filipinos are silly people
i just beat my personal best record on text twist: my highest score now stands at 676,830. (yes, that's six figures, and well over a few hours.)i'll post pictures later.
and as for finding a new place, i'll be moving at the end of the week to the new apartment. i absolutely hate having to find a new place to live, and i am so thankful that it's all over.
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as for more mob rule, the philippines is going under yet again. i don't think the filipinos quite understand what is people power. the distinct difference is a revolution for change, versus mob rule because they're not getting what they're want. despite having eleven of gloria macapagal-arroyo's cabinet members turn on her, she's got the support of thousands more loyalists and the catholic church. the military's always the neutral swing vote, but they're really just the ones who wait it out and see what the hell is going to happen. then they choose a course of action that's probably more crucial than the others, and then it's "people power" all over again because they've ousted such a nasty regime leader. right?
well, not really. arroyo's actually one of the leading legislators in the philippines with an emphasis for change -- women's rights, agriculture and the environment, better business, and most importantly, social development -- just look at her track record regarding these things, and she's done a stellar job.she got inaugurated because of the people ousting another "horrible regime leader," joseph estrada. he was an actor who didn't have any credentials, save for the fact that he was one of the "common men" -- he represented the filipino who could do anything and everything, because he was the everyman. up until, of course, people found out that he was basically siphoning money out of the economy into his private gambling dealings.
but what of macapagal-arroyo? she's got credentials: her father was the president of the philippines. she went to school in georgetown university. she ended up in the most prestigious school inthe country, the ateneo de manila, and received her ph.d in economics in the university of the philippines. she was professor for a few schools, then went on to become undersecretary for trade and industry, then became senator, and then vice president. she's accused of election fraud and gambling, but she's also introduced the most influential bills in the senate, and actually is on track that the philippines needs a parliamentary system because, well, it works.
the philippine electorate works a lot differently than the us's: the vice president is the presidential candidate that garners the second-most votes, and there's no electoral college. ballots are still mostly hand-checked and hand-counted, which could allow for some election fraud to go on. there is a multi-party system in place, and everyone votes (or at least tries to).
they see arroyo's rise to power as a threat, since she's basically eliminating some of the more prominent legislative jobs with their own pork barrels (those wonderful salaries that let legislators do whatever they want). they're unhappy that she knows what she's doing. really, it all looks like the filipinos are being selfish, and that they're looking lnothing more like ingrates when it comes to this. mob rule, really. mobs led by superstars who probably have no idea what they're talking about. (speaking of which, superstars usually run the government on all levels, from mayoral candidacies, to senatorships, all the way to the presidency, as obvious by estrada's rule.)now they're saying she cheated, lied, and stole to gain power. they're accusing her of rigging the previous presidential election. but wait. if the numbers can't speak for themselves, then why even have a voting system? she won the most votes, almost double that of her previous competitor. and you can only do so much when it comes to popular elections, right? if the numbers speak for themselves, then why is osmething wrong?
they've since filed to impeach her. come on, guys. she didn't start a war in iraq that was unbased and immoral.
filipinos are spoiled. and if they don't own up soon, they're fucked.
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speaking of owning up, anyone watch this show brat camp on abc? some of this stuff is hilarious. the point is that it's trying to be poignant (the premise is nine kids who have uncontrollable behavior going through a camp), but it's the epitome of cheese. sad girly guitar music, kids crying over nothing, and the same old narrator trying to make the show sound more suspenseful than it really is -- a bunch of kids with adults in a desert in oregon.
can't go wrong.
and as for the rest of the entertainment business, harry potter was good (there was so much crying at the end of that book), wedding crashers was good, hustle & flow was good, the island was all right, but i still really want to see dukes of hazzard (mainly because seann william scott was hilarious in the previews -- "let's put another shrimp on the barbie!") even though i know it's probably sub-par, i need to see the beat that my heart skipped, and of course, the edukators.
summer is winding down so fast. oh man. football season.
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