I really shouldn't be doing a retrospective on the year since I want to get out of it as soon as possible. But here we are.
Good things:
- The trips (Boracay twice, Italy in September, one out of two offsites weren't half bad)
- The team growing, and growing up
- Maybe a couple of weekends. Three, tops.
Bad things:
- Everything else? Not really. But let's not get into detail and just look ahead.
I was supposed to put here how the good and bad years seems to have alternated since high school but I checked the 2006 year-in-review and it wasn't so hot either. So there goes that theory. And all you people who have read The Secret and believe the freaking laws of attraction, before you even get a word in, shut up.
More moments like this and I will fucking go nuts.
There's no one I can scream at/with and no one I can talk to and probably more importantly no one I will listen to.
I am tired and cranky and fed up and bringing up memories of '03. They tell me to stop living in the past but the present and future's no good to me.
I am tired of fighting and I am tired of being a pawn.
I am not a survivor. Despite my claims on the contrary.
And the worst part is: This is all I have.
Yes, it's been a while (again) and work is the culprit (again).
I'm not really in the mood to talk about the trip because it will depress me too much. I don't really know why, but here's a clue: I traveled around Italy by myself last September but this will still be known as the year that sucked.
Anyway.
That's the Colosseo, which I also saw the last time I was here but what the hell, when in Rome. This shot was taken while walking away from it to the Forum and a building they call the Typewriter, which if I had been paying attention the last time I was here I would know what its significance is.
I remember taking this picture hurriedly because it was getting dark and also I was trying to fit the lamppost in the frame. Turned out pretty well I think. I won't over-analyze it too much.
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Fast forward to last Thursday's "coup attempt". You can't help but laugh because it was hardly a coup; I don't even consider it an attempt. You call that a coup? People my age know what a coup is. That is not a coup.
Some thoughts, though:
- Arresting members of the media seemed like a tactical error to me.
- Curfew? Really? I think people just played along to add some spice to a somewhat dreary protest rally.
- I heard someone died during the coup...except that it was a municipality away and probably totally unrelated.
- I am so glad I stopped being a journalist.
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Saw the play version of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters yesterday without even really knowing what the book was about. Going to plays and musicals and stuff is great because even if it sucks you have to appreciate the effort that goes into it, and it rarely sucks anyway. Not that it sucked of course. I have to soak up all the culture in the city before the Metro Manila Film Festival kicks in, because it will suck and make everything around it suck.
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Tally -Suck: 6, Coup: 6
