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Before the Baccalaureate Mass

Jyaky: Bootch!! *points to someone at the classroom doorway*
Bootch: Si Will de"bong"!! (gushes over her seen crush)
Me (sees long-time crush, not debong): Uy, yung crush ko oh!! (itago natin sa ngalang Neil Andre)
Jyaky to me: Akalain mong may crush ka palang normal?! *toinx*

Oh ayan, palakpakan niyo na ko dahil meron akong bagong crush and i think mejo normal din naman sha. mejo. ( : --JASON CASTRO!!

He's sooo frigging uber hot. I haven't seriously watched American Idol before, but last Tuesday, i happened upon a channel showing the program. and for lack of anything else to watch, i conceded. and gawrsh, Jason is the new love of my life!! (so what if i really like baldies and he has dreds?!) he's like a tamed rocker, my kind of a rocker!! and, and, have you seen him sing his version of The Beatles's "Michelle"?? (better seen, than heard) Jason just made me fall in love!! He had me already at "my belle" awwwwww.. :)

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One: Religious tolerance. It's when you bear the pasyon (sung by your neighbors on the microphone which is apparently connected to speakers) even at the expense of a longed-for peaceful slumber. Why use the microphone again?? Curious.

Ok, went to Tagaytay last Maundy Thursday because it coincided with lolo's death anniversary.

Two: Diet. Every one of my relatives commented I've put on the pounds. Note to self: wear shabbier clothes next time so they don't notice the oh-so-flattering bulge(s).

Three: Liberal Ego. I've just realized that liberal arts majors are egoistic people. They think they could make it out in this world with just their lofty ideals and supposed loftier skills. They are even convinced that they could really change this unjust world. Worse, they don't even have a plan B. Like what do you do when you start getting tired of something you thought you'd always be passionate about?? like errr.. debating?? or maybe, scribbling what you thought are literary masterpieces, (let's call that writing) Nada. No plan B. stoofid. Or am i speaking for myself??

It's just way demoralizing when you hear your cousins talk about job opportunities here and anywhere else in the world because well, they could do so!! they are professionals--licensed nurses, architects, engineers, etc. one tita even said that we're really being ushered into this (gaddumn) technological age so we need these electrical engineers, I.T. experts, yada. bah. What was i thinking taking up Journalism?! What fattened ego I have!! Uproot me from this country and i already have this nasty vision that my career (come again??) would go kaput. how do you even become a journalist in a country whose background is just plain alien to you?? Bah. Corny.

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Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap must be going just a wee bit nuts. He said that in order to offset the rice shortage, fastfood stores should lessen the amount of rice in their meals.

And you know what's really silly??

Yap said fastfood rice should be lessened because a lot of diners don't finish their rice, anyway. as he has observed.

great. maybe he could suggest a price deduction too from rice meals, even if it's just P3-P5, corresponding to the lessened amount of rice. or maybe, he could also devise a system where households can only buy rice sufficient to the households' members, since a lot of rice too are wasted from the households.

i think it's plain faulty to ask fastfood stores to lessen their "rice" (again to offset the shortage) based on the observation that everywhere there is wastage. No, you ought to tell the consumers to actually finish their meals. If people can't finish their rice, for whatever reason, let them be. You don't constrict the consumer because of the shortage. Reprimand them because of their wastage. It'd be more logical if you asked fastfood stores to clamp down on the rice because their industry is necessarily hoarding the rice supply, hence, on a shortage, austerity measures should be applied. that's the way to go.

one broadcast reporter even ridiculously claimed that if only a household did not waste this blah amount of rice during their meals, then the problem of the impoverished masses would already have been resolved. duh?! If say, a household would buy only 1kg of rice from their previous 2kg, what is this household's assurance that the 1kg they did not buy would feed the starving people?? or even that the rice they did not consume would be sold for a lower price to benefit the needy??

Maybe Yap should focus on the real long and short of it--the production. while it can be argued that the clamp on fastfood rice is only sought for the immediate time, it is still more worthwhile to focus on the foolproof how. The country, boasting of its agricultural sector, is wondrously a big importer of rice from neighboring Thailand and Vietnam. These countries have fast-tracked in successful grain production and exportation and left in their wake the Philippines, a former Asia's rice granary. Wake up Mr. Secretary, if you want the real solution to the rice shortage, stop pounding on the consumption--be more aggressive with the production.

bah.

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