exactly what the fuck?

twenty years ago, the country changed for the better. today, it is on its way to hell.

classes were suspended today due to a coup d'etat threat. right now rallies and riots are going on in manila (while RAW is happily going on, i'm glad to say) because apparently the masses still don't like GMA.

but i ask you rallyists: who do you have? who's your secret tech? how could you possibly replace the only decent president we're having?

the economy was slowly stabilizing with GMA. your rallies begin to ruin that, starting from the continuous drop of the peso's rates. if ever you do find a suitable replacement, that person will be subject to huge speculation and criticism due to GMA's overthrowing.

please, don't do it. if you absolutely hate the woman, let her term die the natural death, because it shows that she's really dead set on bringing the country up from the ashes. if you claim to love this country a lot and hate the president, leave her be and just don't vote for her if she runs in the next election. nothing right will ever come out of this.

there's gotta be a way

someone left a very well thought-out comment concerning the previous post. i love well thought-out comments. they're rather rare, so i wanna take the time to respond.

stupidity... ignorance... being in imbecile... sure, i've heard them all before. shrugged them off, actually, because not one person has ever bothered to mention them in the same breath as a smart comment, until now.

anyway. i did see the potential of my opinions garnering heel heat - especially discriminating "underprivileged" people like that.

in fact, i agree with what you have said - that is, that it is mostly the government's fault for this massive mob that gathered for a chance of hitting it big. that the government did nothing to alleviate poverty. yes, i agree. i might not have implied it in my previous post, but that side has come to my attention ever since and i agree with it.

but - yes, there is a but - they were led on by, i don't know, 50-70% false hope, and killed by the misconduct caused by the same false hope.

i understand that they are not just the ones to blame, but most people have so much sympathy for them to overlook the idea of blaming them, at least just to a lesser extent.

good evening.

death day afternoon

if you don't know already, here's what happened today: instead of a bomb scare over in town (which happens to be the sole reason on why i'm not out with a certain someone when i should be), a stampede over in the ultra/philsports arena killed 73 people and injured 200+ more. the sad part is, it's because of wowowee's first anniversary. and you all know how i am with wowowee.

as stampedes go, they are bound to leave people bloodied, bruised, and ultimately dead. just ask mufasa. my stand on this issue is that papi or abs-cbn is not to be majorly blamed for it. it was not their fault that this happened, though i will not deny that such a popular noontime show that draws a lot of people (and also on its very first anniversary) will cause some sort of chaos.

the real fault goes to the audience itself. demographics show that there are more "unprivileged" people than "privileged" in the audience. since the show is tailor-made for the "unprivileged" rabble, stakes are high and the prizes are to die for. (okay, bad pun.) these same people were disorderly - push ultimately came to shove, and i heard that someone shouted "bomba", which aggravated the issue and started the stampede.

now if there were more "privileged" people in the audience, or if the audience were comprised of 100% "privileged people", i doubt that something like this wouldn't have happened. yes, i'm implying what i am implying - "privileged" people are more, shall we say, "civilized". now, i'm not drawing heat - everyone was pushing and shoving just to get in the arena.

the irony of potential ironies might be that people will sue abs-cbn. they will sue abs-cbn and/or papi for organizing such a clogged event, while abs-cbn and/or papi was just trying to help out, and the people willfully went to the event anyway. now if they do actually sue abs-cbn, they're aiming their anger at the wrong people - they should be complaining to the management of the arena. the entertainment company was just using the place; abs-cbn is not to blame when the arena doesn't meet safety standards.

still, my point stands strong for all to see: it was [more of] the public's fault, they brought this on themselves, they could've been a lot more orderly. i will not deny, however, that none of them deserved to die.

condolences to the innocent deaths that occurred today.