preceding post with elan. really.

you know, like try to finally put some sense to the entire post at the end. but... hmm... let me first think of an excuse.

yeah, umm... five days before elections, i was having a bad hair day. okay, okay. i never had a bad hair day. just bad hair. period.

i had a haircut last sunday at david's in SM clark. i told the guy to just do a few snips at the ends.

but what he did was create short layers and those short layers have declared coup'd'etat on me and i now look like (fill in the blank with the most repulsive looking person you know) ______________ on a bad day.

and then, my eyebrows. the girl at the beauty counter did something to them and they're now too thin. worse, my left eye brow has a missing patch. you have to see me to believe that it's really horrible having a broken brow.

could it be that the (in)justice secretary, thru the hacking of ISAFP found out that i am using my blogger as a pulpit to preach my anti-arroyo sentiments? and could it be, that upon the orders of the soon to be pampanga governor, beauty salons/ counters in the whole of pampanga are to cast their wands at me and turn me into Atilla the Hun.

okay, okay... so those were reasons why i am dodging certain people... err... men. not why i didn't finish the previous entry.

going back to "mercury rising," i realy wanted to finish it today. come up with a profound rejoinder on what ninoy said like "having earned two diplomas from the university of the philippines, i feel indebted to the filipino people. to the teachers, laborers, farmers, whose taxes sent me to school while they can't even send their own children to college. i feel that it is incumbent upon me to serve these very people, be with them in the struggle against those who dare to even think of violating their rights as humans....." yadi yadi, that kind.

shocks, i would have to reword that. i don't want to sound like a windy populist or some people i know. plus, that is so inconsistent with my image of someone who is notoriously known to as a self-absorbed brat who focuses too much on her petty bourgeoise dilemma.

back to "mercury rising." one of the issues that i raised there is the perversion of the partylist system. the partylist, is supposed to be the voice in congress of the marginalized sector. when a group has the backing of the palace, it ceases to be marginalized right?

ladies and gentlemen of the jury, may i present to you exhibit A:

an accident insurance bearing the name of the pary list and the signatures of GMA and JDV. hmmm.... Article XXII Sec. 261 of the Omnibus Election code states that:

"ARTICLE XXII.
ELECTION OFFENSES

Sec. 261. Prohibited Acts. - The following shall be guilty of an election offense:

(a) Vote-buying and vote-selling. -

(1) Any person who gives, offers or promises money or anything of value, gives or promises any office or employment, franchise or grant, public or private, or makes or offers to make an expenditure, directly or indirectly, or cause an expenditure to be made to any person, association, corporation, entity, or community in order to induce anyone or the public in general to vote for or against any candidate or withhold his vote in the election, or to vote for or against any aspirant for the nomination or choice of a candidate in a convention or similar selection process of a political party. "

is giving accident insurance policy during campaign season an election offense? let's analyze in the next posts.

our airconditioner just broke down. maintenance said it will be back and running tomorrow. hopefully.

ha! finally a valid reason why i'm not finishing my "mercury rising" post.

seriously, it is sooooo hot, my brain juice is evaporating in the humid May air.

ah, elections. my cup of tea really.

is it starting to be obvious that i am stalling the end of this post, because once again, i have no idea how to finish it with elan? haha.

here's a photo na lang of me with COMELEC Commissioner Resurreccion Borra taken at the SWS presentation of governance baseline survey that the UNDP governance portfolio commissioned. (yeah, yeah.. these boring things that i am into.)

hello, rexie!

(we. don't. look. alike. DON'T LAUGH.)