Achieving Happiness

If you have money and time to spare, see ‘Disturbia.’ I was still freaked an hour or so after the movie. I felt nervous and jumpy like I’d drunk three cups of tea one after the other. The film’s pacing was swift and decisive, and there were no unnecessary scenes. The plot was pretty simple and even corny, but the rendering was quite good — suspension of disbelief and tightrope-walking suspense and all that. Kim says it’s so frustrating how Pinoys can’t make commercial films like that, non-insulting to the viewers’ intelligence, adequate cinematography, straight-forward plot and compelling characters. Pure entertainment that doesn’t require much brain power, but makes the emotional adrenalin kick in. There’s such a high in clean and even empty fun, to be amused and entertained without any bad after-effects.
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I’ve heard that Malu Fernandez has resigned from the Manila Standard Today and People Asia over the massive outpouring of rage and outrage over her infamous OFW-bashing article. That’s the least she could’ve done, because not even that will assuage the offended sensibilities and feelings of OFWs, their families and every other right-thinking Filipino.
When I read her article three weeks ago I was too shocked to even comment. It was as if my brain shut down, refusing to acknowledge the truth that a supposedly credible newspaper/publication actually allowed such a piece to be printed. Also, some part of me recoiled at the very idea that such thoughts such as Malu Fernandez’ exist and proliferate out there.I mean, yeah, yeah, I know there are worse biases, but hers are  plain mean.
I didn’t lose any sleep over it, I didn’t feel like screaming for her blood, but for a passing moment I wished that an OFW would just walk up to her and slap her silly.
I wonder what kind of career she’ll have after this controversy where her entire person (including physical appearance, size and weight) has been put into question and viciously picked apart (and one cannot help but agree that she deserved it).
Maybe she should work in a call center as an agent. If she does, I hope she gets all the customers who yell and curse blue bloody hell and are racist and bigoted in the bargain.

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It’s not amusing how the US embassy and US military officials in the country are flatly  denying that they’re building a military base in Mindanao. According to them, they’re just putting temporary structures where US troops can rest, eat, play, clean their guns, store their weapons and other equipment and maybe take their dates and molest and rape them.

Right, temporary structures that will cost millions of dollars.

According to reports, the US Naval Facilities Engineering Command (Navfac) awarded a
$14.4-million contract to Global Contingency Services LLC of Irving, Texas, for
“operations support” for the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines.
The latter is the unit established by the US special operations command that has been stationed in southern Philippines since 2002. Its role is to assist Manila in the war on terror with training and intelligence.

The Navfac is allegedly the unit within the US military in
charge of providing the US Navy with operating, support and training bases.
Global Contingency Services LLC is a partnership between DynCorp.
International, Parsons Global Services and PWC Logistics. The June contract is supposedly part of a
bigger $650-million, five-year contract for Global Contingency Services to
“provide a full range of worldwide contingency and disaster-response services,"
including humanitarian assistance and interim or transitional base-operating
support services in Jolo, Tawi-Tawi and Maguindanao.

Whom are they trying to fool? If they were really intending for their facilities to be temporary, why don’t they build nipa huts instead and put up a high bamboo fence around them.

It’s infuriating how the VFA has been in effect for nine years and the Balikatan exercises have been taking place since 2001 but the US troops are still here! Hindi naman yata natuto ang mga AFP sa mga tinuturo ng kanilang American counterparts. O pulos palso ang mga tinuturo ng mga sundalong Kano at sinasadya nilang panatiliing palpak ang fighting capabilities ng AFP para panatiliin silang umaasa sa training ng US. Either case, napaka-bobong sitwasyon.

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This just in: Professor Jose Ma. Sison has been arrested by the Dutch police in relation to certain murders in the Philippines. A judge issued the warrant. JMS has been taken to The Hague and his detention even without formal charges can last from three to 105 days. Omigod.

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