Achieving Happiness

"People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people." - from V is for Vendetta.

Ang husay ng timing ng paglabas ng pelikula na ito. Gloria Aroyo should watch this film and cringe.

But she’s so kapal ng mukha that she probably would nod and say, "Tutoo yan. Buti na lang hindi ganyan ang gobyerno ko."

Sabi pa sa pelikula-- The Future is Ours. It’s the underground revolutionary movement in the story who sez this.

Interesting. But a different blog is necessary to explain my views on anarchism.

(A decade ago– whew– I wrote a thesis on the history of the Punk Movement and the commodification of the original concepts and objectives that birthed it.  I had to read biographies of the original Brit Punks like Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols, etc. In the course of my research, I was…enlightened… on the difference between anarchy and anarchism. The last is a system which is actually, well, quite systematic and orderly, and despite the usually understood meaning but in truth it’s a misconception that anarchy means chaos, it’s not actually that. Random acts that actually string together to form an orderly whole. Something like that. yada yada. am so sleepy)

It’s past midnight here in Hong Kong and am looking through different movie trailers. Just finished presswork, and it’s been such an effing insane night.

I’m very sleepy and I can barely keep my eyes open,  so please bear with me if my thoughts come out all skewed and wonky.

1. McDonald’s is selling this horrible plum drink with aloe vera gel cubes. The concoction tastes like tobacco spit diluted with water, then strained through a sock that an NBA player wore for three straight weeks.  I made my officemates taste it as a test of our camaraderie and frienship.

2. I haven’t seen Capote yet, and I so badly want to. I am a fan of both Truman and his former bestfriend Harper Lee. No, it’s not "breakfast at Tiffany’s" that’s my favorite Capote work. It’s, lessee, "A Christmas memory." The novella that starts with the narrator speaking as a child about "fruitcake weather."

(Although I did love the movie they made based on Breakfast. It starred Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. The ending in the film is quite different from the one in the novella, but heck, who wants sad endings?!)

I am so sleepy. Darnnit.

3. Never throw woolen clothes in the washer because they.will.shrink.

4. The Macapagal-Arroyo government is leaning heavily on the PCIJ. Utang na loob, wala na talagang ibang gagawin yang gobyerno na yan kundi sikilin ang karapatan sa pamamahayag!

So what the heck is everyone waiting for?! Why allow this corrupt and illegitimate admnistration — this illegitimate president– to continue in power?!

When you start attacking the freedom of the press, you’re really desperate. This means that you literally want to stop the voice of criticism and dissent. Sino pa ba ang pinaka-mabilis na makakapag-hatid ng balita tungkol sa mga pagkilos ng mamamayan laban sa bulok na gobyerno kundi ang media? Sino pa ba ang maglalantad sa mga katiwalian sa pamahalaan kundi ang mga preyodista, brodkaster, reporter at photo-journalists?

5. Papatalsikin na si Thaksin.

Up until three weeks ago, the guy was still confident that his presidency was still on solid ground. Now he’s starting to send feelers that he just might step down. Again, corruption ang dahilan. He sells off major shares in a telecoms firm to the Americans. Malakas ang clamor against privatization and liberalization in Thailand (because the Thais are feeling the disastrous impact of these policies on their economy and livelihood); tapos add the worsening political repression to the mix and voila! Instant formula for an oust-a-president-campaign.

zzzzzzzzzz

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March 17, a day later, and am wide awake. I stand corrected (okay, so am not actually standing. I sit corrected) that Thaksin sold his company to the Singaporeans. Boy, the people who read this blog are keen!!! Makes me want to be more careful, hehehe.

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