Monday, June 21, 2004    08:04 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   I had no choice but to hear you. You stated your case time and again; I thought about it...You treat me like I'm a princess. I'm not used to liking that. You ask how my day was... You've already won me over in spite of me Don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are I couldn't help it It's all your fault Your love is thick, and it swallowed me whole. You're so much braver than I gave you credit for. That's not lip service. You've already won me over in spite of me Don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are I couldn't help it It's all your fault You are the bearer of unconditional things. You held your breath and the door for me...Thanks for your patience. You're the best listener that I've ever met. You're my best friend, Best friend with benefits. What took me so long... I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational. I am aware now... I am aware now You've already won me over in spite of me Don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are I couldn't help it It's all your fault

Wednesday, June 16, 2004    11:12 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   i'm supposed to be in school in about nine hours. but i still have three newspapers to read. stupid thing about this site is that the pictures aren't displayed..oh well.
so once again i put off giving the usual three hundred to the phone company..in exchange for the book i've been wanting for months. i finally bought it..and the good thing is that i didn't feel a pang of regret after having bought it (not like last week's purchase which i totally regret now). anyway things still seem pretty fine, even if i have two reports within the next two weeks.
last monday i saw a former classmate after a long time. tonight as i settled to read the papers that i ought to have read last week i came across a couple of friends..and we had a 'conference'. it was fun..watching them converse like that. i don't know.

Monday, June 14, 2004    08:28 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   it's funny how i can pour my heart out to write something here and get shut up by a single crash..hah maybe i wasn't really supposed to say those things anyway. so here i am the day after online again. i have to find some stuff about online journalism or something.
but before i get on with business i'd like to talk about stuff. first of all the stuff i want to do this week. i'd like to walk into a good bookstore and buy both of the dan browns that i still don't have. (actually i want to buy a car and upgrade my pc..but those are absurdly out of reach as of now).. or maybe look for some vcds or computer games (i really miss going to quiapo. i used to go there to buy film and photopaper for my photography class..and i usually ended up buying other small stuff as well. quiapo is such an interesting place..one of the reasons i'm glad i was a filipino..well that might be because i've never been mugged). but this week i don't think i can do what i really want to do. this week i have to read several newspapers (catch up on current events for my journalism class) and try to memorize more italian words and phrases (go figure). well..wants are usually different from needs..want to do versus need to do....priorities..i've got to get them straightened out. things are still quite easy these days..i know they'll get worse in a few weeks. but my dreams are still good.

Monday, June 14, 2004    08:28 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   it's funny how i can pour my heart out to write something here and get shut up by a single crash..hah maybe i wasn't really supposed to say those things anyway. so here i am the day after online again. i have to find some stuff about online journalism or something.
but before i get on with business i'd like to talk about stuff. first of all the stuff i want to do this week. i'd like to walk into a good bookstore and buy both of the dan browns that i still don't have. (actually i want to buy a car and upgrade my pc..but those are absurdly out of reach as of now).. or maybe look for some vcds or computer games (i really miss going to quiapo. i used to go there to buy film and photopaper for my photography class..and i usually ended up buying other small stuff as well. quiapo is such an interesting place..one of the reasons i'm glad i was a filipino..well that might be because i've never been mugged). but this week i don't think i can do what i really want to do. this week i have to read several newspapers (catch up on current events for my journalism class) and try to memorize more italian words and phrases (go figure). well..wants are usually different from needs..want to do versus need to do....priorities..i've got to get them straightened out. things are still quite easy these days..i know they'll get worse in a few weeks. but my dreams are still good.

Monday, June 7, 2004    12:01 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   another summerhas gone by.. i had the first evey single day enrollment last wednesday..i finished in hald a day! after two years and five enrollmets i never would have thought i could ever finish enrolling in one day..oh well, thanks to luck..
anyway a little something on what people call nationalism

if a filipino (or some half-baked filipino--fil-am or whatever) does something..remarkable abroad we are all but too proud to claim that we are proud of them and that they are filipinos. some half baked singer in a half baked competition, some boxer, some beauty queen wannabees.. doesn't it get annying? i think when we claim: we are proud of him/her, she is a filipino just because she /he wins some contest over people of another race....isn't it like the ''mature'' (i couldn't think of a better term although i'm sure one exists) way of saying: nyanyananyanyah you guys are losers! we're better than you!.. as if that person's talent was shared by all the so-called filipinos. i mean really, does it have to mean anything.. do we really have to engage in faux competition against pseudo nations..etcetera

Tuesday, June 1, 2004    02:05 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

  

a little something else

i just saw the result of my preenlistment. i have classes every tuesday (7-11:30) thursday(8:30-11:30/1-4) friday(!7-8:30/1-4!) and saturday(9-12). i can't say that i'm not the least bit anxious (excited even) to go back to the salt mines but heck..

Tuesday, June 1, 2004    01:43 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   today i went to the parents' orientation in my brother's school. the principal was talking about the rules redundantly so my thoughts drifted off and i was able to come up with the following:

There have been numerous debates on the beginning of things, for example scientific theories like the big bang and theories on the evolution of man versus biblical theories on creation and the like. the thing is that some people take the bible literlly. they really believe that god crafted the universe out of nothing for seven days and that man was made out of clay. but few people realize that scienific theories and biblical stories can be reconciled to create a somehow solid viw on the origin of things. i mean there are people who think that the sea can really be parted and that water can really be changed into wine or that living beings can be crafted from clay and that everything can come from nothing with just sleight of hand (but of course everything coming from nothing is debatable. in my physics class (as i understood) the universe is supposed to have existd forever according to some scientific theory by einstein). they don't realize that these biblical theories are like myths that should not be taken literally and are just like allegories. maybe the seven day creation myth is just an allegory to the big bang or god breathing life into adam is no more true than the myth about malakas and maganda. i just thought i'd expound on this because i discussed this some time ago with two of my friends.
anyway(change topic) in my cwts class we were asked if we were proud to be filipinos. i have never thought about it before so i wasn't sure how i'd answer..but i said i was not. now that i've thought about it i realize that i really am not proud to be a filipino. the professor asked those who said the were not proud to be filipinos if they would rather have been born under a different nationality. i never got to say it in class but i would not be proud if i were born under a different nationality. i wouldn't be proud if i were an american or italian than now. frankly i don't think nationality is any reason to be proud. we are all citizens of this earth and if anything, i find it quite embarassing that we have to divide ourselves according to nationality. but to give this country some credit, i must say that i am quite satisfied to have been born in this country..happy even. like i said i wouldn't want to be born in any other country (well maybe in italy(beautiful) or canada(hockey) or japan(samurai)..).

Monday, May 3, 2004    01:23 a.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   2:15 AM 5/1/04 having to write stuff like this down tends to get a bit dull, especially if computer crashes make you have to type repetitively...but i guess i'll have to get this over with..although i'm not exactly sure why...maybe it's just because i can't sleep yet..i'm excited because i'm going to corregidor tomorrow..and i just had a grande cup of white choco mocha a few hours ago..and lots of things have happened.

first: corregidor. i'm not sure why but people are mostly fascinated at looking at ruined edifices. when we were in thailand several years ago we visited the ruins of temples in ayudhya (i'm not sure of the spelling)..and i remember this because i wrote it down in my diary back then. (a note on ayudhya: back then i didn't enjoy myself as much as i'm sure i would enjoy myself if i saw those strucures now. i was reading the ramakien (ramayana's thai version) and i now understand some stuff about those temples et cetera)
so now we're visiting corregidor..and i'm quite excited: i want to take pictures..well whatever.

next: i got lost yesterday. i didn't get to the LRT2 station before it closed (a note on the lrt2: it's a really fun and quick way to get to school (near my school at least). it's the route i usually take, if it's available..i spend a lot on commuting nowadays..)
so the lrt2 was closed and i was frustrated because i chose to go to katipunan for the lrt than use the original route that i use (through philcoa)..which would have been quite fast too since it was about seven-thirty. i took a jeep to cubao.. i thought all jeeps to cubao went through aurora.. but it took a turn near anonas..i panicked silently, i cursed and was frustrated. eventually it got to cubao..i was too frustrated to be worried. after a long walk i reached edsa. eventually i got home..it was about nine. i was frustrated.

today i helped out in some concert..a lot of smoke..five hundred bucks..whatever

yesterday we pre-tested the interview schedule (jargon..?) some people just can't keep their mind on work..that's why it took us until seven to finish.

oh and i finished playing the best game i've played so far..it's quite sad because like most books i've read it's quite tough to go through something again when it's done. but i don't know.

and i'm really confused: should i use the digital or slr camera? slr would be quite expensive to develop..plus i'd have to scan the pictures if i wanna put them on my site. seriously i don't think i'd have much use for pictures digital or analog..not much use other than the aesthetic blah..and i'm not much fond of aesthetics or blahs.

Wednesday, March 24, 2004    09:26 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   life's fine

here's something from monday..i just forgot to upload it i guess..
i got through quite a lot today. i submitted my audience study paper for communication research. i also found out that my grade for the theory application paper was 2.5..and that i got 5 for the takehome midterm exams. and i finished digital fortress..one word for it: superb.

my riva video card was going loco..for quite some time now.. maybe i'll have to switch to the built in video card. it was one of fate's cruel tricks (when i bought the second video card).. there was this game that i wanted to play but it wouldn't run on my machine. i thought the video card was the problem. big laugh, it still didn't work after the 1800 peso video card.

about my communication theory class: i'll probably get a grade of 2.5 there, which is should not be much of a problem because it's not a major subject (we need at least 2.25 in majors) and also because i have reason to believe that i'll get something along the lines of 1 in my research subject.. although i have to admit that i learned almost nothing about research (we did brush on enneagrams and regression though).
before i got into college i was asking my dad about the professors in the university. i wanted to know which professors gave good grades and taught well. then he asked me if i thought grades were more important than how the instructor taught. to me, grades aren't important anymore..i mean really, i don't care that much..problem is, i have to maintain a 2.25 average. and not to mention the relatives who think that brains still come with grades. so i still have to think about my grades.
communication theory was interesting, but it was a bit early in the morning and i was usually sleepy (8:30.. but it can get boring). if i'm not half asleep, i'd be thinking, "gahh i'm not absorbing any of this"..or "i can't memorize all these theories". like i said i got 2.5 in the theory application paper.. and i want to ask the professor why (just to find out what i did wrong). but some part of me is against it: i've made myself look stupid in front of most of the people i admire.. i guess that's enough. but still there's a nagging voice within me saying: Ask! but i guess that's just the part of me that wants to be heard

so to today. just finished one of my favorite shows..and i'm listening to its soundtrack (which i just downloaded..thanks some software!). and now, life's fine..not AOK, just fine. i'm packing up after this..i'm leaving for the mountains tomorrow..but don't think "no lights or no roads"..it's a very civilized mountain..the house i'm staying in has unlimited access to the net.. fun to infinity!..and i mean it. going to antipolo is fun. i've always seen it as a sort of haven..i've gone there often when i had time (during the last two semesters)to relax or if i just wanted to have time to relax. like now: it's almost the end of the semester and i still have (an)exam[s] pending (i'm not sure about physics, but i'm sure about political science). my exam (for sure) is on friday..i swore to myself yesterday that i'd study today..actually i swore to myself last monday that i'd study today..and last week i swore that i would study this week. now, i have no other time to study but tomorrow..but i'll be in antipolo tomorrow so i have serious doubts that i'll be able to study tomorrow.. well what the heck..but i don't want to fail any subject..especially that one.. i dunno..i can only hope now.

well gotta start packing.one thing though: i'm sure i'll still have fun this summer even if i have to be in school. i don't really hate school, i just hate having to do stupid things for stupid numbers.

A NOTE ON FRIDAY:
i'm not expecting anything (seriously) but if people want to do something, I'LL BE IN ANTIPOLO. ive written the address to that place two years ago (i think) and if people wanna go there.. fine. like i said, i'm not expecting anything but just in case someone with a plan reads this i repeat I'LL BE IN ANTIPOLO.. (i won't be responsible for unnecessary efforts.)

Monday, March 22, 2004    01:28 a.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   8:37 PM 3/21/04 these are notes that i've taken after watching gothika about the audience:

GULAT PARTS: gasp then laugh laugh scream may naguusap sound of plastic may dalang food partners usually trying to make situation funny not understood easily kaya may naguusap

and i've got to churn out a ten-page ethnography paper (or something) out of these seemingly nonsesnsical stuff... a feat that'll be. but i'm feeling quite confident that i can do it.. although i'm a bit worried though..i'm not really fond of quipping nonsense..in papers...although i think i do that here quite often. and speaking of here, i'm writing here, not for the paper..and it's 8:40. but i just read a book and i can't plunge into pseudo technical writing right after a good read.. i'm still thinking of the story.. well anyway the book's by dan brown, the second of his books that i got my hands on. so it's motivation..again for my paper. hah communication research sure is fun..
the irony, i'm listening to a song i just downloaded today. it's from the kill bill soundtrack and about 1/3 of the song, lucy liu says: you didn't think it was gonna be that easy, did you?
well i do think that writing the paper is going to be easy. i'm sure i'll be at it by 9pm. then i'll have about ten hours to complete it..an hour for a page might be more than enough time..

but going back to dan brown's book, digital fortress (i already have two of his books but he has two other books which i don't think i'll be able to buy until my birthday..) the thing that i like about him so far is that he's just full of surprises.
so that's it for now and i've got to get to work. i won't upload this until i'm done with the paper..(but i'm not sure if my prepaid isp account still has time left)

it's almost midnight and i'm three pages into the paper. i've had a cup of coffee (i don't want to take too much coffee because i might become immune to caffeine) and some crackers. i'm listening to some fast music to keep me awake. but somehow i've hit a blank right now and i've nothing to say. but i've coughed up three pages of nonsense in less than three hours. i'll be happy if i can stretch it to eight pages.

it's almost 1am. i've stretched it a page longer..four pages now. but i really feel like ive wrung my brain dry. how can anyone expect a ten-page audience study from a movie that only had a handful of people in the audience? i've dished fictitious descriptions and lines (supposedly from the audience).. it wasn't my fault. i watched the movie at 1:20 pm.. i thought there would be lots of people. but no..there was only a handful of people..and i didn't realize that more people came in..it was dark and i was watching the movie. gahhh!! more creativity please!
but seriously, i think this is a good course for me. i like writing papers, to some extent. i don't think this can be called insomnia, but somehow i get to convince myself to stay up more, and just sleep in long saturday night to sunday morning.

btw, on destiny and heaven and hell: this friend told me not to take things too seriously (you know, about eternal fires in hell or eternal joys in heaven). i have lost faith in such things long ago. in elemetary school we are told that "if you're good you'll go to heaven" and that heaven is a nice place which is everything you want it to be. but where is heaven? you'll realize that it's not in the skies, nor is hell in the center of the earth. such things, you know.
one of my instructors (in a film subject) last semester said that if you destroy all your idols (or stuff you believe in eg heaven) you lose faith in life and all that's left for you is death..you'll practically kill yourself because you're life's meaningless.
but is life's meaning only in a person's icons?

here is something i found (while researching for a theory application paper in my communication theory class) that describes a place that gives meaning to my life. the person describes the meaning the place gives to my life almost too precisely
In an interview with Bill Moyers, Vartan Gregorian, past president of the New York Public Library and currently president of Brown University, spoke of the awesome prospect of visiting a library for the first time: In the British Museum, sitting there and seeing those millions of books--suddenly you feel humble. The whole of humanity is in front of you. What are you trying to do? Is it worth doing? What are you going to say or add or write that has not been said and written about? It gives you a sense of cosmic relation to the totality of humanity, but at the same time a sense of isolation. You have a sense of both pride and insignificance. Here it is, the human endeavor, human inspiration, human agony, human ecstasy, human bravura, human failures--all before you. You look around and say, "Oh my God! I am not going to be able to know it all." One gets thrilled and frightened at the same time in the presence of a library because it reminds one about one's past, present, and, most, of the possibilities of the future. (181)

i've got almost 1900 words in the paper now. i guess that's enough

Monday, March 15, 2004    07:56 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   i just typed something..an email..then an error message and it's gone. this happens often enough..usually when i type something long and important. this message wasn't long..just a bit important..but definitely well constructed--too good that i don't think my mind can handle re-typing it. too bad, i guess. now i have to get to work (i haven't started with the paper i planned to work on during the weekend. and here's a little something:


"The poet, the artist, the sleuth-whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely 'well-adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists among antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power, is manifest in the famous story, 'The Emperor's New Clothes.' 'Well-adjusted' courtiers, having vested interests, saw the Emperor as beautifully appointed. The 'antisocial' brat clearly saw that the Emperor 'ain't got nothin' on.' The new Environment was clearly visible to him [sic]."

from marshall mcluhan's the medium is the massage

Sunday, March 14, 2004    05:20 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   a little something on the enneagram

Sunday, March 14, 2004    05:04 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   on destiny.

i have been over this with a friend in highschool. if someone ends up in hell, it would mean that he was"destined" for hell. but why would god want to send people to hell..(the premise here being: we are destined to "be" (whatever) by god)...that was what she said. but i think that before using this argument one should first "know" that hell exists..and this would be a problem.

but i guess there are less complicated arguments about destiny. personally i do believe in destiny. on monday, i am probably destined to be in school at 10 am..and attend FA. obviously that's what i'm scheduled to do..that's where i'm supposed to be so that's probably where i'll be. but the keyword here is "probably": i do not know for sure. one might say: then you are not destined to be there. where ever i'll be on monday at 10 am is where i was destined to be monday at 10am. but i am not the one who made me destined to be there. i don't think it's god either. destiny is not a huge planner for every single soul in the universe. i make my destiny but i don't know where it leads..i guess that's all i can say about that for now...but i am willing to argue for it..or be corrected.
i'm feeling a bit giddy--i can't seem to get all my ideas out. my hands are cold. i know what i mean but i can't seem to think of a way to say it. that i guess is why i seldom win arguments except in my head..which is quite lousy since it's not really an argument if it's in my head. there..the giddy feeling's gone now. it's saturday and i have to get to work. but in addition: webster defines destiny as fate or a predetermined course of events. fate was defined as destiny or three goddesses in mythology who determine the course of human life. i believe that the course of events are predetemined: just as one plus one was destined to become two. no i don't think there are goddesses who determine that one and one become two. it was really just meant to be. now i really have to work.

a year's worth
Thursday, March 11, 2004    04:09 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   moving on

like i said, i just finished this book. it's a new favorite. i swear i've never read anything like this before. it seems like things really are improving. just as i thought the thought banks of authors have been depleeted...

i first saw the da vinci code in a bookstore. i was intrigued (because of the mention of da vinci), but back then, i had not read a novel for quite a while. i was beginning to think that i was "done" with novels and was moving on the film...
one day, my professor in communication theory (more on that later) mentioned the book. that got me to seriously consider readin the book.
one day, i was with my family in another bookstore and voila! the book. i bought it the same day, but from a different bookstore.
so that day, sunday, i started to read it, late in the evening. it is not easy to try to describe what i feel now that i've finished it.
perhaps it was because i have not read a novel for a long time...like when you're really hungry and you get access to food...the food sometimes tastes better than it would when you eat it and you're not hungry...a bit confusing
but no, i don't think i liked it so much just because it was "new" (so to speak). it was a really good book.

so now dan brown is my favorite author..(other favorites: jostein gaarder(in philosophy related books..sole favorite before dan), thomas harris(in suspense thrillers)..stephen king and john grisham and anne rice (liked, but not favorites)) dan has managed to become my favorite in both the philosophical and suspense genres. no kidding, this book was a breath of fresh air..not only in my media choice but also in my education.
according to the uses and gratifications theory (i'm blabbing about this because i just reported on it yesterday..i'm a type 5 in the enneagram, again, more on that later) i, as a person, have needs which i seek to gratify through media or non media sources. before that book, i was content with watching movies or tv shows because i did not have to wait days to finish a single story (as i do with books)--i has too much to do..at least i thought i did. political science had tons of readings, i had to do good in theory and research..and physics and stuff.
then came the book and i realized that i was just making my life tough. i can do what i want and just get grades that i need..i don't need to get 1's.
of course, books have always been my top source of gratification. when i read, i imagine what happens..and when i dream, it's almost like that too..

anyway, i think my professor in theory will be glad that at least one theory stuck with me. actually i don't like theory (the subject). i have a memory that fails me almost every time..i can't possibly remember those theories. i like practice better..
speaking of the professor, i think she is the most intelligent professor i've ever come across..such a smartass.. i'm thinking of getting her as my thesis adviser... it'd be better to have her on my side than otherwise.

on the enneagram: most of the results say i'm a type 5. so i love to give the impression that i know stuff (as in the uses and gratifications crap)--although the uses and gratifications theory is not crap basically.

oh, and about the day that comes this month..i wish i can get books..especially by dan brown..(i already have da vinci code, i wouldn't mind if it's second hand..as long as it's readable (complete pages...)) jostein's vita brevis is good too (i've read it, i just want a copy...) --this sudden preoccupation with books is good, i guess. it gives me motivation to do stuff which i don't really want to do(ie write a report before reading a book..)

the university has become a virtual trap. i can't leave yet..i shouldn't and wouldn't--yet. somehow, in the future, i see that i shall leave it, only to return after a few months.

oh and i'm looking forward to summer.. i've already thought about my agenda: read certain books (that i've bought but haven't read), paint my walls, get back into the arts (photography, painting, drawing..),, maybe i'll stay away from hockey for a while. although skating is fun, it can be quite expensive--so maybe i'll gratify my need for thrills somewhere else--in books perhaps..
i also plan to travel.. this is not really a plan though..more like..a wish.
and to learn to drive
i'm also planning to paint a copy of the famous creation panel on my wall--i'll post it somewhere if i'm successfull.


oh and the reason why i haven't written here for more or less ten months: i didn't think it mattered whether i wrote down my thoughts here or just kept them in my head.. actually i think i've lost the essence of this weblog(or whatever this is). i put my plans here--why? i don't really know-- not just self gratification--this time it's ego gratification.

ps i tend to write this way after a good read--that's why i can't start with my theory application paper yet

resurrection
Thursday, March 11, 2004    02:59 p.m.
tse mudnatupsed non subitsug ed

   so alas i write here again after almost a year of dormancy. i just realized that my eighteenth year is almost done and maybe i shouldn't let it pass without writing here (again).
actually i have written some stuff during the year but just couldn't find time to put them online. now i just finished reading my current favorite book (more on that later) and i can't think of anything better to do than self gratification...har

here follows what i've written:

lately i couldn't find time to write here. sometimes i didn't have time. other times i was just lazy..hence still didn't have time. blah anyway i wrote some one-line stuff and i hope i can remember why i wrote them.

stupid independence day
i remember last june 12. it was the first day for one of my subjects..well it was supposed to be independence day but some lunatic did not make it a holiday (she's an economist). so there were traffic jams all over (much worse than what is usually seen). everyone was late(even the professor was late.) the thing is, the 'holiday' was moved to friday so it would be a long weekend but the ceremonies and such things were left behind..on thursday (hence the heavy traffic). so while everyone who went to work or school could not participate in the stupid independence day celebrations (i'm not saying that independence day is dumb..the celebrations..) how liberating is metro manila traffic (take note the jams of that day were..colossal(?))

politicians and stupid laws
one day a professor asked us: do you agree with the proposed law (i don't remember if it was meant to be a law..) that says students who don't bathe will not be allowed to go to school (or something like that).that sounded nice..no more people who smelled like bayabas (i forgot the english term...) but more of the bad smelling people that i meet stink of heavy perfumes.. they smell like fruit..apples et cetera..but they stink of it. anyway i did not believe the proposed law would do any good to my sense of smell. actually i don't think it will do any good at all. it's one of those trash laws.. like the ban on smoking for example.(which seems to take forever to enforce) even the enforcers themselves smoke! and what about the seatbelt law. sure they catch people in private cars who don't buckle up. but what about the majority of commuters who ride in jeepneys and busses?(they don't provide belts) what of those who take the fx taxis and those who ride in the back seat of cars that only have seatbelts up front? most cars driving around don't have seat belts in the back seat. fx taxis don't have seatbelts except for the driver (the people in the passenger's seat don't usually use the belt because it's built only for 1 person)

i don't believe in the death penalty
i think that speaks for itself.. but to elaborate, i think the death penalty is the easy way out..especially now that they just put you to sleep. no it's not because i was baptized a catholic. no...

i even made a haiku! at least that's how i call it...
the bright sun (unfinished)

erap and miriam

i didnot finish this one. 7/11/03 7:13pm

i just realized that although i wrote some other things, i don't think i should put them all here